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“And he knew our language”

Missionary Linguistics on the Pacific Northwest Coast

By: Marcus Tomalin

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“And he knew our language”

Missionary Linguistics on the Pacific Northwest Coast

By: Marcus Tomalin

This ambitious and ground-breaking book examines the linguistic studies produced by missionaries based on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America (and particularly Haida Gwaii) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Making extensive use of unpublished archival materials, the author demonstrates that the missionaries were responsible for introducing many innovative and insightful grammatical analyses. Rather than merely adopting Graeco-Roman models, they drew extensively upon studies of non-European languages, and a careful exploration of their scripture translations reveal the origins of the Haida sociolect that emerged as a result of the missionary activity. The complex interactions between the missionaries and anthropologists are also discussed, and it is shown that the former sometimes anticipated linguistic analyses that are now incorrectly attributed to the latter. Since this book draws upon recent work in theoretical linguistics, religious history, translation studies, and anthropology, it emphasises the unavoidably interdisciplinary nature of Missionary Linguistics research. As of January 2019, this e-book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.

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Telling the Time in British Literature, 1675-1830

Hours of Folly?

By: Marcus Tomalin

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Telling the Time in British Literature, 1675-1830

Hours of Folly?

By: Marcus Tomalin

Although the broad topic of time and literature in the long eighteenth century has received focused attention from successive generations of literary critics, this book adopts a radically new approach to the subject. Taking inspiration from recent revisionist accounts of the horological practices of the age, as well as current trends in ecocriticism, historical prosody, sensory history, social history, and new materialism, it offers a pioneering investigation of themes that have never previously received sustained critical scrutiny. Specifically, it explores how the essayists, poets, playwrights, and novelists of the period meditated deeply upon the physical form, social functions, and philosophical implications of particular time-telling objects. Consequently, each chapter considers a different device – mechanical watches, pendulums, sandglasses, sundials, flowers, and bells – and the literary responses of significant figures such as Alexander Pope, Anne Steele, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charlotte Smith, and William Hazlitt are carefully examined.

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Routledge

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1000042081

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The French Language and British Literature, 1756-1830

By: Marcus Tomalin

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The French Language and British Literature, 1756-1830

By: Marcus Tomalin

From the 1750s to the 1830s, numerous British intellectuals, novelists, essayists, poets, playwrights, translators, educationalists, politicians, businessmen, travel writers, and philosophers brooded about the merits and demerits of the French language. The decades under consideration encompass a particularly tumultuous period in Anglo-French relations that witnessed the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), the American War of Independence (1775-1783), the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1792-1802 and 1803-1815, respectively), the Bourbon Restoration (1814-1830), and the July Revolution (1830) - not to mention the gradual expansion of the British Empire, and the complex cultural shifts that led from Neoclassicism to Romanticism. In this book, Marcus Tomalin reassesses the ways in which writers such as Tobias Smollett, Maria Edgeworth, William Wordsworth, John Keats, William Cobbett, and William Hazlitt acquired and deployed French. This intricate topic is examined from a range of critical perspectives, which draw upon recent research into European Romanticism, linguistic historiography, comparative literature, social and cultural history, education theory, and translation studies. This interdisciplinary approach helps to illuminate the deep ambivalences that characterised British appraisals of the French language in the literature of the Romantic period.

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131703130X

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Linguistics and the Formal Sciences

The Origins of Generative Grammar

By: Marcus Tomalin

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Linguistics and the Formal Sciences

The Origins of Generative Grammar

By: Marcus Tomalin

The formal sciences, particularly mathematics, have had a profound influence on the development of linguistics. This insightful overview looks at techniques that were introduced in the fields of mathematics, logic and philosophy during the twentieth century, and explores their effect on the work of various linguists. In particular, it discusses the 'foundations crisis' that destabilised mathematics at the start of the twentieth century, the numerous related movements which sought to respond to this crisis, and how they influenced the development of syntactic theory in the 1950s. The book concludes by discussing the resulting major consequences for syntactic theory, and provides a detailed reassessment of Chomsky's early work at the advent of Generative Grammar. Informative and revealing, this book will be invaluable to all those working in formal linguistics, in particular those interested in its history and development.

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247

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Cambridge University Press

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1139450816

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9781139450812

Interpreted Languages and Compositionality

By: Marcus Kracht

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Interpreted Languages and Compositionality

By: Marcus Kracht

This book argues that languages are composed of sets of ‘signs’, rather than ‘strings’. This notion, first posited by de Saussure in the early 20th century, has for decades been neglected by linguists, particularly following Chomsky’s heavy critiques of the 1950s. Yet since the emergence of formal semantics in the 1970s, the issue of compositionality has gained traction in the theoretical debate, becoming a selling point for linguistic theories. Yet the concept of ‘compositionality’ itself remains ill-defined, an issue this book addresses. Positioning compositionality as a cornerstone in linguistic theory, it argues that, contrary to widely held beliefs, there exist non-compositional languages, which shows that the concept of compositionality has empirical content. The author asserts that the existence of syntactic structure can flow from the fact that a compositional grammar cannot be delivered without prior agreement on the syntactic structure of the constituents.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9400721080

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9789400721081

The Beatles and Sixties Britain

By: Marcus Collins

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The Beatles and Sixties Britain

By: Marcus Collins

In this rigorous study, Marcus Collins reconceives the Beatles' social, cultural and political impact on sixties Britain.

