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Sociolinguistic Perspectives

Papers on Language in Society, 1959-1994

By: Charles A. Ferguson

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Sociolinguistic Perspectives

Papers on Language in Society, 1959-1994

By: Charles A. Ferguson

The work of the linguist Charles A. Ferguson spans more than three decades, and is remarkable for having been consistently at the forefront of scholarship on the relationship between language and society. This volume collects his most influential and seminal papers, each having expanded the parameters of sociolinguistics and the sociology of language. Taken together, they cover a wide range of topics and issues, and, more importantly, reflect the intellectual progress of a founder of the sociolinguistic field. The volume is divided thematically into four sections, and an introduction by Thom Huebner outlines the evolution of Ferguson's ideas and the impact they have had on other scholars. This book is essential reading for everyone interested in the field of sociolinguistics.

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Oxford University Press

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0195357701

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Sociolinguistic Perspectives : Papers on Language in Society, 1959-1994

Papers on Language in Society, 1959-1994

By: Charles A. Ferguson Professor of Linguistics Stanford University (Emeritus)

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Sociolinguistic Perspectives : Papers on Language in Society, 1959-1994

Papers on Language in Society, 1959-1994

By: Charles A. Ferguson Professor of Linguistics Stanford University (Emeritus)

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198025319

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9780198025313

Structuralist Studies in Arabic Linguistics

Charles A. Ferguson's Papers, 1954-1994

By: Charles Albert Ferguson

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Structuralist Studies in Arabic Linguistics

Charles A. Ferguson's Papers, 1954-1994

By: Charles Albert Ferguson

This collection of Charles Ferguson's papers on Arabic linguistics includes a biographical sketch (with excerpts from interviews with him) documenting the career and contributions of a pioneer in American linguistics. Four sections include: Diachronica, Phonology, Register and Genre, and General.

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BRILL

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9004105115

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9789004105119

Minds on Trial

Great Cases in Law and Psychology

By: Charles Patrick Ewing,Joseph T. McCann

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Minds on Trial

Great Cases in Law and Psychology

By: Charles Patrick Ewing,Joseph T. McCann

In recent years, the public has become increasingly fascinated with the criminal mind. Television series centered on courtroom trials, criminal investigations, and forensic psychology are more popular than ever. More and more people are interested in the American system of justice and the individuals who experience it firsthand. Minds on Trial: Great Cases in Law and Psychology gives you an inside view of 20 of the highest profile legal cases of the last 50 years. Drs. Ewing and McCann take you "behind the scenes" of each of these cases, some involving celebrities like Woody Allen, Mike Tyson, and Patty Hearst, and explain the impact they had on the fields of psychology and the law. Many of the cases in this book, whether involving a celebrity client or an ordinary person in an extraordinary circumstance, were determined in part by the expert testimony of a psychologist or other mental health professional. Psychology has always played a vital role in so many aspects of the American legal system, and these fascinating trials offer insight into many intriguing psychological issues. In addition to expert testimony, some of the issues discussed in this entertaining and educational book include the insanity defense, brainwashing, criminal profiling, capital punishment, child custody, juvenile delinquency, and false confessions. In Minds on Trial, the authors skillfully convey the psychological and legal drama of each case, while providing important and fresh professional insights. Mental health and legal professionals, as well as others with an interest in psychology and the law will have a hard time putting this scholarly, yet readable book down.

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Oxford University Press

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0199884617

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The Texas Rangers in Transition

From Gunfighters to Criminal Investigators, 1921–1935

By: Charles H. Harris,Louis R. Sadler

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The Texas Rangers in Transition

