Abstract: <p>By Diana Forker</p>
This book reflects almost thirty years of research undertaken by Andrej Kibrik on reference in discourse, including numerous publications on anaphora, pronouns, deixis, and other topics in linguistics. It presents a comprehensive summary of this research, its current results, and innumerable suggestions for further investigations. Kibrik calls his book "an exercise in cognitive discourse analysis" (p. 18) because he aims at bringing together two rather separate fields: typology and cognitive linguistics. The title perfectly reflects the topic, though, of course, the author is not able to treat all aspects of it in detail. He takes the production-oriented speaker perspective (as opposed to the perception-oriented ... <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/anthropological_linguistics/v054/54.3.forker.html">Read More</a> PubDate: 2013-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: <p>By Jeffrey Heath</p>
This is a very focused collective volume. Flanked by the editor's introduction and a concluding commentary by Bernard Comrie on creoles and typology are twenty-five chapters on specific creole-substrate pairings: nine on the Atlantic coast of Africa and the New World, eight on Asia, and eight on Australia and the Pacific Islands.Given a choice between superstrate continuity (e.g., French-lexified creoles are dialects of French), substrate continuity (also known as relexification, i.e., creoles superimpose foreign lexicon on substrate grammatical patterns), dynamic blending (a compromise between the previous two), and Bickertonian ex nihilo creation, the volume favors substrate continuity as the primary source of ... <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/anthropological_linguistics/v054/54.3.heath.html">Read More</a> PubDate: 2013-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: <p>By David Bradley</p>
This is an excellent and comprehensive grammar of a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in north central Nepal (more often called Thami in the literature, from the Nepali name for the group). It includes forty-five texts (pp. 485-754) from a variety of genres and a very extensive Thangmi-to-English lexicon (pp. 755-918), which make it an extremely valuable record of this endangered language.The book starts with a chapter on the linguistic classification of Thangmi. In the earliest classification of Tibeto-Burman by Grierson (1909), usually followed by later scholars such as Benedict (1972) and Shafer (1974), Thangmi is grouped most closely with Baram and then with Tibeto-Burman languages of far northwestern Nepal and to ... <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/anthropological_linguistics/v054/54.3.bradley.html">Read More</a> Keywords: Thami language PubDate: 2013-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: <p>By William L. Merrill</p>
The transition from food collecting to food production began on the North American continent some ten thousand years ago with the domestication of the pepo squash (Cucurbita pepo), followed at about four-thousand-year intervals first by the domestication of maize (Zea mays) and then the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) (Smith 1997a, 2001a; Kaplan and Lynch 1999; Piperno 2011; Brown 2006, 2010a). The earliest evidence for the cultivation of these plants comes from archeological sites in southern and central Mexico. Data from sites in northeastern Mexico and the southwestern United States indicate that the northward diffusion of these tropical cultigens took place separately and gradually over the course of several ... <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/anthropological_linguistics/v054/54.3.merrill.html">Read More</a> Keywords: Uto-Aztecan languages PubDate: 2013-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: <p>By Manal A. Ismail</p>
This article explores the relatively uninvestigated area of language and gender in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This vast desert country covers the greater part of the Arabian Peninsula and, like other Gulf states, has undergone significant advances in socioeconomic development within the last several decades. It nevertheless remains a conservative Muslim society where customs, traditions, and tribal standards permeate all aspects of the social order.The social organization of gender in Saudi Arabia has served to maintain traditional values. Physical and social segregation of the sexes is the norm (see AlMunajjed 1997). Public places are frequently structured to keep women and men physically apart. Both women and ... <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/anthropological_linguistics/v054/54.3.ismail.html">Read More</a> Keywords: Patriarchy PubDate: 2013-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: <p>By Tatiana Nikitina</p>
Reported discourse is central to an individual's life as a social being. In construing our relationship to society, we rely on our interpretation of other people's speech, thoughts, intentions, and perceptions. Both in verbal art and in daily conversation, we represent personalities by quoting their speech and attributing to them thoughts and feelings no less than by describing their actions. The actual forms of reported discourse, however, vary widely across languages and communities, genres and time periods, suggesting that the choice of a strategy for representing another person's discourse is determined by a complex interaction of social, cultural, and historical factors (Voloshinov 1973: 123). This article ... <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/anthropological_linguistics/v054/54.3.nikitina.html">Read More</a> Keywords: Southern Mande languages PubDate: 2013-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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