NX650 2007-038513 978-0-87013-819-5
Esoteridsm, art, and imagination.
Title main entry. Ed. by Arthur Versluis et al. (Studies in esoteridsm)
Michigan State U. Press, ©2008 327 p. $29.95 (pa)
Despite its pervasive influence on Western culture, esotericism has largely
been discounted as the antithesis of both rationality and traditional faith,
rather than viewed as a quest throughout history to unveil the reality
behind illusion. In this first book in a new series, Versluis (arts &> letters,
Michigan State U.) and other academics explore this realm of the imagi-
nation in the visual, literary, and horticultural arts. Critiques of Gnostic
films (e.g. The Matrix) and Lucy Summer's Hex and the City (2003) will
be of particular interest to students of popular culture. Images includes
medieval art.
LANGUAGE, LITERATURE
P35 2007-048548 978-0-415^2630-5
Grassroots hteracy, writing, identity, and voice in centred
Africa.
Blommaert, Jan. (Literacies)
Routledge, ©2008 219 p. $44.95 (pa)
Blommaert (linguistic anthropology, U. of Jyvädklä, Finland and Tilburg
U.) explores the fiuid nature of literacy and its refiection of fluid iden-
tifies in an Africa embedded in a globalized world. He takes as case
studies an autobiography by an anon3'mous Congolese man, and a
history of Zaire by Tshibumba Kanda Matulu, a popular painter from
Lubumbashi.
P39 2008-014130 978-0-415-99123-0
Framing discourse on the environment a critical
discourse approach.
Alexander, Ridiard J. (Routledge research in critical discourse analysis;
1)
Routledge, ©2009 239 p. $95.00
A linguist, perhaps German or British, Alexander analyzes how various
parties articulate environmental problems both to themselves and to
others. His topics include ecological commitment in business, talking
about sustainable development, resisting imposed metaphors of value,
engineering agriculture, and language and Orwell's problem.
P40 2008-000250 978-0-415-38274-8
An introduction to language and society, 3d ed.
Montgomery, Martin.
Routledge, ©2008 314 p. $30.95 (pa)
Montgomery's Qiterary linguistics, U. of Strathclyde, Scotland) textbook
fbr students of communication and language first appeared in 1986, and
in a second edition in 1995. Much has changed since then, he notes, not
only in the world itself, but in how people talk about it and how scien-
tists study that talk. Most notably, he has added a chapter on gender dif-
ferentiation in language use. Overall, he covers language development,
linguistic diversity and the speech community, social interaction, and rep-
resentation.
P40 2008-012759 978-1-84769-095-1
Language planning and policy in Asia; v.l: Japan, Nepal,
Taiwan and Chinese characters.
Title main entry. Ed. by Robert B. Kaplan and Richard B. Baldauf.
(Language planning and policy)
Multilingual Matters Ltd,, ©2008 307 p. $89.95
Kaplan (applied linguistics, U. of Southern California) and Baldauf
(TESOL, U. of Queensland, Australia) present three language policy and
planning polity studies related to three countries in Asia as well as a
study of the modernization of Chinese characters—the dominant script
form in the region—in the digital era. Two of the contributing authors
are indigenous; the other two have been participants in the language
planning context in these countries. Each study explains the linguistic
diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language
situation. The studies raise issues about overcoming widespread illit-
eracy; the challenges of selecting, standardizing, and modernizing char-
acter systems; the increasing use of, demand fbr, and teaching of English
as a first foreign language; and the status of minority languages in each
of these polities. No subject index. Distributed in the U.S. by UTP
Distribution.
-239-
P40 2008-013680 978-0-8077-4914-2
On discourse analysis in classrooms; approaches to
language and literacy research.
Title main entry. Ed. by David Bloome et al. (Language and literacy
series)
Teachers College Press, ©2008 166 p. $25.95 (pa)
With its strong introduction to topics not generally addressed in discourse
analysis of language and literacy events, this classroom text doubles as a
book of ideas fbr new research. The authors begin by framing discourse
analyses of language and literacy events in classrooms and define dis-
course as both a noun and a verb, opening up variations in discourse
analysis that expand to encompass classroom research and applications
of research. Amongst those variations are an interactive sociolinguistic
perspective on an institutional conversation, a socio-cognitive view on the
discourse of language literacy lesson, the moral order of questions and
answers, and interrogative black female identity (in this case as found in
Alice Walker's Everybody Lies). The result can double as an in-service
training guide or as a fbcus of selfstudy and preparation for research.
P51 2007-037249 978-1-84553-250-5
Sociocultural theory and the teaching of second
languages.
Title main entry. Ed. by James P. Lantolf and Matthew E. Poehner.
(Studies in applied linguistics)
Equinox Publishing Limited, ©2008 422 p. $3700 (pa)
Researchers and teachers of education and language from all the
Americas surest how Russian psychologist L.S. Vygotsky's sociocultural
theory can be applied to teaching a second or fbreign language to adults.
Most of the 13 studies report on classroom based studies where the prin-
ciples were implemented in courses as long as a semester, teadiing
English, French, or Spanish in North America. Distributed in North
America by The David Brown Book Company.
P53 2007-052034 978-3-11-019595-8
Cognitive approaches to pedagogical grammar.
Title main entry. Ed. by Sabine De Knop and Teun De Rycker.
(Applications of" cognitive linguistics; 9)
Mouton de Gruyter, ©2008 444 p. $141.00
Nineteen international academics contribute 14 chapters discussing
studies on cognitive linguistics and grammar, and the relevance of the
research findings to second and fbreign language learning. Opening
chapters consider the question of what the "basic fbrm- meaning units"
of language are, as the authors look at defining grammar, rules, models
and corpora. Subsequent papers discuss the tools fbr conceptual
teaching—contrastive and error analysis—and analyses of learning
problems in the areas of construal of motion events, temporal structure,
and dynamic action. A sampling of topics: the relevance of Cognitive
Grammar fbr language pedagogy, conceptual errors in second-language
learning, motion events in Danish and Spanish, appl3áng cognitive
grammar to tense-aspect teaching in the German EFL classroom, and the
use of passives and alternatives in English by Chinese speakers.
P53 2008^10429 978-90-272-1983-1
Dictionary use in foreign language writing exams; impact
and implications.
East, Martin. (Language learning 6^ language teaching; v.22)
John Benjamins Publishing Co., ©2008 228 p. $158.00
In order to compare the performance of students in writing tests when
and not using a dictionary. East (U. of Auckland, New Zealand) designed
and conducted three experiments, two using his Oivn intermediate and
advanced students of German, and one with recruited high school stu-
dents studying German for an A level equivalent examination. He con-
siders not only whether they got the answer right, but also the quality of
their writing, the types of words they used, and the students reactions to
the difference between the two tests.
Refereiwe & Research Book News November 2008
P53 2007-030024 978-0-8058-6053-5
Gesture; second language acquisition and classroom
research.
Title main entry. Ed. by Steven G. McCafTerty and Gale Stam. (ESL 6»
applied linguistics professional series)
Lawrence Erlbaum, ©2008 327 p. $49.95 (pa)
There exists a large body of research on gesture across a number of dis-
ciplines including anthropology, communications, psychology, sociology,
and child development. Now McCafferty (U. of Nevada) and Stam
(National-Louis U.) provide readers with the first book focusing on the
study of gesture in applied linguistics. Featuring 14 chapters by 15 inter-
national academics the text provides an overview of gesture studies and
review of second language (L2) gesture research followed by discussion
of the sodocultural aspects of gesture in second language acquisition
(SLA); the use and comprehension of gesture as an aspect of communi-
cation in SLA; gesture and linguistic structure in the L2, and how gesture
relates to proficiency; and teachers' gestures, students' gestures, and how
students interpret teachers' gestures. For academics, researchers, practi-
tioners, and undergraduate and graduate students in applied linguistics,
TESOL, education, and related fields. Lawrence Erlbaum is an imprint of
Taylor 6» Francis.
P53 2007-052786 978-1-59904-994-6
Handbook of research on e-leaming methodologies for
language acquisition.
Title main entry. Ed. by Rita de Cassia Veiga Marriott and Patricia
Lupion Torres.
Information Science Reference, ©2009 611 p. $265.00
Sixty international academics contribute 33 chapters reporting on
research and studies of innovative theoretical and practical approaches
to language learning and teaching in the area of computer assisted lan-
guage learning (CALL), using current available teaching resources for
face-to-face (F2F), distance, and hybrid (F2F combined with distance)
courses. Featuring chapters covering the areas of pedagogy, methodology,
assessment, current and future challenges of online language learning,
and teaching, the text aims to contribute to the education of language stu-
dents, novice teachers, academics and researchers who want to keep up-
to-date on current developments and are interested in introducing
innovative methodologies and approaches in their own practice.
P53 2008-012755 978-1-84769-084-5
Investigating pragmatics in foreign language learning,
teaching and tesung.
Title main entry. Ed. by Eva Alcón Soler and Alicia Martínez-Flor.
(Second language acquisition; 30)
Multilingual Matters Ltd., ©2008 266 p. $54.95 (pa)
Fifteen international academics contribute 12 chapters concerned with
pragmatic learning, teaching, and testing in foreign language contexts.
Following an overview of the topic, the text addresses issues related to
learning and teaching in a variety of contexts—traditional classrooms,
context-based instruction, computer- and internet-mediated learning
opportunities, translation and interpretation, and teacher training—and
then turns to how foreign language pragmatics can be assessed using a
variety of approaches, including oral and woitten discourse completion
tasks, roleplay, self-assessment, video prompting, and conversation
analysis. Data is presented from learners of a broad range of languages,
and the chapters draw on a variety of theoretical approaches: psycholin-
guistics, language socialization, conversation analysis and sociocultural
theory. For graduate students, foreign language teachers, and researchers.
No subject index. Distributed in the U.S. by UTP Distribution.
P53 2008-012756 978-1-84769-089-0
Languag[e learners with special needs; an international
perspective.
Title main entry. Ed. by Judit Kormos and Edit H. Kontra. (Second lan-
guage acquisition)
Multilingual Matters Ltd., ©2008 233 p. $44.95 (pa)
The purpose here is not only to study the population, but to advocate for
them, casting into high relief the various disadvantages they endure and
the discrimination they are frequently subjected to. Researchers and
practitioners more of psychology and education that of linguistics and
language learning discuss such topics as second language assessment in
dyslexia, deaf learners of the English as a foreign language (EFL) outside
the school system, and teachers' and trainers' perceptions of inclusive
education within TEFL certificate courses in Britain. There is no index.
Reference & Research Book News November 2008
P53 2008-026251 978-0-7734-5066-0
The role of music in second language acquisition; a
bibliographic review of seventy years of research, 1937-
2007.
Sposet, Barbara A.
Edwin Mellen Pr., ©2008 134 p. $89.95
Sposet (education, Baldwin-Wallace College) analyzes research on the use
of music in second language instruction, and also discusses the rationale
for using music with students from preschool through college. She sum-
marizes teaching models and gives examples of implementation
strategies, then analyzes research done from 1937 to 2007, specifically 23
studies, and their findings and commonalities.
P85 2008-018912 978-0-8264-8662-2
Chomsky; a guide for the perplexed.
Collins, John. (Guides for the perplexed)
Continuum Publishing Group, ©2008 229 p. $90.00
The first perplexation, perhaps, is why the Father of Modern Linguistics
appears in a series with philosophers. Collins (U. of East Anglia) explains
that Noam Chomsky has changed the landscape in which scientists and
the public think about thinking. To the extent possible, he avoids tech-
nical detail about linguistics as he sets out the reasoning involved.
Among the topics are methodological foundations, the cognitive turn, the
review of Skinner, developments in syntax, and the minimalist program.
