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This book pioneers the study of Lánnang-uè deeply embedded in Manila’s Lannang community’s culture. It approaches Lánnang-uè not just as a language but as a vibrant social practice highlighting its variability and complex social meanings (e.g. identity-marking). Over six years and with more than 150 participants the monograph integrates contemporary community-focused and critical sociolinguistic frameworks to explore and document linguistic variation as well as change signaling attrition challenging reductive academic views. Employing diverse methodologies—surveys elicitation interviews computational modeling and ethnography— the work offers a nuanced depiction of Lánnang-uè’s diversity. A decolonial stance is advocated emphasizing the complex practices that define the language and its speakers’ identity. It critiques the idea of a uniform linguistic standard presenting Lánnang-uè as shaped by local diverse and inclusive practices urging a reevaluation of language ownership and authenticity. This monograph is crucial for scholars in sociolinguistics language variation and contact linguistics informing language revitalization efforts and enriching global discussions on linguistic diversity and discrimination.

This book is an enquiry into memory in the Western world. Specifically memory is the framework of culture because it links the present to the past - or tradition - and projects it into the future. For this reason any work focusing on memory involves a double challenge: (1) to reveal the origin of concepts and (2) to glimpse the course of thoughts.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>This is the case of the present volume in which the authors make several tastings of Europe's intellectual heritage by taking into account both the Greek origin of this legacy and its relevance for understanding the European philosophical heritage.<br/>In particular these papers focus on the Aristotelian tradition the true keystone of Europe and on other currents of thought that have also played an essential role in the intellectual evolution of the Old Continent. In the latter field there are contributions for instance on philosophical-religious traditions such as Orphism or on certain fundamental aspects of Neoplatonism both in the Classical World and in Christian authors.<br/>The volume concludes with various works on the survival of these intellectual trends from the Renaissance to the present day. Consequently this work offers the opportunity to delve deeper into some of the aspects that define Western civilisation observed both from its origin and its evolution over the centuries.<br/>The volume contains papers in Spanish Portuguese Italian and English.<br/>Este libro es una indagación en la memoria del mundo occidental. Específicamente la memoria es el armazón de la cultura porque liga el presente al pasado —o tradición— y lo proyecta al futuro. Por ello toda obra centrada en la memoria entraña un doble reto: (1) revelar el origen de los conceptos y (2) atisbar el rumbo de los pensamientos.<br/>Este es el caso del presente volumen en el que realizan diversas catas en el patrimonio intelectual europeo. Lo hace teniendo en cuenta tanto el origen griego de ese legado como su relevancia para comprender el acervo filosófico europeo.<br/>En concreto se centra en la tradición aristótelica verdadera clave de bóveda de Europa y en otras corrientes de pensamiento que también han jugado un papel esencial en la evolución intelectual del viejo continente. En éste último ámbito hay contribuciones por ejemplo sobre tradiciones filosófico-religiosas como el orfismo o sobre determinados aspectos fundamentales del neoplatonismo en el mundo clásico y en autores cristianos.<br/>Concluye el volumen con diversos trabajos sobre la pervivencia de esas tendencias intelectuales desde el renacimiento hasta nuestros días. <br/>En consecuencia esta obra ofrece la oportunidad de profundizar en algunos aspectos que definen nuestra civilización observados tanto desde su origen como desde su evolución a lo largo de los siglos.

This volume covers aspects of opera translation within the Western world and in Asia as well as some of opera’s many travels between continents countries languages and cultures—and also between genres and media. The concept of ‘adaptation’ is a thread running through the sixteen contributions which encompass a variety of composers operas periods and national traditions. Sung translation libretto translation surtitling subtitling are discussed from a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. Exploration of aspects such as the relationship between language and music multimodality intertextuality cultural and linguistic transfer multilingualism humour identity and stereotype political ideology the translator’s voice and the role of the audience is driven by a shared motivation: a love of opera and of the beauty it has never ceased to provide through the centuries and admiration for the people who write compose perform direct translate or otherwise contribute to making the joy of opera a part of our lives.

Focusing on the multi-faceted topic of Eurolects this volume brings together knowledge and methodologies from various disciplines including sociolinguistics legal linguistics corpus linguistics and translation studies. The legislative varieties of eleven EU official and working languages (Dutch English Finnish French German Greek Italian Latvian Maltese Polish Spanish) are analyzed using corpus methodologies in order to investigate the variational dynamics and translation-induced patterns of the different languages. The underlying assumption is that within the sociolinguistic continua of the EU languages it is possible to single out specific legislative varieties (Eurolects) that originate at a supra-national level. This research hypothesis is strongly supported by the empirical findings derived from detailed corpus analyses of each language. This work represents the first systematic and comprehensive linguistic research conducted on a wide range of EU languages using the same protocol and applying corpus methodologies to the extensive Eurolect Observatory Multilingual Corpus.

