The study of teenagers in the classroom, and how they interact with one another and their
teachers, can tell us a great deal about late-modern society. In this revealing account, Ben …

Among the Weyewa of the eastern Indonesian island of Sumba, spokesmen seek to inscribe
their traditions and sacred obligations through ritual speaking performances. In a series of …

This book is designed to serve as an academic introduction to integrationism and
integrational linguistics and to the wider domain of semiotic inquiry into which it falls. It …

In the postmodern era, relentless transfo ders a continual contrast between rural industrial
(capitalist) values. In a romanti positively evaluated as part of a cherishe embraces progress …

People often begin stories in conversation by referring to person, time, and place. We study
story beginnings in three societies and find place reference is recurrently used to (i) set the …

This article focuses on adolescents at an inner-London secondary school who are learning
German rather reluctantly in a foreign language class, and then using the language to play …

After a brief introduction to the topic the paper first gives an overview of Kilivila landscape
terms and then presents the inventory of names for villages, wells, island points, reef …

In the Weyéwa highlands of western Sumba, men and women employ a richly metaphorical,
poetic form of “ritual speech” in response to sudden misfortune. Men's speech, in the context …

In some of his most telling passages about the social construction of memory, Halbwachs
(1950) 2 develops his argument by establishing a narrative space within which persons …

This dissertation will examine the way in which technology corporation names have evolved
over the past century. Throughout US business history, technology corporations were …