He does not deal with Chomsky's political views.
P90 2008-017668 978-1^129-4153-2
Hie beisics of communication; a relational perspective.
Duck, Steve and David T. McMahan.
Sage Publications, ©2009 448 p. $65.95 (pa)
Duck (U. of Iowa) and McMahan (Missouri Western State U.) have com-
bined what they consider the best features of the various approaches to
introducing the field of communications. They emphasize the link
between communication and the relational context, for example how a
personal relationship impacts one person's ability to another person with
health advice, and the role of cell phones and the Internet as relational
tools.
P91 2007-923331 978-1-4129-2371-2
Careers in media and film; the essential guide.
Gregory, Georgina et al.
Sage Publications, ©2007 218 p. $115.00
This guide to finding a career in film and media is designed fbr students
who want to be in the industry, but haven't quite figured out how to get
hired after graduation. The authors take a no-nonsense approach to the
subject, offering straightforward and practical advice on how far to take
a film degree, how to find employment prospects, how to fill out appli-
cations viath film companies and how to network with fellow trades-
people to find future gigs. Real world advice is also offered from a
variety of people within the industry, and separate approaches are out-
lined for film, TV and broadcast work.
P91 2008-004613 978-3-11-018832-5
Handbook of communication in the public sphere.
Title main entry. Ed. by Ruth Wodak and Veronika KoUer. (Handbooks
of applied linguistics; 4)
Mouton de Gruyter, ©2008 462 p. $25700
Nineteen international academics contribute 19 chapters examining lan-
guage and communication in the public sphere from a variety of per-
spectives, including discourse analysis, genre theory and media studies.
Following a section on the theoretical foundations for the study of com-
munication in the public sphere, the remaining chapters explore the
public spheres of business, politics, and the media. Topics addressed
include public relations and advertising; the integration of corporate and
marketing communications; creating a "green" corporate image; New
Labour's discourse on British national identity, political terminology in
the UK and U.S.; political speeches; dissemination and implementation of
political concepts; discrimination, prejudice, and stereot)^es in political
discourse; tabloidization of political communication; genre in global
media communication; genre features of new mass media; radio and tel-
evision debates; state censorship and self-censorship; and technology,
democracy and participation in space. For students and researchers in
the social sciences.
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P93 2008^17666 978-1-4129-5695-6
Quantitative research in communication.
Allen, Mike et al.
Sage Publications, ©2009 242 p. $69.95
While most concentrate on qualitative research in communication, Allen
(communications, U. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) and his coauthors, both
academics give even the least-confident of students a solid grounding in
quantitative research. In assessable language they cover statistics, inde-
pendent samples (or the student's t test) one way analysis of variance
(ANOVA), factorial ANOVA, analysis of covariance, multivariate ANOVA,
chi-square statistics, simple bivariate correlation, multiple regression,
factor analysis, advanced modeling techniques, and meta-analysis. They
also provide a wealth of appendices with technical information and
advice on preparing statistical information for reports and papers. The
text is well-illustrated and each chapter contains its own references.
P93 978-0-596-52234-6
Slide:olog}r, the art and science of creating great
presentations.
Duarte, Nancy.
O'Reilly Media, Inc., ©2008 274 p. $34.99 (pa)
With visual aids becoming the norm for all types of professional settings,
from businesses to education and nonprofits, Duarte writes an accessible
book on creating ideas and translating them into useful and interesting
displays; this title is not an PowerPoint manual. The book progresses
through the stages of presentation development from ideas to delivery,
each page presents one thought in both a visual and textual manner. The
book's website provides extra content on some concepts. Recommended
for anyone who provides presentations in any professional context.
P93 2007-041866 978-1^129-4919-4
Visual rhetoric; a reader in communication and American
culture.
Title main entry. Ed. by Lester C. Olson et al.
Sage Publications, ©2008 437 p. $49.95 (pa)
Photographs, prints, television, film and even postage stamps can
influence public perceptions when it comes to rhetoric, and this
anthology shows how visual images can be used to confront, resist,
govern, authorize and persuade. Editors Olson (U. of Pittsburgh),
Finnegan (U. of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana) and Hope (Rochester
Institute of^ Technology) have assembled these commentaries on visual
rhetoric in the United States to show how images can instill values and
promote agendas, especially when it comes to concepts of race, gender,
sexuality and social class. Plenty of pictorial evidence to support these
theories is provided in this volume, which should interest students and
scholars of modern American culture.
P94 2008-009789 978-1-4331-0326-1
Communication ethics: between cosmopolitanism and
provinciality.
Title main entry. Ed. by Kathleen Glenister Roberts and Ronald C.
Arnett. (Critical intercultural communication studies; v.l2)
Peter Lang Publishing Inc, ©2008 297 p. $34.95 (pa)
The contributors of these 13 articles modestly propose to initiate a con-
versation that considers that there is more than merely self-interested
wisdom, and that "my" theory or "our kind" of people may not contain
all the answers. Contributors describe what the bias of their work sug-
gests when considering cosmopolitanism and provinciality in communi-
cation ethics, covering such topics as the aspect of the universal in
humans, aesthetic love and romantic love, discourse promoting cos-
mopolitanism, Levinas on communication ethics outside of originative
agency, globalization in dialogic ethics, religion and dialogue, com-
munity at the end of the world, Grimké's dialogic ethic, eros and logos
is Plato's Sophia, scripting Jewishness within the satire The Hebrew
Hammer, the reasonableness of bias, Limbaugh and public dismis-
siveness, and the concepts of response, responsibility and commitment in
Arendt, Adorno and Benjamin. Suitable for upper-level undergraduate
and graduate students.
-241-
P94 2007-036556 978-1-4129-3851-8
Engaging theories in interpersonal communication;
mmtiple perspectives.
Title main entry. Ed. by Leslie A Baxter and Dawn O. Braithwaite.
Sage Publications, ©2008 423 p. $79.95
Baxter (U. of Iowa) and Braithwaite (U. of Nebraska, Lincoln) have edited
this survey of current theories of interpersonal communication, dividing
the essays between those that favor an individually-centered perspective,
those that stress the need for interaction with others and those that rely
entirely upon relationships. Each theory examines a specific component
of communication, whether it be a feminist perspective, the practice of
being polite or the exchange of affection. The editors have approached
this volume with one objective—to provide a detailed theory behind each
type of interpersonal communication, and to dispel all discussions that
lack an empirical basis. Written for students and practitioners in the field
of interpersonal communication, this book cross-references each theory
for easy comparisons.
P95 2007-032454 978O-313-34167-0
Battleground; the media; 2v.
Title main entry. Ed. by Robin Andersen and Jonathan Gray.
(Battleground)
Greenwood Press, ©2008 633 p. $175.00
Part of a series, this excellent two-volume ivork presents current issues
and events concerning the media in thought-provoking chapters that will
be of interest to high school and undergraduate students as well as the
general reader. As the series' name implies, the focus is on controversies,
and the authors do not shy away from critically engaging with current
media trends and practices, such as, for example, embedded journalists
and their tendency to offer a one-sided view of war that's centered on the
military, omitting the impact upon the civilians around them. Other
topics include independent cinema, media watch groups, satire, online
publishing, and paparazzi and photographic ethics. The editors teach
communication and media studies at Fordham U. The authors are aca-
demics in the US, Canada, Australia, and the UK.
P95 2005-056785 978-1-84545-135-6
Media and nation building, how the ïban became
Malaysian, (reprint, 2006)
Postill, John. (Asia Pacific studies; v.l)
Berghahn Books, ©2008 231 p. $27.95 (pa)
Malaysia was formed from the British colonies Malaya, Singapore,
Sarawak and Sabah in 1963 in that era's wave of state formation in
Africa and Asia. Singapore seceded about two years later, but the rest
remained united, despite a deeply divided multiethnic population and an
economy completely dependent on export commodities. The Iban people
of Sarawak, on the island of Borneo, is one of those ethnic groups, and
here Postill (media, Sheffield Hallam U.) examines the anthropology of
the media that made Iban a nation of "longhouse villages" into part of
the Malaysian nation. He shows how perceptions of nationality were con-
sciously merged into each other over time, Isringing the Iban into the per-
ception of also being, if not wholly being, Malaysian. This is a paperback
reprint of the 2006 hardback edition.
P96 2007-033759 978-3-11-019464-7
Self-reference in the media.
Title main entry. Ed. by Winfried Nöth and Nina Bishara. (Approaches
to applied semiotics; 6)
Mouton de Gruyter, ©2007 340 p. $157.00
Print advertising, photography, film, television, and computer games are
among the media in which contributors whose fields are not identified
find examples of messages about messages and communication about
communication. Their topics include the semiotic framework, Marilyn as
a paragone of the camera gaze, self-disclosure as audiovision reflexivity,
and the artist and her bodily self.
Reference & Research Book News November 2008
P99 2007-051984 978-3-11-019670-2
Developing contrastive pragmatics; interlanguage and
cross-cultural perspectives.
Title main entry. Ed. by Martin Putz and JoAnne NefT-van Aertselaer.
(Studies on language acquisition; 31)
Mouton de Gruyter, ©2008 437 p. $157.00
Grown from those presented at a March 2006 conference on intercultural
pragmatics held in Landau, Germany, these 15 papers use linguistic,
sociocultural and cognitive approaches to promote language competence
and the study of language acquisition. Focusing on everyday multilingual
interactions in language, including building meaning in online commu-
nication, these articles describe systematic research into the teaching and
learning of second (or more) foreign languages. Topics include intercul-
tural pragmatics and discourse markers, including socio-cultural con-
ceptualization, cultural scripts, metadiscourse markers, reframing one's
experiences in the classroom, strategies of indirect complaint, bilingual
informal discussion, learning with humor, and six papers detailing
learning how to make requests. This would serve well as a readers in a
undergraduate or graduate course on pragmatics as well as a profes-
sional resource.
P107 2008-026866 978-1-4128-0825-5
Language &> human nature, (reprint, 2006)
Halpern, Mark.
Transaction Publishers, ©2009 386 p. $39.95 (pa)
American writer and editor Halpern set out to describe the faults of lan-
guage usage that caused or contributed to serious social and political
problems. Along the way, he also took up such issues such as the status
of linguistics and linguists, authority in language usage, language as a
medium for a fantasy or alternative life, and specialized languages such
as programming and calculus. The original was published in 2006 by
Regent Press, Oakland, California. This reprint contains a new intro-
duction and index.
P118 2007-028663 978-0-8058-5497-8
Second language acquisition; an introductory course, 3d
ed.
Gass, Susan and Larry Selinker.
Routledge, ©2008 593 p. $49.95 (pa)
Gass O'nguistics, Michigan State U.) and Selinker (linguistics. New York
U.) present an updated textbook for introductory courses on second lan-
guage acquisition (SLA), suitable for undergraduate and graduate stu-
dents with background in languages and/or linguistics as well as
students with little or no background in these two areas. Reflecting new
findings in the field since publication of the 2001 second edition, the
third edition includes a new chapter on SLA and related disciplines, and
new sections on the relationship between first and second language
acquisition, language transfer, sociocultural theory, and working
memory. An accompanying workbook by Gass, Sorace, and Selinker—
Second Language Learning: Data Analysis (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,
1999)—is a supplement to the text. P149
P119 2008-017060 978-3-11-019591-0
Mapping linguistic diversity in multicultural contexts.
