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Becoming a Linguist
This unique collection of essays, edited by and for students of linguistics, offers insights into the personal and professional journeys of some of the key thinkers in language studies. With contributions by fifteen established scholars, the volume provides first-hand insights into the ‘becoming’ of a linguist, and the many joys and challenges which come with it. The contributors pair honest and practical academic advice with personal experiences to assist novice and aspiring linguists to find their footing in the rapidly changing landscape of language studies, and guide them through linguistics past, present, and future. Autobiographical and reflexive, each chapter also includes recommendations for key readings and resources used or produced by the contributors. As a volume focused on the people behind the ideas, Becoming a Linguist will be of interest to students and scholars of language and linguistics, the history of linguistic thought, as well as the interested general reader.
Current Research on Language Learning and Teaching
This volume represents the first collection of essays on research dedicated to the work of scholars and experts from Bosnia and Herzegovina. It provides programmatic state-of-the-art overviews of current issues in the language sciences and their applications in first, second, and bilingual language acquisition in naturalistic and tutored contexts, and brings together disciplinary perspectives from linguistics, sociolinguistics, language teaching, education and intercultural communication. This book will be of particular interest to anyone wishing to know the value, and the pitfalls, of current research, to understand its various applications for foreign language education in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to appreciate the qualities of rigor and trustworthiness required to evaluate and interpret current studies in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Indeed, this volume provides an informed perspective on the field’s developments and an insightful analysis of interdisciplinary studies in the country.
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Youth Culture
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Youth Culture offers the first essential grounding of critical youth studies within sociolinguistic research. Young people are often seen to be at the frontline of linguistic creativity and pioneering communicative technologies. Their linguistic practices are considered a primary means of exploring linguistic change as well as the role of language in social life, such as how language and identity, ideology and power intersect. Bringing together leading and cutting-edge perspectives from thought leaders across the globe, this handbook: • addresses how young people’s cultural practices, as well as forces like class, gender, ethnicity and race, influen...
Linguistic Diversity and Discrimination
This collection explores the ways in which women in academia from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds mediate the negotiation of linguistic discrimination and linguistic diversity in higher education, using autoethnography to make visible their lived experiences. The volume shows how women in academia from CaLD backgrounds, particularly those living or working in the Global South, draw on their multivalent complex linguistic backgrounds and cultural repertoires to cope with, and manage, linguistic and systemic gender discrimination. In adopting authoethnography as its key methodology, the book encourages these academics to ‘write themselves’ beyond the conventions from whic...
The Game Hunters
Kill or face rejection. Enter the unrelenting Ice Age of our prehistoric ancestors. Where survival is to wrest food from a land -- beautiful and unforgiving. Where hunting big game defines your loyalties to your tribe. Shiga must fight his dislike of hunting if the only people he knows are not to exile him. And if he is to win Urm. Is the Earth Goddess displeased -- for the plants grow scarce? Urm wants to fire a new trail -- not just gather from plants but try to grow them. Yet it is forbidden to tamper with the Goddess's children. But how else will there be enough food for the tribes? For in that harshening climate Urm foresees starvation. A historical novel for young adults and teens The Game Hunters is based on research and findings of Asian prehistoric people in Southern Siberia -- people who were inventive, courageous and who put the tribes before themselves. The Game Hunters is a story of innovation and acceptance, love and death in Ice Age Asia.
Translinguistics
Translinguistics represents a powerful alternative to conventional paradigms of language such as bilingualism and code-switching, which assume the compartmentalization of different 'languages' into fixed and arbitrary boundaries. Translinguistics more accurately reflects the fluid use of linguistic and semiotic resources in diverse communities. This ground-breaking volume showcases work from leading as well as emerging scholars in sociolinguistics and other language-oriented disciplines and collectively explores and aims to reconcile the distinction between 'innovation' and 'ordinariness' in translinguistics. Features of this book include: 18 chapters from 28 scholars, representing a range o...
How To Become A Philosopher; How To Become A Logician; How To Become A Mathematician
A brief yet informative book by one of the founders of analytic philosophy in which he introduces the reader to various analytic movements throughout the 20th century—Philosophy, Logicism, and Mathematics—and their application. A prolific writer on many subjects, and a great popularizer of philosophy, author Bertrand Russell is eminently placed to discuss these topics. An invaluable addition to any philosophy library!
I Saw the Dog
Every language in the world shares a few common features: we can ask a question, say something belongs to us, and tell someone what to do. But beyond that, our languages are richly and almost infinitely varied: a French speaker can't conceive of a world that isn't split into un and une, male and female, while Estonians have only one word for both men and women: tema. In Dyirbal, an Australian language, things might be masculine, feminine, neuter - or edible vegetable. Every language tells us something about the people who use it. In I Saw the Dog, linguist Alexandra Aikhenvald takes us from the remote swamplands of Papua New Guinea to the university campuses of North America to illuminate the vital importance of names, the value of being able to say exactly what you mean, what language can tell us about what it means to be human - and what we lose when they disappear forever.
(Inter)Facing Death
In modern times, death is understood to have undergone a transformation not unlike religion. Whereas in the past it was out in the open, it now resides mostly in specialized spaces of sequestration—funeral homes, hospitals and other medical facilities. A mainstay in so-called traditional societies in the form of ritual practices, death was usually messy but meaningful, with the questions of what happens to the dead or where they go lying at the heart of traditional culture and religion. In modernity, however, we are said to have effectively sanitized it, embalmed it and packaged it—but it seems that death is back. In the current era marked by economic, political and social uncertainty, w...
