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Céline Carayon, “Eloquence Embodied: Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas” (UNC Press, 2019)
Céline Carayon
Eloquence Embodied
Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
University of North Carolina Press and the Omohundro Institute, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in French StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Native American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network December 12, 2019 Ryan Tripp

Taking a fresh look at the first two centuries of French colonialism in the Americas, Eloquence Embodied: Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas (University of North Carolina Press and the Omohundro Institute, 2019), answers the long-standing question of how, and how well, Indigenous Americans and the Europeans who... Read More
Alexandra D’Arcy, “Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context: Eight hundred years of LIKE” (John Benjamins, 2017)
Alexandra D'Arcy
Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context
Eight hundred years of LIKE
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Popular CultureNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network December 4, 2019 Carrie Gillon and Megan Figueroa

Like is a ubiquitous feature of English with a deep history in the language, exhibiting regular and constrained variable grammars over time. Alexandra D’Arcy‘s book Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context: Eight hundred years of LIKE (John Benjamins, 2017) explores the various contexts of like, each of which contributes to the reality... Read More
Patricia Roberts-Miller, “Demagoguery and Democracy” (The Experiment, 2017)
Patricia Roberts-Miller
Demagoguery and Democracy

The Experiment, 2017

New Books in CommunicationsNew Books in LanguageNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network November 25, 2019 Democracy Works

When you think of the word “demagogue,” what comes to mind? Probably someone like Hitler or another bombastic leader, right? Patricia Roberts-Miller is a rhetoric scholar and has spent years tracing the term and its uses. She joins us this week to explain a new way of thinking about demagoguery... Read More
Jonathan Rosa, “Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jonathan Rosa
Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race
Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in AnthropologyNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network November 4, 2019 Carrie Gillon and Megan Figueroa

Jonathan Rosa‘s new book Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad (Oxford University Press, 2019) examines the emergence of linguistic and ethnoracial categories in the context of Latinidad. The book draws from more than twenty-four months of ethnographic and sociolinguistic fieldwork in... Read More
Don Kulick, “A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea” (Algonquin Books, 2019)
Don Kulick
A Death in the Rainforest
How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea
Algonquin Books, 2019

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Australian and New Zealand StudiesNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network October 7, 2019 Alex Golub

Called “perhaps the finest and most profound account of ethnographic fieldwork and discovery that has ever entered the anthropological literature” by the Wall Street Journal, A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea (Algonquin Books, 2019) is... Read More
Malcolm Keating, “Language, Meaning, and Use in Indian Philosophy” (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Malcolm Keating
Language, Meaning, and Use in Indian Philosophy
An Introduction to Mukula's “Fundamentals of the Communicative Function”
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

New Books in CommunicationsNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books Network September 20, 2019 Alexus McLeod

Philosophy of Language was a central concern in classical Indian Philosophy.  Philosophers in the tradition discussed testimony, pragmatics, and the religious implications of language, among other topics.  In his new book, Language, Meaning, and Use in Indian Philosophy: An Introduction to Mukula’s ‘Fundamentals of the Communicative Function’ (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019),... Read More
Tammy R. Vigil, “Moms in Chief: The Rhetoric of Republican Motherhood and the Spouses of Presidential Nominees, 1992-2016” (UP of Kansas, 2019)
Tammy R. Vigil
Moms in Chief
The Rhetoric of Republican Motherhood and the Spouses of Presidential Nominees, 1992-2016
University Press of Kansas, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network September 12, 2019 Lilly Goren

Tammy Vigil’s new book, Moms in Chief: The Rhetoric of Republican Motherhood and the Spouses of Presidential Nominees, 1992-2016 (University Press of Kansas, 2019), examines the contemporary “first spouses” on the campaign trail, at the nominating conventions, and pays particular attention to how these women (and one man, the 2016... Read More
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