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This book examines depression as a widely diagnosed and treated
common mental disorder in India and offers a significant
ethnographic study of the application of a traditional Indian
medical system (Ayurveda) to the very modern problem of depression.
Based on over a year of fieldwork, it investigates the Ayurvedic
response to the burden of depression in the Indian state of Kerala
as one of the key processes of the local appropriation or
glocalization of depression. More broadly, Lang considers: What
happens with the category of depression when it leaves the West and
travels to South Asia? How is depression appropriated in a South
Asian society characterized by medical pluralism? She explores on
the level of ideas, institutions and materialities how depression
interacts with and changes local worlds, clinical practice and
knowledge and subjectivities. As depression travels from 'the West'
to South India, its ontology, Lang argues, multiplies and thus
leads to what she calls 'depression multiple'.
This book examines depression as a widely diagnosed and treated
common mental disorder in India and offers a significant
ethnographic study of the application of a traditional Indian
medical system (Ayurveda) to the very modern problem of depression.
Based on over a year of fieldwork, it investigates the Ayurvedic
response to the burden of depression in the Indian state of Kerala
as one of the key processes of the local appropriation or
glocalization of depression. More broadly, Lang considers: What
happens with the category of depression when it leaves the West and
travels to South Asia? How is depression appropriated in a South
Asian society characterized by medical pluralism? She explores on
the level of ideas, institutions and materialities how depression
interacts with and changes local worlds, clinical practice and
knowledge and subjectivities. As depression travels from 'the West'
to South India, its ontology, Lang argues, multiplies and thus
leads to what she calls 'depression multiple'.
Corpus Linguistics for World Englishes offers a detailed account of
how to analyse the many fascinating varieties of English around the
world using corpus-linguistic methods. Employing case studies for
illustration of relevant concepts and methods throughout, this
book: introduces the theory and practice of analysing World
Englishes illustrates the basics of corpus-linguistic methods and
presents the vast World Englishes corpora links World Englishes to
Learner Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca offers practical,
hands-on exercises and questions for discussion in each chapter
provides helpful overviews and course syllabi for students and
instructors. Corpus Linguistics for World Englishes is key reading
for advanced students of English as a World Language and Corpus
Linguistics, as well as anyone keen to understand variation in
World Englishes with the help of corpus linguistics.
Present-Day English is unique among the Germanic languages in
employing the same forms (himself, herself etc.) both as reflexive
pronoun and intensifier. While a lot of attention has been directed
at the grammaticalization of the compound reflexive, the emergence
of the compound intensifier has remained largely mysterious. This
study is a detailed investigation of the domains of reflexivity and
intensification throughout the history of English. It provides a
comprehensive analysis of the possible source contexts for
Self-forms in Old and Middle English. Backed up with a wide range
of data from early Middle English, the compound intensifier is
traced to discourse-pragmatic motivations: expressive strategies
linked to specific discourse traditions become rapidly
grammaticalized once the former Old English standard gave way to
large-scale variation in Middle English.
Corpus Linguistics for World Englishes offers a detailed account of
how to analyse the many fascinating varieties of English around the
world using corpus-linguistic methods. Employing case studies for
illustration of relevant concepts and methods throughout, this
book: introduces the theory and practice of analysing World
Englishes illustrates the basics of corpus-linguistic methods and
presents the vast World Englishes corpora links World Englishes to
Learner Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca offers practical,
hands-on exercises and questions for discussion in each chapter
provides helpful overviews and course syllabi for students and
instructors. Corpus Linguistics for World Englishes is key reading
for advanced students of English as a World Language and Corpus
Linguistics, as well as anyone keen to understand variation in
World Englishes with the help of corpus linguistics.
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