Carol Priestley
Biographic Data
| ID | 87860 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carol Priestley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carol |
| FAMILY NAME | Priestley |
| SIGNATURE | PRIESTLEY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Social Categories, Shared Experience, Reciprocity and Endangered Meanings
Speakers of many Trans New Guinea or Papuan languages use a number of reciprocal person-referring expressions. Various examples are found in the Papuan language of Koromu, spoken in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. This paper examines the meanings of Koromu reciprocal expressions that recall shared past experiences, in particular, social category terms connected with coming of age events and spontaneous nicknames created at the time events occu…
Space and time in languages and cultures
Insides and emotion in Koromu
This paper describes several emotion expressions in Koromu, a language of Papua New Guinea. As in other languages, emotions can be expressed by reference to body events and processes. Bodily images are used for common and pertinent emotion expressions in Koromu and the alternative grammatical constructions in which some of these expressions occur enable speakers to express varying emotions while still indicating that there are shared semantic com…
The book famine
Since 1985, when the International African Institute took the initiative of organising a one-day seminar entitled 'The Book Famine in Africa', awareness has grown of the difficulties African scholars face through lack of access to recently published books and journals. Scarcity of locally published material in specialised educational fields means that imported books are-and will remain for some time-the only way in which library collections can b…
University Book Famine Initiative
Journal Article UNIVERSITY BOOK FAMINE INITIATIVE: THE INTERNATIONAL CAMPUS BOOK LINK Get access CAROL PRIESTLEY CAROL PRIESTLEY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 88, Issue 353, October 1989, Pages 583–584, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098219 Published: 01 October 1989
The book famine
Since 1985, when the International African Institute took the initiative of organising a one-day seminar entitled 'The Book Famine in Africa', awareness has grown of the difficulties African scholars face through lack of access to recently published books and journals. Scarcity of locally published material in specialised educational fields means that imported books are-and will remain for some time-the only way in which library collections can b…
University Book Famine Initiative
Journal Article UNIVERSITY BOOK FAMINE INITIATIVE: THE INTERNATIONAL CAMPUS BOOK LINK Get access CAROL PRIESTLEY CAROL PRIESTLEY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 88, Issue 353, October 1989, Pages 583–584, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098219 Published: 01 October 1989
The book famine
Since 1985, when the International African Institute took the initiative of organising a one-day seminar entitled 'The Book Famine in Africa', awareness has grown of the difficulties African scholars face through lack of access to recently published books and journals. Scarcity of locally published material in specialised educational fields means that imported books are-and will remain for some time-the only way in which library collections can b…
Insides and emotion in Koromu
This paper describes several emotion expressions in Koromu, a language of Papua New Guinea. As in other languages, emotions can be expressed by reference to body events and processes. Bodily images are used for common and pertinent emotion expressions in Koromu and the alternative grammatical constructions in which some of these expressions occur enable speakers to express varying emotions while still indicating that there are shared semantic com…
Space and time in languages and cultures
Social Categories, Shared Experience, Reciprocity and Endangered Meanings
Speakers of many Trans New Guinea or Papuan languages use a number of reciprocal person-referring expressions. Various examples are found in the Papuan language of Koromu, spoken in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. This paper examines the meanings of Koromu reciprocal expressions that recall shared past experiences, in particular, social category terms connected with coming of age events and spontaneous nicknames created at the time events occu…
Categorization, perception, and language (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Famine (2 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 works) · Law (2 works)