CONTEMPORARY ENGINEERING ECONOMICS CASE STUDIES BY CHAN S.PARK Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading Massachusetts, 1993, viii + 98 pp. + 31 page appendix of interest tables. ISBN 0-201-53277-8. List: $19.95.

1994 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-201
Author(s):  
David G. Humphrey
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Publishing Company ◽  
Engineering Economics

Functionalism is/n't formalism: an interactive review of Darnell et al. (1999) Michael Darnell, Edith Moravcsik, Frederick J. Newmeyer, Michael Noonan & Kathleen M. Wheatley (eds.), Functionalism and formalism in linguistics, vol. I: General papers & vol. II: Case studies (Studies in Language Companion Series 41 & 42). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1999. Pp. iv+514 (vol. I) & pp. iv+407 (vol. II).

2003 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDREW CARNIE ◽  
NORMA MENDOZA-DENTON
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Junior Faculty ◽  
The United States ◽  
Publishing Company ◽  
Senior Faculty ◽  
The University ◽  
Minimalist Syntax

SETTING: The University of Arizona's idyllic desert campus. As in many colleges across the United States, ‘formalist’ linguistics is implicitly understood to be at cross-purposes with ‘functionalist’ linguistics. The Linguistics Department's only course on non-minimalist syntax is famously nicknamed ‘Bad Guys’. Although the linguistics department forms a unified front, malcontent quietly simmers across campus as functionalist sociolinguists, discourse analysts, grammaticalization specialists and linguistic anthropologists outnumber formalists, though they roam within their own language-department fiefdoms. Politeness and cooperation reign among senior faculty linguists, who have realized that antagonism only hurts students and programs in all the language sciences. The junior faculty are more brash: they work hard, publish a lot, and speak loudly to get tenure as respected form/functionalists. They socialize together and joke about each other's positions, but don't talk very much serious shoptalk. Until now …

Reviews of the Literature: Case Studies in Colonial Development: Papua-New Guinea, Fiji, and Western Samoa

1954 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-40
Author(s):  
Douglas Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Publishing Company ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
American Institute ◽  
The South ◽  
Australian Institute ◽  
Western Samoa ◽  
Institute Of Pacific Relations ◽  
Post War

Shortly after the war, the Australian Institute of International Affairs and the American Institute of Pacific Relations commissioned the Australian anthropologist, W. E. H. Stanner, to survey post-war rehabilitation and reconstruction in Southwest Pacific dependencies. The South Seas in Transition (Australasian Publishing Company, Sydney, 1953), which is the result of this study, is a notable contribution to the history and theory of colonialism. Because of certain features of style and vocabulary it is a difficult book even for the specialist, but in the opinion of this reviewer, it should rank high on the required reading list of everyone interested in the South Pacific in particular, and in the problems of colonialism and "underdeveloped" areas in general. Perhaps the outstanding merit of this book is its balance: the events and problems it discusses have been treated elsewhere by economists, political scientists, officials, journalists, anthropologists, etc., but in no other publication known to this reviewer have these matters been set forth and interpreted with such impartial comprehensiveness. This is not to say that the author indulges in what he terms "the careful silence" or "the agile verbal straddle;" on the contrary, he arrives at some very definite conclusions about the causes and sources of past and continuing difficulties, and these he states unequivocably and with convincing documentation.

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