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Four Words for Friend Why Using More Than One Language Matters Now More Than Ever

Kohn Marek

ISBN: PB: 9780300251517, Yale University Press, March 2020
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

In a world that has English as its global language and rapidly advancing translation technology, it's easy to assume that the need to use more than one language will diminish – but Marek Kohn argues that plural language use is more important than eve...

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Form and Meaning in Language Volume II: Papers on Discourse and Pragmatics

Fillmore Charles J.

ISBN: PB: 9781684000548, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2020
335 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This volume continues the collection of work by Charles J. Fillmore, which he started in 2003. Taken together, the work gathered in these volumes reflects Fillmore's desire to make sense of the workings of language in a way that keeps in mind questio...

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Form and Meaning in Language Volume III: Papers on Linguistic Theory and Constructions

Fillmore Charles J.

ISBN: PB: 9781684000562, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2020
330 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This volume continues the collection of work by Charles J. Fillmore, which he started in 2003. Taken together, the work gathered in these volumes reflects Fillmore's desire to make sense of the workings of language in a way that keeps in mind questio...

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Linguistics

Following Searle on Twitter How Words Create Digital Institutions

Hodgkin Adam

ISBN: HB: 9780226438214, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table

Twitter allows us to build communities, track celebrities, raise our social profile, and promote a personal brand. Adam Hodgkin thinks Twitter is much more than a mere social media tool – it is a terrain ripe for a conceptual and theoretical analysis...

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From Syntax to Text The Janus Face of Functional Sentence Perspective

Duskova Libuse

ISBN: PB: 9788024628790, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2015
400 pp., 24x16.5 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The volume deals with the interaction between syntax, informational structure (or functional sentence perspective), and text in present-day English and Czech. Libuše Duškova...

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Linguistics

Fundamental Issues in the Romance Languages

Daniele Godard

ISBN: PB: 9781575865867, ISBN: HB: 9781575865874, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
420 pp., 23x15 cm

"Fundamental Issues in the Romance Languages" compares six Romance languages – Catalan, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian – and summarizes the last thirty years of scholarship in the fields of morphology, syntax, semantics, and disco...

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Form and Meaning in Language Volume I: Papers on Semantic Roles

Fillmore Charles J.

ISBN: PB: 9781575862866, ISBN: HB: 9781575862859, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, September 2002
311 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The early papers collected here trace a trajectory through the work and thinking of Charles Fillmore over his long and distinguished career – reflecting his desire to make sense of the workings of language in a way that keeps in mind questions of lan...

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