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Whenever Javanese scholars are asked to name the high points of their literature, almost certainly they will include the Wédhatama. This is because it is considered to contain the ‘highest wisdom’ appropriately cast in a mould of fine poetic language. The challenge of translation has already ...
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Discusses how the speed of technology can cause business writers to shortcut the thinking, planning, and editing needed for good writing.
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Theoretical Morphology provides a comprehensive and coherent treatment of contemporary morphological research and theory. A variety of theoretical paradigms are reviewed and illustrated by specific topics of debate within the field. The twenty-one chapters are divided into sections on ...
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Places the reflexive character of language at the centre both of its empirical study and of its theoretical explanation. This book discusses the consequences of neglecting the reflexive character for the technical concepts and methods which are used in analysing different types of ...
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The book proposes a new approach to the reconstruction of the Tibetan linguistic history. Based on all available dialectal data, Literary and Old Tibetan forms, gives the main lines according to which Old Tibetan changed to the present spoken varieties.
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A revised edition of Joh. Warneck's Toba-Bataksch–Deutsches Wörterbuch (Landsdrukkerij, Batavia, 1906). The additions and corrections in this edition are by the late J. Winkler, who, like the author, worked in Sumatra for the Rheinischen Missionsgesellschaft. It also includes a 42 page register ...
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Debates about the nature of literacy and literacy practices have been conducted extensively over the years. Here, the author underlines the ideological character of such debates showing their deep historical roots. She also undertakes a comparison with other major English-speaking countries, ...