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Nicknames : their origins and social consequences
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ISBN: 0710001398 Year: 1979 Publisher: London Routledge & K. Paul

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Epithets at the syntax-semantics interface
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ISBN: 9781443883887 1443883883 9781443876193 1443876194 Year: 2015 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

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This book is one of the first extensive cross-linguistic theoretical investigations on epithets. Epithets (such as "the bastard") are anaphoric expressions which take the shape of a definite description, contain an evaluative component, and are typically unstressed. This monograph shows that, in order to understand the perplexing nature of epithets, one must consider what kinds of behavior they exhibit in different components of the language faculty. In this vein, the text adopts a broad approach, analysing epithets from the perspective of the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface.The empirica


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Naming colonialism : history and collective memory in the Congo, 1870-1960
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ISBN: 9780299233648 0299233642 9780299233631 0299233634 1282424203 9786612424205 9781282424203 6612424206 Year: 2009 Publisher: Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin Press,

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What's in a name? As Osumaka Likaka argues in this illuminating study, the names that Congolese villagers gave to European colonizers reveal much about how Africans experienced and reacted to colonialism. The arrival of explorers, missionaries, administrators, and company agents allowed Africans to observe Westerners' physical appearances, behavior, and cultural practices at close range--often resulting in subtle yet trenchant critiques. By naming Europeans, Africans turned a universal practice into a local mnemonic system, recording and preserving the village's understanding of colonialism in the form of pithy verbal expressions that were easy to remember and transmit across localities, regions, and generations.

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