Title main entry. Ed. by Monica Barni and Guus Extra. (Contributions
to the sociology of language; 94)
Mouton de Gruyter, ©2008 348 p. $157.00
Barni (educational linguistics. Université per Stranieri di Siena, Italy) and
Extra's Qanguage and minorities, Tilburg U., The Netherlands) text is a
foUowup to an international exploratory workshop held in Siena in
September 2006. Fifteen international academics and researchers con-
tribute 13 chapters dealing with methodological issues and empirical
findings in the domain of mapping linguistic diversity in a variety of
multicultural contexts, both in Europe and abroad, at the level of nation-
states and at the level of metropolitan cities. Following an introductory
overview, the text includes sections focusing on regional languages in
Europe, with case studies of Welsh, Basque, and Frisian; the immigrant
languages in Europe, with case studies on the distribution and vitality of
immigrant languages at the multicultural city and nation-state levels-
France, Switzerland, and Italy, and case studies of mapping linguistic
diversity abroad, in Turkey, South Africa, Australia, and Japan.
Reßrence & Research Book News November 2008
P120 2008-020175 978-1-60497-538-3
Language and gender in the military; honoriñcs, narrative
and ideology in Air Force talk.
Disler, Edith A.
Cambria Press, ©2008 219 p. $109.95
Research into links between language and gender have shied away from
the military so far, but Disler (English and humanities, US Air Force
Academy) takes the plunge. She covers gender in military life, the lin-
guistic background, the military use of ma'am and sir, narrative and gen-
dering of institutional identity, and how ideology in language reflects
ideology in institutions.
P120 2007-019397 978-1-84553-075-4
Sexed texts; language, gender, emd sexuality.
Baker, Paul.
Equinox Publishing Limited, ©2008 300 p. $24.95 (pa)
Baker (linguistics and English language, Lancaster University) looks at
how the use of language, particularly in advertising and the media ofien
belies the belief that gender equality has been achieved. He examines the
subject starting with recent publications that attempt to define gender
difTerences. He moves on to how gender is expressed in conversation.
Then he takes up the question of deciding what is normal in terms of
sexual identity. This leads to the theme of masculine hegemony, in which
even violent behavior is somehow acceptable within the framework of a
heterosexual relationship. Applying queer theory to the situations of
anyone living outside the one man/one woman matrix, Baker demon-
strates how it can shed light on our continued perceptions of what is the
norm as evidence in the texts we encounter every day. Distributed in
North American by the David Brown Book Co.
P142 2007-050434 978-3-11-019869-0
Variation, selection, development; probing the
evolutionary model of language change.
Title main entry. Ed. by Régine Eckardt et al. (Trends in linguistics,
studies and monographs; 197)
Mouton de Gruyter, ©2008 408 p. $157.00
Evolutionary models of linguistic change are attractive to scholars of his-
torical linguistics, because they explain patterns for directed processes
rather than language changes being random fluctuations. In introducing
11 chapters by international contributors, Eckardt (English/linguistics, U.
of Göttingen) further notes that these patterns represent opposing
selective pressures for brevity and for clarity, and trends for improvement
rather than eventual decay as Humboldt's stage model proposed. Among
recent approaches represented are computer simulation models to
examine replication and selection processes in creóle genesis, the role of
analogy in driving structural changes, and empirical research on the dif-
ference between the understanding of situations and understanding com-
municative intentions to answer the question of "Why don't apes point?"
Authors' contact information is listed.
2008-001737 978-1-84553-395-3
Invitation to systemic functional linguistics through the
Cardiff grammar, an extension and simplification of
Halliday's sj^temic functional greimmar, 3d ed.
Fawcett, Robin P. (Equinox textbooks and surveys in linguistics)
Equinox Publishing Lim.ited, ©2008 272 p. $29.95 (pa)
Fawcett Ginguistics emeritus, Cardiff U.) is writing for two groups of
readers: students who seek an extended treatment of Hallday's classic
Introduction to Functional Grammar and experienced linguists who want
to compare the Sydney approach to grammar to the Cardiff approach.
Focusing on recent research the structure of the clause in English,
Fawcett explains the place of syntax in an overall model of language,
introduces the sjTitax of transitivity and mood (by way of example), and
builds a set of guidelines for developing reliable analysis skills. He
follows through by explaining a minimal theory of syntax; reviewing a
systematic functional grammar for the structures introduced; describing
three types of auxiliary verb, one type of "theme" and another of
"newness;" and the concept of "polarity." He reviews the syntax of tran-
sitivity, mood, and circumstance, providing guidelines for clause analysis.
Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co.
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P158 2006-039459 97&-1-84553-121-8
Optimality theory, phonological acc^uisition and disorders.
Title main entry. Ed. by Daniel A. Dinnsen and Judith A. Gierut.
(Advances in optimality theory)
Equinox Publishing Limited, ©2008 1513 p. $45.00 (pa)
For linguists, psychologists, and other scholars and practitioners,
researchers with the Learnability Project at Indiana University and affil-
iated sites discuss their approach and empirical findings into some
aspects of phonological theory. Among their perspectives are the funda-
mentals of experimental design and treatment, innovation in treating
chain shins, the prominence paradox, and a typological evaluation of the
split-margin approach to syllable structure in phonological acquisition.
Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Company.
P165 2007-026713 978-0-8058-5352-0
Handbook of cognitive linguistics and second language
acquisition.
Robinson, Peter and Nick Ellis.
Lawrence Erlbaum, ©2008 566 p. $69.95 (pa)
Twenty-one international academics from the fields of psychology, lin-
guistics, and second language acquisition (SLA) contribute 19 chapters to
a resource for students and researchers, which describes the implications
of cognitive linguistics (CL) for the study of SLA. The text includes
chapters summarizing current CL perspectives on patterns of language,
of language use, and of child language acquisition, followed by chapters
demonstrating the relevance of the basic CL concepts, and theoretical
frameworks for researching them, to the fields of SLA and language ped-
agogy. Lawrence Erlbaum is an imprint of Taylor 6» Francis.
P211 978-2-503-51758-2
Stratejgies of writing studies on text and trust in the
middle ages; proceedings.
Trust in Writing in the Middle Ages Conference (2002: Utrecht, The
Netherlands) Ed. by Petra Schulte et al. (Utrecht studies in medieval lit-
eracy)
Brepols Publishers, ©2008 413 p. $116.00
The underlying notion is that the written word established itself as a
medium because credulity was attached to what had been written down.
In a 1998 conference on German and Dutch literacy, questions arose
about why and how trust in writing came about, and under what cir-
cumstances was trust withdrawn from the written word. Participants
from that gathering were invited to contribute here, and the 20 papers
address those issues, mostly but not entirely viathin Germanic spheres.
Besides general themes, they consider charters, historiography, letters,
and political communication. There is no index. Distributed in North
America by The David Brown Book Company.
P271 2007-050816 978-3-11-019867-6
Tlie noun phrase in functional discourse grammar.
Title main entry. Ed. by Daniel Garcia Velasco and Jan Rijkhoff.
(Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 195)
Mouton de Gruyter, ©2008 376 p. $157.00
Eight papers from a September 2004 conference in Gijón, Spain use func-
tional discourse grammar as a framework within which to analyze the
noun phrase. They consider such aspects as prototj^ical and non-proto-
typical noun phrases, problems with reference and ascription and some
possible solutions, and the dynamic expression of terms and what can
go wrong. The introduction explains how functional discourse grammar
differs from the functional grammar that preceded it.
P261 2008^19878 978-90-272-05704
Interdependence of diachronlc and synchronie analyses.
Title main entry. Ed. by Folke Josephson and Ingmar Söhrman.
(Studies in language companion series; v.lO3)
John Benjamins Publishing Co., ©2008 350 p. $165.00
Focusing on the investigation of syntactic structure, these 14 essays
describe a diverse set of modern and ancient languages, including Hittite,
the classical languages, old Norse, Coptic, Bantu languages, Australian
languages and Creoles. Contributors cover such topic as synchronie and
diachronic evidence for parallels between noun phrases and sentences,
the development of Creole languages, oppositions from proto-Indo-
European to Latin, the development of early to late Latin, the history of
two Greek tenses, actionality and aspect in Hittite, imperfèctivity and
complete events, transitions in Portuguese and Spanish, the old Nordic
middle voice, tense and aspect in Semitic languages, the verb phrase in
the Kerebe language, comparative TAM morphology in Niger-Congo,
indexicals in Australian languages, and differential object marking in
Sahidic Coptic.
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P281 2007-034254 978-3-03911-300-2
The semantic salience hierarchy model; the L2 acquisition
of psych predicates.
Zhang, Jingyu. (Linguistic insights; v.53)
Peter Lang Publishing Inc, ©2007 253 p. $72.95 (pa)
Within both generative and topological frameworks, Zhang (linguistics,
Shaanxi Normal U., Xi'an, China) investigates the process by which adult
Chinese speakers come to understand English psychological predicates,
those that describe how people feel about someone or something, such
as like, fear, and annoy. The model, which he introduces here, provides
a theoretical basis for identifying key variables for empirical research.
P299 2008-018245 978-3-11-020065-2
Agreement restrictions.
Title main entry. Ed. by Roberta D'Alessandro et al. (Interface explo-
rations; 15)
Mouton de Gruyter, ©2008 325 p. $157.00
The majority of the key research of recent years on agreement restric-
tions in grammar is scattered in journals, conference proceedings,
working papers and dissertation chapters. This text assembles in one
place a collection of ten articles by 15 international academics offering
various perspectives on agreement restrictions within a generative
framework. The chapters are grouped into a person-case constraint set
addressing the restriction on the co-occurrence of agreement markers
and case markers; a person/number-restriction set examining the
restriction on agreement features of a lexical item agreeing with a case-
assigning head; and an anti-agreement or Uwk of agreement set that treats
the same restrictions with the surface result of no agreement or anti-
agreement. Collectively they provide an extensive overview of the results
achieved so far, but also underline the shortcomings in the theory and
can help to indicate a path for future research.
P299 2008-001064 978-3-11-020266-3
Impoliteness in language; studies on its interplay with
power in theory and practice.
Title main entry. Ed. by Derek Bousfield and Miriam A. Locher.
(Language, power, and social process; 21)
Mouton de Gruyter, ©2008 346 p. $125.00
The idea of a volume on impoliteness arose during a linguistics con-
ference, of course, and survived the initial comments on it, its originators,
and their genetic heritage. Focusing on Enghsh, linguists consider theo-
retical issues impacting the research, political interaction, interaction
with legally constituted authorities, workplace interaction, code
switching, and the FAQ, in an electronic community.
P299 2008-018243 978-3-11-019629-0
Q^adverbs as selective binders; the quantiñcational
variability of free relatives and definite DPs.
Hinterwimmer, Stefan. (Interface explorations; 14)
Mouton de Gruyter, ©2008 289 p. $157.00
Hinterwimmer presents a revised version of the Ph.D. thesis he com-
pleted at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Based almost exclusively on
analysis of English and German data, the text deals with the interpre-
tation of adverbially quantified sentences containing definite DPs and
free relatives (FRs), concentrating on the origins of Quantificational
Variability Ejects (QVEs). Coverage includes QVEs in sentences with FRs,
singular definites and universally quantified DPs, and QVEs in sentences
with FRs or plural definites. The text will interest linguists working in
formal semantics and the syntax-semantics interface, and philosophers of
language interested in adverbial quantification and situation and event
semantics; it also offers graduate students an introduction to the core
issues of situation semantics and adverbial quantification.
P302 2008-006978 978-90-272-2305-0
Corpora and discourse; the challenges of different
settings.
Title main entry. Ed. by Annelie Adel and Randi Reppen. (Studies in
corpus linguistics; 31)
John Benjamins Publishing Co., ©2008 295 p. $158.00
Only very recently have the two areas of linguistics begun to overlap, and
the 12 papers here describe research into discourse in academic settings,
workplace settings, and news and entertainment; and through specific
linguistic features. The topics include integrating corpus ancl discourse
tools in the study of cross-disciplinary variation, determining discourse-
based moves in professional reports, evidentiality in US newspapers
during the 2004 presidential campaign, and place and time adverbials in
native and non-native English student writing.
