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Orientation Systems of the North Pacific Rim

By: Michael Fortescue,Michael D. Fortescue

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Orientation Systems of the North Pacific Rim

By: Michael Fortescue,Michael D. Fortescue

Orientation Systems of the North Pacific Rim is an extension of the author's earlier volume Eskimo Orientation Systems (also published in the series Monographs on Greenland - Meddelelser om Gronland, Man & Society, 1988). This time it covers all the contiguous languages ? and cultures ? across the northern Pacific rim from Vancouver Island in Canada to Hokkaido in northern Japan, plus the adjacent Arctic coasts of Alaska and Chukotka. These form a testing ground for recent theories concerning the nature and classification of orientation systems and their shared ?frames of reference?, in particular the many varieties of ?landmark? systems typifying the Arctic and sub-Arctic. Despite the wide variety of languages spoken here (all of them endangered), there is much in common as regards their overlapping geographical settings and the ways in which terms for orientation within the microcosm (the house) and within the macrocosm (the surrounding environment) mesh throughout the region. This is illustrated with numerous maps and diagrams, from both coastal and inland sites. Attention is paid to ambiguities and anomalies within the systems revealed by the data, as these may be clues to pre-historic movements of the populations concerned ? from a riverine setting to the coast, from the coast to inland, or more complex successive displacements. Cultural factors over and beyond environmental determinism are discussed within this broad context.

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Museum Tusculanum Press

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8763535688

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9788763535687

Pattern and Process

A Whiteheadian Perspective on Linguistics

By: Michael D. Fortescue

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Pattern and Process

A Whiteheadian Perspective on Linguistics

By: Michael D. Fortescue

The purpose of this book is to illustrate the relevance to linguistics today of Whitehead's philosophy of organism. Although largely ignored by linguists, Whitehead has in fact much to say as regards the cognitive processes underpinning language pattern. His theory of symbolism conceives of language as the 'systematization of expression', and relates meaning to feeling (in the broadest sense). The Whiteheadian perspective allows a synthesis of the psychological and the social approaches to language that does not fall into one or another fashionable form of reductionism. The volume represents a first application of Whitehead's thinking to a broad range of linguistic phenomena, ranging from speech act theory to the production and comprehension of texts, from language acquisition to historical change and the evolution of language. It is argued that Whitehead's holistic philosophy is uniquely suited to the view of language as an emergent phenomenon regardless of whether one's approach to cognition is via the 'nativist' or the 'functionalist' route.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027223580

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A Discourse Production Model for "twenty Questions"

By: Michael D. Fortescue

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A Discourse Production Model for "twenty Questions"

By: Michael D. Fortescue

This essay is an attempt to build up a plausible model of the cognitive processes behind the behavior exhibited by speaker-hearers in a specific discourse situation.

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145

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027225052

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The Domain of Language

By: Michael D. Fortescue

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The Domain of Language

By: Michael D. Fortescue

This book is intended as counter-evidence to the perception of Linguistics as the domain of dusty schoolroom grammar, where proponents of one theoretical orientation or the other spend their brief breaks in the playground bashing the others over the head with their favorite abstractions. The discipline may appear to outsiders as fragmented and, worse still, lacking in relevance to the real world outside its gates. The purpose is to show that Linguistics, in all its varied branches, can be entertaining as well as thought-provoking, and that its domain is indeed a coherent one despite all the internecine squabbling. The subject is introduced in an unconventional way as a kind of fable with an historical moral that professional linguists, as well as students, should enjoy as a commentary on the state of the discipline today.

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400

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Museum Tusculanum Press

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8772897066

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Eskimo Orientation Systems

By: Michael D. Fortescue

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Eskimo Orientation Systems

By: Michael D. Fortescue

CONTENTS: Introduction; Basic Parameters & Regions; Specific Regions; Synthesis & Diachronic Perspectives; Appendices; References.

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8763511894

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Comparative Chukotko-Kamchatkan Dictionary

By: Michael D. Fortescue

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Comparative Chukotko-Kamchatkan Dictionary

By: Michael D. Fortescue

This volume is the first comprehensive comparative dictionary to cover the whole of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan family. The genealogical status of this family (whether from a common source or due to convergence) has long been controversial, but its coherence as a family can now be taken as proven. Its geographical position between Siberia and northernmost America renders it crucial in any attempt to relate the languages and peoples of these large linguistic regions. The dictionary consists of cognate sets arranged alphabetically according to reconstructed proto-forms and covers all published lexical sources for the languages concerned (plus a good deal of unpublished material). The criterion for setting up Proto-Chukotian sets is the existence of clear cognates in at least two of the four languages: Chukchi, Koryak, Alutor, and (now extinct) Kerek, and for Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan sets cognates in at least one of these plus Itelmen. Internal loans between the two branches of the family are indicated - this is particularly important in the case of the many loans from Koryak to modern western Itelmen. Proto-Itelmen sets without clear cognates in Chukotian are listed separately, without reconstructions. The data is presented in a reader-friendly format, with each set divided into separate lines for the individual languages concerned and with a common orthography for all reliable modern forms (given as full word stems, not just 'roots'). The introduction contains information on the distribution of the individual languages and dialects and all sound correspondences relating them, plus a sketch of what is known of their (pre)historical background. Inflections and derivational affixes are treated in separate sections, and Chukchi and English proto-form indexes allows multiple routes of access to the data. A full reference list of sources is included.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110184176

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Book's by Michael D. Fortescue

Orientation Systems of the North Pacific Rim

Orientation Systems of the North Pacific Rim

Pattern and Process

Pattern and Process

A Discourse Production Model for "twenty Questions"

A Discourse Production Model for "twenty Questions"

The Domain of Language

The Domain of Language

Eskimo Orientation Systems

Eskimo Orientation Systems

Comparative Chukotko-Kamchatkan Dictionary

Comparative Chukotko-Kamchatkan Dictionary

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