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Criminology

Linguistics

Mason Marianne, Rock Frances

ISBN: PB: 9780226647791, ISBN: HB: 9780226647654, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 line drawings, 3 tables

Forensic linguistics, or the study of language and the law, is a growing field of scholarly and public interest. Yet books on the subject have predominantly been introductions to the field or aimed at summarizing its applications, often with a focus...

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Philosophy

Linguistics

Meaning, Creativity, and the Partial Inscrutability of the Human Mind Second Edition

Moravcsik Julius M.

ISBN: PB: 9781575864808, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2017
218 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This book criticizes current philosophy of language as having altered its focus without adjusting the needed conceptual tools. It develops a new theory of lexical meaning and a new conception of cognition – humans not as information-processing creatu...

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America

Linguistics

Iberian Imperialism and Language Evolution in Latin America

Mufwene Salikoko S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226126203, ISBN: HB: 9780226126173, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 3 line drawings, 27 tables

As rich as the development of the Spanish and Portuguese languages has been in Latin America, no single book has attempted to chart their complex history. Gathering essays by sociohistorical linguists working across the region, Salikoko S. Mufwene do...

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Linguistics

English

Does Science Need a Global Language? English and the Future of Research

Montgomery Scott L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226535036, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 8 line illus.

In early 2012, the global scientific community erupted with news that the elusive Higgs boson had likely been found, providing potent validation for the Standard Model of how the universe works. Scientists from more than one hundred countries contrib...

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Linguistics

Japanese

Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 18

McClure William, Dikken Marcel

ISBN: PB: 9781575866161, ISBN: HB: 9781575866178, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, March 2011
456 pp., 22.9x15 cm

Because Japanese and Korean are typologically quite similar, a linguistic phenomenon in one language often has a counterpart in the other. The annual Japanese-Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for presenting research that will deepen our...

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Linguistics

Gesture and Thought

McNeill David

ISBN: PB: 9780226514635, ISBN: HB: 9780226514628, University of Chicago Press, September 2007
328 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 92 figures, 13 tables

Gesturing is such an integral yet unconscious part of communication that we are mostly oblivious to it. But if you observe anyone in conversation, you are likely to see his or her fingers, hands, and arms in some form of spontaneous motion. Why? Davi...

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