Reßrence & Research Book News November 2008
P302 2008-002051 978-3-11-019619-1
Language in the context of use; discourse and cognitive
approaches to language.
Title main entry. Ed. by Andrea Tyler et al. (Cognitive linguistics
research; 37)
Mouton de Gruyter, ©2008 365 p. $157.00
Originally presented at a 2003 conference held at Georgetown U., the 18
papers in this collection offer research from various cognitive and dis-
course perspectives that emphasize the shared notions that the properties
of language and the process of language learning crucially involve how
language is used in context and how these patterns relate to cognition
more generally. The contributions are organized into two sections: dis-
course resources in meaning construction and language processing, and
applying discourse and corpus perspectives to issues in Cognitive
Linguistics. A sampling of topics: the role of compound pragmatic
markers in the construction of Catalan oral narrative, analyzing nar-
rative informativeness in speech and writing, mental spaces and mental
verbs in early child English, French split intransitivity, metaphors and
similes in spoken news discourse, and "superschemas" and the grammar
of metaphorical mappings.
P302 2007-049146 978-3-11-020244-1
Theorizing narrativiiy.
Title main entry. Ed. by John Pier and José Angel Garcia Landa.
(Narratologia; 12)
Walter de Gruyter, ©2008 464 p. $98.00
Contributors identified only by name explore detlnitions and boundaries
of narrative, its features and resources, and its translation from one
medium to another. Their topics include functions and forms of event-
fulness in narrative fiction, narrativity and performativity from
Cervantes to Star Trek, diegetic and mimetic narrativity, and twisting the
twice-told tale.
P306 2008-013780 978-90-272-1686-1
Ilie didactics of audiovisual translation. (CD-ROM
included)
Title main entry. Ed. by Jorge Diaz Cintas. (Benjamins translation
librar)^ 77)
John Benjamins Publishing Co., ©2008 263 p. $149.00
While exploring the state of the art of translator training, the focus of this
coDection of 15 essays is on one of the most complex and dynamic areas
of the translation disciplines. Contributors describe the nature of the
audiovisual text, the challenges of translating screen to writing need and
screenplays, the scripted and unscripted language of the screenplay and
what subtitlers need to know about both, the discipline as it applies to
special needs including translation for those with hearing and vision dif^
ferences, the use of subtitled materials for foreign language instruction,
and personalized subtitling as a means to enhance second language
acquisition. Hands on experience essays are especially interesting and
include subtitler training as part of a general program in language pro-
fessions, teaching and learning to subtitling and academic environment,
learning to subtitle online, and teaching overdubbing.
P306 2008-021887 978-&415-39693-6
Introducing translation studies; theories tind applications,
2d ed.
Munday, Jeremy.
Routledge, ©2008 236 p. $28.95 (pa)
Munday (Spanish studies and translation, U. of Leeds, UK) presents a
revised text for students, teachers, and professional translators which pro-
vides a critical but balanced survey of many of the most important
trends and contributions to translation studies. Various contemporary
models are applied to sample texts from a broad range of languages in
brief case studies. Revised and updated throughout, the second edition
includes a new chapter on translation and new technologies, focusing on
audiovisual translation, and including globalization/localization and
corpus-based translation studies; an updated discussion of the future of
translation studies; revised exercises and updated further reading lists,
web links and bibliography; and a new companion website.
P311 2007-046043 978-l-8451*-256-3
Toward a theory of cognitive poetics, 2d ed.
Tsur, Reuven.
Sussex Academic Press, ©2008 683 p. $54.95 (pa)
Tsur (emeritus Hebrew literature and literary theory, Tel Aviv U.) syn-
thesizes his thinking over 25 years that led to the notion of cognitive
poetics. He discusses such aspects as the sound stratum of poetry, regu-
lative concepts, and poetry of altered states of consciousness. No date is
noted for the first edition; the second includes responses to critics.
Distributed in the US by ISBS.
Reference & Research Book News November 2008
P327 2008-005502 978-90-272-2335-7
Pedagogical specialized lexicography; the representation of
meaning in English and Spanish business dictionaries.
Fuertes-Olivera, Pedro A and Ascensión Arribas-Baño. (Terminology
and lexicography research; v.ll)
John Benjamins Publishing Co., ©2008 165 p. $135.00
Contributing to the study of language for a specific purpose (LSP),
Fuertes-Olivera and Arribas-Baño (both U. de Valladolid) analyze how
some business dictionaries in English and Spanish treat the represen-
tation of meaning. They focus on the main tenets and methods put
forward by the proponents of the didactic role of the LSP dictionary.
Among the aspects they examine are access structure, definitions, equiv-
alence, and examples.
PA881 2008-028603 978-1-59856-325-2
Compact Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament.
Title main entry.
Hendrickson Publishers, ©2008 192 p. $24.95
Mark A. House has revised and expanded Alexander Souter's Compact
Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, published by Clarendon Press
in 1916. Among his changes are rearranging the order of elements in the
entries, revising definitions to account for changes in English, adding
help to identify difficult forms, changing Biblical references from Roman
to Arabic numerals, and dropping the Latin equivalents.
PA2087 978-1-84217-331-2
Intermediate Latin.
Reyes, A.T.
Oxbow Books, ©2008 361 p. $29.95 (pa)
Reyes teaches Latin and Greek at Groton School in Massachusetts. Based
on materials prepared at Groton School, his textbook is designed for stu-
dents with roughly a year's worth of previous study of Latin, who are
making the transition from beginning Latin primers to the actual texts
of ancient authors. The text includes a concise outline of Latin grammar
followed by selections from Livy's history of early Rome, which are sup-
plemented with a chronology of Roman history, significant points of
geography, and Latin-English and English-Latin glossaries. Illustrated
with maps, photographs, and architectural renderings. Distributed in
North America by The David Brown Book Co.
PA3968 2007-031855 0-415-98849-7
Empedodes Redivivus; poetiy and analogy in Lucretius.
Garani, Myrto. (Studies in classics)
Routledge, ©2007 324 p. $95.00
Garani argues that Roman poet Lucretius (95-55 BC) applauds discoveries
by Greek philosopher Empedocles (490-430) in order to highlight his epis-
temological methods of inquiry into the unseen, methods that Lucretius
himself draws on and creatively modifies. Quotations are in the original
Greek and Latin followed by English translation. The study is revised
from his Ph.D. dissertation for the University of London in 2004.
PA4167 2008-036483 978-1-4331-0475-6
The suitors in the Odyssey, the dash between Homer and
Archilochus.
steinrück, Martin. (Hermeneutic commentaries; v.2)
Peter Lang Publishing Inc, ©2008 153 p. $61.95
Steinrück (classical languages, U. of Fribourg) argues that Penelope's
suitors in the epic represent—possibly parody-audiences for iambic, a
particular kind of poetry associated with partying and entertainment.
Just as the iambic and the epic are mutually exclusive, he says so too are
their audiences, therefore the suitors cannot hear the Odyssey itself.
PA6139 2008-003832 9780^232-2892-8
The Vatican m3^ographers; an English translation.
Mythographi Vaticani. English.
Fordham. University Press, ©2008 357 p. $65.00
One's name is known—Alberic of London—but not even so much for the
other two who compiled Latin compilations of classical myths composed
during the Middle Ages. The texts were discovered and published in 1831,
and have recently been translated into French. Ronald E. Pepin (emeritus.
Capital Community College, Hartford, Connecticut) presents the first
English translation of them, and discusses them as a group and
individually.
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PA8527 2003-070860 978-0-86698-381-5
Tlie poetic works of Helius Eobanus Hessus; v.2:
Joumqonan yeiirs, 1509-1514.
Hessus, Helius Eobanus. Ed. and trans, by Harry Vredeveld.
(Renaissance text series; v.2O, Medieval and Renaissance texts and
studies; 333)
ACMRS, ©2008 703 p. $95.00
When the second volume opens, we find Hessus (1488-1540) reneging on
his pledge to teach for two years at Erfurt in pa3Tiient for his education,
and fleeing to Leipzig at age 21. The poems covered here are A Nuptial
Encomium for the Godlike Sigismund, King of Poland; Two Impromptus:
Prussia and Love; and letters of Christian heroines. The Latin original and
English translation are on facing pages. Vredeveld provides explanatory
footnotes, supplementary endnotes, and a battery of indexes. Published
by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe.
PB41 2007-043072 978^>415-41002-l
llie language and literature reader.
Title main entry. Ed. by Ronald Carter and Peter Stockwell.
Routledge, ©2008 306 p. $41.95 (pa)
Designed primarily for student use but also suitable as a professional ref-
erence, this ofïèrs an integrated approach that includes linguistics in the
mix. Editors Carter and Stockwell (modern English language and literary
linguistics, respectively, U. of Nottingham) work chronologically from the
1960s to ensure students of stylistics understand both concepts and
trends. With such exemplars as David Lodge, John Sinclair, Henry
Widdowson, Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Mary Louise Pratt they explain
early theory and practice through example. With such as Michael Toolan,
Walter Nash, Keith Green, Alison Täte and Guy Cook they track devel-
opment of stylistics criticism and in no less than ten examples (including
works by Weber, Simpson, Stubbs, Emmott and Sotirova) track the tra-
jectories of several alternative developments. They provide a very good
summary of what has been done and what is to come, in part to pique
the interest and initiate new work.
PB1227 2007-025225 978-0-415-38129-1
Colloquial Irish.
Ihde, Thomas et al. (The colloquial series)
Routledge, ©2008 245 p. $23.95 (pa)
Focusing on the Connaught dialect of Galway, this tutorial builds upon
each chapter and provides short dialogues, vocabulary lists and exercises
which cover words and phrases likely to be useful to business or recre-
ational travelers in Irish-speaking areas of Ireland. In addition to
chapters covering topics such as health, shopping, weather, employment,
music, and food and drink, the authors also provide a summary of Irish
grammar, a glossary, answers and translations for the exercises, and an
appendix describing differences between the three Irish dialects. Two 60-
minute CDs (sold separately) are referred to in many of the exercises (a
bundled edition is also available).
PB1306 978-0-7165-2959-0
the 'tinkers' in Irish literature; unsettled subjects and the
construction of difference.
Lanters, José.
Irish Academic Press, ©2008 238 p. $65.00
Subtitled Unsettled Subjects and the Construction of Difference, this book
follovi^ the history of the traditional Irish "tinker," travelers who were
once thought of as primitive nomads but who evolved into a more
nationalistic identity. Lanters (U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) focuses on
how the tinker came to symbolize both regression and resistance well
into the 20th century, and how these figures were represented in liter-
ature, especially children's stories and crime novels. Written for students
and scholars of Irish literature, this book also explains the relationship
between tinkers and Celtic mythology. Distributed in the US by ISBS.
PB2123 2007-041448 978-0415^6113-9
Colloquial Welsh; a complete language course for
beginners, 2d ed.
King, Gareth. (CoUoquials)
Routledge, ©2008 316 p. $23.95 (pa)
King, a towering figure in Welsh language teaching, updates his 1995
course book for learning spoken informal Welsh. He has expanded it a
bit and tinkered with it some to make it more useful. To facilitate self-
study, recordings of the example conversations by native speakers are
available on compact disk or in MP3 format.
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PC1121 2007-040644 978-0-7818-1149-1
Language and travel guide to Sicily. (CD-ROM included)
La Marca, Giovanna Bellia.
Hippocrene Books Inc., ©2008 270 p. $29.95 (pa)
Sicily native La Marca pens a cultural and language guide to Sicily with
sections on the land, food, architecture, arts, language, and family and
customs. Each cultural chapter includes a section on helpful phrases that
is doubled in audio form on the two included CD- ROMs. The second half
of the book gives information on locations such as Ragusa, Siracusa,
Messina, Palermo, and others, with closing sections listing annual events
and festivals, organized tours, and hotel and restaurant listings for the
locations discussed.
