Angela Reyes and Adrienne Lo (eds.), Beyond Yellow English: Toward a linguistic anthropology of Asian Pacific America. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xvii, 401. Pb $29.95.

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 699-702
Author(s):  
Ashley M. Williams
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Linguistic Anthropology ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Asian Pacific ◽  
Oxford University Press

Daniel Nettle, Linguistic diversity. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 168. Hb $65.00, pb $19.95.

2001 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-100
Author(s):  
Patrick McConvell
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Behavior ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Linguistic Anthropology ◽  
Ecological Situation ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Oxford University Press

Why does linguistic diversity exist? This is the question to which this book is addressed. Nettle argues that, although aspects of the diversity of languages have been studied, the reason for this diversity has not been a subject of attention. To answer the question, he suggests that a multidisciplinary approach is necessary – a broad linguistic anthropology in which the linguistic map is explained by people's social behavior, which in turn arises largely from their ecological situation.

Ray Jackendoff, Foundations of language: Brain, meaning, grammar, evolution. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. xix, 477. Hb $40.00.

2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-418
Author(s):  
Robbins Burling
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Linguistic Anthropology ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Oxford University Press

In this extraordinary book, Jackendoff proposes nothing less than a new way to understand the architecture of language and a new way to view the relation of language to the brain, to the mind, to behavior, and to the evolution of our species. It is, among many other things, an invitation for cooperation from one of the world's leading formal syntacticians to linguists of diverse orientations and to those from adjacent fields, including sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. If we don't want to be left behind, we had better pay close attention.

Book Reviews

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-106
Author(s):  
Janet Klein ◽  
David Romano ◽  
Michael M. Gunter ◽  
Joost Jongerden ◽  
Atakan İnce ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Eastern Anatolia ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
National Movement ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern Turkey ◽  
Oxford University Press

Uğur Ümit Üngör, The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 352 pp. (ISBN: 9780199603602).Mohammed M. A. Ahmed, Iraqi Kurds and Nation-Building. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 294 pp., (ISBN: 978-1-137-03407-6), (paper). Ofra Bengio, The Kurds of Iraq: Building a State within a State. Boulder, CO and London, UK: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012, xiv + 346 pp., (ISBN 978-1-58826-836-5), (hardcover). Cengiz Gunes, The Kurdish National Movement in Turkey, from Protest to Resistance, London: Routledge, 2012, 256 pp., (ISBN: 978-0-415—68047-9). Aygen, Gülşat, Kurmanjî Kurdish. Languages of the World/Materials 468, München: Lincom Europa, 2007, 92 pp., (ISBN: 9783895860706), (paper).Barzoo Eliassi, Contesting Kurdish Identities in Sweden: Quest for Belonging among Middle Eastern Youth, Oxford: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 234 pp. (ISBN: 9781137282071).

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