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Examines the relationship between language and governance in Europe and Canada, dealing with theoretical debates, constitutional changes, political trends and language initiatives. This volume combines an amalgam of academic scrutiny and knowledge of the intricacies of promoting official and lesser used languages in Canada and parts of the EU.

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This wide-ranging study takes the story of Kenneth Jackson's "Language and History in Early Britain" on from the 12th century to the end of the 20th century, mainly by using written and oral recordings of place-names.

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This is a detailed analysis of Welsh-language use, based on data collected in 1996. It is one of the first detailed empirical studies of a European minority language, and brings to the analysis an innovative and challenging blend of philosophy, sociolinguistics, history and economics.

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This text is a reference source for those concerned with the changing status and vitality of the Welsh language and other minority languages in Europe. It provides a framework and a factual context in which to set such issues as language planning and policy formulation at local and national levels.

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Presents research on understanding Wales from a sociolinguistic perspective. Challenging views about the link between the Welsh language and Welsh social identities, This book covers subjects such as language, identity, style, bilingualism, language policy, language change and globalization with respect to Wales, and the Welsh global diaspora.

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"Why are you learning Zulu" When Mark Sanders began studying the language, he was often asked this question. In Learning Zulu, Sanders places his own endeavors within a wider context to uncover how, in the past 150 years of South African history, Zulu became a battleground for issues of property, possession, and deprivation. Sanders combines eleme

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Features responses to the philosophers of language such as Sellars, Quine, Dummett, Putnam, Chomsky, and Ziff on issues of major significance and no little controversy.

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Inspiring horror, laughter, and awe, a catalog of nearly 400 Arabic epithets for lions. A fascinating work of lexicographical scholarship.

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This volume is not the product of direct field-work but a gathering together, a sifting and an analysis of all the material available - whether previously collected by collectors of Romani song, or preserved whole or in fragments within literary or other texts.

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Presents the author's vision of philosophy of language. Explaining the progress philosophers have made toward creating a theoretical framework for the study of language, this book investigates foundational concepts - such as truth, reference, and meaning - that are central to the philosophy of language and important to philosophy as a whole.

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Surveys the historical background of handwriting usage, with emphasis on changing fashions. This book provides guidance on how to deal with early language and abbreviations. It is suitable for research students, local historians, genealogists, and calligraphers.

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From national security and social security to homeland and cyber-security, "security" has become one of the most overused words in culture and politics today. Yet it also remains one of the most undefined. What exactly are we talking about when we talk about security In this original and timely book, John Hamilton examines the discursive versatili

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This 70th anniversary issue includes stories and poetry on the passing of time, new inter-generational relationships, the anachronisms of middle age, on the image and memory, the press of the lived present.

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Speech Begins after Death is a transcript of critic Claude Bonnefoys interview with Michel Foucault in which he reflects on his approach to the written word throughout his life, from his school days to his discovery of the pleasure of writing. Never before published in English, this is one of Foucaults most personal statements about his life and writing.