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Aeneas to Augustus: Mason Hammond; Anne Amory; This reader consists of 90 selections illustrating the history of Rome from the myth of Aeneas to the founding of the Augustan Principate. The selections have been chosen with three aims in mind: gradual increase in length and difficulty, continuity of subject matter, and stylistic variety. Historical background is provided in the prefaces to the selections. The present letterpress edition is more convenient to use than its predecessor of 1962. The notes have been extensively revised and the vocabulary has been newly compiled.; Paperback 1967

The Art of Adding and the Art of Taking Away: Elizabeth A. Falsey; A catalog of an exhibition at the Houghton Library in 1987 of a selection of John Updike manuscripts, illustrating how text changes from manuscript to proof to revised edition.; Paperback 2005

Articulating Reasons: Robert B. Brandom; Robert Brandom is one of the most original philosophers of our day, whose book Making It Explicit covered and extended a vast range of topics in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language--the very core of analytic philosophy. This new work provides an approachable introduction to the complex system that Making It Explicit mapped out. A tour of the earlier book's large ideas and relevant details, Articulating Reasons offers an easy entry into the ideas of the most important single development in the field in recent decades.; Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001

Articulator Features and Portuguese Vowel Height: Wayne J. Redenbarger; Paperback 1981

Avatars of the Word: James J. O'Donnell; In this penetrating book, James O'Donnell takes a reading on the promise and the threat of electronic technology for our literate future. He reinterprets today's communication revolution through a series of refracted comparisons with earlier revolutionary periods: the transition from oral to written culture, from the papyrus scroll to the codex, from copied manuscript to print.; Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000

The Biology and Evolution of Language: Philip Lieberman; This book synthesizes much of the exciting recent research in the biology of language. Drawing on data from anatomy, neurophysiology, physiology, and behavioral biology, Lieberman develops a new approach to the puzzle of language, arguing that it is the result of many evolutionary compromises. Within his discussion, Lieberman skillfully addresses matters as various as the theory of neoteny (which he refutes), the mating calls of bullfrogs, ape language, dyslexia, and computer-implemented models of the brain.; Hardcover 1984 / Paperback

The Clockwork Muse: Eviatar Zerubavel; For anyone who has blanched at the uphill prospect of finishing a long piece of writing, this book holds out something more practical than hope: it offers a plan. The Clockwork Muse is designed to help prospective authors develop a workable timetable for completing long and often formidable projects.; Paperback 1999 / Hardcover 1999

Constructing Panic: Lisa Capps; Elinor Ochs; Foreword by Jerome Bruner; Constructing Panic offers an unprecedented analysis of one patient's experience of agoraphobia. In this novel interdisciplinary collaboration between a clinical psychologist and a linguist, the authors propose a new view of agoraphobia as a communicative disorder. Capps and Ochs open up the largely overlooked potential for linguistic and narrative analysis by revealing the roots of panic and by offering a unique framework for therapeutic intervention.; Paperback 1997 / Hardcover

Constructing a Language: Michael Tomasello; In this groundbreaking book, Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in cognitive science, linguistics, and developmental psychology, Tomasello demonstrates that we don't need a self-contained "language instinct" to explain how children learn language. Their linguistic ability is interwoven with other cognitive abilities.; Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005

The Culture of Literacy: Wlad Godzich; Paperback / Hardcover

The Dialects of Ancient Gaul: Joshua Whatmough; Hardcover 1970

Exchanging Writing, Exchanging Cultures: Sarah W. Freedman; What can teachers in British and American inner-city schools learn from each other about literacy training? To explore this question, Sarah Warshauer Freedman and her British colleagues set up a writing exchange that matched classes from four middle and high schools in the San Francisco Bay area with their London equivalents.; Hardcover 1994 / Paperback 1997

A First Language: Roger Brown; For many years, Brown and his colleagues have studied the developing language of pre-school children--the language that ultimately will permit them to understand themselves and the world around them. This longitudinal research project records the conversational performances of three children, studying both semantic and grammatical aspects of their language development.; Hardcover 1973 / Paperback

The Footnote: Anthony Grafton; The weapon of pedants, the scourge of undergraduates, the bête noire of the "new" liberated scholar: the lowly footnote, long the refuge of the minor and the marginal, emerges in this book as a singular resource, with a surprising history that says volumes about the evolution of modern scholarship. In Anthony Grafton's engrossing account, footnotes to history give way to footnotes as history, recounting in their subtle way the curious story of the progress of knowledge in written form.; Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999

Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar: Gerald Gazdar; Ewan Klein; Geoffrey K. Pullum; Ivan A. Sag; Hardcover 1985 / Paperback

Guide to the Study of United States Imprints: G. Thomas Tanselle; This book provides a basic guide to the study of the printed matter which has been produced in the United States. The great bulk of research in this field has occurred during the last half century, yet no comprehensive attempt has been made to record it. Recognizing the need for an up-to-date guide to such investigations, Tanselle has compiled a listing of the principal material dealing with printing and publishing in this country.; Hardcover 1971

Harvard University Press: Max Hall; A university press is a curious institution, dedicated to the dissemination of learning yet apart from the academic structure; a publishing firm that is in business, but not to make money; an arm of the university that is frequently misunderstood and occasionally attacked by faculty and administration. Max Hall here chronicles the early stages and first sixty years of Harvard University Press in a rich and entertaining book that is at once Harvard history, publishing history, printing history, business history, and intellectual history.; Hardcover 1986 / Paperback 1988

Hearing Gesture: Susan Goldin-Meadow; This book explores how we move our hands when we talk, and what it means when we do so. Focusing on what we can discover about speakers--adults and children alike--by watching their hands, Goldin-Meadow discloses the active role that gesture plays in conversation and, more fundamentally, in thinking. In general, we are unaware of gesture, which occurs as an undercurrent alongside an acknowledged verbal exchange. This book makes clear why we must not ignore the background conversation.; Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005

How to Do Things with Words: J. L. Austin; Edited by J. O. Urmson; Edited by Marina Sbisà; John L. Austin was one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century. The William James Lectures presented Austin's conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts on a wide variety of philosophical problems. These talks became the classic How to Do Things with Words; Hardcover / Paperback

How to Do Things with Words: J. L. Austin; Edited by J. O. Urmson; Edited by Marina Sbisà; John L. Austin was one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century. The William James Lectures presented Austin's conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts on a wide variety of philosophical problems. These talks became the classic How to Do Things with Words; Hardcover / Paperback

Independent Historical Societies: Walter Muir Whitehill; Hardcover 1962

Inside Deaf Culture: Carol A. Padden; Tom L. Humphries; In this absorbing story of the changing life of a community, the authors of Deaf in America reveal historical events and forces that have shaped the ways that Deaf people define themselves today. Inside Deaf Culture relates Deaf people's search for a voice of their own, and their proud self-discovery and self-description as a flourishing culture.; Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2006

Language Acquisition: Jill G. de Villiers; Peter A. de Villiers; The study of language acquisition has become a center of scientific inquiry into the nature of the human mind. The result is a windfall of new information about language, about learning, and about children themselves.; Hardcover 1978

Language and Symbolic Power: Pierre Bourdieu; John Thompson, Editor; Gino Raymond, Translator; Matthew Adamson, Translator; This volume brings together Bourdieu's highly original writings on language and on the relations among language, power, and politics. Bourdieu develops a forceful critique of traditional approaches to language, including the linguistic theories of Saussure and Chomsky and the theory of speech-acts elaborated by Austin and others. He argues that language should he viewed not only as a means of communication but also as a medium of power through which individuals pursue their own interests and display their practical competence.; Hardcover 1991 / Paperback

The Language of Thought: Jerry A. Fodor; Paperback

The Languages of Paradise: Maurice Olender; Arthur Goldhammer, Translator; Maurice Olender shows that philology left an indelible mark on Western visions of history and contributed directly to some of the most horrifying ideologies of the twentieth century.; Hardcover 1992 / Paperback 2008

The Letters of the Republic: Michael Warner; The subject of Michael Warner's book is the rise of a nation. America, he shows, became a nation by developing a new kind of reading public, where one becomes a citizen by taking ones place as writer or reader. At heart, the United States is a republic of letters, and its birth can be dated from changes in the culture of printing in the early eighteenth century. The new and widespread use of print media transformed the relations between people and power in a way that set in motion the republican structure of government we have inherited.; Paperback / Hardcover

A Lexical Atlas of the Hutsul Dialects of the Ukrainian Language: Janusz Rieger, Editor; Fixed in the Western mind through the cinematic masterpiece Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, the Hutsul people of the Carpathian region live in the crossroads of numerous peoples. The fruition of the late Polish linguist Jan Janów's work, this atlas provides a fundamental resource for Slavic dialectologists.; Paperback 1996

