Recent debates about globalism have usefully transformed the positioning and the cultural geography of studies of the American South. Once marked by tensions between the national and the regional, southern studies is now increasingly characterized by tensions between the local and the global. This special issue of American Literature features interdisciplinary and comparative work that focuses on the U.S. South in global contexts and attempts to reconceptualize the South from various theoretical, literary, and cultural perspectives. The new southern studies promises to be less preoccupied with patriarchal whiteness and rural idyll and more concerned with understanding the U.S. South as a construction of border crossings of every sort. Featured essays examine the political, economic, and social effects of globalization on the geopolitical locale and literary productions of the region. Each seeks to redefine the geographic and epistemological boundaries of the U.S. South by linking it to other "Souths" globally. The issue opens with a collection of manifestos given at the recent conference "The U.S. South in Global Context." These unique pieces offer variant perspectives on a common theme. Touching on history, community, migration, globalizing modernization, and even Wal-Mart, these sixteen briefs remind the reader that the American South is somewhere between the modern cosmopolitan and the historical rural spheres. One contributor examines how modernization has spread unevenly throughout the region and how it has affected recent immigrants to southern hybrid culture. Another engages in a comparative exercise between the U.S. South and Latin America, addressing questions of postcolonialism. Other contributors reflect on southern distinctiveness, southern literature, and southern colonial life. Included in the issue is a collection of original and review essays focused geographically on still lower latitudes: investigations of the Deep South and certain Caribbean cultures, and comparisons of the U.S. South to the underprivileged global South.

Serge Karcevski fut le premier linguiste du courant saussurien a tenter une description systematique d'une langue aussi typiquement 'grammaticale' que le russe; les premiers travaux de cette ecole etaient en effet orientes sur les langues occidentales, plus 'lexicales'. Cela exigeait la recherche de nouveaux outils d'analyse et de description, et la linguistique moderne doit a Karcevski plus d'une trouvaille eclairante. Sa decomposition graduelle du discours russe, depuis ses constituants les plus vastes jusqu'aux plus tenus, lui permit de mettre en lumiere plusieurs processus fondamentaux et de discerner leurs valeurs semantiques. Sa maniere d'apprehender l'intonation dans sa relation avec la structure syntaxique et avec les differents roles de sa realisation au sein du dialogue, depasse les limites de la philologie russe et a influence la theorie et l'etude concrete de l'intonation dans la science internationale. La linguistique repondra a son appel a poursuivre l'investigation cruciale de la structure du dialogue comme forme premiere du discours. (...) La theorie des oppositions linguistiques etait issue de la doctrine de Saussure; la pensee de Karcevski, cependant, revele un important changement d'accent.

Les qualites d'historien qu'on reconnait a Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence meritaient qu'on se penchat avec attention et minutie sur la seule oeuvre qu'on lui connaisse, surtout qu'elle n'est pas toujours d'un abord facile. Elle porte d'ailleurs sur un personnage de tout premier plan, et qui a inspire plus d'un ecrivain moderne: Thomas Becket. Parue en 1922, l'edition Walberg, pourtant reputee excellente et certes non denuee de merites ni d'interet, appelait en priorite une serieuse remise a jour du texte. Tout a ete controle aux sources, souvent remis en conformite avec elles, emende plus d'une fois differemment s'il le fallait, et ponctue de neuf. Une traduction s'imposait pratiquement; ce fut d'ailleurs le mobile du present travail. Et elle est demeuree opportune malgre celles qui ont ete publiees entre-temps, car elle se distingue des autres par des differences parfois importantes et par l'abondance des justifications, explications ou elements de discussion fournis dans les notes, qui occupent la majeure partie du tome II. La consultation et la recherche y seront facilitees par une serie de tables, consacrees respectivement aux rimes, aux references bibliques, aux proverbes et sentences, a l'intertextualite, aux noms propres, et a un index lexicologique et grammatical de pres de 1500 entrees.

La gloire est l'ombre de la vertu: la Renaissance aime cette idee, et l'on comprend, des lors, qu'elle se soit passionnee pour les personnages historiques, ces hommes qui sont passes a la posterite pour avoir marque leur epoque, en bien ou en mal. Aussi voit-on fleurir, a partir des annees 1550, les traductions de Plutarque dans les principales langues europeennes, et renaitre le genre antique de la biographie, avec les Vies d'hommes illustres. A partir des Elogia, ce recueil fondateur du au collectionneur de portraits historiques, Paul Jove, le genre des receuils illustres se diffuse en Italie, avec l'historien d'art Giogio Vasari, et en France avec le geographe Andre Thevet et le reformateur Theodore de Beze, entre autres. Constituees en series, ornees de portraits graves, ces Vies nous font penetrer dans l'esprit de la Renaissance heroique, qui apparait tiraille entre la transmission des valeurs et l'interet pour la singularite individuelle.

