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This volume examines the complex interaction between the English language and the construction of ethnicity in the global English-speaking world. The essays demonstrate that the constructs of both English and ethnicity are contested sites of identity formation.
Originally presented as the author's thesis, Columbia, 1974.
The English-speaking whites of South Africa participate in the larger culture of the English-speaking world while rejecting its unspoken consensual positions on many basic issues.
An exploration of how key modern writers challenged conventional ways of characterizing selfhood, thus developing... Læs mere
Punctuation For Now describes in a witty but authoritative way how our present system of punctuation has grown out of the history of our language. Anyone with an examination to pass,... Læs mere
An analysis of all aspects of sound in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. The author considers phonetic symbolism, rhythm, pitch-contours, motifs and songs in a way which shows... Læs mere
The book identifies and assesses the importance of a range of influences on child language acquisition and development, paying... Læs mere
Occupying a still evolving but clearly established place in twentieth-century intellectual history, the great Russian thinker Mikhail Bakhtin is best characterized as philosopher of dialogue or human communication.
It strikes a balance between fresh work on major authors (Pushkin, Lermontov, Turgenev and Dostoevsky), important work on hitherto neglected minor authors (Marlinsky, Pisemsky and Boborykin), and studies that relate to thinkers of the period (Chaadaev, Herzen and Bakunin).
This is a study of the words of political discourse in seventeenth-century England from which we now reconstruct its theories. Part 1 presents an... Læs mere
In a systematic presentation of Johnson's views on language, Johnson on Language: An Introduction addresses the problems inherent in the formation of style, as... Læs mere
This study first establishes the discriminatroy and elitist nature of standard languages and standardisation itself, considering as counter-example the case of Sri Lankan English as symptomatic of the 'other' or postcolonial Englishes.