PC2640 200&-271797 978^0-06-114182-9
Collins French dictionary, 4th ed.
Title main entry. Ed. by et al.
HarperCollins, ©2007 254 p. $15.00 (pa)
This dictionary not only translates English to French and vice versa, it
also includes a Quick Reference Grammar Section that allows novices to
construct sentences in either language. Over 230,000 entries and transla-
tions are provided, including separate listings,for numbers, dates, time,
common abbreviations, phonetic transcriptions and verb conjugation.
Each entry is highlighted in blue for quick and easy reference.
PC4120 2007-049159 978-0-8138-0687-7
Spanish for veterinarians; a practical introduction, 2d ed.
Frederick, Bonnie and Juan Mosqueda.
Blackwell Publishers, ©2008 133 p. $30.00 (pa)
For veterinarians, this text serves as a practical guide to learning Spanish
for use in clinical conversations with clients. Frederick (Spanish, Texas
Christian U.) and Mosqueda (immunology. School of Veterinary Medicine,
Autonomous U. of Queretaro, Mexico) cover pronunciation, specific terms
relating to body parts, verbs, taking a history and doing an exam, and
vocabulary relating to specific animals. Conditional verbs are excluded
and grammar terms are omitted for easier understanding. There is no
index.
PC4582 2008-014855 978-0-313-34804-4
Spanglish,
Title main entry. Ed. by Ilan Stavans. (The Ilan Stavans library of
Latino civilization)
Greenwood Press, ©2008 144 p. $55.00
Ten American academics, journalists, writers and activists contribute 11
sociolinguistic essays on the history and linguistic development of
Spanglish and the challenges it poses in a number of areas, among them
education. Included are opinion pieces, both pro and con, as well as rep)-
resentative artistic samples, and a chronology about the politics of lan-
guage in the U.S. Designed for students, specialists, and general readers,
the text is intended to enrich the reader's understanding of the richness
and complexity of Latinos in the U.S., to invite people to engage in critical
thinking, to generate debate and foster research.
PC5348 2007-023921 978-0-415^1997-0
A frequency dictionary of Portuguese: core vocabulary for
learners.
Davies, Mark and Ana Maria Raposo Preto-Bay. (Routledge frequency
dictionaries)
Routledge, ©2007 336 p. $33.95 (pa)
This is an index/dictionary of the 500 most frequently used Portuguese
words that is intended to serve as a learning resource for the English
speaker who is learning Portuguese. The dictionary is based on a 20-
miUion-word corpus evenly divided between spoken, fiction, and non-
fiction texts from Portugal and Brazil. The entries, organized according
to frequency, provide the word's English equivalent, a sample Portuguese
sentence viáth English translation, and indication of major genre vari-
ation. Interspersed throughout the dictionary are 31 thematic vocabulary
lists. Also included are an alphabetical index and a part of speech index.
Reference & Research Book News November 2008
PD369 2007-051988 978-3-11-019864-5
Derivations and evaluations; object shin in the Germanic
languages.
Broekhuis, Hans. (Studies in generative grammar, 97)
Mouton de Gruyter, ©2008 382 p. $15700
Broekhuis (linguistics, Leiden U., The Netherlands) presents an extensive
investigation of object shin in the Germanic languages within a deri-
vation-and-evaluation framework developed by the author, in which the
strengths of minimalist program and optimality theory are combined.
The study demonstrates that Scandinavian object shin and so-called A-
scrambling in the continental Germanic languages are the same.
Representations created by a simplified version of the computational
system of human language CHL are evaluated in an optimality theoretic
fashion by taking recourse to a very small set of output constraints. The
text brings together in a single book research begun by the author is
1997; much of the material has been presented orally by the author in
classroom settings and workshops, and parts of five of the six chapters
have been previously published elsewhere over the past decade.
PD5112 2007-039675 978-0-415-45800-9
Swedish; an essential grammar, 2d ed.
Holmes, Philip and Ian Hinchliffe. (Routledge essential grammars)
Routledge, ©2009 243 p. $35.95 (pa)
A former teacher of Scandinavian studies at the U. of Hull, Holmes is
now a freelance translator, Hinchliffe is a freelance translator based in
Sweden. Suitable for independent study or for classroom- based
instruction, the second edition of their text provides beginning-level
learners of Swedish with a concise description of the structure of the lan-
guage, as well as some basics of spelling, punctuation, word formation
and differences between spoken and written Swedish. The second edition
contains numerous changes of detail and examples throughout, all aimed
at clarifying explanations and updating the idioms and advice on current
usage.
PE68 2008-016235 978-O8141-1083-6
Deranging English/education; teacher inquiiy, literary
studies, and hybrid visions of English for 21st century
schools.
staunton, John A (Refiguring EngUsh studies)
NCTE, ©2008 229 p. $39.95 (pa)
Staunton (Eastern Michigan U.) explores the possibility of cleaving
English and education to transform teaching, drawing on the word
"deranging" in light of the evolving state of the field of English as a dis-
cipline and a practice in the twenty-first century. Specifically themed
chapters discuss carr3áng teacher-research across country in Williams's
The Red Wheelbarrow, found poetry, found pedagogy, and the transposi-
tions of student/teacher inquiry; connecting students and American lit-
erature through inquiry; and images and models of what counts as
knowledge in English/education. Appendices include materials for
"deranging English/education." This title is intended for educators in the
field and those interested in teaching English.
PE1066 978-0^264-9734-5
English for occupational purposes; one language?
Kim, Dan.
Continuum Publishing Group, ©2008 227 p. $150.00
Kim (English writing/global business administration, Sungkyunkwan U.,
Seoul, Korea) presents the first book to join scholarship from the field of"
teaching English for occupational purposes (EOP) with findings from
general occupational training, in an effort to discover how the theories
and practices of both fields might complement each other to develop
effective foreign language training for adult occupational learners.
Combining interviews, observations, surveys, and impromptu conversa-
tions with students and faculty involved in workplace English training in
Korea, Kim investigates the students' perceptions and the practice of EOP.
He then compares their experiences and perceptions of^ general work-
place training to determine issues and challenges of EOP as training, and
possible ideas and resources from general training that could enhance
the quality and efficiency of EOP instruction. For researchers, practi-
tioners, and scholars in English for specific purposes, applied linguists,
and workplace education.
Reference & Research Book News November 2008
PE1068 2008-000303 978-1-84769-081-4
Language teacher identities; co-constructing discourse and
community.
Clarke, Matthew. (New perspectives on language and education)
Multilingual Matters Ltd., ©2008 214 p. $49.95 (pa)
As part of its modernization efforts, the United Arab Emirates recently
started training young women as English language teachers for its
primary schools. After noting the historical relationship between female
gender and teaching as a career in the US, Clarke (education, U. of Hong
Kong) examines what he terms the heretofore "invisible" (i.e., in conven-
tional analysis) social and political discourses constructing these student
teachers' identities and their "community of practice." From their
responses to questionnaires, he treats the role of the English language as
"a ramp to a different world" for these teachers as agents of change. The
foreword is by a U. of Michigan professor of education and international
training.
PE1074 978-87-7674-255-3
Irregularities in modem English, 2d ed.
Hansen, Erik and Hans Frede Nielsen. Rev. ed. by Erik Hansen. (North-
western European language evolution supplement; v.2.)
U. Press of Southern Denmark, ©2007 382 p. $57.00 (pa)
The 1980 Danish Uregelmassigheder i moderne engslsk first appeared in
English translation in 1986, and included comparison with German and
Dutch as well as to the original Danish analogues. It takes modern
English as the starting point, and only refers to Middle and Old English
to explain irregular forms in the difïèrent parts of speech and in vowels
and consonants. The second edition incorporates shifts in grammar
theory. Distributed in the US by ISBS.
PE1075 2008-002316 978-0-415-44430-9
Histoiy of English; a resource book for students.
Mclntyre, Dan. (Routledge English language introductions)
Routledge, ©2009 209 p. $125.00
Mclntyre (English language, U. of Huddersfield, Britain) begins with an
external history of the English language, that is, an account the people
who spoke it, how they spoke it, and other ways that they influenced its
spread and evolution. Then he describes internal changes over the cen-
turies in case and number, dialects, vocabulary, speech sounds, writing,
and other features. Other sections look at varieties of Modern English
around the world, and present short readings in the history of English.
PE1128 2007-046123 978-0-8058-6337-6
International English in its sociolinguistic contexts;
towards a sodalJy sensitive EIL pedagogy.
McKay, Sandra and Wendy D. Bokhorst-Heng. (ESL &> applied lin-
guistics professional series)
Routledge, ©2008 209 p. $39.95 (pa)
There is a great diversity of social and educational contexts in which
English is being used and learned around the world today, which, McKay
(English, San Francisco State U.) and Bokhorst-Heng (National Institute of
Education, Singapore) argue, needs to be taken into account in order to
make effective pedagogical decisions about the teaching of English. They
ofïèr an examination of the sociolinguistic contexts of English language
learning and how it is affected by the larger social, political, and
educational setting, and how the linguistic features of English as an
international language (EIL) are affected by the social context in which
the interaction takes place. The text is designed for pre-service and
practicing teachers of English whose students will be using English for
international purposes. It contributes to the understanding of EIL,
language planning and policy issues, and the need to develop socially
sensitive EIL pedagogy.
PE1128 2008-017958 978O-8077-4904-3
Literacy essentials for English language learners
successful transitions.
Uribe, Maria. (Language and literacy series) (Practitioner's bookshelf)
Teachers College Press, ©2008 141 p. $21.95 (pa)
Drawing on research evidence from both the National Reading Panel and
the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth,
this guide shows how to develop effective literacy instruction for English
language learners (ELLs) in kindergarten through 5th grade. The author,
an elementary principal, challenges conventional wisdom about literacy
teaching for second language learners, arguing that teachers should
provide academic information, strategies, and language all at once, and
that ELLs need different reading instruction from struggling native
English speakers. Sample lesson plans are included. Uribe is an adjunct
professor at the University of Colorado. She received the Colorado
Association of Bilingual Education president's award in 2007.
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PE1128 2007-051687 978-0-8058-5533-3
A synthesis of research on second language writing in
English.
Leki, Ilona et al.
Lawrence Erlbaum, ©2008 259 p. $44.95 (pa)
Leki (English, U. of Tennessee), Cumming (education, U. of Toronto), and
Silva (ESL writing, Purdue U.) present a thematically organized synthesis
of 20 years of published research on second language (L2) writing in
English, and provide an analytical discussion of the most significant and
infiuential findings of that research. Designed to promote understanding
of L2 writing in English and to provide access to research developments
in the field, the text is intended for L2 writing researchers worldwide, L2
writing practitioners, graduate students in TESOL methods courses, LI
English writing professionals and practitioners, and graduate students in
teacher education courses and writing centers. Coverage includes
research on L2 writing in various contexts; pedagogical and assessment
issues in courses and institutions; and basic empirical research on L2
writers, composing processes, and texts. Lawrence Erlbaum is an imprint
of Taylor &> Francis.
PE1128 2007-033945 978-1-4129-3781-8
Ten languages need most in the classroom; a guide
to communicat with English language learners and
their families.
Sundem, Garth et al.
Corwin Press Inc., ©2008 260 p. $80.95
This reference for teachers working with English language learners in
any type of classroom provides resources for basic communications and
information-gathering in the ten languages of students who most com-
monly do not also speak English—Spanish, Vietnamese, Hmong,
Cantonese, Korean, Haitian, Creole, Arabic, Russian, Tagalog, and Navajo.
