Concise history of the language sciences : from the Sumerians to the cognitivists / / edited by E. F. K. Koerner and R. E. Asher

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786629703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, England : , : Pergamon, , 1995; ©1995
• ISBN: 1-4832-9754-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (510 p.)
• Disciplina: 410.9; 410/.9
• Soggetti: Historical linguistics; Linguistics - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Concise History of the Language Sciences: From the Sumerians to the Cognitivists; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Editors' Foreword; SECTION I: General; Chapter 1. History of Linguistics: The Field; Bibliography; Chapter 2. Historiography of Linguistics; 1. Approaches to Linguistic Historiography; 2. Developing Principles for Linguistic Historiography; 3. Conclusion: Tasks for the Historiography of Linguistics; Bibliography; SECTION II: Antiquity to Middle Ages- the Near East; Chapter 3. Babylonian Grammatical Texts; 1. Cuneiform Scholarship: The List as Data/Discourse Structure2. Grammar as Word-List; 3. Grammar as Word-Constituent-List; Bibliography; Chapter 4. Hebrew Linguistic Tradition; 1. A Late Beginning and a Quick Development; 2. The Development of Hebrew Linguistics; 3. Selected Topics; Bibliography; Chapter 5. Arabic Linguistic Tradition; 1. The Beginnings of Arabic Grammar; 2. The Foundation of Arabic Grammar; 3. Transmitted Data; 4. Analogy (Qiyās); 5. The Organization of Arabic Grammar; 6. Lexicography; 7. Conclusion; Bibliography; SECTION III: Antiquity - the Far East; Chapter 6. Chinese Linguistic Tradition1. Metalinguistic Speculation; 2. Lexicography; 3. Dialect Geography; 4. Phonological Studies; 5. Twentieth-century Developments; Bibliography; Chapter 7. Linguistic ; Thought in Japan; 1. Linguistic Tradition; 2. The Early and Medieval Period; 3. The Early Modern Period; 4. The Modern Period; Bibliography; Chapter 8. History of East Asian Phonetics; 1. China; 2. Korea; 3. Japan; Bibliography; SECTION IV: Antiquity - India; Chapter 9. Päninian Linguistics; 1. Pacini's Grammar; 2. The Indian Grammatical Tradition; 3. The Method of Grammatical Analysis; 4. Morphology/Syntax5. Phonology and Phonetics; 6. Outlook; Bibliography; Chapter 10. Indian Theories of Meaning; 1. Early Efforts; 2. The Grammatical Tradition; 3. Philosophical Theories of Meaning; Bibliography; Chapter 11. Ancient Indian Phonetics; 1. Ancient Indian Phonetics; 2. Origins of Sanskrit Phonetics; 3. Emergence of Formal Phonetic Analysis; 4. Formation of the Sanskrit Alphabet; 5. Descriptive Techniques and Terminology; 6. Phonetics and Phonology in Ancient India; Bibliography; Chapter 12. Tamil Linguistic Tradition; Bibliography; SECTION V: Antiquity - Europe; Chapter 13. Classical Linguistics: An Overview1. Historiographical Problems; 2. From the Origins to Plato and Aristotle; 3. Stoic and Alexandrian Grammar; 4. Linguistic Theory and Practice in Rome: Varro; 5. Early Roman Imperial Grammar and the Alexandrian Renaissance; 6. The Roman Ars grammatica; 7. Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 14. Plato and His Predecessors; 1. The Beginnings; 2. The Sophists; 3. Plato; Bibliography; Chapter 15. Aristotle and the Stoics on Language; 1. Aristotle; 2. The Stoics; Bibliography; Chapter 16. Dionysius Thrax, the TechnaU and Sextus Empiricus; 1 The Technai; 2. Dionysius Thrax
• Sommario/riassunto: This book presents in a single volume a comprehensive history of the language sciences, from ancient times through to the twentieth century. While there has been a concentration on those traditions that have the greatest international relevance, a particular effort has been made to go beyond traditional Eurocentric accounts, and to cover a broad geographical spread. For the twentieth century a section has been devoted to the various trends, schools, and theoretical framework developed in Europe, North America and Australasia over the past seventy years. There has also been a concentration on t

