1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910954198703321

Titolo

Studies in the history of the English language : a millennial perspective / / edited by Donka Minkova, Robert Stockwell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002

ISBN

9786612193729

9781282193727

1282193724

9783111809380

3111809382

9783110197143

3110197146

Edizione

[Reprint 2011]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (504 p.)

Collana

Topics in English linguistics ; ; 39

Classificazione

HE 130

Altri autori (Persone)

MinkovaDonka <1944->

StockwellRobert P

Disciplina

420/.9

Soggetti

English language - History

English language - Grammar, Historical

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Millennial perspectives -- From etymology to historical pragmatics -- Mixed-language texts as data and evidence in English historical linguistics -- Dialectology and the history of the English language -- Origin unknown -- Issues for a new history of English prosody -- Chaucer: Folk poet or littérateur? -- A rejoinder to Youmans and Li -- Phonology and metrics -- On the development of English r -- Vowel variation in English rhyme -- Lexical diffusion and competing analyses of sound change -- Dating criteria for Old English poems -- How much shifting actually occurred in the historical English vowel shift? -- Restoration of /a/ revisited -- Morphosyntax/Semantics -- Pragmatic uses of SHALL future constructions in Early Modern English -- Explaining the creation of reflexive pronouns in English -- Word order in Old English prose and poetry: The position of finite verb and adverbs -- The "have" perfect in Old English: How close was it to the Modern English perfect? --



Reporting direct speech in Early Modern slander depositions -- The emergence of the verb-verb compound in twentieth century English and twentieth century linguistics -- Envoy -- A thousand years of the history of English -- Back matter

Sommario/riassunto

The 19 papers in this volume are a selection from a UCLA conference intended to take stock of the state of the field at the beginning of the new millennium and to stimulate research in English Historical Linguistics. The authors are predominantly U.S. scholars. The fields represented include morphosyntax and semantics, grammaticalization, discourse analysis, dialectology, lexicography, the diachronic study of code-switching, phonology and metrics.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910955688803321

Titolo

Neoliberalism and global cinema : capital, culture, and Marxist critique / / edited by Jyotsna Kapur and Keith B. Wagner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-70147-8

1-283-43499-7

9786613434999

1-136-70148-6

0-203-81363-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 356 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Routledge advances in film studies ; ; 9

Altri autori (Persone)

KapurJyotsna

WagnerKeith B. <1978->

Disciplina

791.43/6581

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Political aspects

Motion pictures - Social aspects

Motion pictures - Economic aspects

Motion pictures and globalization

Culture in motion pictures

Culture au cinéma

Cinéma et mondialisation

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Hollywood and global dominance. "For a better deal, harass your governor!" : neoliberalism and Hollywood / Toby Miller and Richard Maxwell -- A legacy of neoliberalism : patterns in media conglomeration / Eileen R. Meehan -- 21st century neoliberal man / Deborah Tudor -- Latin America. Cuban cinema : a case of accelerated underdevelopment / Michael Chanan -- Politics and privatization in Peruvian cinema : Grupo Chaski's aesthetics of survival / Sophia A. McClennen -- Form, politics and culture : a case study of the take, the revolution will not be televised and listen to Venezuela / Mike Wayne & Deirdre O'Neill -- Asia. Market socialism and its discontent : Jia Zhangke's cinematic narrative of China's transition in the age of global capital / Xudong Zhang -- "Leitmotif" : state, market, and postsocialist film industry under neoliberal globalization / Ying Xiao -- From exploitation to playful exploits : the rise of collectives and the redefinition of labor, life, and representation in neoliberal Japan / Sharon Hayashi -- The underdevelopment of development  : neoliberalism and the crisis of bourgeois individualism / Jyotsna Kapur -- Fragments of labor : neoliberal attitudes and architectures in contemporary South Korean cinema / Keith B. Wagner -- Mainlandization and neoliberalism with post-colonial and Chinese characteristics : challenges for the Hong Kong film industry / Mirana M. Szeto and Yun-chung Chen -- Neoliberalism and authoritarianism in Singaporean cinema : a case study of Perth  / Jenna Ng -- Gambling on life and death : neoliberal rationality and the films of Jeffrey Jeturian, Bliss Cua Lim -- Africa and Europe. Nollywood in Lagos, Lagos in Nollywood films / Jonathan Haynes -- French cinema : counter-model, cultural exception, resistances / Martin O'Shaughnessy.

Sommario/riassunto

In cinema studies today, rarely do we find a direct investigation into the culture of capitalism and how it has been refracted and fabricated in global cinema production under neoliberalism. However, the current economic crisis and the subsequent Wall Street bailout in 2008 have brought about a worldwide skepticism regarding the last four decades of economic restructuring and the culture that has accompanied it. In this edited volume, an international ensemble of scholars looks at neoliberalism, both as culture and political economy, in the various cinemas of the world. In essays encompassing