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    A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Thanks and Apologies by Native and Non-native Speakers of Japanese
    Takagi, A ; Mackie, V ; Skoutarides, A ; Tokita, A (Monash Asia Institute, 2000-01)
    This study identifies differences and similarities in the communicative acts of thanking and apologising by native and non-native speakers of Japanese; it includes consideration of the speakers' gender and their interpretation of the sociological dynamics of the situations where speech acts were used.
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    Manuscript Use and Typesetting Issues
    Takagi, A ; Cope, B ; Gollings, G (Common Ground Publishing Pty Ltd, 2001)
    The emerging technological tools of digital text creation and manufacture make possible quite the opposite - the revival of small cultures and languages. This book sets out to argue two things.
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    The amalgamation of Malagasy
    Adelaar, KAA ; Bowden, J ; Himmelmann, NP ; Ross, M (Pacific Linguistics Publishers, 2010)
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    The comparative method in Austronesian linguistics
    Adelaar, K ; Klein, J ; Joseph, B ; Fritz, M ; Wenthe, M (Mouton de Gruyter, 2017)
    This book presents the most comprehensive coverage of the field of IndoEuropean Linguistics in a century, focusing on the entire Indo-European family and treating each major branch and most minor languages. The collaborative work of 120 scholars from 22 countries, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics combines the exhaustive coverage of an encyclopedia with the in-depth treatment of individual monographic studies.
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    Who were the first Malagasy, and what did they speak?
    Adelaar, A ; Acri, A ; Blench, R ; Landmann, A (Institute of South East Asian Studies, 2017-01-01)
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    Making Spaces in Malaysia: Women's Rights and New Muslim Religiosities
    Stivens, M ; Cesari, J ; Casanova, J (Oxford University Press, 2017)
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    Parmenides and Mulla Sadra: The Mystical Journey to Being
    Kamal, M ; Paya, A (ICAS Press, 2012)
    A comparative analysis of the philosophical views of Parmenides and Mulla Sadra is established on two assumptions. First, it is argued that both thinkers have developed their ontology under divine instructions revealed to them in a mystical experience. Second, in the reconstruction of their mystical experience asserted the priority of 'Being' as the sole reality and the foundation of knowledge and the existence of the world.
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    Pacific: Japan, Australia, New Zealand
    Oishi, N ; Waters, MC ; Ueda, R (Harvard University Press, 2007)
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    Dialects of Malay/Indonesian
    Adelaar, A (Wiley, 2016-11-07)
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    「ことばとその周辺」を批判的に分析する
    OHASHI, J ; Imamura, K ; Noro, K ; Kanda, Y ; An, I ; Najima, Y ; Najima, Y (Hitsuji Shobou, 2017-02-20)