Author : William Cowan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 16,93 MB
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027245223
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Edward Sapir (1884-1939) a conference was held in the Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, Canada, where Sapir had his office for most of his time as Chief of the Anthropological Division of the Geographical Survey of Canada (1910-1925). This volume presents papers from that conference.
Author : Francis P. Dinneen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 31,65 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027245452
This volume unites papers given by members of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences (NAAHoLS) at meetings held in Washington, D.C., in March and December 1989, respectively. They represent the scope and breadth of interest of North American scholars in this growing field, ranging from linguistic concepts, ideas, and theories in the Classical Greek and Roman period to developments in grammatical theory and sociolinguistics in the second half of the 20th century, and from the study of American Indian languages in the 17th through the present century and the philosophy of language from Aristotle to John Locke, to F.B. Skinner and Chomsky. A detailed Index of Authors, including life-dates, rounds off the volume. The text of this volume has also been published in Historiographia Linguistica XVII:1/2.
Author : Gunter Senft
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 38,18 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027207798
The ten volumes of "Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights" focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While other volumes select philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, social, variational, interactional, or discursive angles, this second volume reviews basic topics and traditions that place language use in its cultural context. As emphasized in the introduction, and as revealed in the choice of articles, culture is by no means to be seen as standing in opposition to society and cognition; on the contrary, the notion cannot be understood without insight into the intricate interactions of social and cognitive structures and processes. In addition to the topical articles, a number of contributions to this volume is devoted to aspects of methodology. Others highlight the role of eminent scholars who have made the study of cultural dimensions of language use into what it is today."
Author : Regna Darnell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1060 pages
File Size : 48,26 MB
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110816091
The works of Edward Sapir (1884 - 1939) continue to provide inspiration to all interested in the study of human language. Since most of his published works are relatively inaccessible, and valuable unpublished material has been found, the preparation of a complete edition of all his published and unpublished works was long overdue. The wide range of Sapir's scholarship as well as the amount of work necessary to put the unpublished manuscripts into publishable form pose unique challenges for the editors. Many scholars from a variety of fields as well as American Indian language specialists are providing significant assistance in the making of this multi-volume series.
Author : Julia S. Falk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 20,19 MB
Release : 2002-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1134786212
This book explores the vital part which women have played in preserving a linguistics based on the reality and experience of language; bringing to light a much neglected perspective for those working in linguistics.
Author : Regna Darnell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 13,30 MB
Release : 2022-06
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1496224167
This volume emphasizes theory schools, institutional connections, social networks, and collaborative research with Indigenous communities in North Americanist anthropology. Regna Darnell’s fifty-year career brings unsurpassed interpretations, both historicist and presentist, of the discipline’s legacy in North America.
Author : Pamela Jane Smith
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,56 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772821527
Over the past century and a half, Canadian archaeology rehabilitated large portions of a history once thought to be lost beyond recovery. This book is among the first to document and analyze the growth of archaeology in Canada.
Author : Sheila M. Embleton
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902722188X
Alongside considerable continuity, 20th-century diachronic linguistics has seen substantial shifts in outlook and procedure from the 19th-century paradigm. Our understanding of what is really new and what is recycled owes a great debt to E. F. K. Koerner's minutely researched interpretations of the work of the field's founders and key transitional figures. At the cusp of the 21st century, some of the best known scholars in the field explore how these methodological shifts have been and continue to be played out in historical Romance, Germanic and Indo-European linguistics, as well as in work outside these traditional areas. These 22 studies, honouring the founder of "Diachronica" and other publication ventures that have helped revitalize historical enquiry in recent decades, include examinations of Indo-European methodology and the reconstructions carried out by Bloomfield and Sapir; the search for relatives of Indo-European; comparative, structural and sociolinguistic analyses of the history of the Romance languages; regular vs. morpholexical approaches to OHG umlaut; and the synchrony and diachrony of gender affixes in Tsez.
Author : William Shipley
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 841 pages
File Size : 30,63 MB
Release : 2010-10-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110852381
In honor of Mary Haas : from the Haas Festival Conference on Native American Linguistics.
Author : Robert H. Winthrop
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 38,29 MB
Release : 1991-11-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0313066116
The field of cultural anthropology describes and interprets the thought and behavior of contemporary and near-contemporary societies. Inherently pluralistic, it offers a framework in which the distinctive perspectives of each cultural world can be appreciated. Robert Winthrop's dictionary describes the major concepts that have shaped the discipline, both historically and theoretically. It sets modern anthropology in its proper context within the broader intellectual tradition. Eighty entries review the key concepts--culture, race, nature, symbolism, adaptation, the primitive, etc.--that have established the fundamental problems and issues, guided research, and served as the focus for debate in key areas of the discipline. The entries which range from 2,000 to 6,000 words in length, are both thorough in treatment and contemporary in relevance. Some entries are primarily of historical significance while others describe recent developments. Each entry contains an annotated bibliography and a guide to additional reading on the subject. While this is not primarily a technical lexicon, many terms have been glossed and explained. Designed to be useful to students of anthropology, this dictionary will assist those in other disciplines to find their way through the anthropological labyrinth.
