...Wendy Singer Colonialism and Knowledge in Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India . By Javed Majeed . New York : Routledge , 2019 . 266 pp. ISBN: 9780367183226 (cloth). Nation and Region in Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India . By Javed Majeed . New York : Routledge , 2019...

...Theodore Stern Karen Linguistic Studies. Description, Comparison, and Texts . By Robert B. Jones, Jr. , University of California Publications in Linguistics, Vol. 25 . Berkeley : U. of California Press , 1961 . xi , 283 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...John J. Dreher Abstract This is a brief descriptive and explanatory paper about the use of the computer in Asian linguistic studies. Schemes for the use of autocovariance and fast Fourier transforms are presented, with their application to the question of literary structure and author...

...Denzel Carr Abstract Eleutheromania is defined by one lexicographer as “a frantic zeal for freedom.” This frantic zeal for casting off former linguistic shackles (or what seemed to be shackles) has led to some problems that are worth examining here. Before launching into an analysis of Indonesian...

...John R. Sisson Linguistic Affairs of India . By Ram Gopal . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1966 . vii , 270 pp. Index, n.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 160 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Linguistic Affairs of India. B Y RAM GOPAL. New York: Asia...

...O. L. Chavarria Aguilar Linguistic Diversity in South Asia: Studies in Regional, Social and Functional Variation . Edited by Charles A. Ferguson and John J. Gumperz . International Journal of American Linguistics , Part III, XXVI, Number 3. July 1960. Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana...

... language, and ignorance of the problems facing the westerner. Yale University GEORGE A. KENNEDY A Linguistic Study of the Shih Ming (Harvard-Yenching Institute Studies XI). By NICHOLAS CLEAVELAND BODMAN. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1954. xi, 146. Notes, index, bibliography. Chinese...

...James A. Matisoff Burmese and Jingpho: A Study of Tonal Linguistic Processes . By La Raw Maran . Urbana : Center for Asian Studies , The University of Illinois, 1971 . Occasional Papers of the Wolfenden Society on Tibeto-Burman Linguistics, Vol. IV. ix, 210 pp. Bibliography, n.p.l...

...Benjamin A. Elman The Linguistic Shaping of Thought: A Study in the Impact of Language on Thinking in China and the West . By Alfred Bloom . Hillsdale, N.J. : Erlbaum Associates , 1981 . 106 pp. Appendix, Index. $16.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 VOL...

...Grace Wiersma Courting Poetry in Laos: A Textual and Linguistic Analysis . By Carol J. Compton . DeKalb, Ill. : Northern Illinois University, Center for Southeast Asian Studies (Special Report 18), 1979 . xi, 252 pp. Glossary, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $9 (paper). (Distributed...

...Franklin C. Southworth Defining a Linguistic Area: South Asia . By Colin P. Masica . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1976 . xiii, 234 pp. Illustrations, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $16.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1979 1979 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH...

...Harald Fuess Vicarious Language: Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan . By Miyako Inoue . Berkeley and Los Angles : University of California Press , 2006 . xvii, 340 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008...

... linguistic policy, Ueda argues, “The more ‘inauthentic’ speakers of kokugo (the language of whiteness) they can create, the more ‘authentic’ the imagined dominant majority become” (p. 97). As her definition of Japanese kokugo as “the language of whiteness” shows, she uses it to mean basically “civilized...

...Maurizio Marinelli Linguistic Engineering: Language and Politics in Mao's China . By Ji Fengyuan . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 2004 . viii , 350 pp. $50.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 1104 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E...

... nor any other of Ch'ien's creative writings has been widely studied. This paper is an initial exploration directed at investigating the above claims from the linguistic and stylistic points of view. One focus is figurative language, of which there is a substantial amount in this novel: some 680 uses...

...Lisa Mitchell Second Language Acquisition: Socio-cultural and Linguistic Aspects of English in India . Edited by R. K. Agnihotri and A. L. Khanna . New Delhi : Sage Publications , 1994 . xvi, 389 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995...

...Benedict R. Anderson Language and Social Change in Java: Linguistic Reflexes of Modernization in a Traditional Royal Polity . By J. Joseph Errington . Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press , 1985 . (Center for International Studies, Monographs in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series...

...Webb Keane Structure and Style in Javanese: A Semiotic View of Linguistic Etiquette . By J. Joseph Errington . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1988 . xvi, 290 pp. $29.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA...

... with questions of tradition and modernity in a rapidly modernizing society. Though superficially similar to Chinese state-sponsored modernity—itself centered on Chinese Putonghua—attention to these performances’ juxtaposition of characters, social issues, and linguistic practice reveals the promotion of certain...

...Rashmi Sadana Blowback: Linguistic Nationalism, Institutional Decay, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka . By Neil De Votta . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2004 . xx , 276 pp. $22.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 494 T H E J O U R N...