Rational Meaning - A New Foundation for the Definition of Words and Supplementary Essays by Laura Jackson; Schuyler B. Jackson

$120.00 NZD

Category: Linguistics | Reading Level: very good

Existing only in manuscript since the 1940s but enjoying an underground reputation among friends and advocates, this primary document by one of the most original and influential of American poets and thinkers is now being published as Rational Meaning, Laura (Riding) Jackson's testament of the necessit y of living for truth. Begun as a dictionary and thesaurus in the 1930s, the work developed into a fundamental reevaluation of language itself. Riding, in close collaboration with her husband, continued this monumental project over the succeeding decades, completing it after his death in 1968. At the core of Rational Meaning, which aims to restore the truth of language by arguing that meaning inheres in words, stands the idea that a total renovation of the knowledge of language is needed, not to develop mere verbal sophistication and respectability but fundamentally to reinvigorate the intellectual processes of consciousness. The book reveals the disastrous extent to which language has been "unlearned" and shows how it may be learned again. Rational Meaning will be essential reading, not only for students of literature but for radical-minded linguists and lexicographers unhappy with the orthodoxies current in their disciplines. ...Show more

An Old English Grammar by Randolph Quirk; C L Wrenn

$8.00 NZD

Category: Reference | Reading Level: good

Place Name Types and Cultural Sequence in Polynesia - report of a simple statisitical study of an investigation still in progress by Aarne A Koskinen

$40.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Series: Annals of The Finnish Society for Missiology and Ecumenics XXIV | Reading Level: very good

Nukuoro Lexicon by Vern Carroll; Tobias Soulik

$135.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Series: PALI Language Texts - Polynesia | Reading Level: very good

Spoken Chamorro by Donald M. Topping

$35.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Series: PALI Language Texts--Micronesia | Reading Level: near fine

Spoken Chamorro is designed to enable the student to learn to speak and understand the Chamorro language the way native speakers do in their everyday activities. This second edition has been revised to incorporate the spelling conventions adopted by the Marianas Orthography Committee in January 1971, an d suggestions made by teachers who have used the text in the classroom. The basic material in the text remains unchanged, the work of the author and Pedro M. Ogo, principal of Rota Elementary and High School, who is a native speaker of the language. As much as possible, the lessons exclude regionalisms, presenting the language as it is heard generally on Guam, Saipan, Rota, and elsewhere throughout the Mariana Islands. ...Show more

Grammaire et Dictionnaire de la Langue des Iles Marquises - Francais-Marquises by Rene Ildefonse Dordillon

$120.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Series: Travaux et Memoires de l'Institut d'Ethnologie XVII | Reading Level: good-very good

Proto- Polynesian Word List I by D S Walsh; Bruce Biggs

$85.00 NZD

Category: Maori | Reading Level: very good

New Zealand English by Allan Bell (ed.); Koenraad Kuiper (ed.)

$20.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

New Zealand English is a significant landmark in our knowledge of this country's language. It offers major theoretical contributions and new approaches to the wider study of language variation, change and development. New Zealand's distinctive variety of the English language, which is closely bound u p with the country's sense of national identity, has become one of the most researched forms of English world-wide. This book presents a state-of-the-art account of what is known about New Zealand English. It brings together in one volume findings from a decade of investigation of this post-colonial dialect. The contributors include both leading scholars and younger researchers. It is authoritative in its range, presenting a synopsis of past research and new research in many areas. It covers the vocabulary, pronunciation, intonation and syntax of New Zealand English; addresses questions of its origins and development; considers how the variety is changing and becoming more different from other Englishes; and investigates the social dimensions, including ethnic variation. The book comes with a comprehensive up-to-date bibliography. ...Show more

Speak by Tore Janson

$10.00 NZD

Category: History | Reading Level: very good

Charts the rise of some languages and the fall of others, explaining why some survive and others die. This book shows how languages change their meaning, shape, and sounds, and how the history of languages is intimately linked to the history of people.

Linguistics in Oceania - Current Trends in Linguistics, Volume 8 in 2 volumes by Thomas Sebeok (ed.)

$120.00 NZD

Category: Linguistics | Reading Level: very good

Words On Words - Quotations about Language and Languages by David Crystal

$25.00 NZD

Category: Reference | Reading Level: very good

A thematically structured dictionary of quotations relating to all aspects of language. Ranging from Wilde to Wordsworth and James Bond to Winnie-the-Pooh, 65 sections bring together the wise, witty and whimsical insights from over the years.

Pragmatics by Yan Huang

$25.00 NZD

Category: Linguistics | Series: Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics Ser. | Reading Level: very good

Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics - the study of language in use - has been fully revised and updated in this second edition. It includes a brand new chapter on reference, a major topic in both linguistics and the philosophy of language. Chapters have also been updated to include new material on upward and downward entailment, current debates about conversational implicature, impoliteness, emotional deixis, contextualism versus semantic minimalism,and the elimination of binding conditions.The book draws on data from English and a wide range of the world's languages, and shows how pragmatics is related to the study of semantics, syntax, and sociolinguistics and to such fields as the philosophy of language, linguistic anthropology, and artificial intelligence. Professor Huang includes exercises and essay topics at the end of each chapter, and offers guidance and suggested solutions at the end of the volume. Written by one of the leading scholars in the field, this new edition willcontinue to be an ideal textbook for students of linguistics, and a valuable resource for scholars and students of language in philosophy, psychology, anthropology, and computer science. ...Show more