Each language's section provides brief information about its pronunci-
ation as well as the culture and religion that surround it. This is followed
by a list of useful phrases for communicating with parents and students;
reproducible picture dictionaries on classroom supplies, school
mechanics, assignment words, playground and physical education vocab-
ulary, science and math vocabulary, and social studies vocabulary.
Finally, translations for letters to parents about behavior, tardiness and
absence, and school resources are provided. The final chapter contains
reading tests in each language to help assess the learner's first language
literacy level.
PE1135 2007-050665 978-O415-42514-8
Practical phonetics and phonology; a resource book for
students, 2d ed. (CD-ROM included)
Collins, Beverley and Inger M. Mees. (Routledge English language intro-
ductions)
Routledge, ©2008 305 p. $35.95 (pa)
For students of language and linguistics and those training for a cer-
tificate in TEFL, this introductory textbook covers English phonetics and
phonology. Collins (Leiden U. Centre for Linguistics, UK) and Mees (inter-
national language studies and computational linguistics, Copenhagen
Business School, Denmark) focus on practice rather than theory,
explaining concepts and accent variations, and including readings by
those in the field on topics such as pronunciation, phonetics and teaching
the deaf, and using phonetics in criminal investigations. This edition has
added readings on spelling reform and the social perception of British
regional and social varieties, a section on spelling-to-sound relationships,
and information on Estuary English. Activities and examples have been
revised and updated. The accompan3dng CD contains speech samples of
25 English accent varieties from the UK, US, Canada, Australia, South
Africa, India, Singapore, and West Africa, with new samples of British
Estuary English and New York English.
PE1408 2008-001821 978-1^128-0746-3
The soul of creative writing.
Goodman, Richard.
Transaction Publishers, ©2008 132 p. $34.95
Goodman (New York Writers Workshop) explores the elements of lan-
guage such as style, rhythm, sound, and the choice of the right word. He
collects examples from writers of the past and present, both great and
less-known, and uses them to illustrate how each element of our written
language can be used. The book begins with an analysis of words and
how they can be used to create music on the page, then moves on to dis-
cussions of shades of meaning, finding titles, and creating nonfiction
work that is vivid and memorable through the use of the same tech-
niques that fiction writers employ. Goodman teaches vmting at Spalding
University's MFA in Writing Program.
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PE1471 2008-270291 978-0-768*-248&«
Peterson's essays unzipped.
Bennett, CJ. (Unzipped guides)
Peterson's, ©2007 160 p. $13.00 (pa)
This handy, student-priced pocket guide busts myths about essay writing,
explains what teachers are really looking for in essays, and offers a
wealth of tips and tricks for figuring out the assignment, understanding
the parts of an essay, writing different types of essays, using idea maps,
revising, and getting a handle on plagiarism and research. The simple
writing style, step-by-step guidelines, and clear explanations will reassure
new and returning students. A few blank pages are lefl at the end for
notes. Author information is not given, and there is no subject index.
PE1483 2008-007237 978-0-7679-2827-4
The art of the personal letter; a guide to connecting
through the writien word.
shepherd, Margaret.
Broadway Books, ©2008 218 p. $16.00
Shepherd, calligrapher and author of The Handwritten Note, reclaims the
disappearing art of the letter in this compact (5.5x7.5") guide. She pro-
vides guidelines for enhancing the letter vniter's unique voice and
choosing the right words, the right pen, and the right computer font.
Example letters offer inspiration for all occasions, including holidays,
thank you, sympathy, fundraising, reconnecting with old friends, and the
entire relationship cycle, from courtship through breakups and getting
back together.
PE1574 2007-046889 978-1-4022-1135-5
Eveiything you know about English is wron^, why
English ain't from England, and "ain't" ain't a bad word.
Brohaugh, William.
Sourcebooks, Inc., ©2008 243 p. $12.95 (pa)
Brohaugh, former editor of Writer's Digest, explains common misconcep-
tions about the English language, from the history of specific words to
grammar rules to confusion about meaning and spelling. In a humorous
fashion, he describes many examples, such as the real origins of the term
computer bug, why the use of "ain't" is not bad English, double nega-
tives, and the use of figurative vs. literal.
PE1576 2008-396966 978-0-86491-291-6
A linguistic introduction to the history and structure of
the English lexicon.
McFetridge, Paul.
Simon Fraser University Publications, ©2008 351 p. $60.00 (pa)
Explanations of the development of the English language are oflen
extremely dense, filled with technical, mathematical terms. This is not
the case with McFetridge's introduction to English linguistics. The Simon
Fraser professor covers the language from Indo-European roots through
the Germanic language that was forcibly blended with French and many
times infiuenced by Latin and Greek. His explanations are clearly stated
and terms carefully explained. There are a number of word lists giving
examples of the ways in which words changed. He ends with the Great
Vowel Shift, a change that created our modern pronunciation and
destroyed phonetic spelling. This book is intended for undergraduate
classrooms but would be of interest to anyone who wonders why "cough"
doesn't rhyme with "though."
PE1591 2008-024081 978-0-19-530169-4
Pocket Oxford American thesaurus, 2d ed.
Title main entry.
Oxford U. Press, ©2008 938 p. $12.95 (pa)
This terrific reference presents 15,000 words and over 350,000 S3Tionyms
in a newly-designed format that's clear and accessible. Each entry pro-
vides a brief sentence or phrase using the word, followed by a list of syn-
on3mis. Many detailed usage notes are interspersed throughout the text,
supplying a thoughtful discussion of a word or group of words' usage
and history. Other inset boxes contain helpful advice on choosing the
right word, often listing related words of increasingly strong meaning,
with sentences and phrases for illustration. A central 'wordfinder' section
presents lists of terms in many categories.
Reference & Research Book News November 2008
PE1628 978-0-19-530163-2
Pocket Oxford American dictionary, 2d ed.
Title main entry.
Oxford U. Press, ©2008 978 p. $12.95 (pa)
Requiring a big pocket to hold it, the 2d edition of this essential reference
contains short and snappy definitions for 140,000 words, and a handy
reference section. The layout has been improved from the 1st edition and
features a clear, bright font and accessible format, with the defined word
in bold and the subsequent lines indented. Usage tips, focusing predom-
inantly on confusing synonyms, are inserted throughout the work.
PE1771 978-0-77344954-1
Common grazing in the Noräiem English Uplands, 1800-
1965; a history of national policy ancl local practice with
special attention to the case of Cumbria.
Straughton, Eleanor A.
Edwin Mellen Pr., ©2008 29G p. $119.95
Most studies of commons describe its demise, says Straughton, but she
makes a case here for a rich modern history of upland common land,
clarifying some of the many misconceptions about its use and character.
A researcher in common resources and environmental governance based
in Lancaster, she traces the evolution of common sheep grazing in the
territory surrounding. Her focus is grazing culture, but that incorporates
political, economic, and social dimensions.
PE2839 2008-017659 978-1-59102^25-9
Let's talk turkey, the stories behind America's favorite
expressions.
Ostler, Rosemarie.
Prometheus Books, ©2008 252 p. $18.95 (pa)
Ostler applies her doctorate in linguistics to entertainingly trace the
origin and usage of some 150 distinctly American figures of speech
organized into the categories of: the natural world (e.g., "talk turkey");
business, politics, and society at large ("wheel and deal"); culture and
amusements ("cash in your diips"); and the home front ("paint the town
red"). Indexing is by phrase.
PE2846 2006-933530 978-1-904859-60-4
How the Irish invented slang; the secret language of the
crossroads.
Cassidy, Daniel.
AK Press, ©2007 303 p. $18.95 (pa)
Cassidy reveals how the Gaelic of Irish immigrants to North America has
infiltrated into slang and other informal and non-elite realms of English.
Among the words he traces to Irish are slum, dude, and rookie.
PE3721 2008-005409 978O-415-37182-7
The RouÜedge dictionary of modem Americiin sUing and
unconventional English.
Title main entry. Ed. by Tom Dalzell.
Routledge, ©2009 1104 p. $49.95
Dalzell, a leading authority on American slang, has previously served as
senior editor on Routledge's The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and
Unconventional English, and uses excerpts of that masterwork here to
provide over 25,000 entries that he has collected since 1945. Each entry
includes etymology, cultural contexts, country of origin and the date the
word was first used. Assembled as a general reference, this massive
volume explores slang usage from literature, television, film, music and
even Internet user groups.
PF112 2007-049201 978-0-415-43231-3
Dutch; a comprehensive grammar, 2d ed.
Donaldson, Bruce. (Routledge comprehensive grammars)
Routledge, ©2008 438 p. $58.95 (pa)
Donaldson taught Dutch, German, and Afrikaans at the U. of Melbourne,
Australia from 1973 to 2004; he now focuses on linguistic research.
Originally published as Dutch Reference Grammar (Routledge, 1997),
Donaldson's resouree text has been updated to cover the new spelling
system introduced in 1997 and reformed in 2005, and includes a new
section on modal particles. Featuring examples of Dutch as used by
present-day native speakers, the text is designed for tertiary and upper
secondary students as well as private students with a reasonable
knowledge of grammatical terminology, whose knowledge has gone
beyond what the more basic beginners' grammars and courses ofïèr.
Reference & Research Book News November 2008 -248-
PG3015 2007-050733 978-O8156-3182-8
Neither with them, nor without them; the Russian writer
and the Jew in the age of Realism.
Katz, Elena M. Qudaic traditions in literature, music, and art)
•Syracuse U. Press, ©2008 366 p. $29.95
Katz (Russian literature and Eurasian studies, St. Anthony's College,
Oxford) offers a perspective on representations of Jews in 19th-century
realist Russian literatiire differing from the typical characterization of
authors as either philo- or anti-Semitic. Focusing on Dostoyevsky, Gogol,
and Turgenev, she interprets their ambiguous views of Jews as Other in
historical and personal contexts. For example, from her readings of
Turgenev's writings with Jewish characters including "The Yid" (1847)
and An Unhappy Girl (1869), she points out that none of his works advo-
cates for equal rights for Jews despite his empathy for them as liberals.
Reproduced art illustrations show conceptions of Jewish types.
PH610 2007-038795 978-0-415-45054-6
Colloquial Estonian; the complete course for beginners, 2d
ed.
Moseley, Christopher. (Colloquial series)
Routledge, ©2008 257 p. $26.95 (pa)
Suitable for both self^study and classroom use, this text introduces stu-
dents to the written and spoken Estonian used in a wide range of
everyday settings and activities—a conversation between two old friends,
a telephone conversation, talking in a cafe, weather and the seasons, days
of the \veek, shopping, work, invitations, traveling in Estonia, birthdays
and holidays. Revised throughout to refiect present-day Estonia, the
second edition of the text also includes a glossary of grammatical terms,
Estonian-English and English-Estonian glossaries, and a grammatical
index. Two hours of audio material recorded by native speakers is also
available on CDs or in MP3 format to supplement the book.
PJ1488 978-0-900416-87-3
Crowns in Egyptian funerary literature; royalty, rebirth,
and destruction.
Goebs, Katja. (Griffith Institute monographs)
Griffith Institute Oxford, ©2008 470 p. $130.00
Goebs (Egyptology, U. of Toronto) presents a new approach to analyzing
the image of ancient Egyptian kings and gods, studying the textual evi-
dence instead of the iconography and focusing on the king's White and
Red Crowms, which possess symbolism encompassing the terrestrial and
divine spheres. Extensive sections discuss the celestial hereafler in the
early funerary literature and the role of the crowns, the crowns as items
of insignia in the funerary sphere, crowns as metaphors and personifi-
cations, and implications of the symbolic functions of crowns in the
funerary sphere for the image of the terrestrial ruler. This study is
intended for Egyptologists but could also be of interest to those who
study royal and divine symbolism in other ancient cultures. Distributed
in North America by The David Brown Book Co.
