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...Richard D. Lambert Abstract Many of you will have heard of the Social Science Research Council's Language and Area Studies Review . In fact many of you filled in one or more of its tedious questionnaires. Unfortunately, it has been caught up in the debate about the relative merits of various size...

...Edward Putzar Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 VOL. XXXV, No. i JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES NOVEMBER 1975 Review Articles Language and Area Studies in the U.S.* Professor Richard Lambert's Review of language and area studies in the United States is the fifth...

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...Benjamin I. Schwartz Abstract As we all know, the modest, colorless, and ambiguous term “area studies” emerged during the course of World War II as a way of describing one minor enterprise in the war effort. It was an enterprise designed to achieve an encapsulated understanding of the unknown areas...

... to untrained native speakers of the target language or to specialists in other disciplines—particularly literature and theoretical linguistics—who “also teach language” without any relevant training or experience. In order to develop a meaningful relationship between language and area studies...

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...: A Survey of Local Communities in a Hydropower Area . By Jan Ovesen . Uppsala : Uppsala Reports in Cultural Anthropology, No. 13. Uppsala University , 1993 . viii, 80 pp. Road 13: A Socio-Economic Study of Villages, Transport and Use of Road 13 S, Lao P.D.R . By Agneta Håkangård . Stockholm...

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