Language Arts & Disciplines
Adventures in Yiddishland
Adventures in Yiddishland examines the transformation of Yiddish in the six decades since the Holocaust, tracing its shift from the language of daily life for millions of Jews to what the author terms a postvernacular language of diverse and expanding symbolic value.
The Copyeditor's Handbook
The Copyeditor's Handbook is a lively, practical manual for newcomers to publishing and for experienced editors who want to fine-tune their skills or broaden their understanding of the craft.
The Language War
Robin Lakoff gets to the heart of one of the most fascinating and pressing issues in American society today: who holds power and how they use it, keep it, or lose it.
Languages and Nations
British rule of India brought together different traditions of scholarship about language, whose conjuncture led to several intellectual breakthroughs.
Mayo Ethnobotany
The Mayos, an indigenous people of northwestern Mexico, live in small towns spread over southern Sonora and northern Sinaloa, lands of remarkable biological diversity. Traditional Mayo knowledge is quickly being lost as this culture becomes absorbed into modern Mexico.
Revising Your Dissertation
The aftermath of graduate school can be particularly trying for those under pressure to publish their dissertations.
Rhetoric of Manhood
The concept of manhood was immensely important in ancient Athens, shaping its political, social, legal, and ethical systems.
Signing the Body Poetic
This collection of essays brings a view of the literary, social, and performative aspects of American Sign Language to a wide audience.
Bad Aboriginal Art
This is the account of the author"˜s period of residence and work with the Walpiri Aborigines of western Central Australia, where he studied the impact of television on these remote communities.
Book of the Incipit
In the first book to examine one of the most peculiar features of one of the greatest and most perplexing poems of England"™s late Middle Ages"”the successive attempts of Piers Plowman to begin, and to keep beginning"”D.