Results for 'vern'

1. Hiram L. Smith

Wassup, My Nigga

Hiram L. Smith is the Ruth Everett Sierzega Chair in Linguistics at Bucknell University. He published the first historical study of "nigga" and is the first African American linguist to write a book on the word. His research interests span African American English, Afro-Hispanic creole languages, Spanish, and Pennsylvania Dutch.

1. Jennifer Manoukian

Purist Pursuits

"Purist Pursuits is a groundbreaking study that opens Western Armenian to the methods of the social history of language. Jennifer Manoukian expertly recovers not only the ideologies that shaped the modern vernacular in its formative years, but also the lives of diverse actors who transformed their language into a vast and contentious battleground."—Michael Pifer, University of Michigan "Exciting, extensive, and fine-grained, this work on the development of Armenian situates language discussions in the context of a modernizing literary marketplace, as the Ottoman Empire was affected by Western ideas and new print media. Purist Pursuits shines new light on Armenian history and on nineteenth-century cultural nation-building."—Joep Leerssen, University of Amsterdam

Multilingualism and Writing Practices in Defining Communities

Piera Molinelli & Chiara Ghezzi, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy.

Multilingualism in Southern Africa

This collection showcases perspectives from established and emerging scholars on the contemporary landscape of multilingualism in Southern Africa. The volume will be of interest to students and scholars in multilingualism, sociolinguistics, language policies, language education, and African studies.

Languages in the Lutheran Reformation

This multi- and cross-lingual collection of articles charts the influence of the Lutheran Reformation on various Northern European languages and texts written in them. The primary texts explored in the essays are Bible translations, but genres other than biblical are also discussed.

Ecologies of Translation in East and South East Asia, 1600-1900

This volume on early modern inter-Asian translation examines how translation from plain Chinese was situated at the nexus between, on the one hand, the traditional standard of biliteracy characteristic of literary practices in the Sinographic sphere, and on the other hand, practices of translational multilingualism.