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385

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Cambridge University Press

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1108477240

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Mastery and Depth in Primary Mathematics

Enriching Children's Mathematical Thinking

By: Fay Lewis,Amanda Wilkinson,Marcus Witt

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Mastery and Depth in Primary Mathematics

Enriching Children's Mathematical Thinking

By: Fay Lewis,Amanda Wilkinson,Marcus Witt

The UK National Curriculum is clear about the importance of reasoning and problem-solving in mathematics. Mastery and Depth in Primary Mathematics aims to support trainee and established teachers to embed mathematical thinking into their lessons. The authors focus on practical and actionable ways that primary teachers can develop their children’s mathematical thinking, reasoning and problem-solving: ideas which are at the heart of the UK National Curriculum. Covering a range of areas in mathematical thinking such as reasoning, problem-solving and pattern-spotting, as well as systematic and investigative thinking, each chapter provides clear examples of how teachers can make small, manageable ‘rich tweaks’ to their existing lessons to increase the opportunities for children to develop their mathematical thinking. Teachers will be able to dip into the book and find inspiration and ideas that they can use immediately and, importantly, develop a set of principles and skills which will enable them to take any mathematical activity and tweak it to develop their pupils’ thinking skills. This practical guide will be invaluable to all trainee teachers and early-career teachers that wish to enhance their primary mathematics teaching.

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1000517934

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Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography

By: Marcus Wood

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Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography

By: Marcus Wood

Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography considers the operations of slavery and of abolition propaganda on the thought and literature of English from the late-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Incorporating materials ranging from canonical literatures to the lowest form of street publication, Marcus Wood writes from the conviction that slavery was, and still is, a dilemma for everyone in England, and seeks to explain why English society has constructed Atlantic slavery in the way it has. He takes on the works of canonic eighteenth- and nineteenth-century white authors which claimed, when written, to 'account' for slavery, and asks with some scepticism what kind of 'truth' they hold. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, chapters focus on the writings of the major Romantic poets, English Radicals William Cobbett and John Thelwall, the Surinam writings of John Stedman, the full range of slavery texts generated by Harriet Martineau, John Newton, and the social prophets Carlyle and Ruskin. Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography also contains a radical new critique of the operations of slavery within the work of Austen and Charlotte Brontë.

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480

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OUP Oxford

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0191541931

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9780191541933

The Evil That Men Do

Faith, Injustice and the Church

By: Marcus Paul

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The Evil That Men Do

Faith, Injustice and the Church

By: Marcus Paul

This book considers the Church's past failings and fills a gap in our understanding of what it means to be a Christian in the twenty-first century.

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Sacristy Press

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1908381973

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9781908381972

Linguistics and the Formal Sciences

The Origins of Generative Grammar

By: Marcus Tomalin

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The Origins of Generative Grammar

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Cambridge University Press

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0521854814

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9780521854818

And He Knew Our Language

Missionary Linguistics on the Pacific Northwest Coast

By: Marcus Tomalin

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Missionary Linguistics on the Pacific Northwest Coast

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9027246076

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Romantic Ecocriticism

Origins and Legacies

By: Dewey W. Hall

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Romantic Ecocriticism

Origins and Legacies

By: Dewey W. Hall

Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies is unique due to its rare assemblage of essays, which has not appeared within an edited collection before. Romantic Ecocriticism is distinct because the essays in the collection develop transnational and transhistorical approaches to the proto-ecological early environmental aspects in British and American Romanticism. First, the edition’s transnational approach is evident through transatlantic connections such as, but are not limited to, comparisons among the following writers: William Wordsworth, William Howitt, and Henry D. Thoreau; John Clare and Aldo Leopold; Charles Darwin and Ralph W. Emerson. Second, the transhistorical approach of RomanticEcocriticism is evident in connections among the following writers: William Wordsworth and Emily Bronte; Thomas Malthus and George Gordon Byron; James Hutton and Percy Shelley; Erasmus Darwin and Charlotte Smith; Gilbert White and Dorothy Wordsworth among others. Thus, Romantic Ecocriticism offers a dynamic collection of essays dedicated to links between scientists and literary figures interested in natural history.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498518028

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9781498518024

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“And he knew our language”

“And he knew our language”

Telling the Time in British Literature, 1675-1830

Telling the Time in British Literature, 1675-1830

The French Language and British Literature, 1756-1830

The French Language and British Literature, 1756-1830

Linguistics and the Formal Sciences

Linguistics and the Formal Sciences

Interpreted Languages and Compositionality

Interpreted Languages and Compositionality

The Beatles and Sixties Britain

The Beatles and Sixties Britain

Mastery and Depth in Primary Mathematics

Mastery and Depth in Primary Mathematics

Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography

Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography

The Evil That Men Do

The Evil That Men Do

Linguistics and the Formal Sciences

Linguistics and the Formal Sciences

And He Knew Our Language

And He Knew Our Language

Romantic Ecocriticism

Romantic Ecocriticism

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