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The study of the relationship between language and thought, and how this apparently differs between cultures and social groups, is a rapidly expanding area of enquiry. This book discusses the relationship between language and the mental organisation of knowledge, based on the results of a fieldwork project carried out in the Kingdom of Tonga in Polynesia. It challenges some existing assumptions in linguistics, cognitive anthropology and cognitive science and proposes a new foundational cultural model, 'radiality', to show how space, time and social relationships are expressed both linguistically and cognitively. A foundational cultural model is knowledge that is repeated in several domains and shared within a cultural homogeneous group. These knowledge structures are lenses through which we interpret the world and guide our behaviour. The book will be welcomed by researchers and students working within the fields of psycholinguistics, anthropological linguistics, cognitive anthropology, cognitive psychology, cross-cultural psychology, and cognitive science

Preface / Ruth Wodak -- Introduction: Migration and crisis identity / Andreas Musolff and Lorella Viola -- 1. A comparative analysis of the keyword multicultural(ism) in French, British, German and Italian migration discourse / Melani Schröter, Marie Veniard, Charlotte Taylor and Andreas Blätte -- 2. Polentone vs terrone: A discourse-historical analysis of media representation of Italian internal migration / Lorella Viola -- 3. Featuring immigrants and citizens: A comparison between Spanish and English primary legislation and administration information texts (2007-2011) / Purificación Sánchez, Pilar Aguado and Pascual Pérez-Paredes -- 4. A humanitarian disaster or invasion of Europe? 2015 migrant crisis in the British press / Zeynep Cihan Koca-Helvaci -- 5. Aspects of threat construction in the Polish anti-immigration discourse / Piotr Cap -- 6. Gender, metaphor and migration in media representations: Discursive manipulations of the Other / Liudmila Arcimaviciene -- 7. Practical reasoning and metaphor in TV discussions on immigration in Greece: Exchanges and changes / Eleni Butulussi -- 8. The Great Wall of Europe: Verbal and multimodal potrayals of Europe's migrant crisis in Serbian media discourse / Nadežda Silaški and Tatjana Đurović -- 9. Representations of the 2015/2016 'migrant crisis' on the online portals of Croatian and Serbian public broadcasters / Ljiljana Šarić and Tatjana R. Felberg -- 10. Representation of unaccompanied migrant children from Central America in the United States: Media vs. migrant perspectives / Theresa Catalano and Jessica Mitchell-McCollough -- 11. Displaced Ukrainians: Russo-Ukrainian discussions of victims from the conflict zone in Eastern Ukraine / Ludmilla A'Beckett -- 12. Preaching from a distant pulpit: The European migrant crisis seen through a New York Times editorial and reader comments / Michael S. Boyd -- 13. Discourses of immigration and integration in German newspaper comments / Janet M. Fuller -- 14. 'They have lived in our street for six years now and still don't speak a work [!] of English': Scenarios of alleged linguistic underperformance as part of anti-immigrant discourses / Andreas Musolff -- Notes on contributors -- Indexk

"The Makassar annals Translated and edited by William Cummings. Beginning in the 1630s, a series of annalists at the main courts of Makassar began keeping records with dated entries that recorded a wide variety of specific historical information about a wide variety of topics, including the births and deaths of notable individuals, the actions of rulers, the spread of Islam, trade and diplomacy, the built environment, ritual activity, warfare, internal political struggles, social and kinship relations, eclipses and comets, and more. These Lontaraq bilang were a clear departure in form and function from the genealogically-structured chronicles being composed about the ruling families of Gowa and Talloq in the same era. By the end of 1751, nearly 2400 entries had been completed. These records are a rich lode of information for scholars interested in virtually any aspect of life in premodern Makassar, and are a rare and precious resource for scholars of Southeast Asia. This is the first English translation and annotation of the annals. William Cummings is an associate professor of history at the University of South Florida. He is the author of Making blood white; Historical transformation in early modern Makassar, A chain of kings; The Makassarese chronicles of Gowa and Talloq, and numerous articles about Makassarese history and culture"--Publisher's description