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Biblia Sahidica Ieremias, Lamentationes (Threni), Epistula Ieremiae et Baruch /

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Stancetaking in discourse subjectivity, evaluation, interaction /

Table of Contents: “…Stancetaking in discourse : an introduction / Robert Englebretson -- Using a corpus to investigate stance quantitatively and qualitatively / Susan Hunston -- Linking identity and dialect through stancetaking / Barbara Johnstone -- Grammatical resources for social purposes : some aspects of stancetaking in colloquial Indonesian conversation / Robert Englebretson -- Subjective and intersubjective uses of generalizations in English conversations / Joanne Scheibman -- The stance triangle / John W. …”
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Contesting the past, reconstructing the nation American literature and culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893 / by Railton, Ben, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…"He wouldn't ever dared to talk such talk in his life before" : dialect slavery, and the race question -- "If we had known how to write, we would have put all these things down and they would not have been forgotten" : silenced voices, forgotten, histories, and the Indian question -- "That's the worst of being a woman. …”
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The expression of gender /

Table of Contents: “…Gender and its relation to sex : the myth of 'natural gender' / Sally McConnell-Ginet -- Gender determined dialect variation / Michael Dunn -- Ladies and gentlemen : word order and gender in English / Peter Hegarty -- Gender typology / Greville G. …”
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The figural Jew politics and identity in postwar French thought / by Hammerschlag, Sarah

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Roots, rootlessness, and fin de siècle France -- Stranger and self: Sartre's Jew -- Anti-Semite and Jew -- Dialectical history, unhappy consciousness, and the Messiah -- The ethics of uprootedness: Emmanuel Levinas's postwar project -- Literary unrest: Maurice Blanchot's rewriting of Levinas --"The Last of the Jews": Jacques Derrida and the case of the figure -- The cut -- The exemplar -- Conclusion.…”
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Shouting, embracing, and dancing with ecstasy the growth of Methodism in Newfoundland, 1774-1874 / by Hollett, Calvin, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Newfoundland Methodism as social history -- Methodism and Newfoundland religion in the nineteenth century -- Dialectical tensions within Methodism -- Newfoundland Methodism and the question of distinctiveness -- Early Methodism in Conception Bay, St. …”
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The Troubled Union : Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels / by González, John Morán

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the historical crisis of post-Reconstruction national allegory -- Speaking American : Henry James and the dialect of modernity -- The hidden power : domesticity, national allegory, and empire in Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona -- Blushing brides and soulless corporations : racial formation in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The squatter and the don -- Epilogue : decentering national allegory.…”
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Spanish in the United States linguistic contact and diversity /

Table of Contents: “…Spanish / Ricardo Otheguy -- The dialectics of Spanish language loyalty and maintenance on the US-Mexico border / Margarita Hidalgo -- Spanish clitics in a contact situation / Manuel J. …”
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Describing and modeling variation in grammar

Table of Contents: “…/ Bert Cappelle -- Empirical syntax: idiolectal variability in two- and three-verb clusters in regional standard Dutch and Dutch dialects / Leonie Cornips -- Towards a multivariate model of grammar: the case of word order variation in Dutch clause final verb clusters / Gert de Sutter -- Transplanted dialects and language change: question formation in Québec / Martin Elsig and Shana Poplack -- Agreement in English dialects / Verena Haser and Bernd Kortmann -- Semi-modal variation / Katarina Klein -- Variation in Komi object marking / Gerson Klumpp -- How lexicalization reflected in hyphenation affects variation and word-formation / Britta Mondorf -- Variation in German adjective inflection: a corpus study / Said Sahel.…”
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The politics of imagining Asia by Wang, Hui

Table of Contents: “…The politics of imagining Asia -- How to explain "China" and its "modernity" : rethinking the rise of modern Chinese thought -- Local forms, vernacular dialects, and the war of resistance against Japan : the "national forms" debate -- The "Tibetan question" East and West : Orientalism, regional ethnic autonomy, and the politics of dignity -- Okinawa and two dramatic changes to the regional order -- Weber and the question of Chinese modernity.…”
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The flirt's tragedy desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction / by Kaye, Richard A., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Dialectical desires: the eighteenth-century coquette and the invention of nineteenth-century fictional character -- The flirtation of species: Darwinian sexual selection and Victorian narrative -- George Eliot and Thomas Hardy: flirtation, female choice and the revision of Darwinian belief -- Deadly deferrals: Henry James, Edith Wharton, Gustave Flaubert, and the exhaustion of flirtatious desire -- "Acceptable hints of infinity": dissident desires and the erotics of countermodernism.…”
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Imagination in Kant's Critique of practical reason by Freydberg, Bernard, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Principles of pure practical reason : imagination and moral "derivation" -- The concept of an object of pure practical reason : imagination, good and evil, and the typic -- The incentives (Triebfeder) of pure practical reason : incentive-creating imagination and moral feeling -- Dialectic of pure practical reason in general and imagination -- Imagination and the postulates of immortality and God -- Imagination and the moral extension of reason -- Methodology of pure practical reason : images and ecstasy.…”
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Guest People : Hakka Identity in China and Abroad /

