Aspects of argument structure acquisition in Inuktitut / / Shanley Allen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782456703321
• Autore: Allen Shanley
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam : ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 1996
• ISBN: 1-282-16335-3; 9786612163357; 90-272-9915-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (269 pages)
• Collana: Language Acquisition and Language Disorders
• Disciplina: 497/.1
• Soggetti: Dialect; Inuktitut language - Acquisition; Inuktitut language - Syntax
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: ASPECTS OF ARGUMENT STRUCTURE ACQUISITION IN INUKTITUT; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1995 Book Award; Tables; Abbreviations; Chapter 1. Background and Overview; Chapter 2. Methodology; Chapter 3. Acquisition of passives; Chapter 4. Acquisition of causatives; Chapter 5. Acquisition of noun incorporation; Chapter 6. Conclusion; References; Appendix A. Map indicating location of Quaqtaq; Appendix B. List of (meta)transcription notations; Appendix C. List of codes for verbal utterances; Appendix D. Sample of fully coded transcript; Index of Languages; Index of Authors; Index of Subjects; The Series LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LANGUAGE DISORDERS
• Sommario/riassunto: This book discusses the first language acquisition of three morphosyntactic mechanisms of transitivity alternation in arctic Quebec Inuktitut. Data derive from naturalistic longitudinal spontaneous speech samples collected over a nine-month period from four Inuit children. Both basic and advanced forms of passive structures are shown to be used productively by Inuktitut-speaking children at an early age relative to English-speaking children, but consistent in age with speakers of non-Indo-European languages reported on in the ; literature.

Working in China : ethnographies of labor and workplace transformation / / edited by Ching Kwan Lee

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910765815303321
• Autore: Lee Ching Kwan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: 2006; London : , : Routledge, , 2017; ©2007
• ISBN: 9786610622290; 9781135988906; 1135988900; 9781280622298; 1280622296; 9780203966983; 0203966988
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Collana: Asia's transformations
• Classificazione: POL013000POL023000SOC008000
• Disciplina: 331.0951
• Soggetti: Labor supply - China; Employees - China; China Economic conditions 1949-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Working in China; Copyright Page; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; 1. Mapping the terrain of Chinese labor ethnography: Ching Kwan Lee; Part I: Remaking class and community; 2. The unmaking of the Chinese working class in the northeastern rustbelt: Ching Kwan Lee; 3. "Social positions": neighborhood transitions after danwei: Siân Victoria Liu; 4. Rural "guerrilla" workers and home renovation in urban China: Lei Guang; 5. A tale of two sales floors: changing service-work regimes in China: Amy Hanser; Part II: Gendering service work; 6. Virtual personalism in Beijing: learning deference and femininity at a global luxury hotel: Eileen M. Otis7. From peasant women to bar hostesses: An ethnography of China's karaoke sex industry: Tiantian Zheng; 8. Rurality and labor process autonomy: the waged labor of domestic service: Yan Hairong; Part III: New professions and knowledge workers; 9. The practice of law as an obstacle to justice: Chinese lawyers at work: Ethan Michelson; 10. Outsourcing as a way of life?: Knowledge transfer in the Yangtze Delta: Andrew Ross; 11. Nationalism, theft, and management strategies in the information industry of mainland China: Dimitri Kessler12. Honing the desired attitude: Ideological work on insurance sales agents: Cheris Shun-Ching Chan; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: After a quarter of a century of market reform, China has become the workshop of the world and the leading growth engine of the global economy. Its immense labour force accounts for some twenty-nine per cent of the world's total labour pool but all too little is known about Chinese labour beyond the image of workers toiling under appalling sweatshop conditions for extremely low wages. Working in China introduces the lived experiences of labour in a wide range of occupations and work settings. The chapters of this book cover professional employees such as engineers and lawyers