Life with Two Languages: François Grosjean; Many people consider bilinguals to be exceptional, yet almost half the world's population speaks more than one language. Bilingualism is found in every country of the world, in every class of society, in all age groups. This is the first book to provide a complete and authoritative look at the nature of the bilingual experience. Grosjean, himself a bilingual, covers the topic from each of its many angles in order to provide a balanced introduction to this fascinating phenomenon.; Hardcover 1982 / Paperback

Linguistic Science and the Teaching of English: Henry Lee Smith; Hardcover 1956

Living Narrative: Elinor Ochs; Lisa Capps; This pathbreaking book looks at everyday storytelling as a twofold phenomenon--a response to our desire for coherence, but also to our need to probe and acknowledge the enigmatic aspects of experience. Elinor Ochs and Lisa Capps develop a way of understanding the seemingly contradictory nature of everyday narrative.; Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002

Marxism and the Philosophy of Language: V. N. Volosinov; Ladislav Matejka, Translator; I. R. Titunik, Translator; Volosinov's important work, first published in Russian in 1929, had to wait a generation for recognition. This first paperback edition of the English translation will be capital for literary theorists, philosophers, linguists, psychologists, and many others.; Paperback

Mother Tongues: Barbara Johnson; The existence of sexual difference precludes an original or ultimate "one" who would represent all of mankind; the plurality of languages makes it impossible to think that one doesn't live in translation; and the plurality of the sexes means that every human being came from a woman's body, and some will reproduce this feat, while others won't. In her most personal and deeply considered book about difference, Johnson asks: Is the mother the guardian of a oneness we have never had? The relations that link mothers, bodies, words, and laws serve as the guiding puzzles as she searches for an answer.; Hardcover 2003

On Language: Roman Jakobson; Linda Waugh, Editor; Monique Monville-Burston, Editor; Waugh and Monville-Burston have assembled an intellectual overview of Roman Jakobson's work in linguistics from partial and complete works that they have arranged, introduced, and cross-referenced. Some appear here in print for the first time, others are newly translated into English. Jakobson's general view of the science of linguistics is followed by a range of topics from his stunning contributions to linguistic metatheory and the interdisciplinary perspectives of linguistics to the sound and meaning system of language, the interrelationship between sound and meaning. More than a convenient access to Jakobson's basic works, On Language presents a broad profile of the polymathic general linguist who suggested radical innovations in every area of linguistic theory.; Paperback 1995 / Hardcover

Other People's Words: Victoria Purcell-Gates; If asked to identify which children rank lowest in relation to national educational norms, have higher school dropout and absence rates, and more commonly experience learning problems, few of us would know the answer: white, urban Appalachian children. These are the children and grandchildren of Appalachian families who migrated to northern cities in the 1950s to look for work. They make up this largely "invisible" urban group, a minority that represents a significant portion of the urban poor. Literacy researchers have rarely studied urban Appalachians, yet, as Victoria Purcell-Gates demonstrates in Other People's Words, their often severe literacy problems provide a unique perspective on literacy and the relationship between print and culture. A compelling case study details the author's work with one such family.; Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1997

Pathways to Language: Kyra Karmiloff; Annette Karmiloff-Smith; A remarkable mother-daughter collaboration balances the respected views of a well-known scholar with the fresh perspective of a younger colleague in a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of language acquisition.; Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002

Point of Words: Ellen Winner; Psychologist Ellen Winner studies the creative, nonliteral discourse of children's spontaneous speech, examining how their abilities to use and interpret figurative language change as they grow older, and what such language shows us about the changing features of children's minds.; Paperback 1997

The Power of News: Michael Schudson; Michael Schudson holds that news is a form of culture, complete with its own literary and social conventions and powerful in ways far more subtle and complex than its many critics might suspect. A penetrating look into this culture, The Power of News offers a compelling view of the news media's emergence as a central institution of modern society, a key repository of common knowledge and cultural authority.; Paperback 1996 / Hardcover

Premises: Werner Hamacher; Peter Fenves, Translator; "Poetry does not impose, it exposes itself," wrote Paul Celan. Werner Hamacher's investigations into crucial texts of philosophical and literary modernity show that Celan's apothegm is also valid for the structure of understanding and for language in general.; Hardcover 1997

Print Literacy Development: Victoria Purcell-Gates; Erik Jacobson; Sophie Degener; Is literacy a social and cultural practice, or a set of cognitive skills to be learned and applied? Literacy researchers, who have differed sharply on this question, will welcome this book, which is the first to address the critical divide. The authors lucidly explain how we develop our abilities to read and write and offer a unified theory of literacy development that places cognitive development within a sociocultural context of literacy practices.; Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2006