PJ1531 2008-003238 978-1-60239-271-7
Discovery at Rosetta.
Downs, Jonathan.
Skyhorse Pub. Co., ©2008 262 p. $22.95
Intended for the general reader, this title marks the path of the Rosetta
Stone from its discovery by Napoleonic engineers in 1799 through its
interpretation in the early nineteenth century. A brief epilogue describes
the current repatriation request to the British by the Egyptian gov-
ernment, and among the appendices is the translation of the writing of
the Stone. With its fiuid writing this book will find favor with members
of the public looking to increase their knowledge of the topic, though
readers should be warned that the book is filled with more military
history of the Napoleonic era than Egyptian history.
PJ5012 978-0^5303-770-5
Hebrew writing of the First World War.
Abramson, Glenda.
Vallentine Mitchell, ©2008 405 p. $75.00
In 11 original and reprinted chapters, Abramson (emeritus, Hebrew and
Jewish studies, U. of Oxford) notes that World War I— with new tech-
nologies of war wreaking unprecedented carnage— brought changes to its
literary representations. Focusing on the writings in Hebrew of Jewish
soldiers and affected civilians, she studies their themes (e.g., Zionism, the
war as the end of the Enlightenment) in light of their relation to mod-
ernism. She draws attention to some of the lesser-known works in the
Hebrew canon or less-studied aspects of better-known works, e.g., S.Y.
Agnon's Ad Hena (Until Now) and U.Z. Greenberg's poem cycle Emah
gedolah veyareah (Great Fear and the Moon). The glossary includes
Hebrew, Yiddish, and English terms such as "New Jew." Distributed by
ISBS.
PJ5059 2008-020815 978-1-59534-052-8
Hebrew writers on writing.
Title main entry. Ed. by Peter Cole. (The writer's world)
Trinity University Press, ©2008 321 p. $24.95 (pa)
Cole has followed his instinct rather than any theoretical route as he
gathered notebook entries, poems, stories, speeches, notes for talks, tran-
scribed interviews, letters, and other short pieces in which 20th-centuries
writers talk about the many facets of writing itself.
PJ5801 2008-422296 978-3-447-05710-3
The Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Betanure (province of
Dihok).
Mutzafi, Hezy. (Semitica viva; v.43)
Harrassowitz, ©2008 412 p. $121.00
In the late 1940s, the dialect was spoken by only 17 large families in the
Jewish village of Betanure in northern Iraq. In 1951, the village emigrated
en mass to Israel, and the number of speakers has steadily declined
since. Spoken now by some three dozen people in their 70s and 80s, it
is among the most gravely endangered varieties of Aramaic still spoken.
Mutzafi (Tel Aviv U.) sets out the phonology and morphology and
assembles 16 texts, folk tales and descriptions of life in the village, with
English translation on facing pages. A glossary is provided, but no index.
PJ6307 2007-939740 978-1-59257-703-3
The complete idiot's guide to Arabic. (CD-ROM included)
Habel, K.F.
Alpha Books, ©2008 389 p. $21.95
This addition to the popular "idot's guide" series provides travelers with
the bare bones of Arabic vocabulary, grammar, and phrases, along with
a crash course in Arabic culture. The phrase chapters deal with common
travel scenarios including meeting new people, using transportation,
sightseeing, eating out, and speaking in a business environment. The
appendices contain a pronunciation guide, a brief English-Arabic dic-
tionary, and an introduction to written Arabic. The accompanying CD-
ROM contains 90 minutes of language practice.
PJ6773 2007-927039 978-1-58901-168-7
Ilie acqmsition of Egyptian Arabic as a native language.
Omar, Margaret K. (Georgetown University classics in Arabic language
and linguistics)
Georgetown U. Press, ©2007 205 p. $29.95 (pa)
This is a reprint of Omar's 1968 dissertation on language acquisition.
Most studies up to then had dealt exclusively with Indo- European lan-
guages. Omar (Arabic, Georgetown University) chose a town with little
variation in socio-economic levels. She noted the stages of development of
particular grammatical forms both in terms of complexity and social-
ization. Children in the study developed language at rou^ly the same
stages as in other languages, implying that language learning is hard-
wired. Omar details the process with translations and transliterations of
the forms.
PJ7519 2008-024031 978-1-57003-754^2
Self and secrecy in early Islam.
Khan, Ruqayya Yasmine. (Studies in comparative religion)
U. of South Carolina Press, ©2008 186 p. $39.95
Secrecy and revelation serve as a marker in early Arabo-Islamic dis-
course, textual productions, and material cultures, contends Khan
(Islamic studies. Trinity U., Texas), pointing to the centrality of ciphering,
deciphering, coding, decoding, signs, and semiotics. She looks at the
Qur'an; self as cipher in the Book of Concealing the Secret; love, sexuality,
and the body, and toward a literary archaeology of the private and the
secret.
PJ7577 97&O-86356-436-9
Modem Arabic short stories; a bilingual reader.
Husni, Ronak &= Daniel L. Newmian.
Saqi Books, ©2008 296 p. $24.95 (pa)
Husni (Arabic language, literature, and translation; Heriot-Watt U.) and
Newman (Arabic/English translation, U. of Durham) present and
introduce 12 recent stories by authors who are mostly still alive and
writing. They can be enjoyed on their own merit or used by students of
modern Arabic literature, but the facing pages of English and Arabic,
and the language notes at the end of each are particularly helpful to stu-
dents of the Arabic language or of translation.
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PJ7864 2008O23760 978-1-4331-0363-6
Mohammad Ali Taha's "A rose to Hafeeza's eyes" and
other stories
Taha, Muhammad Ali. Trans, by Jamal Assadi.
Peter Lang Publishing Inc, ©2008 136 p. $60.95
Yaha (b. 1942) is a Palestinian writer well known throughout the Arabic-
reading world, but barely known in the West. Assadi (English, College of
Sakhnin for Teacher Education) seeks to change that by translating 17
stories demonstrating various themes, styles, and characters.
PJ8390 2007-043393 978-0-415-95818-9
Literature and development in North Africa; the
modernizing mission.
Giovannucci, Perri. (Literary criticism and cultural theory)
Routledge, ©2008 245 p. $95.00
The modernizing zeal that underlies the development industry rests on
several logical fallacies, argues Giovannucci, among which are the neat
division of the world into modern and traditional spheres, and the pre-
tense that colonization never happened. Showing how the whole system
operates in a particular region, he discusses the anti- colonial critics
Fanon and Sartre, the non-color of nonviolence in Camus and Djebar,
Paris on the Nile and Egypt on the plantation, letters of a lost generation
encompassing Said and Durrell, and the radical surgery of women doctor
Nawal El Saadawi.
PK1936 978-0-7566-3857-3
Hindi English bilingual visual dictionaiy.
Title main entry. (Bilingual visual dictionary)
DK Publishing, Inc., ©2008 360 p. $12.95 (pa)
Each chapter of this illustrated English-Hindi dictionary tackles many
topics within a theme common to everyday life and travel—people,
appearance, home, services, shopping, food, study, work, transport,
sports, environment, and reference (including time telling and maps).
Photographs labeled in Devnagari script and accompanied by pronunci-
ation and translation in English illustrate topics under a specific
heading—for example, the page titled "fiorist" contains pictures of about
30 diffèrent flowers. Additional vocabulary without illustrations is also
listed. A detailed guide to Hindi pronunciation concludes the text.
PK6035 978-3-89500-624-1
Iranian loanwords in Sjniac.
Ciancaglini, Claudia A (Beiträge zur iranistik; v.28)
Reichert Verlag, ©2008 315 p. $116.00
In the first third of this monograph concerned with linguistic bor-
rowings from Iranian languages into Classical Syriac (a literary and litur-
gical Aramaic dialect attested from the first to thirteenth century CE)
discusses features of Syriac and various historical moments of contact
between the language and Old and Middle Iranian languages, Parthian,
Greek, and Middle Persian. The remaining text comprises entries on
sounds, words, phrases, morphemes, and other lexical items believed to
have been borrowed accompanied by definitions, a description of
probable source, and related items. An index of loanwords is included.
This book is distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co.
PK6427 2007-036608 978-0-415-43778-3
Modem Persian literature in Afghanistan; anomalous
visions of histoiy and form.
Ahmadi, Wali. (Iranian studies)
Routledge, ©2008 184 p. $140.00
To fill a gap in contemporary Persian literary studies, Ahmadi (Near
Eastern studies, U. of California, Berkeley) presents an analysis of the
complex attitudes toward cultural and literary modernity refiected in the
works of Af^an writers in the Persian language (Dari)-^n official lan-
guage along with Pashtu—over the past century. In socio-historical
context, he reads such literature from the journal Siraj al-Akhbar of
Mahmud Tarzi (1866-1935) to literature produced in response to the
oppression and chaos of the Taliban and current Afghan regimes,
including exiled poet Wasef Bakhari and novelist Razzaq Ma'mun. In
conclusion, he quotes a description of the current uncertain
cultural/political scene as a "condition of anti-literature."
Reference & Research Book News November 2008
PK6541 2007-061330 1-58814^058-X
The Gulistan (rose garden) of Sa'di; bilingual English and
Persian edition with vocabulary.
Sa'di.
Ibex Publishers, ©2008 253 p. $60.00
Shaykh Mushrifuddin Sa'di of Shiraz finished his collection of moral
tales in 1258 AD, and over the centuries it has been one of the most
widely read and influential books in the Persian sphere. The first English
translation was during the 18th century; Wheeler M. Thackston (Persian,
Harvard U.) presents a new edition and new translation on facing pages.
PL524 978-(>8264-8961-6
Japanese applied linguistics; discoiu^e and social
perspectives.
Title main entry. Ed. byjunko Mori and Amy Snyder Ohta.
Continuum Publishing Group, ©2008 364 p. $150.00
Linguists and language teachers explore a range of issues surrounding
first and second language speakers of Japanese. Among them are
designedly ambiguous turn completion points, a case study from Osaka
concerning the use of regional and standard Japanese in conversations,
laughter and learning in Japanese foreign language classes, and critical
approaches to teaching Japanese language and culture.
PL524 2008^12758 978-1-84769-100-2
Socializing identities through speech style; learners of
Japanese as a foreign language.
Cook, Haruko Minegishi. (Second language acquisition; 32)
Multilingual Matters Ltd., ©2008 225 p. $49.95 (pa)
Drawing on Och's two-step model of indexical relations. Cook (East Asian
languages and literatures, U. of Hawaii, Manoa) examines how learners
of Japanese as a foreign language QFL) and their host family members
express their identities through style shifts between use of the polite
speech-level marker, the masu form, and non-honorific plain form during
family dinnertime conversations. The study analyzes data from 25 din-
nertime conversations—videotaped and audiotaped simultaneously—of
nine JFL learners, three British and six Americans, ranging from novice
to advanced proficiency levels, enrolled in a year-in-Japan program in
Tokyo-area universities. The research explores how host family members
teach learners language socialization, both implicitly and explicitly, as
evidenced by the shifting use of the masu form to index diffèrent social
situations. It demonstrates the positive impact of study abroad experi-
ences on the development of second language pragmatics.
PL528 2007-038896 97&4-8053-0946-9
250 essential Japanese kanji characters, 2d ed.; v.l.
Title main entry. Ed. by Kanji Text Researeh Group, The University of
Tokyo.
Tuttle Publishing, ©2008 239 p. $26.95 (pa)
Created by a group of teachers from the prestigious U. of Tokyo, this text
provides beginning students of Japanese with 250 Japanese kanji char-
acters used in everyday situations. The text uses authentic materials,
periodic quizzes, and memory aids to assist learners in acquiring the
ability to understand and use kanji in natural contexts. The two volumes
in the set have been revised to include all the 410 kanji required for the
College Board Advanced Placement Japanese Language and Culture
Course Exam.
