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Tuvaluanby Niko Besnier
Routledge 1999; US$ 325.00The first detailed description of the structure of Tuvaluan, one of the least well-documented languages of Polynesia. more...
Encyclopedia of African Literatureby Simon Gikandi
Routledge 2002; US$ 59.95The most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this book contains over 600 entries that cover criticism and theory, its development as a field of scholarship, and studies of established and lesser-known writers. more...
Old Japaneseby Marc Hideo Miyake
RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 195.00What did eighth-century Japanese sound like? How does one decode its complex script? This book provides the definitive answers to these questions using an unprecedented range of data from the past and the present. more...
Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australiaby William B. McGregor
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 185.00This book provides an insightful and highly readable account both of the social setting in which the languages are spoken and of their main structural features. more...
Collected Writings of J. Thomas Rimerby J. Thomas Rimer
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 360.00Widely acknowledged as the doyen of twentieth-century Japanese literature, fine art and the performing arts, as well as being renowned for his translations of Zeami and Mori Ogai. more...
Body in Postwar Japanese Fictionby Douglas Slaymaker
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 190.00This book explores one of the crucial themes in postwar Japanese fiction. Through an examination of the work of a number of prominent twentieth century Japanese writers, the book analyses the meaning of the body in postwar Japanese discourse. more...
Australian Languagesby R. M. W. Dixon; S. R. Anderson; J. Bresnan; B. Comrie; W. Dressler; C. Ewen; R. Lass
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 84.00Aboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 40,000 years, speaking about 250 languages. Through examination of published and unpublished materials on each of the individual languages, Professor Dixon surveys the ways in which the languages vary typologically and presents a profile of this long-established linguistic area. more...
Language and Society in Japanby Nanette Gottlieb; Yoshio Sugimoto; Harumi Befu; Roger Goodman
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 29.00Nanette Gottlieb's book considers the role of language in Japanese society in relation to identity formation. It covers important questions such as multilingualism, language and nationalism, and literacy and reading habits. Building on the author's previous highly regarded work, it will be essential reading for students and scholars. more...
Sunjataby Gordon Innes
Taylor & Francis 1975; US$ 41.95The three texts in this book are by three of The Gambia?s leading bards, Bamba Suso, Banna Kanute and Dembo Kanute. A brief biographical note on each of these three bards will be found before the text which each has provided. The texts by Bamba Suso and Banna Kanute are included here as illustrative of the differences of both style and content which can occur between two performances of the ?same? epic. Dembo Kanute?s text is an example of a narration which draws upon the Sunjata epic, but where the focus of interest is not Sunjata himself, but one of his generals. more...