In its two previous editions, this work has proven to be an indispensable guide for students and ... more In its two previous editions, this work has proven to be an indispensable guide for students and scholars of Hispanic literature and linguistics. It is extremely useful for courses in bibliography and research methods, and librarians have found it a valuable reference tool for identifying the essential books and scholarly journals in its field. This edition has been considerably expanded, updated, and revised. Cuban literature in the United States joins Chicano literature in the new chapter entitled "Hispanic Literature in the United States." The new selected list of 107 scholarly journals includes 25 now appearing for the first time. Approximately 40% of the entries are new, and many of the retained items have been revised. Author and title indexes.
This succinct history of NAMES: A Journal of Onomastics discusses its founding in Detroit, Michig... more This succinct history of NAMES: A Journal of Onomastics discusses its founding in Detroit, Michigan, December 29 1951 and the subsequent creation and publication of its academic journal NAMES in 1953. It provides an enumeration of the Society’s founders and officers, the contents of the first issue, and a listing of famous and frequent contributors to the journal. Maney Publishing is now digitizing all of the contents of NAMES from the first issue (March 1953) to date, which will make these valuable research articles available to the scholars and to the public. A selection of eight important articles published in the journal since 2009 will be available gratis to the public.
The third edition of the now classic and basic reference work for semiotic research, Encyclopedic... more The third edition of the now classic and basic reference work for semiotic research, Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics (published by Mouton de Gruyter), first edited by the world-renowned semiotician, Thomas A. Sebeok in 1986 and revised by him in 1994 has undergone a significant revamping by University of Toronto scholar and Editor-in-Chief of Semiotica, Marcel Danesi. Newly published in 2010, this basic research tool for semiotics remains the quintessential reference work for every scholar in this field. It would be hard to imagine that any researcher would be able to engage in meaningful scholarship without it.
The author, currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University, defines visual language as "the ... more The author, currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University, defines visual language as "the integration of words, images, and shapes into a single communication unit" (8). Horn points out that the genesis of this volume began when he first saw a Macintosh computer in 1984 with its incredible visual possibilities. Subsequently, he came "to understand that, in fact, people all over the world were using the capabilities of the graphic computer to create the fundamentals of a new communication tool-a language based on the tight integration of words and visual elements, which in this book I call visual language" (vi). In the eight chapters that comprise this book, Horn provides a state-ofthe-art review and discussion of what he labels "visual language." In the first chapter ("A New Language Emerges," 1-22), the author provides the set of criteria that he claims will substantiate his hypothesis that visual language is language. First, it can be analyzed linguistically, i.e., it has syntax, semantics, and pragmatics (points he discusses in detail in Chapter 4, "Emerging Semantics"; Chapter 5, "Functional Semantics of Content"; and Chapter 6, "Functional Semantics of Rhetoric." Second, it is used by a community, i.e., it has "enough of a community of use to enable its users to interpret the
Reviewed by Frank Nuessel In their introductory essay, "The Dynamics of Interactional and Institu... more Reviewed by Frank Nuessel In their introductory essay, "The Dynamics of Interactional and Institutional Orders in Work-Related Settings" (1-57), co-editors Sarangi and Roberts, who also co-authored four of the remaining sixteen chapters (2, 7, 13, 17), with yet another collaboration by Sarangi (Chapter 10), call to the reader's attention that: Workplaces are held together by communicative practices. At the local level, such practices include talk (e.g., face-to-face encounters with colleagues and clients, telephone conversations), text (e.g., letter correspondence, circulars, case notes), the use of social space (e.g., placement of furniture and routine activities such as making a hospital bed), and other artefacts (e.g., use of laboratory technology, computers) in various configurations. But workplaces are also sites of social struggle, as certain ways of talking, recording and acting are produced and ordered over a period of time.
The title Language Matters is ambiguous: it can mean "language is important" or refer to "matters... more The title Language Matters is ambiguous: it can mean "language is important" or refer to "matters related to language. " Both meanings apply, as Reagan explains (ix). In his preface (vii), he aptly observes that Language, apparently, is a very tricky business. On the one hand, everyone uses language, and virtually everyone has strong views about language. In the educational domain this seems to be especially true.… [Language] plays a central role in articulating and conveying not only social, cultural and empirical ideas, but ideological concepts as well. It is also used to make judgments about the educational level (and, albeit erroneously, the intelligence) of the speaker, not to mention its role in maintaining differential power relations.
