...L. Carrington Goodrich 406 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY The Chinese language, BY R. A. D. FORREST. London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1948. 352 p. 355. Mandarin primer; an intensive course in spoken Chinese. BY YUEN REN CHAO. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1948. 335 p. $6.00. Character text...

...Wm. Leonard Schwartz Spoken Japanese: a new approach . By Wilhelmine Creel and R. P. Alexander . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1945 . 114 p. $3.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1946 1946 466 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY entirely reverting...

...Wilhelmine S. Creel Japanese as it is spoken. A beginner's grammar . By Joseph W. Ballantine . Stanford University : Stanford University Press , 1945 . vii, 255 p. $3.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1946 1946 BOOK REVIEWS 465 sweeping reorganization...

... p. 32s. 6d. A concise dictionary of spoken Chinese . By Yuen-ren Chao and Lien-sheng Yang . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1947 . xxxix, 292 p. $6.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1948 1948 BOOK REVIEWS 447 the more surprising in a volume...

... recommended to all students of Japan and its culture. Cornell University ROBERT J. SMITH Korean in a Hurry: A Quick Approach to Spoken Korean. By SAMUEL E. MARTIN. Tokyo: Tuttle, 1954. xi, 137. Practical Korean G r a m m a r . By CHANG H E I LEE. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1955. xi, 225. $4.50...

... of California, Berkeley Spoken Marathi. Book I, First-year intensive course. By NARESH B. KAVADI and FRANK- LIN C. SOUTHWORTH. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965. London, Bombay and Karachi: Oxford University Press. 252, Appendices. $5.00. This book is a welcome addition to the rapidly...

..., something of a landmark, in fact. It will be read with delight by a wide range of readers. When it has been issued in a cheaper form it will take its place as a textbook in literature courses in the colleges. Cornell University HAROLD SHADICK A Grammar of Spoken Chinese. By YUEN REN CHAO. Berkeley and Los...

...Rebekah Clements Abstract The scholarly narrative of spoken Chinese studies in Tokugawa Japan is dominated by Ogyū Sorai, who founded a translation society in 1711 and urged Japanese intellectuals to learn contemporary spoken Chinese in order to draw closer to the language of the Chinese classics...

...Søren Egerod Spoken Amoy Hokkien . Vol. I. By Nicholas Cleaveland Bodman . Kuala Lumpur : Charles Genier & Son, Ltd. , 1955 . Distributed in the U. S. by the American Council of Learned Societies, iv, 367 . $4.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957...

...Beverly Y. P. Hung Fincher Dictionary of Spoken Chinese . The Staff of the Institute of Far Eastern Languages, Yale University. New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press , 1966 . xxxix, 1071 pp. $15.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 BOOK...

...Philip N. Jenner Modern Spoken Cambodian . By Franklin E. Huffman . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1970 . xiv, 451 pp. Glossaries, Index of Grammar Notes. $15.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 730 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES "contributing...

...David W. McAlpin A Grammar of Spoken Tamil . By Harold Schiffman . Madras : The Christian Literature Society , 1979 . xii, 108 pp. Index. Rs. 9 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980 1980 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 183 A Grammar of Spoken Tamil. By HAROLD...

...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...

... since dominated Indo-European views of language: Now spoken sounds are symbols of affections in the soul, and written marks symbols of the spoken sounds. And just as written marks are not the same for all men, neither are spoken sounds. But what these are in the first place signs of—affections...

... ground among his peers in Asian studies, who have often proudly pointed out to their non-Asianist colleagues that Scott is “one of their own.” This has certainly been true “internally” as well, in the ways that Southeast Asianists have spoken to their fellow professionals in the larger, allied...

... abandoned their original language and adopted in its place that spoken by their respective neighbors, that is, the Sakai, Malayan, or African Negro dialects. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1943 1943 THE LANGUAGES OF SOUTHEASTERN ASIA THOMAS A. SEBEOK Princeton University origin...

...Albert Craig Abstract Until recent times, and to a certain extent, even at the present, most historians have spoken of the movements which led to the Meiji Restoration as lower samurai movements. It is my aim in this article to show that they were not. First, negatively, I hope to show...

... two decades of the twentieth. Before that time the phase of Hindi known as Braj, spoken chiefly around Mathura, had been preferred to khaṟī bolī , the Hindi of the Delhi-Meerut region. The credit for the triumph of khaṟī bolī is usually attributed to Pandit Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi, who devoted himself...

...J. Duncan M. Derrett Abstract Louis Dumont has the unique advantage of combining field experience, large ideas, and a basic knowledge of Sanskrit. The patience to master a difficult archaic language, no longer the spoken vehicle of current thoughts in any defined society, is very rare in a scholar...

... or striking surfaces of the late Western Chou and early Ch'un-ch'iu-period ritual bronze vessels and bells. These speeches or “spoken” liturgies of legitimation initially focused on the spiritually sanctioned right of the ruler to “charge” a gift recipient, but later simply focused on the right of the vessel...