Using Language
Using Language

Author: Herbert H. Clark

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-05-16

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780521567459

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Herbert Clark argues that language use is more than the sum of a speaker speaking and a listener listening. It is the joint action that emerges when speakers and listeners, writers and readers perform their individual actions in coordination, as ensembles. In contrast to work within the cognitive sciences, which has seen language use as an individual process, and to work within the social sciences, which has seen it as a social process, the author argues strongly that language use embodies both individual and social processes.

The Book of Collateral Damage
The Book of Collateral Damage

Author: Sinan Antoon

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2019-05-28

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0300244851

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Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memory Widely-celebrated author Sinan Antoon’s fourth and most sophisticated novel follows Nameer, a young Iraqi scholar earning his doctorate at Harvard, who is hired by filmmakers to help document the devastation of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. During the excursion, Nameer ventures to al-Mutanabbi street in Baghdad, famed for its bookshops, and encounters Wadood, an eccentric bookseller who is trying to catalogue everything destroyed by war, from objects, buildings, books and manuscripts, flora and fauna, to humans. Entrusted with the catalogue and obsessed with Wadood’s project, Nameer finds life in New York movingly intertwined with fragments from his homeland’s past and its present—destroyed letters, verses, epigraphs, and anecdotes—in this stylistically ambitious panorama of the wreckage of war and the power of memory.

Collateral Knowledge
Collateral Knowledge

Author: Annelise Riles

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2011-05

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 0226719332

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Who are the agents of financial regulation? Is good (or bad) financial governance merely the work of legislators and regulators? Here Annelise Riles argues that financial governance is made not just through top-down laws and policies but also through the daily use of mundane legal techniques such as collateral by a variety of secondary agents, from legal technicians and retail investors to financiers and academics and even computerized trading programs. Drawing upon her ten years of ethnographic fieldwork in the Japanese derivatives market, Riles explores the uses of collateral in the financial markets as a regulatory device for stabilizing market transactions. How collateral operates, Riles suggests, is paradigmatic of a class of low-profile, mundane, but indispensable activities and practices that are all too often ignored as we think about how markets should work and be governed. Riles seeks to democratize our understanding of legal techniques, and demonstrate how these day-to-day private actions can be reformed to produce more effective forms of market regulation.

Collateral
Collateral

Author: Ellen Hopkins

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-07-23

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 145162638X

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Language Disorders from Infancy Through Adolescence
Language Disorders from Infancy Through Adolescence

Author: Rhea Paul

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 800

ISBN-13: 0323036856

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This text provides students with the information needed to properly assess childhood language disorders and decide appropriate treatments. The book covers language development from birth to adolescence.

Choosing the Language of Transnational Deals
Choosing the Language of Transnational Deals

Author: Patrick L. Del Duca

Publisher: American Bar Association

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9781604429374

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This book takes a comparative look at cross-border secured lending and commercial dispute resolution. It illustrates how parties involved in transactions can effectively structure their business to maximize their control of the language choice in which they deal. The book integrates investigations of national legal systems and various international organizations to illustrate the new institutitional dynamics through which the languages of transnational commerce and finance are being defined.