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Volume 30:1 (Spring 2000)
Literacy and Writing Systems in Asia
(Chin W. Kim with Elmer H. Antonsen, William Bright and Braj B. Kachru)
| Preface: Braj B. Kachru | vii |
| Foreword: Chin W. Kim | ix |
| I. A Tribute to King Sejong | 1 |
| Chin W. Kim: The legacy of King Sejong the Great ► | 3 |
| Young-Key Kim-Renaud: Sejong's theory of literacy and writing ► | 13 |
| Florian Coulmas: The nationalization of writing ► | 47 |
| II. Typology of Writing Systems | 61 |
| William Bright: A matter of typology: Alphasyllabaries and abugidas ► | 63 |
| Peter T. Daniels: On writing syllabaries: Three episodes of transfer ► | 73 |
| Richard G. Salomon: Typological observations on the Indic script group and its relationship to other alphasyllabaries ► | 87 |
| III. Writing and Cognition | 105 |
| Chin-Chuan Cheng: Frequently-used Chinese characters and language cognition ► | 107 |
| Hwawei Ko & Ovid J. L. Tzeng: The role of phonological awareness in a phonetically opaque script ► | 119 |
| IV. Literacy and Writing Systems in South Asia | 133 |
| Peter Lowenberg: Writing and literacy in Indonesia ► | 135 |
| Kamal K. Sridhar & Yamuna Kachru: Literacy, minority languages, and multilingual India ► | 149 |
| V. Literacy and Writing Systems in the Pacific | 167 |
| Larry E. Smith & Jesse R. Long: Literacy, writing systems, and development in the Pacific ► | 169 |
| Stanley Yunick, Jr.: Linguistics, TESL, and language planning in Micronesia ► | 183 |
| VI. Writing and Minority Languages in East Asia | 201 |
| Ma. Lourdes S. Bautista: Bridging research and practice in literacy work among minority language groups in the Philippines ► | 203 |
| Yukio Tsuda: The maintenance of Korean language and identity in Japan ► | 219 |
| Zhiwei Feng & Binyong Yin: The Chinese digraphia problem in the Information Age ► | 229 |
| APPENDICES | 235 |
| A. Abstracts | |
| 1. Wanjin Kim: A dual theory in the creation of the Korean script | 237 |
| 2. Pung-Hyun Nam: The role of Chinese characters in representing Korean and in the formation of a writing system | 239 |
| 3. Soo-Hee Toh: Decipherment of loan characters in Korean personal and place names | 241 |
| B. Symposia Programs | |
| 4. Urbana symposium, May 1-2, 1998 | 243 |
| 5. Seoul symposium, July 13-14, 1998 | 245 |
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Volume 30:2 (Fall 2000)
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Papers in General Linguistics
(Edited by Elmer H. Antonsen)
| Al-Qinai, Jamal B. S.: Morphophonemics of loanwords in Arabic | 1 |
| Clachar, Arlene: The Acquisition of Aspect Marking in English by Native Speakers of Creole | 27 |
| Hock, Hans Henrich: Whose past is it? Linguistic pre- and early history and self-identification in modern South Asia | 51 |
| Jo, Jung-Min: Morphosyntax of a dummy verb 'ha-' in Korean | 77 |
| Kuo, Shiun-Zu, Chin-Chuan Cheng, Robert C. Bilger & Cynthia J. Johnson: Perceptual distance of initial consonants between Southern Min and Cantonese | 101 |
| Makino, Reiko: Pragmatic analysis of so-called complementizers in Japanese: koto and no | 133 |
| Mughazy, Mustafa Abd-Elghafar: Pragmatics of the evil eye in Egyptian Arabic | 147 |
| Ngom, Fallou: Sociolinguistic motivations of lexical borrowings in Senegal | 159 |
| Obeng, Samuel Gyassi: Vowel harmony and tone in Akan toponyms | 173 |
| Simo Bobda, Augustin: The uniqueness of Ghanaian English pronunciation in West Africa | 185 |
| Sukumane, Joyce B. G.: Issues in language planning and policy: The case of Namibia | 199 |
| Yambi, Josephine: Planned and spontaneous vocabulary expansion in Tanzanian Kiswahili | 209 |
| Review | |
| Kachru, Yamuna: Review of Gerry Knowles, Anne Wichmann, & Peter Alderson (eds). Working with Speech: Perspectives on Research into the Lancaster/IBM Spoken English Corpus, 1996, and Tony McEnery & Andrew Wilson. Corpus Linguistics, 1997 | 223 |
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Volume 31:1 (Spring 2001)
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Diaspora, Identity, and Language Communities
(Edited by Braj B. Kachru and Cecil L. Nelson)
| Preface | v |
| Acknowledgments | vii |
| Part I: Culture, canon, and creativity | 1 |
| 1. Cameron McCarthy: The predicament of cultures: Wilson Harris, post-colonial literature, and the curriculum in troubled times | 3 |
| 2. Edwin Thumboo: 'In such beginnings are my ends'; Diaspora and literary creativity | 19 |
| 3. Shirley Geok-lin Lim: Not waving, but drowning: Creativity and identity in diaspora writing | 31 |
| Part II: Contextualizing diasporas | 49 |
| 4. Salikoko S. Mufwene: English in the Black diaspora: Development and identity | 51 |
| 5. Enrique (Henry) T. Trueba: Language and identity among Mexicans in the United States: The secret of resiliency and successful adaptation | 61 |
| 6. Aleya Rouchdy: Language contact and identity: Arabic in the American diaspora | 77 |
| 7. Elabbas Benmamoun: Language identities in Morocco in a historical context | 95 |
| 8. Erica McClure: Language and identity in the Assyrian diaspora | 107 |
