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Hearing Happiness Deafness Cures in History
ISBN: HB: 9780226690612, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones
At the age of four, Jaipreet Virdi's world went silent. A severe case of meningitis left her alive but deaf, suddenly treated differently by everyone. Her deafness downplayed by society and doctors, she struggled to "pass" as hearing for most of her...
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£22,00
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LingVis Visual Analytics for Linguistics
ISBN: PB: 9781684000333, ISBN: HB: 9781684000340, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2020
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This volume collects landmark research in a burgeoning field of visual analytics for linguistics, called LingVis. Combining linguistic data and linguistically oriented research questions with techniques and methodologies developed in the computer sci...
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Form and Meaning in Language Volume II: Papers on Discourse and Pragmatics
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
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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Bantu Applicative Constructions
ISBN: PB: 9781684000593, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2020
0 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This book addresses various shortcomings in definitions of "applicative" when compared to what is actually found across languages and proposes a four-way distinction among applicative constructions, especially relevant to Bantu, a large family of lan...
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£40,00
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Revisiting the Essential Indexical
ISBN: PB: 9781684000524, ISBN: HB: 9781684000616, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2020
146 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this book, renowned philosopher John Perry responds to criticisms of his influential writing on "the essential indexical". He begins by explaining the conclusions of his past articles. He then argues that many criticisms are based on confusions ab...
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£23,00
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£45,00
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Discourse of Police Interviews
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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£32,00
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£90,00
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Tokens of Meaning Papers in Honor of Lauri Karttunen
ISBN: PB: 9781684000487, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, May 2019
599 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Lauri Karttunen has done groundbreaking work in theoretical and computational linguistics. The papers in this volume present new, state-of-the-art work building on his numerous contributions. The first part includes papers on formal semantics, the fo...
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£34,00
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Grammars of Approach Landscape, Narrative, and the Linguistic Picturesque
ISBN: HB: 9780226467665, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 colour plates, 16 halftones, 7 line drawings, 2 tables
In "Grammars of Approach", Cynthia Wall offers a close look at changes in perspective in spatial design, language, and narrative across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that involve, literally and psychologically, the concept of "ap...
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£79,00
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Battle in the Mind Fields
ISBN: HB: 9780226550800, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
656 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 colour plates, 2 line drawings, 4 tables
"We frequently see one idea appear in one discipline as if it were new, when it migrated from another discipline, like a mole that had dug under a fence and popped up on the other side". Taking note of this phenomenon, John Goldsmith and Bernard La...
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