PL667 2008-061750 978-0-89581-894-2
A handbook for analyzing Chinese characters.
Title main entry. Ed. by Zhifang Ren.
Jain Publishing, ©2008 995 p. $225.00 (pa)
With China's expanding role as a 21st-century global entity, interest in
stud3áng Chinese is also increasing. Ren's (English, China Medical U.)
book is a welcome addition to the reference texts available to those who
are studying Chinese as a second language. A product of ten years of
research and compiling, Ren's (English, China Medical U.) text contains
5073 Chinese characters most frequently used in reading and writing. To
help learners identify the most and least important characters, the 5073
characters are grouped into five différent levels of frequency use. The
characters are arranged in alphabetical order, with each carefully ana-
lyzed based on its structure, to better explain the meaning, and each
described with the property of a certain character and clarified by an
illustrative sentence. The text includes an index of Chinese characters
arranged in radical order; the radicals are arranged in strokes of Chinese
characters.
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PL1171 2008-007488 978-0-8232-2868-3
The Chinese written character as a medium for poetry.
Fenollosa, Ernest and Ezra Pound.
Fordham University Press, ©2008 216 p. $25.00
American modernist poet Pound (1884-1972) edited and published the
essay by American scholar Fenollosa (1853-1908) in 1919, and it quickly
became a classic reference in American poetics. This edition, first pub-
lished in 1936 by Stanley Nott, London, incorporates FenoUosa's original
manuscript and the additions, deletions, and other changes made by
Pound. No index is provided.
PL1171 2007-042986 978-041546047-7
A dictionary of Chinese characters; accessed by phonetics.
Paton, Stewart.
Routledge, ©2008 255 p. $44.95 (pa)
For intermediate students of Chinese characters who do not speak
Chinese, Scottish language scholar Paton offers an aid with two features
not provided in standard Chinese-English dictionaries. First, he groups
together the most frequently used characters that have the same phonetic
element and links them with cross-references. He also prints characters
that are often confused right next to each other, and again links them
with cross-references. Both of these features are intended to help students
memorize the characters.
PL2474 2008400550 97&-3447-056694
The Book of Mendus and its reception in China and
beyond.
Title main entry. Ed. by Chun-chieh Huang et al. (Veröffentlichungen
des Ostasien-Instituts der Ruhr-Universität Bochum; v.52)
Harrassowitz, ©2008 239 p. $105.00 (pa)
Scholars of history, literature, philosophy, and politics consider internal
and external aspects of the work attributed to Mengzi (371-290 BC), the
second sage of Confucianism, just after the master himself. Their topics
include a hermeneutic interpretation by Zhu Xi, Kaibara Ekiken and
ethics from a cross-cultural perspective, the Mencius in the writings of Hu
Shi, and contemporary studies of Mencius in Taiwan. The 13 essays are
from a June 2005 conference in Karlsruhe, Germany that drew atten-
dants from Taiwan, Japan, and Europe. They are not indexed. The price
is 68 euros.
PL2658 978-0-7734-5008-0
Mythic and folk elements in modem Chinese literature; a
study of six writers.
Li, Ningyi.
Edwin Mellen Pr., ©2008 275 p. $109.95
Chinese literature of the 20th century is primarily concerned with a quest
for modernity and revolution, according to mainstream literary history
in both China and the West. Li challenges that view by teasing out some
literary trends from the New Culture Movement to the late 1980s and
early 1990s. She draws heavily from cultural anthropology, and the core
chapters cover anthropological themes: the development of studies in
Chinese mythology. May Fourth folklorists' translation and introduction
of the European and Japanese folklore movements, and the development
of studies on cultural ethnology.
PL2722 2008^20137 978-0-89581-0014
Strange tales from Liaozhai; v.l.
Pu, Songling. Trans, by Sidney L. Sondergard.
Jain Publishing, ©2008 394 p. $75.00
In his collection of 494 short stories that delve into the supernatural,
folklore, and sometimes just the odd, Songling (1640-1715) sought to
educate and entertain, but also to criticize the bureaucratic structure of
China during the early Qing dynasty. Sondergard (English and Asian
Studies, St. Lawrence University, New York) presents first English trans-
lation of the entire collection, and includes a substantial introduction and
footnotes explaining references. This is the first of six volumes; each (like
this one) will contain 83 stories.
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PL4113 2007-046237 978-0-7007-1457-5
Tlie Tai-Kadai languages.
Title main entry. Ed. by Anthony V.N. Diller et al. (Routledge language
family series)
Routledge, ©2008 683 p. $320.00
Diller, Edmondson, and Luo present' 23 chapters describing recent
research on Tai-Kadai, one of the world's major language families.
Coverage includes an introduction to the current state of research, debate
and speculation about Tai-Kadai's ultimate linkages; overviews and
resources relating to the Tai languages; discussion of some special Tai
features often overlooked in standard treatments but of linguistic interest;
chapters dealing with aspects of diachronic change and grammatical-
ization, of particular relevance as linguistic theory confronts languages
of the Tai-Kadai type; and information on the little-described Kam-Sui
languages. For undergraduate and postgraduate students of linguistics
and language, and scholars and professionals in historical linguistics, lin-
guistics anthropology and language development. Coeditors and authors
Diller, Edmondson, and Luo are with the Australian National U., the U.
of Texas Arlington, and the U. of Texas, respectively; credentials for the
other 18 contributing authors are not stated.
PL7101 978-1-86465-070-9
Eastern and Central Arremte picture dictionary.
Title main entry. Ed. by Neil Broad. (IAD Press picture dictionary
series)
IAD Press, ©2008 179 p. $24.95 (pa)
There are only about 1,500 native speakers of Arrernte in the world
today. This picture dictionary was compiled by Neil Broad with the help
of linguists and native speakers. Its main purpose is to aid Australian
teachers in helping Arrente-speaking children to retain their language.
The organization of the dictionary is also intended to give non-native
readers a sense of the culture. Rather than being arranged alphabetically,
the words are presented by topic as Arrente society organizes them.
Translations are provided in a separate section as are pronunciation
guides. The dictionary will interest anyone fascinated by languages and
Aboriginal society. The only thing lacking is an explanation of gram-
matical forms. This might be derived from the text but an outline of the
language structure would be helpful. Distributed in the US by ISBS.
PL8158 2008-018209 978-3-11-020440-7
A grammar of Eton.
Velde, Mark L. O. van de. (Mouton grammar library; 46)
Mouton de Gruyter, ©2008 432 p. $237.00
Velde presents a grammar of Eton, an undescribed language from a sub-
group of the Bantu family spoken in the Centre province of Cameroon.
The author's study provides a basically theory-neutral synchronie
description of Eton that will be useful to typologists and comparativists
and that offtrs a solid base for any future research on the language.
Following an introductory overview of the Eton language and the study,
the text contains sections on the components of the Eton language
including its phonology; nouns; verbs; other word classes; nomináis;
tense, aspect, mood and negation; the clause; and complex constructions.
Also included is a short Eton-English lexicon of wonls from the open
word classes noun and verb, and sample transcriptions of recorded texts
used in the study.
PM3969 2008-029556 978-0-7734-5055-*
The lost notebooks of Robert Burkitt, Maya linguist; a
record of languages of ancient Guatemala.
Burkitt, Robert James.
Edwin Mellen Pr., ©2008 659 p. $149.95
Born in Ireland and educated in North America, Burkitt (1869-1945) spent
three post-university years working in Boston as a surveyor before trav-
eling to Central America. There he began his long career as an archae-
ologist and linguist, during which time he compiled numerous notebooks
documenting the languages of Guatemala. Only four notebooks have sur-
vived; discovered in 1979, they are held at the U. of Pennsylvania
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. They supply linguistic, cul-
tural, and historical scholars with detailed analysis of the vocabulary,
phonology, grammar, and cultural meanings of six Maya languages,
including information on diverse dialects for each language, as well as
an extensive comparative word list. Weeks and Danien (both U. of
Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology) provide an
introductory essay on Burkitt's work and notes at the beginning of each
chapter explaining the background of the languages.
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ÇRIUCISM, THEATER, FILM, JOUENALISM, ETC.
PN45 2008-399157 978-1-55111-177-3
Contemporary readings in the philosophy of literature; an
anal3^c approach.
Title main entry. Ed. by David Davies and Carl Matheson.
Broadview Press, ©2008 440 p. $44.95 (pa)
Articles and book chapters reprinted from publication over the past three
decades delineate the field and contours of the discipline, and sample a
range of perspectives on various issues. The 29 readings cover ontology
and categorization; the epistemology of reading; literature, imagination,
and the emotions; and the values of literature. No index is provided.
PN49 2008-004332 978-1-55753-368-5
On the cultures of exile, translation, and writing.
Bartoloni, Paolo. (Comparative cultural studies)
Purdue University Press, ©2008 166 p. $34.95 (pa)
Drawing primarily on Nazi philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976),
Bartoloni (comparative literature and Italian, U. of Sydney) seeks to con-
textualize such notions as potentiality and suspension by making them
interact with translation, time, exile, and writing.
PN56 2007-025831 978-0404-6372(>0
Companion to emblem studies.
Title main entry. Ed. by Peter M. Daly. (AMS studies in the emblem;
no.20)
AMS Press, ©2008 632 p. $225.00
Generally defined as a combination of image and words that elicit recog-
nition on the part of the observer (occasionally, the image is enough),
emblems are on furniture, posters, clothes, and automobiles—almost any-
thing people create. Daly (McGill University, Montreal, Canada) covers the
history of emblems in his introduction to this collection of essays, noting
that the criteria for emblems are fluid. The essays themselves demon-
strate the fluidity and variety of the broad subject, offering a broad
spectrum of approaches and ranging from discussion of Neo-Latin
emblem books to contemporary uses of emblems as advertising tools.
Among the topics are theory, bibliography, the use of emblems in various
countries (e.g. Hungary and Spain), their function in different eras (the
Italian Renaissance, early modern England), and emblems on flags, in
tournaments, and among the Jesuits. This comprehensive reference
includes a long list of books for further research.
PN56 2008-006694 978^)-8047-5855-0
Housing problems; writing and firchitecture in Goethe,
Walpole, Freud, and Heidegger.
Bernstein, Susan. (Meridian, crossing aesthetics)
Stanford U. Press, ©2006 193 p. $21.95 (pa)
Relationships and tensions between design and function, between
building and self, and between space and text are among the themes
Bernstein (comparative literature and German studies. Brown U.)
explores as she looks at the actual houses of the four thinkers and at
their ideas and representations of architecture.
PN56 978-1-84682-099-1
Law, literature and society.
Title main entry. Ed. by Joseph F. Eska. (CSANA yearbook; 7)
Four Courts Press, ©2008 133 p. $75.00
This edition of the Celtic Studies Association of North America's Yearbook
explores the relationship between law and literature and discuss what
each can do for the study of the other in medieval Celtic studies. The
volume's six papers discuss literary narratives found in the early Irish
encyclopedic glossary, the Sanus Cormaic, the composition of legal triads
of medieval Wales that focus on the law of women; exonerating
Derbforgaill, the 12th century woman blamed by many Irish writers of
bearing responsibility for the Norman invasion, through study of Irish
marriage law and the politics of the time; the mythologizing of
Derbforgaill as a marker of the transition from Gaelic to Norman Ireland;
the law of kinship and the assassination of Diarmatt mac Cerbaill, King
of Uisnech, in 565; and the origins of the ethnic designations of the Celts
used by early Greek writers. Distributed in the US by ISBS.
Reference & Research Book News November 2008