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Gujarati in Singapore (2017)
Book Chapter
Shah, S., & Jain, R. (2017). Gujarati in Singapore. In C. A. Seals, & S. Shah (Eds.), Heritage Language Policies around the World (199-217). Routledge

German in Namibia (2017)
Book Chapter
Shah, S., & Zappen-Thomson, M. (2017). German in Namibia. In C. A. Seals, & S. Shah (Eds.), Heritage Language Policies around the World (128-147). Routledge

Introduction: A focus on heritage language policy (2017)
Book Chapter
Seals, C. A., & Shah, S. (2017). Introduction: A focus on heritage language policy. In C. A. Seals, & S. Shah (Eds.), Heritage Language Policies around the World (1-9). Routledge

We Need New Names: Novel and Reading Publics as Conduits for Producing Contradictions (2017)
Book Chapter
Coetzee, C. (2017). We Need New Names: Novel and Reading Publics as Conduits for Producing Contradictions. In R. Gilmour, & T. Steinitz (Eds.), Multilingual Currents in Literature, Translaion and Culture (132-149). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315651675-7

This chapter traces the diverse reception histories of the recent novel We Need New Names by Zimbabwean-born NoViolet Bulawayo. In this chapter, the contribution to the larger project on multilingual currents is to show that a novel can be diverse (o... Read More about We Need New Names: Novel and Reading Publics as Conduits for Producing Contradictions.

Dystopia as Liberation: Disturbing Femininities in Contemporary Thailand (2017)
Journal Article
Harrison, R. (2017). Dystopia as Liberation: Disturbing Femininities in Contemporary Thailand. Feminist Review, 116(1), 64-83. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41305-017-0070-y

Despite the stereotypical, outsider view of Thailand as a thriving hub of international sex tourism, traditional and local constructions of Thainess instead privilege the position of the ‘good’ Thai woman—a model of sexual propriety, demure physicali... Read More about Dystopia as Liberation: Disturbing Femininities in Contemporary Thailand.

Breaking Language Down: Taiwan Sound Poetry and its Ways of Saying (2017)
Journal Article
Bruno, C. (2017). Breaking Language Down: Taiwan Sound Poetry and its Ways of Saying. Concentric. Literary and cultural studies, 43(2), 33-56. https://doi.org/10.6240/concentric.lit.2017.43.2.03

This paper explores the appearance and rapid development of a genre that crosses the boundaries between art, music, drama, and literature, and that is being variously called ＂sound poetry＂ (聲音詩 shengyin shi), ＂language art＂ (語言藝術 yuyan yis... Read More about Breaking Language Down: Taiwan Sound Poetry and its Ways of Saying.

Agreement with the internal possessor in Chimane (2017)
Journal Article
Ritchie, S. F. (2017). Agreement with the internal possessor in Chimane. Studies in Language, 41(3), 660-716. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.41.3.05rit

The paper examines a type of clausal construction in Chimane (or Tsimane’, unclassified, Bolivia) in which possessors which are apparently internal to patient- or recipient-like possessive phrases can control object agreement on the verb. Various asp... Read More about Agreement with the internal possessor in Chimane.

Zoë Wicomb and the Translocal. Writing Scotland and South Africa (2017)
Book
Easton, K., & Attridge, D. (Eds.). (2017). Zoë Wicomb and the Translocal. Writing Scotland and South Africa. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315283418

This is the first book on the fiction of Zoë Wicomb, a writer long at the forefront of the South African canon and whose international stature was firmly secured with the award of an inaugural Windham Campbell prize at Yale in 2013. It brings togethe... Read More about Zoë Wicomb and the Translocal. Writing Scotland and South Africa.

Baghdad as a Center of Learning and Book Production (2017)
Book Chapter
Kennedy, H. (2017). Baghdad as a Center of Learning and Book Production. In S. Blair, & J. Bloom (Eds.), By the Pen and What They Write: Writing in Islamic Art and Culture (91-103). Yale University Press

The lexicography of Tibetan (2017)
Book Chapter
Hill, N. W., & Garrett, E. The lexicography of Tibetan. In P. Hanks, & G.-M. de Schryver (Eds.), International Handbook of Modern Lexis and Lexicography (1-11). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45369-4_109-1

This chapter provides an overview of Tibetan lexicography, from the ninth century to today. While most Tibetan dictionaries were compiled in an ad hoc manner, some used citation collections. Electronic corpora have been built for Tibetan, but they ha... Read More about The lexicography of Tibetan.