This book proposes to reconstruct the phenomenon of rule-following out of materials that do not presuppose linguistic meanings or conceptual contents, though without depriving itself altogether of properly intentional resources.

A reader of various articles and content from 19th-century Maori newspapers. For easy use and comparison, the Maori and English texts have been placed alongside one another, illustrating a fascinating range of tone, style and subject. The book contains an introduction followed by six sections divided thematically.

Keren Mock provides a strikingly original multidisciplinary account of the transformation of Hebrew from an ancient sacred tongue to a secular spoken language.

Keren Mock provides a strikingly original multidisciplinary account of the transformation of Hebrew from an ancient sacred tongue to a secular spoken language.

Examines how Sino-Muslim religious, cultural and historical knowledge is produced and maintained through everyday and community literacy practices.

The Hidden Politics of Grammar is a thorough investigation into a corpus of historical American grammar texts and their often overlooked political nature, revealing how their linguistic choices decisively contributed to the creation and maintenance of an explicitly American identity.