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 Free Download Languages of Power in Italy (1300-1600) By Daniel Bornstein, Laura Gaffuri, Brian Jeffrey Maxson 2017 | 262 Pages | ISBN: 2503540384 | PDF | 2 MB The essays in this collection explore the languages - artistic, symbolic, and ritual, as well as written and spoken - in which power was articulated, challenged, contested, and defended in Italian cities and courts, villages, and countryside, between 1300 and 1600. Topics addressed include court ceremonial, gossip and insult, the performance of sanctity and public devotions, the appropriation and reuse of imagery, and the calculated invocation (and sometimes undermining) of authoritative models and figures. The collection balances a broad geographic and chronological range with a tight thematic focus, allowing the individual contributions to engage in vigorous and fruitful debate with one another even as they speak to some of the central issues in current scholarship. The authors recognize that every institutional action is, in its context, a political act, and that no institution operates disinterestedly. At the same time, they insist on the inadequacy of traditional models, whether Marxian or Weberian, as the complex realities of the early modern state pose tough problems for any narrative of modernization, rationalization, and centralization.  Free Download Languages of Labor and Gender. Female Factory Work in Germany, 1850-1914 By Kathleen Canning 1996 | 343 Pages | ISBN: 0801431239 | PDF | 19 MB Languages of Labor and Gender argues that the meaning of women's work radically changed as the German economy transformed from an agrarian to a largely industrial one in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Canning debunks the myth that women constituted a peripheral and transient labor force in Germany during this time period, also arguing that female textile workers were central to the creation of the protective labor policies of the emergent German welfare state. She goes on to explore the rhetoric and imagery of the social issue of female factory labor in Germany, as well as the ways in which the women workers themselves perceived their experience.Kathleen Canning is Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of several books on gender issues.  Free Download Alex Mullen, "Languages and Communities in the Late and Post-Roman Western Provinces " English | ISBN: 0198888953 | 2024 | 368 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 49 MB This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. 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The contributions to this volume include discussions that are both analytical and theoretical; analyses of style at the levels of lexis and semantics; newer and more innovative analyses that highlight the relationship between style, pedagogy and technology-mediated discourse; and a final discussion that provides an appropriate background against which issues related to language, literature and style can be understood. In terms of the volume s representation of diverse geographical contexts, the papers included here bridge the North-South divide in Africa, and there are contributions from Libya, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe. As such, the book is an interesting collection of papers that illuminate the study of literary style in Africa and highlight the need for a greater revival of it on a larger scale.  Free Download Language as Hermeneutic: A Primer on the Word and Digitization by Walter J. Ong, Thomas D. Zlatic English | 2018 | ISBN: 1501714481 | 238 Pages | ePUB | 0.59 MB Free Download Language as Hermeneutic: A Primer on the Word and Digitization by Walter J. Ong, Thomas D. Zlatic English | 2018 | ISBN: 1501714481 | 238 Pages | ePUB | 0.59 MB  Free Download Stanislaw Gozdz-Roszkowski, "Language and Legal Judgments " English | ISBN: 1032366907 | 2024 | 186 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1413 KB + 4 MB Integrating research methods from linguistics with contemporary legal argumentation theory, this book highlights the complexities of legal justification by focusing on the role of value-laden language in argument construction and use. The combination of linguistic analysis and the pragma-dialectic approach to legal argumentation yields a new way of perceiving and understanding the phenomenon of evaluation, one that offers theoretical and practical gains. Analyzing a vast corpus of judicial opinions from the US Supreme Court and Poland's Constitutional Tribunal, the book paints a clear picture of complex linguistic choices made by judges to assess and support arguments in the justifications of their decisions. The book will be of interest to scholars in Law, Linguistics and Rhetoric, as well as to judges and practicing lawyers engaged in the art of argumentation.  Free Download Jae DiBello Takeuchi, "Language Ideologies and L2 Speaker Legitimacy: Native Speaker Bias in Japan " English | ISBN: 1800414641 | 2023 | 200 pages | PDF | 795 KB This book examines dilemmas faced by second language (L2) Japanese speakers as a result of persistent challenges to their legitimacy as speakers of Japanese. Based on an ethnographic interview study with L2-Japanese speakers and their L1-Japanese-speaking friends, co-workers and significant others, the book examines ideologies linked to three core speech styles of Japanese - keigo or polite language, gendered language and regional dialects - to show how such ideologies impact L2-Japanese speakers. The author demonstrates that speaker legitimacy is often tenuous for L2 speakers and argues that, despite increasing numbers of Japanese-speaking foreign residents in Japan, native speaker bias remains a persistent issue for L2-Japanese speakers living and working in Japan. This book extends the discussion of native speaker bias beyond educational contexts, and in the process reveals tensions between how L2 speakers aspire to speak and how L1 speakers expect them to speak.  Free Download Francisco Moreno-Fernández, "Language Demography" English | ISBN: 1032355387 | 2023 | 280 pages | PDF | 29 MB Language Demography presents, exemplifies, and develops linguistic concepts involved in demography and the demographic concepts involved in sociolinguistics.  Free Download Kelechukwu U. Ihemere, "Language Contact: A Multidimensional Perspective" English | ISBN: 1443844012 | 2013 | 320 pages | PDF | 2 MB Since the inception of modern contact linguistics through the works of Weinreich (1953) and Haugen (1953), numerous investigators have studied the manifestations of language contact across different disciplines, naturally adopting varied perspectives and approaches relevant to their particular field of inquiry. In spite of the many approaches and interests, quite simply when speakers of different languages interact closely it is typical for their languages to influence each other. The influence could be as common as the exchange of words or what is termed vocabulary borrowing in the literature. It can also go deeper, extending to the exchange of even basic characteristics of a language such as morphology and grammar. In some cases, the result of the contact of two languages can be the replacement of one by the other. This is most common in asymmetric relationship between languages, and sometimes lead to language shift and death. The present volume is unique in that it brings together research by distinguished scholars and other highly talented investigators from across the world to offer a multidimensional exploration of the field. The individual chapters present contemporary discussions and analyses of the topics grouped in three parts. |
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