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 22, 2002: Edited by Kathryn Izzo; Edited by Katharine Olson; Among other articles, this volume includes Toward a Breton Musical Patrimony, Paul-Andre Bempéchat; Celts and Hyperboerans, Timothy Bridgman; The Sea as an Emotional Landscape, Mairi Sine Chaimbeul.; Hardcover 2008

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 23, 2003: Edited by Bettina Kimpton; Edited by Matthew Knight; Amont other articles, this volume includes The Alans in the Iberian Peninsula and the Identification by Littleton and Malcor as the Milesians of the Lebor Gabála, Manuel Alberro; The ‘Gallic Disaster’: Did Dionysius I of Syracuse Order It?, Timothy Bridgman;.; Hardcover 2009

Propositional Structure and Illocutionary Force: Jerrold J. Katz; Paperback

Semantic and Conceptual Development: Frank C. Keil; In this book, Keil presents the first psychological investigation of the developing child's ontological knowledge. Building on previous philosophical work, Keil shows that ontological categories develop in a highly predictable progression. Moreover, Keil demonstrates that ontological development obeys a strong formal constraint on the relations among categories. Although there are many possible ontological systems, children appear to be inherently targeted to consider a system of only one sort.; Hardcover 1979

The Signs of Language: Edward Klima; Ursula Bellugi; In a book with far-reaching implications, Klima and Bellugi present a full exploration of a language in another mode--a language of the hands and of the eyes.; Hardcover 1979 / Paperback 1988

Still the New World: Philip Fisher; A provocative new way of accounting for the spirit of American literary tradition, Still the New World makes a persuasive argument against the reduction of literature to identity questions of race, gender, and ethnicity. Ranging from roughly 1850 to 1940 the book reconsiders key works in the American canon--from Emerson, Whitman, and Melville, to Twain, Dos Passos, and Nathanael West.; Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2000

Surface Structure: Robert Fiengo; Hardcover 1981

Syntax and Speech: William E. Cooper; Jeanne Paccia-Cooper; Hardcover 1980

Teaching Literature: James Engell, Editor; David Perkins, Editor; Hardcover 1988 / Paperback 1988

Testament to Ruthenian: Stefan Pugh; Stefan Pugh analyzes the Ruthenian language use of one of its most outstanding practitioners, Meletij Smotryc'kyj (ca. 1578-1633): polemicist, cleric, and scholar. This study will provide the groundwork for the next generation of scholarship on the Ruthenian language.; Hardcover

Their Right to Speak: Alisse Portnoy; In this groundbreaking study, Portnoy links antebellum Indian removal debates with crucial, simultaneous debates about African Americans--abolition of slavery and African colonization--revealing ways European American women negotiated prohibitions to make their voices heard. Situating the debates within contemporary, competing ideas about race, religion, and nation, Portnoy examines the means by which women argued for a "right to speak" on national policy.; Hardcover 2005

Toward an Evolutionary Biology of Language: Philip Lieberman; In this forcefully argued book, the leading evolutionary theorist of language provides a framework for studying the evolution of human language and cognition. Philip Lieberman asserts that the widely influential theories of language's development are inconsistent with principles and findings of evolutionary biology and neuroscience. In his view, the human language ability is the confluence of a succession of separate evolutionary developments, jury-rigged by natural selection to work together for an evolutionarily unique ability.; Hardcover 2006

Unshadowed Thought: Charles Travis; This book mounts a sustained attack on ideas that are dear to many practitioners of analytic philosophy. Charles Travis targets the seductive illusion that--in Wittgenstein's terms--"if anyone utters a sentence and means or understands it, he is operating a calculus according to definite rules." This book rejects the idea that thoughts are essentially representational items whose content is independent of context. In doing so, it undermines the foundations of much contemporary philosophy of mind.; Hardcover 2001

The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me: Jonathan Rieder; Taking us deep into King’s backstage discussions with colleagues, his preaching to black congregations, his exhortations in mass meetings, and his crossover addresses to whites, Rieder tells a powerful story about the tangle of race, talk, and identity in the life of one of America’s greatest moral and political leaders.; Hardcover 2008

Writing and Being: Nadine Gordimer; In this deeply resonant book, Nadine Gordimer examines the tension for a writer between life's experiences and narrative creations. She tries to unravel the mysterious process that breathes "real" life into fiction by exploring the writings of revolutionaries in South Africa and the works of Naguib Mahfouz, Chinua Achebe, and Amos Oz. Ending on a personal note, Gordimer reveals her own experience of "writing her way out of" the confines of a dying colonialism.; Paperback 1996 / Hardcover 1998

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