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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

--François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod


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Title: Plautdietsch - English. English - Plautdietsch Word Finder
Subtitle: For the Learner of Plautdietsch or Anyone Interested in Netherlandic-Mennonite Plautdietsch
Written By: Eldo Neufeldt
Series Title: Languages of the World/Dictionaries 40
Description:

The purpose of this alphabetically-arranged Plautdietsch-English, English-Plautdietsch word finder is to provide a handy reference tool for people who are looking for a word to use, for which they already know its equivalent in either one or the other of the two languages. The mother tongue of the compiler is Plautdietsch, and he has long been occupied with collecting lists of words in the dialect. He has especially looked for words not totally common in the daily speech of the speakers of the dialect. He has, nevertheless, relied heavily on the work of other Plautdietsch writers, and especially on compilers of Plautdietsch dictionaries. There is in existence a variety of such dictionaries, each with its own system of orthography. The system chosen for this work is the same as that used in the author's earlier publications, based closely on Reuben Epp's 1996 publication "The Spelling of Low German and Plautdietsch." Minor departures from that system will not be noticeable, although they are outlined in the Introduction. A notable feature of this word finder is the addition of a special section of neologisms, words not formerly found in Plautdietsch vocabularies; for example, words in the fields (among others) of medicine, the law, the arts, sports, the military, modern technology, etc. Traditional, conservative opinion will probably object to the inclusion of this type of thinking, but if the dialect is to show its capability of dealing with contemporary life and adapting to it, serious consideration may have to be given to it. Plautdietsch is spoken by ca. 410,000 people (Canada 50,000; Germany 100,000; Kazakhstan 50,000; Latin America 140,000; USA 20,000).

Publication Year: 2005
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
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Linguistic Field(s): Lexicography
Subject Language(s): English
Plautdietsch

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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 3895864846
ISBN-13: N/A
Pages: 535
Prices: Europe EURO 82