New Distributed Titles Fall 2009 - Oxbow Books

Peeters Publishers
L’explication
Enjeux cognitifs et interactionnels
edited by C Hudelot, A Salazat Orvig and E Veneviano
Verbal explication is a frequent linguistic practice, employed in everyday conversations as
well as highly scientific communication. This volume studies the multitude of situations in
which verbal explication manifests itself. To that end, it collects studies by linguists, psychologists,
logicians, and educational specialists. French text.
376p, paperback, 9789042920828, $79.00, Peeters Publishers, December 2008.
Catégories et catégorisation
Une perspective interdisciplinaire
edited by F Alvarez-Pereyre
Categories and categorizations form the core of scientific work as well as the relationship
with the world as a whole as construed by individuals and societies. The contributors to this
volume analyze the formation of categories and the process of categorization from a number
of different angles: linguistic systems and language, rituals and ritualization, heritage
and literary, musical, or dance performances, social stratification and dynamics, and judicial
codes. French text.
358p, paperback, 9789042921337, $94.00, Peeters Publishers, December 2008,
Société d’Études Linguistiques et Anthropologiques de France 448.
Fonction, forme et variation
Analyse métathéorique de trois modèles du changement phonique
au XXe siècle (1929–1982)
by S Verleyen
In this volume, three modern models of phonic and linguistic change are examined from
a meta-theoretical viewpoint and compared with one another: the functionalist model of
phonic change; generative phonology and its application to phon(olog)ic change; Labovian
sociolinguistics. French text.
555p, paperback, 9789042921054, $100.00, Peeters Publishers, December 2008,
Orbis Supplementa 30.
Renaissantismes et renaissance des peuples du nord
Évolution de la question autochtone en République Sakha (Yakoutie)
dans le contexte des mutations post-soviétiques
by M Le Berre-Semenov
This volume deals with the recent history of Siberia, namely that of the first decade after the
fall of the Soviet Union. It contains records of how the different peoples in the Republic of
Sakha (Yakutia) came to terms with former Russian and Soviet colonization and the extinction
of ethnocultural heritage and traditional lifestyles that came in its wake. French text.
403p, paperback, 9789042919242, $82.00, Peeters Publishers, December 2008,
Société d’Études Linguistiques et Anthropologiques de France 438.
language � linguistics
Étapes de la vie et tradition orale
Conceptions universelles et expressions particulières
edited by V de Colombel and M Lebarbier
This volume studies oral traditions and how they relate to certain stages
within the lives of individuals, focusing on universal conceptions and
particular expressions. French text.
320p, paperback, 9789042922044, $87.00, Peeters Publishers, December 2008,
Société d’Études Linguistiques et Anthropologiques de France 450.
Observations et manipulations en linguistique
Entre concurrence et complémentarité
This volume collects papers concerned
with the comparison of different
approaches to the observation
and manipulation of morphological,
syntactic and lexical basics in the
realization of different tasks.
French text.
141p, paperback, 9789042921610,
$29.00, Peeters Publishers,
December 2008, Mémoires de la
Société Linguistique de Paris 16.
Bedrijf & taal – Business & Language
Opstellen voor Wilfried Janssens –
Essays in Honour of Wilfried Janssens
edited by D Jaspers and P Vermoortel
Dutch and English text.
663p, paperback, 9789042922228, $73.00, Peeters Publishers,
December 2009.
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