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  • What Is Truth For?

    by N.J. Enfield ...
    Series series What Is It For?
    Truth is for striving at, for the sake of good collective action.With new media technologies, it seems that falsehoods can spread faster and further than ever. And with new norms of public discourse, while being caught in a lie would once end a politician’s career, today it is shrugged off, which has profound implications for democracy. Does the truth no longer matter?This optimist’s guide to ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Consequences of Language

    From Primary to Enhanced Intersubjectivity

    by N. J. Enfield, Jack Sidnell ...
    What is it about humans that makes language possible, and what is it about language that makes us human?If you are reading this, you have done something that only our species has evolved to do. You have acquired a natural language. This book asks, How has this changed us?Where scholars have long wondered what it is about humans that makes language possible, N. J. Enfield and Jack Sidnell ask ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Language vs. Reality

    Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists

    by N.J. Enfield ...
    A fascinating examination of how we are both played by language and made by language: the science underlying the bugs and features of humankind’s greatest invention.Language is said to be humankind’s greatest accomplishment. But what is language actually good for? It performs poorly at representing reality. It is a constant source of distraction, misdirection, and overshadowing. In fact, N. J. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Concept of Action

    by N. J. Enfield, Jack Sidnell ...
    Series series New Departures in Anthropology
    When people do things with words, how do we know what they are doing? Many scholars have assumed a category of things called actions: 'requests', 'proposals', 'complaints', 'excuses'. The idea is both convenient and intuitive, but as this book argues, it is a spurious concept of action. In interaction, a person's primary task is to decide how to respond, not to label what someone just did. The ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • How We Talk

    The Inner Workings of Conversation

    by N. J. Enfield ...
    An expert guide to how conversation works, from how we know when to speak to why huh is a universal wordWe all had teachers who scolded us over the use of um, uh-huh, oh, like, and mm-hmm. But as linguist N. J. Enfield reveals in How We Talk, these "bad words" are fundamental to language.Whether we are speaking with the clerk at the store, our boss, or our spouse, language is dependent on things ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Linguistic Epidemiology

    Semantics and Grammar of Language Contact in Mainland Southeast Asia

    by N.J. Enfield ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics
    This important new study examines in detail a semantic-pragmatic pattern surrounding the basic verb 'acquire' in nearly 30 Southeast Asian languages, concentrating on Lao, Vietnamese, Khmer, Kmhmu, Hmong, and varieties of Chinese. The book makes a significant contribution to empirical work on semantic and grammatical change in a linguistic area, as well as representing theoretical advances in ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Mainland Southeast Asian Languages

    A Concise Typological Introduction

    by N. J. Enfield ...
    This highly accessible introduction explores the core systems and subsystems of the languages of mainland Southeast Asia, applying the main concepts of language typology, phonology, morphology, syntax, sociolinguistics, language variation, and language contact, to this diverse language area. Written by a leading expert in the languages of this region, N. J. Enfield draws upon nearly a thousand ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • The Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia

    by N. J. Enfield ...
    Series series Cambridge Language Surveys
    Mainland Southeast Asia is one of the most fascinating and complex cultural and linguistic areas in the world. This book provides a rich and comprehensive survey of the history and core systems and subsystems of the languages of this fascinating region. Drawing on his depth of expertise in mainland Southeast Asia, Enfield includes more than a thousand data examples from over a hundred languages ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Distributed Agency

    Edited by N. J. Enfield, Paul Kockelman ...
    Series series Foundations of Human Interaction
    Distributed Agency presents an interdisciplinary inroad into the latest thinking about the distributed nature of agency: what it's like, what are its conditions of possibility, and what are its consequences. The book's 25 chapters are written by a wide range of scholars, from anthropology, biology, cognitive science, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, geography, law, economics, and sociology. ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology

    Edited by N. J. Enfield, Paul Kockelman, Jack Sidnell ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    The field of linguistic anthropology looks at human uniqueness and diversity through the lens of language, our species' special combination of art and instinct. Human language both shapes, and is shaped by, our minds, societies, and cultural worlds. This state-of-the-field survey covers a wide range of topics, approaches and theories, such as the nature and function of language systems, the ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

    Edited by Sarah Cutfield, Stephen C. Levinson, Michael J. Dunn, N. J. Enfield, Sérgio Meira ...
    Series Book 14 - Language Culture and Cognition
    Demonstratives play a crucial role in the acquisition and use of language. Bringing together a team of leading scholars this detailed study, a first of its kind, explores meaning and use across fifteen typologically and geographically unrelated languages to find out what cross-linguistic comparisons and generalizations can be made, and how this might challenge current theory in linguistics, ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

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  • The Creole Debate

    by John H. McWhorter ...
    Creoles have long been the subject of debate in linguistics, with many conflicting views, both on how they are formed, and what their political and linguistic status should be. Indeed, over the past twenty years, some creole specialists have argued that it has been wrong to think of creoles as anything but language blends in the same way that Yiddish is a blend of German and Hebrew and Slavic. ... Read more

    $24.59 USD