Postcolonial Manchester : diaspora space and the devolution of literary culture / / Lynne Pearce, Corinne Fowler and Robert Crawshaw

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910797716303321
• Autore: Pearce Lynne
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015; ©2013
• ISBN: 1-5261-0187-4; 1-5261-0188-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s)
• Disciplina: 820.9942733
• Soggetti: English literature - England - Manchester - Minority authors; Immigrants' writings, English - England - Manchester - History and criticism; Literature; Literary Studies: Post-Colonial Literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Ireland; Manchester (England) Literatures
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Manchester and the devolution of British literary culture / Corinne Fowler and Lynne Pearce -- Manchester: the postcolonial city / Lynne Pearce -- Publishing Manchester's black and Asian writers / Corinne Fowler -- Manchester's crime fiction: the mystery of the city's smoking gun / Lynne Pearce -- Collective resistance: Manchester's mixed-genre anthologies and short-story collections / Lynne Pearce -- 'Rebels without applause': Manchester's poetry in performance (1960s to the present) / Corinne Fowler -- Giving voice: the writer's perspective / Robert Crawshaw -- Afterword / Corinne Fowler and Lynne Pearce.
• Sommario/riassunto: Postcolonial Manchester offers a radical new perspective on Britain's devolved literary cultures by focusing on Manchester's vibrant, multicultural literary scene. Referencing Avtar Brah's concept of 'diaspora space', the authors argue that Manchester is, and always has ; been, a quintessentially migrant city to which workers of all nationalities and cultures have been drawn since its origins in the cotton trade and the expansion of the British Empire. This colonial legacy - and the inequalities upon which it turns - is a recurrent motif in the texts and poetry performances of the contemporary Mancunian writers featured here, many of them members of the city's long-established African, African-Caribbean, Asian, Chinese, Irish and Jewish diasporic communities. By turning the spotlight on Manchester's rich, yet under-represented, literary tradition in this way, Postcolonial Manchester also argues for the devolution of the canon of English Literature and, in particular, recognition for contemporary black and Asian literary culture outside of London.; "Postcolonial Manchester offers a radical new perspective on Britain's devolved literary cultures by focusing on Manchester's vibrant, multicultural literary scene. Referencing Avtar Brah's concept of 'diaspora space', the authors argue that Manchester is, and always has been, a quintessentially migrant city to which workers of all nationalities and cultures have been drawn since its origins in the cotton trade and the expansion of the British Empire. This colonial legacy - and the inequalities upon which it turns - is a recurrent motif in the texts and poetry performances of the contemporary Mancunian writers featured here, many of them members of the city's long-established African, African-Caribbean, Asian, Chinese, Irish and Jewish diasporic communities. By turning the spotlight on Manchester's rich, yet under-represented, literary tradition in this way, Postcolonial Manchester also argues for the devolution of the canon of English Literature and, in particular, recognition for contemporary black and Asian literary culture outside of London. The book is organised around those predominant literary modes that have dominated Manchester's literary scene over the past forty years: namely, crime fiction, mixed-genre anthologies and 'poetry in performance'. In addition, it seeks to capture Manchester's distinctive postcolonial identity through a wide-ranging exploration of its history, literature and popular culture, while exploring the challenges involved in publishing Manchester's black and Asian writers. Throughout the volume, the discussion is concerned with the production and consumption of the texts as well as their subject matter. The book concludes by detailing in-depth interviews with several of the writers featured elsewhere in the volume. This book will be of interest to students and scholars working in the fields of contemporary literary and postcolonial studies, as well as general readers with an interest in Manchester." --Back cover.