| 9. Michael Palencia-Roth: Diasporic consciousness in contemporary Colombia | 121 |
| 10. Robert Baumgardner: U.S. Americans in Mexico: Constructing identities in Monterrey | 137 |
| 11. Nobuko Adachi: Japanese Brazilians: The Japanese language community in Brazil | 161 |
| Part III: Constructing discourse in diaspora | 179 |
| 12. Pradeep A. Dhillon: The longest way home: Language and philosophy in diaspora | 181 |
| 13. Tamara M. Valentine: Reconstructing identities and gender in transplanted English discourse | 193 |
| 14. Robert D. King: The paradox of creativity in the diaspora: The Yiddish language and Jewish identity | 213 |
| 15. Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande: Constructing religious discourse in diaspora: American Hinduism | 231 |
| 16. Marc Deneire: A quest for language: Jack Kerouac as a minor writer | 253 |
| 17. Tej K. Bhatia: Media, identity, and diaspora: Indians abroad | 269 |
| Part IV: Afterword | 289 |
| 18. Ladislav Zgusta: Diaspora: The past in the present | 291 |
| Notes on the contributors | 299 |
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Volume 31:2 (Fall 2001)
Papers in General Linguistics
(Edited by Elmer H. Antonsen)
| Jamal al-Qinai: Convergence and divergence in translating vs. interpreting competence ► | 1-20 |
| Ali Darzi: Nonfinite control in Persian ► | 21-32 |
| David Eddington: Spanish epenthesis: Formal and performance perspectives ► | 33-53 |
| Moha Ennaji: The construct state in Berber ► | 55-72 |
| Liwei Gao: The lexical acculturation of English in the Chinese context ► | 73-88 |
| Naomi Gurevich: A critique of markedness-based theories in phonology ► | 89-114 |
| Moses Kwadwo Kambou: Contrastive analysis in multilingual societies: A methodological issue ► | 115-126 |
| Rajesh Kumar: Shift from Maithili to Hindi: A sociolinguistic study ► | 127-141 |
| Mustafa Mughazy: Adjectival passives and thematic roles in Eyptian Arabic: A cognitive-semantic approach ► | 143-153 |
| Sarah J. Shin: Cross-language speech perception in adults: Discrimination of Korean voiceless stops by English speakers ► | 155-166 |
| Pavel Trofimovich, Wendy Baker & Molly Mack: Context- and experience based effects on the learning of vowels in a second language ► | 167-186 |
| Hang Zhang: An analysis of TV-advertising language across cultures ► | 187-211 |
| Review | |
| Daniel Silverman: Review of Joan Bybee: Phonology and Language Use | 213-216 |
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Volume 32:1 (Spring 2002)
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Papers in General Linguistics
(Edited by Peter Lasersohn)
| Zsuzsanna Faygal, Noel Nguyen & Philippe Boula de Mareuil: From dilation to coarticulation: Is there vowel harmony in French? | 1-21 |
| Liwei Gao: On the nativization of English in China | 23-38 |
| Jose Ignacio Hualde, Pello Mugarza & Koldo Zuazo : The accentual system of Mallabia Basque | 39-56 |
| Yong-hun Lee: Resolution algorithms for the Korean reflexive cakicasin: A Categorial Grammar Approach | 57-77 |
| Theeraporn Ratitamkul: An alternative analysis to the temporal adverbial when-clause | 79-89 |
| Review | |
| Jose Ignacio Hualde: Review of R.M.W. Dixon and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Word: A Cross-Linguistic Typology | 91-93 |
| Cedric Boeckx: Review of Thomas Ernst: The Syntax of Adjuncts | 95-101 |
| Jose Ignacio Hualde: Review of Robert Stockwell and Donka Minkova: English Words: History and Structure | 103-105 |
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Volume 32:2 (Fall 2002)
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Papers in General Linguistics
(Edited by Peter Lasersohn)
| Timothy L. Face & Scott M. Alvord: Descriptive adequacy vs. psychological reality: The case of two restrictions on Spanish stress placement | 1-16 |
| Jose Ignacio Hualde & Itziar Aramaio: Accentual variation and convergence in northeastern Bizkaian Basque | 17-38 |
| Aimee Johansen: Kiswahili naming of days of the week in a wider context of day name borrowings | 39-42 |
| Regina Morin: English/Spanish language contact on the internet: Linguistic borrowing of many stripes | 43-62 |
| Keun Young Shin: Two types of negation not and scope ambiguities | 63-72 |
| Asha Tickoo: On information packaging and hearer engagement in Kashmiri narrative | 73-90 |
| Reviews | |
| Peter Lasersohn: Review of Jeffrey C. King: Complex Demonstratives: A Quantificational Account | 91-93 |
| James H. Yang: Review of Saran Kaur Gill: English Language Challenges for Malaysia: International Communication | 91-93 |
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Volume 33:1/2 (Spring/Fall 2003)
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Papers in General Linguistics
(Edited by Peter Lasersohn)
| Jamal al-Qinai: Manipulation and censorship in translated texts | 1-30 |
| Kenichi Namai: Syntax of questions | 31-72 |
| Jie Zhang: Contour tone distribution is not an artifact of tonal melody mapping | 73-132 |
| Review | |
| Robert J. Baumgardner: Review of Viv Edwards: Multilingualism in the English-speaking World | 133-135 |
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