Semantics of Chinese Questions: An Interface Approach
Hongyuan Dong's "Semantics of Chinese Questions: An Interface Approach" looks to study the syntax, semantics, and phonology of questions and proposes a phonological scope-...
Faculty Books
From the history of race and caste in Latin America to the role of music in religion around the world, Columbian College faculty publish numerous thought-provoking and timely titles every year. Their work has topped bestseller lists, inspired debate and dialogue and received positive reviews from high-profile outlets like the Los Angeles Review of Books and The New York Times.
Post-Migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France
Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies Kathryn Kleppinger's "Post-Migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France" offers a critical assessment of the ways in which...
The Routledge Course in Business Korean
"The Routledge Course in Business Korean" is a textbook for teaching Korean to mid-intermediate to low-advanced students to learn the language used in a business context in every-day life in Korea...
Cultures of the Fragment: Uses of the Iberian Manuscript, 1100-1600
The majority of medieval and 16th-century Iberian manuscripts contain fragments or are fragments — isolated bits of manuscript material with a damaged appearance, or a piece of a larger...
Second Language Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese Tones
Tones are the most challenging aspect of learning Chinese pronunciation for adult learners and traditional research mostly attributes tonal errors to interference from learners' native languages....
Rewriting Revolution: Women, Sexuality, and Memory in North Korean Fiction
Immanuel Kim’s book confronts North Korean stereotypes, offering a more complex portrayal of literature in the North based on writings from the 1960s to the present. The...
Imperial Idiocy: A Reflection on Forced Displacement in the Americas
Accepting the ancient Greeks’ definition of the idiot as a privatized man and expanding on Tocqueville’s understanding that in modern democracies it is mass idiocy that invites tyranny, argues...
Enlightenment in an Age of Destruction Intellectuals, World Disorder and the Politics of Empire
Co-author Christopher Britt, associate professor of Spanish, formulates a new understanding of a common concept (enlightenment) by framing it as a trans-historical and cross-...
Jesus Followers in the Roman Empire
Professor Paul Duff offers an accessible and informed account of Christian origins, beginning with the teaching of Jesus and moving to the end of the first century. Duff...
Said the Prophet of God: Hadith Commentary across a Millennium
Faculty book about hadith (Muhammad's sayings and practices).