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South African Literature after the Truth Commission
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 90.00This book studies a broad and ambitious selection of contemporary South African literature, fiction, drama, poetry, and memoir to make sense of the ways in which these works 'remap' the intersections of memory, space/place, and the body, as they explore the legacy of apartheid. more...
Literature of Africa
ABC-CLIO 2004; US$ 77.00As more works of African Literature are being incorporated into the Language Arts and Cultural Studies curriculum, it becomes increasingly important to offer students and educators a meaningful context in which to explore these works. As part of Greenwood's Literature as Windows to World Culture series, this volume introduces readers to the cultural... more...
The Trobriand Islanders' Ways of Speaking
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 210.00The book documents the Trobriand Islanders' typology of genres. Rooted in the 'ethnography of speaking/anthropological linguistics' paradigm, the author highlights the relevance of genres for researching language, culture and cognition in social interaction and the importance of understanding them for achieving linguistic and cultural competence. Data... more...
Imag(in)ing the War in Japan
BRILL 2010; US$ 179.00This study examines how various Japanese authors and other artists seeking artistic representation of traumatic Asia Pacific War experience have drawn upon their imaginative powers to create affect-charged images of the extreme violence, psychological damage and ideological contradiction surrounding the conflict. more...
Negation Patterns in West African Languages and Beyond
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2009; US$ 158.00This volume deals with issues on negation patterns in languages of West Africa and the adjacent north and east. The first aim is to provide data on various aspects of negation in African languages. Although the topics addressed here reflect a great diversity of negation patterns, the following typological features have been identified to be prominent... more...
Negotiation of Contingent Talk
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2005; US$ 173.00Observing naturally occurring talk-in-interaction in Japanese, this book examines how Japanese speakers segment their talk into relevant interactional units and use particles such as ne and sa to accomplish local pragmatic work. The study provides a conversation analytic, action-oriented account for the ubiquity of such particles in Japanese talk.... more...
Proto-Japanese
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2008; US$ 158.00Proto-Japanese is the reconstructed language stage from which all later varieties of Japanese, including Ryukyuan, descend. It has been studied both as an end in itself (as the genetic code of the Japanese language) and as part of endeavors to clarify the genetic affiliation of Japanese. Based on the state of the field, especially as represented in... more...
Searching for Structure
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2003; US$ 168.00This book argues against the existence of complementation in colloquial Indonesian, and discusses the ramifications of these findings for a discourse-functional understanding of grammatical categories and linguistic structure. Based on a close analysis of a corpus of spontaneous conversational Indonesian data, the author examines four construction... more...
Studies in African Linguistic Typology
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2006; US$ 218.00The twenty-one papers that make up this volume reflect the broad perspective of African linguistic typology studies today. Where previous volumes would present language material from a very restricted area and perspective, the present contributions reflect the global interest and orientation of current African linguistic studies. The studies are nearly... more...
Style Shifting in Japanese
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2008; US$ 149.00This innovative and interdisciplinary book on style shifting in Japanese brings together a wide range of perspectives and methodologies?including discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, and functional linguistics?to look at a variety of types of style shifting in both spoken and written Japanese discourse. Though diverse in approach,... more...