In its two previous editions, this work has proven to be an indispensable guide for students and ... more In its two previous editions, this work has proven to be an indispensable guide for students and scholars of Hispanic literature and linguistics. It is extremely useful for courses in bibliography and research methods, and librarians have found it a valuable reference tool for identifying the essential books and scholarly journals in its field. This edition has been considerably expanded, updated, and revised. Cuban literature in the United States joins Chicano literature in the new chapter entitled "Hispanic Literature in the United States." The new selected list of 107 scholarly journals includes 25 now appearing for the first time. Approximately 40% of the entries are new, and many of the retained items have been revised. Author and title indexes.
This succinct history of NAMES: A Journal of Onomastics discusses its founding in Detroit, Michig... more This succinct history of NAMES: A Journal of Onomastics discusses its founding in Detroit, Michigan, December 29 1951 and the subsequent creation and publication of its academic journal NAMES in 1953. It provides an enumeration of the Society’s founders and officers, the contents of the first issue, and a listing of famous and frequent contributors to the journal. Maney Publishing is now digitizing all of the contents of NAMES from the first issue (March 1953) to date, which will make these valuable research articles available to the scholars and to the public. A selection of eight important articles published in the journal since 2009 will be available gratis to the public.
The third edition of the now classic and basic reference work for semiotic research, Encyclopedic... more The third edition of the now classic and basic reference work for semiotic research, Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics (published by Mouton de Gruyter), first edited by the world-renowned semiotician, Thomas A. Sebeok in 1986 and revised by him in 1994 has undergone a significant revamping by University of Toronto scholar and Editor-in-Chief of Semiotica, Marcel Danesi. Newly published in 2010, this basic research tool for semiotics remains the quintessential reference work for every scholar in this field. It would be hard to imagine that any researcher would be able to engage in meaningful scholarship without it.
The author, currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University, defines visual language as "the ... more The author, currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University, defines visual language as "the integration of words, images, and shapes into a single communication unit" (8). Horn points out that the genesis of this volume began when he first saw a Macintosh computer in 1984 with its incredible visual possibilities. Subsequently, he came "to understand that, in fact, people all over the world were using the capabilities of the graphic computer to create the fundamentals of a new communication tool-a language based on the tight integration of words and visual elements, which in this book I call visual language" (vi). In the eight chapters that comprise this book, Horn provides a state-ofthe-art review and discussion of what he labels "visual language." In the first chapter ("A New Language Emerges," 1-22), the author provides the set of criteria that he claims will substantiate his hypothesis that visual language is language. First, it can be analyzed linguistically, i.e., it has syntax, semantics, and pragmatics (points he discusses in detail in Chapter 4, "Emerging Semantics"; Chapter 5, "Functional Semantics of Content"; and Chapter 6, "Functional Semantics of Rhetoric." Second, it is used by a community, i.e., it has "enough of a community of use to enable its users to interpret the
Reviewed by Frank Nuessel In their introductory essay, "The Dynamics of Interactional and Institu... more Reviewed by Frank Nuessel In their introductory essay, "The Dynamics of Interactional and Institutional Orders in Work-Related Settings" (1-57), co-editors Sarangi and Roberts, who also co-authored four of the remaining sixteen chapters (2, 7, 13, 17), with yet another collaboration by Sarangi (Chapter 10), call to the reader's attention that: Workplaces are held together by communicative practices. At the local level, such practices include talk (e.g., face-to-face encounters with colleagues and clients, telephone conversations), text (e.g., letter correspondence, circulars, case notes), the use of social space (e.g., placement of furniture and routine activities such as making a hospital bed), and other artefacts (e.g., use of laboratory technology, computers) in various configurations. But workplaces are also sites of social struggle, as certain ways of talking, recording and acting are produced and ordered over a period of time.
The title Language Matters is ambiguous: it can mean "language is important" or refer to "matters... more The title Language Matters is ambiguous: it can mean "language is important" or refer to "matters related to language. " Both meanings apply, as Reagan explains (ix). In his preface (vii), he aptly observes that Language, apparently, is a very tricky business. On the one hand, everyone uses language, and virtually everyone has strong views about language. In the educational domain this seems to be especially true.… [Language] plays a central role in articulating and conveying not only social, cultural and empirical ideas, but ideological concepts as well. It is also used to make judgments about the educational level (and, albeit erroneously, the intelligence) of the speaker, not to mention its role in maintaining differential power relations.
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