This study offers a pragmatic dimension to World Englishes research. It is particularly timely because pragmatics has generally been understudied in past research on World Englishes especially postcolonial Englishes. Apart from drawing attention to the paucity of research the book also contributes to theory formation on the emerging theoretical framework postcolonial pragmatics which is then applied to data from two World (postcolonial) Englishes Ghanaian and Cameroon Englishes. The copious examples used clearly illustrate how postcolonial societies realise various pragmatic phenomena in this case offers and offer refusals and how these could be fruitfully explained using an analytical framework designed on the complex internal set ups of these societies. For research on social interaction in these societies to be representative it has to take into account the complex history of their evolution contact with other systems during colonialism and the heritages thereof. This book does just that.

Located near Cartagena de Indias Colombia Palenque is a former Afro-Hispanic maroon community that has recently attracted much national and international attention. The authors of this collection examine Palenque’s linguistic geographic and cultural origins from interdisciplinary and theoretically diverse perspectives. Extensive in situ fieldwork and long-term familiarity with the Palenquero community form the basis of the seven essays all of which are enriched by data from archival and other scholarly works. In this book linguists literary scholars historians and specialists in cultural and visual studies thereby enter into mutually enriching dialogues about the origins and nature of Palenque’s unique Lengua (local creole) and culture. This rich tapestry of ideas is decidedly international as its authors are members of academic institutions in the United States Europe and Latin America. Orality Identity and Resistance in Palenque (Colombia) is an updated translation of Palenque Colombia: Oralidad identidad y resistencia 2012.

This volume brings together a number of articles on the form and function of extra-clausal constituents a group of linguistic elements which have puzzled linguists by defying analysis in terms of ordinary sentence grammar. Given their high frequency and communicative importance these elements can however no longer be dismissed as a marginal linguistic phenomenon. In recent years this awareness has resulted not only in more systematic treatments of extra-clausal constituents but has also highlighted the need to account for them in grammatical theory. Based on (mainly English) corpus data the volume investigates the discourse-pragmatic semantic syntactic and phonological features of a range of extra-clausal constituents including discourse markers free adjuncts left dislocands insubordinate clauses and various kinds of adverbials. The individual chapters adopt a number of different perspectives investigating the diachronic development of extra-clausal constituents their multi-functionality and their use in bilingual settings also addressing the question of how they can be incorporated into existing models of grammar.

This volume raises questions about why oral celebrations of language receive so little attention in published literary histories when they are simultaneously recognized as fundamental to our understanding of literature. It aims to prompt debate regarding the transformations needed for literary historians to provide a more balanced and fuller appreciation of what we call literature one that acknowledges the interdependence of oral storytelling and written expression whether in print pictorial or digital form. Rather than offering a summary of current theories or prescribing solutions this volume brings together distinguished scholars conventional literary historians and oral performer-practitioners from regions as diverse as South Africa the Canadian Arctic the Roma communities of Eastern Europe and the music industry of the American West in a conversation that engages the reader directly with the problems that they have encountered and the questions that they have explored in their work with orality and with literary history.

The languages of Europe and North and Central Asia provide a rich variety of data. In this volume some articles are summaries of large areal typological research projects and some articles focus on structures or constructions in a single language. However it is common to all the articles that they investigate phenomena that have not been examined previously or they apply a new framework to a topic. The volume will be of interest to scholars with a focus on this broad geographic region typologists historical linguists and discourse analysts. The uniqueness of this volume is that it brings together work on a genetically diverse set of languages that have some shared areal traits.

From the Renaissance onwards European scholars began to collect and study the various languages of the Old and the New Worlds. The recognition of language diversity encouraged them to explain how differences between languages emerged why languages kept changing and in what language families they could be classified. The present volume brings together the papers of the late George J. Metcalf (1908–1994) that discuss the search for possible genetic language relationships and the study of language developments and origins in Early Modern Europe. Two general chapters surveying the period between the 16th and 18th century are followed by detailed case studies of the contributions of Swiss Dutch and German scholars such as Theodor Bibliander (1504–1564) Konrad Gesner (1516–1565) Philippus Cluverius (1580–1623) Hugo Grotius (1583–1645) and Justus Georg Schottelius (1612–1676). This collection of important studies a number of which have become very hard to find has been framed by a detailed Editors’ Introduction a biographical sketch of the author a master list of references and indexes of biographical names and of subjects terms and languages.