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...Helen E. Ullrich Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1979 1979 Symbolic and Pragmatic Semantics: A Kannada System of Address . By Susan S. Bean . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1978 . xvi, 163 pp. Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $17.00. BOOK REVIEWS...

...Helen E. Ullrich Modern Kannada Fiction: A Critical Anthology . Edited by M. G. Krishnamurthi . Madison : Department of Indian Studies, University of Wisconsin , 1967 . xxv, 225 pp. $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 BOOK REVIEWS 631 Moghul manner...

...Caleb Simmons The Inner Mirror provides a welcome sample of scholars of Kannadiga society, who are only writing in Kannada, that can begin to expand the knowledge of the people and culture of Karnataka for those of us whose primary focus is the Kannada-speaking world. Though lucid, well...

...Rocky V. Miranda A Reference Grammar of Spoken Kannada . By Harold F. Schiffman . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1983 . xxii, 177 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. $25. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 654 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES thought...

... of Sanskrit and Indie Studies at the University of Chicago. I wish to thank T. V. Venkatachala Sastry (Mysore), my guide in Old Kannada. Benedict Anderson (Ithaca) offered helpful criticism when an earlier version of the paper was presented at the 1995 meeting of the Association for Asian Studies. Thanks also...

... University A Reference Grammar of Spoken Kannada. By HAROLD F. SCHIFFMAN. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1983. xxii, 177 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. $25. Kannada is a major Dravidian language spoken in Karnataka and in neighboring areas in southwestern India. As Harold Schiffman points out...

... OF ASIAN STUDIES first person pronouns" (p. 20), she has probably limited herself to colloquial Kannada, literary Kannada, and Avaruuru Kannada, excluding other dialects. Havyaka Kannada, for example, the dialect on which I worked, preserves the inclusive-exclusive first person plural distinction...

... factor would have been useful. DURGAPRASAD BHATTACHARYA Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta Symbolic and Pragmatic Semantics: A Kannada System of Address. By SUSAN S. BEAN. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978. xvi, 163 pp. Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $17.00. In Symbolic...

... background information. However, it is too Concise. One would like to know the criteria for reorganizing the history of the Kannada language from four periods: " i . Ancient Kannada Period (till the 5th century A.D 2. Old Kannada Period (5th to 12th century A.D 3. Medieval Kannada Period (12th to the 18th...

... of South Indian civilization in this generation and a major poet in Kannada and English, died in Chicago on July 13, 1993. A masterful translator, linguist, folklorist, teacher, and scholar, Raman as we knew him was above all a deeply loved and loving human being, with an unparalleled talent for friendship...

... considerable information on the Bhumij revolt, this is not a work with new insights, nor does it skillfully weave together the many events involved. University of California, Riverside MARTIN ORANS Modern Kannada Fiction: A Critical Anthol- ogy. EDITED BY M. G. KRISHNAMURTHI. Madison: Department of Indian...

... population. Language skills and loyalty provide a framework for the study of the type of contact between local residents and North Indian migrants, and their participation in each other's social grouping. The sample consists of 118 North Indian households and 59 Kannada households. The North Indians were...

... other's social grouping. The sample consists of 118 North Indian households and 59 Kannada households. The North Indians were selected from the Electoral Rolls of the Bangalore Corporation (1960-1961) on the basis of their names. To insure that they had opportunity for association with North Indians...

... . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xvi, 270 pp. $48.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). A. K. Ramanujan first began collecting Kannada folktales in the 1950s, when he was a college lecturer in South India. "I wrote them down by hand and years later, when I could afford a tape recorder, recorded them...

... Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 655 Bookhouse, 1978 However, Bhat's work is in Kannada, and it is inaccessible to many scholars who might like to find out more about Kannada syntax. Schiffman states that, since his work is a reference grammar, his primary interest has been in assembling...

... of writing (see Yamuna Kachru's “Hindi–Urdu–Hindustani”; Karumuri V. Subbarao's “Typological Characteristics of South Asian Languages”; Ian Smith's “Pidgins, Creoles, and Bazaar Hindi”; Peter T. Daniels's “Writing Systems of Major and Minor Languages”; S. N. Sridhar's “Language Modernization in Kannada...

... BLACKBURN and A L A N D U N D E S . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xvi, 270 pp. $48.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). A. K. Ramanujan first began collecting Kannada folktales in the 1950s, when he was a college lecturer in South India. "I wrote them down by hand and years later, when I could...

... and locally. In apparent contrast with the Kannada region, the authorization of literary language in Kerala was more clearly concerned with locally popular speech forms and genres though, again, the standard of literariness itself derived from Sanskrit. Part of the difference in the two cases may stem from...

.... In his study of the religion of India, Max Weber made scant reference to the Lingayat movement, probably because the major textual sources of this religion were in the Kannada language. Basavanna (known also as Basava) was a saint-poet, statesman, charismatic leader, and social reformer who together...

... Appropriately for a book about poetics, this work achieves a sense of the almost seamless moral universe encompassing a Kannada-speaking community (Sringeri) and its Sanskritic theological underpinnings through a poetics of incantation. The nonspecialist reader is cast beguilingly adrift in an undulating...