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Gregory Forth, “A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path: Animal Metaphors in an Eastern Indonesian Society” (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2019)
Gregory Forth
A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path
Animal Metaphors in an Eastern Indonesian Society
McGill-Queens University Press, 2019

Animal StudiesNBN Special SeriesNew Books in AnthropologyNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Southeast Asian StudiesNew Books Network October 23, 2020 Akash Ondaatje

Gregory Forth, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Alberta and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, has studied the Nage people of the eastern Indonesian island of Flores for more than three decades. In A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path: Animal Metaphors in an... Read More
Chris Heffer, “All Bullshit and Lies?: Insincerity, Irresponsibility, and the Judgment of Untruthfulness” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Chris Heffer
All Bullshit and Lies?
Insincerity, Irresponsibility, and the Judgment of Untruthfulness
Oxford University Press, 2020

NBN Book of the DayNBN Special SeriesNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in LanguageNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network October 8, 2020 Malcolm Keating

The implied answer to the titular question of All Bullshit and Lies? (Oxford University Press, 2020) is no, it’s not. In this book, subtitled Insincerity, Irresponsibility, and the Judgment of Untruthfulness, Chris Heffer argues that to analyze untruthfulness, we need a framework which goes beyond these two kinds of speech... Read More
EQ Spotlight Special: Roundtable on the 2020 Presidential Race
John R. Hibbing and Jonathan Weiler
EQ Spotlight Special
Roundtable on the 2020 Presidential Race
New Books Network, 2020

Dan Hill's EQ SpotlightNBN Special SeriesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & Society October 2, 2020 Dan Hill

What are we to make of the year’s first presidential debate? Listen in as John R. Hibbing, Jonathan Weiler and I discuss this question and others surrounding the 2020 presidential race. Hibbing is a Foundation Regents University Professor of political history and psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He’s been... Read More
Sarah Shulist, “Transforming Indigenity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon” (U Toronto Press, 2018)
Sarah Shulist
Transforming Indigenity
Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon
University of Toronto Press, 2018

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Native American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society September 22, 2020 Carrie Gillon

Transforming Indigenity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon (University of Toronto Press) examines the role that language revitalization efforts play in cultural politics in the small city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, located in the Brazilian Amazon. Sarah Shulist concentrates on how debates, discussions, and practices aimed at... Read More
Katherine Kinzler, “How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do – And What It Says About You” (HMH, 2020)
Katherine Kinzler
How You Say It
Why You Talk the Way You Do - And What It Says About You
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020

New Books in LanguageNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & Technology September 11, 2020 Matthew Jordan

We gravitate toward people like us; it’s human nature. Race, class, and gender shape our social identities, and thus who we perceive as “like us” or “not like us”. But one overlooked factor can be even more powerful: the way we speak. As the pioneering psychologist Katherine Kinzler reveals in... Read More
B. Cope and M. Kalantzis, “Making Sense: Reference, Agency, and Structure in a Grammar of Multimodal Meaning” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
B. Cope and M. Kalantzis
Making Sense
Reference, Agency, and Structure in a Grammar of Multimodal Meaning
Cambridge University Press, 2020

New Books in LanguageNew Books in Politics & Society September 9, 2020 Daniel Shea

What do all these have in common: Disneyland and the Dreamtime, the shopping mall and the planned economy, Chomsky’s Syntactic Structures and Halliday’s Functional Grammar, Unicode and door handles? All mean something. The companion volumes Making Sense: Reference, Agency, and Structure in a Grammar of Multimodal Meaning (Cambridge University Press)... Read More
Marco Puleri, “Ukrainian, Russophone, (Other) Russian: Hybrid Identities and Narratives in Post-Soviet Culture and Politics” (Peter Lang, 2020)
Marco Puleri
Ukrainian, Russophone, (Other) Russian
Hybrid Identities and Narratives in Post-Soviet Culture and Politics
Peter Lang, 2020

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Eastern European StudiesNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesNew Books in Sociology September 2, 2020 Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed

Marco Puleri’s Ukrainian, Russophone, (Other) Russian: Hybrid Identities and Narratives in Post-Soviet Culture and Politics (Peter Lang, 2020) examines a complex process of identity formation in the context of exposure to a diversity of linguistic and cultural influences. Puleri zeroes in on contemporary Ukraine to explore the specificities of cultural... Read More
Alessandro Graheli, “The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy of Language” (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Alessandro Graheli
The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy of Language

Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

New Books in LanguageNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books Network September 1, 2020 Malcolm Keating

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy of Language (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) spans over two thousand years of inquiry into language in the Indian subcontinent. Edited by Alessandro Graheli, project leader in the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia at the Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna, Austria,... Read More
Beata Stawarska, “Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology: The Course in General Linguistics after a Century” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Beata Stawarska
Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology
The Course in General Linguistics after a Century
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

New Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in LanguageNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & Society August 20, 2020 Sarah K. Tyson

In Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology: The Course in General Linguistics after a Century (Palgrave Macmillan), Beata Stawarska guides us to consider Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics anew. By delving into Saussure’s autograph notes, letters, and student lecture notes Stawarska reframes all of the hierarchical pairs promoted as part... Read More
Allison L. Rowland, “Zoetropes and the Politics of Humanhood” (Ohio State UP, 2020)
Allison L. Rowland
Zoetropes and the Politics of Humanhood

Ohio State University Press, 2020

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network August 19, 2020

The way that we talk about living beings can raise or lower their perceived value. On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (s/t) interviews Dr. Allison L. Rowland (s) about zoetropes and zoerhetorics or ways of talking about living beings that promote (#blacklivesmatter) or demote (“collateral... Read More

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