Le geviya est une langue bantoue qui appartient au meme groupe linguistique que le getsogo, l'apindji et le gevove. Parlee dans un seul village au coeur du Gabon par un nombre extremement reduit de personnes, cette langue est actuellement menacee de disparition. Assez fortement influencee par des langues voisines, elle presente a l'heure actuelle les caracteristiques d'une langue mixte, surtout dans son vocabulaire.Le dictionnaire geviya-francais est le fruit d'une longue collaboration scientifique fructueuse entre Lolke Van der Veen et Sebastien Bodinga-bwa-Bodinga. Le premier est professeur de linguistique a l'Universite Lumiere-Lyon 2 et membre du laboratoire "Dynamique du Langage" (UMR 5596). Le second est ancien secretaire du gouverneur de Mouila (Gabon) et fervent defenseur de sa langue maternelle, le geviya.Cet ouvrage, qui rassemble plus de 6200 entrees, constitue une contribution importante a la lexicographie des langues du Gabon. Il permettra en particulier d'approfondir l'etude de la langue et la culture des Eviya.

Il y a, d'un cote, la considerable variete morphologique et syntaxique de la negation, ou plutot des negations qu'on trouve dans les langues naturelles. Il y a, d'autre part, le role visiblement central que jouent les negations dans l'activite humaine d'interlocution. Comment mettre en rapport ce role et cette variete? Alors que la reponse habituellement donnee repose sur des generalites semantiques ou logiques, sur des pragmatiques ou sur des theories cognitivistes du langage, cet ouvrage cherche a en degager une autre du coeur meme de la syntaxe des langues, la oA' l'enonciation trouve un appareil formel plus essentiel qu'on ne le pense parfois. On fonderait ainsi une typologie linguistique des negations qui rendrait justice a leurs diversites et a leurs constantes.

Grammatical description and instruction have left their enduring imprint on European scholarship and culture. For more than twenty centuries, grammar has been the cornerstone of humanist education, and has been transmitted continuously, albeit in changing - chronologically, geographically, politically, and institutionally - contexts. The papers in this volume document the transmission, adaptation and re-elaboration of grammar, since Antiquity, by focusing on its foundational concepts and techniques. The vectors of these processes of transmission and adaptation are texts, and behind these texts, we can reconstruct networks of interaction: between teachers and students, between scholars and models of description, and - as the overarching dynamics - the dialogue between the members of the "virtual community" interested in the study of language. The seventeen papers of this volume have been arranged into six sections: "Grammar: The Fate of a Cultural Discipline"; "The Origins of Linguistic Reflection in Ancient Greece"; "Ancient Greek grammar: Theorization and Practice"; "Latin Grammar in Antiquity and the Low Middle Ages: Heritage and Innovation"; "Renaissance Grammar and Rhetoric: The Encounter between Classical Languages and the Vernaculars"; "Philological Deposits of Ancient Latin Grammars"). The volume is rounded off with detailed indices (Index of names; Index of Greek, Latin, and Latinized technical terms; Index of concepts).

The volume contains the texts of interviews realized with three linguists: the late Andre-Georges Haudricourt (1911-1996), Henry M. Hoenigswald (born in 1915) and Robert H. Robins (born in 1921). The book has a twofold objective: on the one hand, its goal is to bring together a number of "inside" testimonies on fundamental issues in linguistics; on the other hand, it is intended to provide a personalized documentation which is particularly relevant for a historiography of linguistics that does not limit itself to published sources. The issues addressed in these interviews concern the status of linguistics (and more particularly the relationship between the study of languages and history), the fundamental aims of the study of language, and the scientific and humanitarian status of linguistics. The three interviews also shed light on the intellectual itinerary of the three linguists and on the developments which took place in the linguistic landscape during the past 65 years. The three interviews are supplemented with useful bibliographical notes. The preface informs about the state of the art in the "oral archiving" of linguistics.

This volume contains 30 contributions, all dealing with the history of French pedagogical grammars and French language teaching in the 16th and 17th century. The volume opens with a historical and methodological survey of the teaching and description of French as a foreign language between 1500 and 1700. The 29 contributors that follow are grouped into two sections. The first section is devoted to methodological issues and institutional aspects of French language pedagogy. The second section, covering the teaching of French in the Scandinavian countries, Great-Britain, the Low Countries, the German-speaking area and Central Europe, the Iberian peninsula and Italy, offers detailed analyses of national traditions of foreign language teaching, manuals, grammarians and didactical practices. All contributions are followed by extensive bibliographies. The volume contains an index of personal names and of concepts. The editors of the volume are members of the "Seminarium Historiographiae Linguisticae" (University of Leuven, Belgium).

Autant anthropologiques au sens large que proprement historiques ou linguistiques, les articles specialises de l'Encyclopedie berbere etudient les caracteristiques des populations berberes et leur originalite dans l'ensemble mediterraneen, islamique et africain.

Most literary magazines focus on the craft of writing and cater to a highly select audience of writers, literary critics, and scholars of literature. In contrast, "The Reader" is a quarterly literary magazine aimed at the intelligent common reader, reaching out to an audience that ranges from students first encountering serious literature to professional academics and writers. Offered here in its autumn 2005 "Americans" issue, "The Reader "is a unique journal that celebrates the act of reading in all its forms and facets.
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The Inupiatun Uqaluit Taniktun Sivunit/Inupiaq to English Dictionary is a comprehensive treatment of one of Alaska's oldest ancestral languages. Through its 19,000 entries and thirty-one appendices - with categories such as kin terms, names of constellations, and a list of explanations - the dictionary is an exceptional blend of linguistic and cultural references.