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<BR>> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:45:09 -0400<BR>> From: linguist@LINGUISTLIST.ORG<BR>> Subject: 21.3264, Books: Typology/Sociolinguistics: Aikhenvald<BR>> To: LINGUIST@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG<BR>> <BR>> LINGUIST List: Vol-21-3264. Fri Aug 13 2010. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.<BR>> <BR>> Subject: 21.3264, Books: Typology/Sociolinguistics: Aikhenvald<BR>> <BR>> Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U <aristar@linguistlist.org><BR>> Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U <hdry@linguistlist.org><BR>> <BR>> Reviews: Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin-Madison <BR>> Eric Raimy, U of Wisconsin-Madison <BR>> Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison <BR>> Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison <BR>> <reviews@linguistlist.org> <BR>> <BR>> Homepage: http://linguistlist.org/<BR>> <BR>> The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, <BR>> and donations from subscribers and publishers.<BR>> <BR>> Editor for this issue: Maria Moreno-Rollins <maria@linguistlist.org><BR>> ================================================================ <BR>> <BR>> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers<BR>> are available at the end of this issue. <BR>> <BR>> ===========================Directory============================== <BR>> <BR>> 1)<BR>> Date: 13-Aug-2010<BR>> From: Jane Hamilton < jane.hamilton@oup.com ><BR>> Subject: Imperatives and Commands: Aikhenvald<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> -------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- <BR>> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:36:16<BR>> From: Jane Hamilton [jane.hamilton@oup.com]<BR>> Subject: Imperatives and Commands: Aikhenvald<BR>> <BR>> E-mail this message to a friend:<BR>> http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=21-3264.html&submissionid=2644594&topicid=2&msgnumber=1<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Title: Imperatives and Commands <BR>> Series Title: Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory <BR>> <BR>> Publication Year: 2010 <BR>> Publisher: Oxford University Press<BR>> http://www.oup.com/us<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Book URL: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199207909.do <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Author: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald<BR>> <BR>> Hardback: ISBN: 9780199207909 Pages: 520 Price: U.K. £ 65.00<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Abstract:<BR>> <BR>> This is the first cross-linguistic study of imperatives, and commands of<BR>> other kinds, across the world's languages. It makes a significant and<BR>> original contribution to the understanding of their morphological,<BR>> syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic characteristics. The author discusses<BR>> the role imperatives and commands play in human cognition and how they are<BR>> deployed in different cultures, and in doing so offers fresh insights on<BR>> patterns of human interaction and communication.<BR>> <BR>> Alexandra Aikhenvald examines the ways of framing commands, or command<BR>> strategies, in languages that do not have special imperative forms. She<BR>> analyses the grammatical and semantic properties of positive and negative<BR>> imperatives and shows how these correlate with categories such as tense,<BR>> information source, and politeness. She looks at the relation of command<BR>> pragmatics to cultural practices, assessing, for example, the basis for<BR>> Margaret Mead's assumption that the harsher the people the more frequently<BR>> they use imperatives. Professor Aikhenvald covers a wide range of language<BR>> families, including many relatively neglected examples from North America,<BR>> Amazonia, and New Guinea. The book is accompanied by illustrations of some<BR>> conventional command signs.<BR>> <BR>> Written and presented with the author's characteristic clarity, this book<BR>> will be welcomed by linguists of all theoretical persuasions. It will<BR>> appeal to social and cultural anthropologists and cognitive and behavioural<BR>> scientists. <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics<BR>> Typology<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Written In: English (eng)<BR>> <BR>> See this book announcement on our website: <BR>> http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=49926<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> MAJOR SUPPORTERS<BR>> <BR>> Brill <BR>> http://www.brill.nl <BR>> <BR>> Cambridge Scholars Publishing <BR>> http://www.c-s-p.org <BR>> <BR>> Cambridge University Press <BR>> http://us.cambridge.org <BR>> <BR>> Cascadilla Press <BR>> http://www.cascadilla.com/ <BR>> <BR>> Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd <BR>> http://www.continuumbooks.com <BR>> <BR>> De Gruyter Mouton <BR>> http://www.degruyter.com/mouton <BR>> <BR>> Edinburgh University Press <BR>> http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ <BR>> <BR>> Elsevier Ltd <BR>> http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics <BR>> <BR>> Emerald Group Publishing Limited <BR>> http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ <BR>> <BR>> Equinox Publishing Ltd <BR>> http://www.equinoxpub.com/ <BR>> <BR>> European Language Resources Association - ELRA <BR>> http://www.elra.info. <BR>> <BR>> Georgetown University Press <BR>> http://www.press.georgetown.edu <BR>> <BR>> John Benjamins <BR>> http://www.benjamins.com/ <BR>> <BR>> Lincom GmbH <BR>> http://www.lincom.eu <BR>> <BR>> MIT Press <BR>> http://mitpress.mit.edu/ <BR>> <BR>> Morgan & Claypool Publishers <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Multilingual Matters <BR>> http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ <BR>> <BR>> Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG <BR>> http://www.narr.de/ <BR>> <BR>> Oxford University Press <BR>> http://www.oup.com/us <BR>> <BR>> Palgrave Macmillan <BR>> http://www.palgrave.com <BR>> <BR>> Peter Lang AG <BR>> http://www.peterlang.com <BR>> <BR>> Rodopi <BR>> http://www.rodopi.nl/ <BR>> <BR>> Routledge (Taylor and Francis) <BR>> http://www.routledge.com/ <BR>> <BR>> Springer <BR>> http://www.springer.com <BR>> <BR>> University of Toronto Press <BR>> http://www.utpjournals.com/ <BR>> <BR>> Wiley-Blackwell <BR>> http://www.wiley.com <BR>> <BR>> OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS <BR>> <BR>> Association of Editors of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics<BR>> http://www.fl.ul.pt/revistas/JPL/JPLweb.htm <BR>> <BR>> Graduate Linguistic Students' Association, Umass<BR>> http://glsa.hypermart.net/ <BR>> <BR>> International Pragmatics Assoc.<BR>> http://www.ipra.be <BR>> <BR>> Langues et Linguistique<BR>> http://y.ennaji.free.fr/fr/ <BR>> <BR>> Linguistic Association of Finland<BR>> http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ <BR>> <BR>> Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT<BR>> http://www.lotpublications.nl/ <BR>> <BR>> Pacific Linguistics<BR>> http://pacling.anu.edu.au/ <BR>> <BR>> SIL International<BR>> http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp <BR>> <BR>> St. Jerome Publishing Ltd<BR>> http://www.stjerome.co.uk <BR>> <BR>> Utrecht institute of Linguistics<BR>> http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/ <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> -----------------------------------------------------------<BR>> LINGUIST List: Vol-21-3264 <BR>> <BR>> <BR> </body>
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