Table of Contents: “…/ Nicole Constable -- The Hakka or "guest people" dialect as a sociocultural variable in Southeast China / Myron L. …”
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Natural born celebrities serial killers in American culture / by Schmid, David (David Frank)

Table of Contents: “…Holmes -- Defining the enemy within : the FBI and serial murder -- Natural born celebrities : serial killers and the Hollywood star system -- Out of this world : aliens, devils, and serial killers in television crime drama -- Next door monsters : the dialectic of normality and monstrosity in true-crime narratives -- The unbearable straightness of violence : queering serial murder in true crime.…”
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The Kashubs past and present /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Cezary Obracht-Prondzyński and Tomasz Wicherkiewicz -- A history of the Kashubs until the end of communism / Józef Borzyszkowski -- The Kashubian language and its dialects : the range of use / Jerzy Treder -- Kashubian literature : the phenomenon, its history and its social dimension / Jerzy Treder and Cezary Obracht-Prondzyński -- Language policy and the sociolinguistics of Kashubian / Tomasz Wicherkiewicz -- Dilemmas of modern Kashubian identity and culture / Cezary Obracht-Prondzyński.…”
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Language and ethnicity among the K'ichee' Maya / by Romero, Sergio

Table of Contents: “…Accent and ethnic identity in the Maya highlands -- Orthographies, foreigners, and pure K'ichee' -- "Each town speaks its own language" : the social value of dialectal variation in K'ichee' -- A "hybrid" language : loanwords and K'ichee'-Spanish code switching -- "Ancestor power Is Maya power" : the uses and abuses of honorific address in K'ichee' --The changing voice of the ancestors : missionaries, poets, and pan-Mayanism.…”
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Walls of empowerment Chicana/o indigenist murals of California / by Latorre, Guisela, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Indigenism and Chicana/o muralism: the radicalization of an aesthetic -- The dialectics of continuity and disruption: Chicana/o and Mexican indigenist murals -- The Chicano movement and indigenist murals: the formation of a nationalist canon and identity -- Graffiti and murals: urban culture and indigenist glyphs -- The Chicana/o mural environment: indigenist aesthetics and urban spaces -- Gender, indigenism, and Chicana muralists -- Murals and postmodernism: post-movimiento, heterogeneity, and new media in Chicana/o indigenism.…”
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Parts of speech empirical and theoretical advances /

Table of Contents: “…Parts of Speech: Particulars, universals and theoretical constructs / Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don and Roland Pfau -- Word classes in sign languages: Criteria and classifications / Waldemar Schwager and Ulrike Zeshan -- Roots, stems and word classes / Christian Lehmann -- Precategoriality and syntax-based parts of speech: The case of Late Archaic Chinese / Walter Bisang -- Covert word classes: Seeking your own syntax in Tukang Besi / Mark Donohue -- Pragmatic factors in the development of a switch-adjective language: A case study of the Miyako Hirara dialect of Ryukyuan / Yulia Koloskova and Toshio Ohori -- The acquisition of syntactic categories in Jakarta Indonesian / David Gil -- Possible phonological cues in categorial acquisition Evidence from adult categorization /Jan Don and Marian Erkelens -- Lexical semantic constraints on noun roots and noun borrowability / Lynn Nichols -- Degree words, intensification, and word class distinctions in Romance languages / Ventura Salazar-García -- On flexible and rigid nouns / Jan Rijkhoff.…”
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Inventing English a portable history of the language / by Lerer, Seth, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: finding English, finding us -- Caedmon learns to sing : Old English and the origins of poetry -- From Beowulf to Wulfstan : the language of Old English literature -- In this year : the politics of language and the end of Old English -- From kingdom to realm : middle English in a French world -- Lord of this langage : Chaucer's English -- I is an Ille a millere as are ye : Middle English dialects -- The great vowel shift and the changing character of English -- Chancery, Caxton, and the making of English prose -- I do, I will : Shakespeare's English -- A universal hubbub wild : new words and worlds in early modern English -- Visible speech : the Orthoepists and the origins of standard English -- A harmless drudge : Samuel Johnson and the making of the dictionary -- Horrid, hooting stanzas : Lexicography and literature in American English -- Antses in the sugar : dialect and regionalism in American English -- Hello, dude : Mark Twain and the making of the American idiom -- Ready for the funk : African American English and its impact -- Pioneers through an untrodden forest : the Oxford English dictionary and its readers -- Listening to Private Ryan : war and language -- He speaks in your voice : everybody's English.…”
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Contemporary southern identity community through controversy / by Watts, Rebecca Bridges, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: looking toward a new rhetoric of southern identity -- Uniforms, walls, and doors: social mystery and gender integration at the Virginia Military Institute -- When Richmond gained perspective by incongruity: Old South tradition and New South change in the confederate capitol -- Stories of the war: the confederate flag in South Carolina -- Senator Trent Lott: southern sinner, scapegoat, and sacrifice -- Conclusion: dialectical rhetoric as the new rhetoric of southern identity -- Notes -- References -- Index.…”
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