From Gunfighters to Criminal Investigators, 1921–1935

By: Charles H. Harris,Louis R. Sadler

Official Texas Ranger Bicentennial™ Publication Newly rich in oil money, and all the trouble it could buy, Texas in the years following World War I underwent momentous changes—and those changes propelled the transformation of the state’s storied Rangers. Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler explore this important but relatively neglected period in the Texas Rangers’ history in this book, a sequel to their award-winning The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910–1920. In a Texas awash in booze and oil in the Prohibition years, the Rangers found themselves riding herd on gamblers and bootleggers, but also tasked with everything from catching murderers to preventing circus performances on Sunday. The Texas Rangers in Transition takes up the Rangers’ story at a time of political turmoil, as the largely rural state was rapidly becoming urban. At the same time, law enforcement was facing an epidemic of bank robberies, an increase in organized crime, the growth of the Ku Klux Klan, Prohibition enforcement—new challenges that the Rangers met by transitioning from gunfighters to criminal investigators. Steeped in tradition, reluctant to change, the agency was reduced to its nadir in the depths of the Depression, the victim of slashed appropriations, an antagonistic governor, and mediocre personnel. Harris and Sadler document the further and final change that followed when, in 1935, the Texas Rangers were moved from the governor’s control to the newly created Department of Public Safety. This proved a watershed in the Rangers’ history, marking their transformation into a modern law enforcement agency, the elite investigative force that they remain to this day.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806163658

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9780806163659

The Ku Klux Klan in the Southwest

By: Charles C. Alexander

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The Ku Klux Klan in the Southwest

By: Charles C. Alexander

A study of the career of the KKK and its appeal in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas in the early twentieth century. This is a study of a disturbing phenomenon in American society—the Ku Klux Klan—and that eruption of nativism, racism, and moral authoritarianism during the 1920s in the four states of the Southwest—Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas—in which the Klan became especially powerful. The hooded order is viewed here as a move by frustrated Americans, through anonymous acts of terror and violence, and later through politics), to halt a changing social order and restore familiar orthodox traditions of morality. Entering the Southwest during the post-World War I period of discontent and disillusion, the Klan spread rapidly over the region and by 1922 its tens of thousands of members had made it a potent force in politics. Charles C. Alexander finds that the Klan in the Southwest, however, functioned more as vigilantes in meting extra-legal punishment to those it deemed moral offenders than as advocates of race and religious prejudice. But the vigilante hysteria vanished almost as suddenly as it had appeared; opposition to its terrorist excesses and its secret politics led to its decline after 1924, when the Klan failed abysmally in most of its political efforts. Especially significant here are the analysis of attitudes which led to this revival of the Klan and the close examination of its internal machinations. “The Ku Klux Klan is not a single phenomenon. It is three different organizations, which sprang up three different times, for three different reasons. Charles Alexander focuses this study—and it’s a good one—on the middle Klan, the so-called Invisible Empire extending from 1915 to 1944, flourishing in the mid-twenties with a membership estimated at 5 million, at one time or another dominating to some degree politically every city in the Southwest. . . . A forthright and definitive account, to be read along with David Chalmers’s recent Hooded Americanism . . . for the complete national picture.” —Kirkus Reviews

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813183332

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The Tree of Good and Evil

Or, Violence by the Law and against the Law

By: Charles K. Bellinger

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The Tree of Good and Evil

Or, Violence by the Law and against the Law

By: Charles K. Bellinger

There is a common way of thinking that distinguishes between the regular law-abiding citizens and the “criminals.” The many high-profile killings committed by police officers in recent years, with the George Floyd case being the most famous, have served to render this simplistic way of thinking highly problematic. It is more realistic, in terms of cultural understanding, to see violence as a dialectic; it can come from the direction of “law and order” or from the direction of the violation of law. Employing the thought of René Girard, Søren Kierkegaard, and others, this book provides a framework for understanding this dialectic. Drawing on examples from slavery, lynching, the killing of unarmed Black persons by police, and the death penalty, the theme of violence coming from the direction of “law and order” is vividly illustrated, with Girard’s thought being employed to formulate a deeply rooted theoretical understanding. There is also extensive attention paid to many examples of mass shootings and terrorist attacks—violence that is intentionally immoral and illegal. A psychological taxonomy is employed that comprehends such violence under the headings of the psychopathic, the psychotic, the traumatized, and the ideological actor.

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1666759031

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Book's by Charles A. Ferguson

Sociolinguistic Perspectives

Sociolinguistic Perspectives

Sociolinguistic Perspectives : Papers on Language in Society, 1959-1994

Sociolinguistic Perspectives : Papers on Language in Society, 1959-1994

Structuralist Studies in Arabic Linguistics

Structuralist Studies in Arabic Linguistics

Minds on Trial

Minds on Trial

The Texas Rangers in Transition

The Texas Rangers in Transition

The Ku Klux Klan in the Southwest

The Ku Klux Klan in the Southwest

The Tree of Good and Evil

The Tree of Good and Evil

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