SIL Publications by Category
Applied Linguistics

And I, In My Turn, Will Pass It On: Knowledge Transmission among the Kayapo by Isabel Murphy, PLE 2, 2004, 235 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-155-8, $30.50

This study provides an in-depth description of Kayapo knowledge transmission. It bridges the disciplines of education and anthropology and expands our knowledge of indigenous processes of education.

Case Grammar Applied by Walter A. Cook, PL 127, 1998, 290 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-046-9, $30.50

An unusually clear, simple guide for sentence analysis which lends itself well to displaying the way syntactic features are associated with semantic structures.

The Early Days of Sociolinguistics: Memories and Reflections, G. Tucker and Paulston, PLE5, 2010, 376 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-253-1, $37.00

Provides an insider's perspective on practical and theoretical issues that motivate individuals and institutions to turn to a view of language as inextricably connected to society and culture.

English as a Second Language: Dimensions and Directions edited by Irwin Feigenbaum, 1984, 81 pp., ISBN 978-0-88312-929-6, $10.50

Three lectures presented at the fall 1982 Linguistics Forum which was sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics at the University of Texas of Arlington and SIL International.

Fifty Years in Brazil: A Sampler of SIL Work 1958–2008, eds by Mary Ruth Wise, Robert A Dooley, and Isabel Murphy, 2008, 416 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-220-3, $40.00

Samples of the products of fifty years of SIL International’s work in Brazil range; includes some out-of-print articles and others available for the first time in this volume. Approximately half of the book is in Portuguese.

A Grammar of Akoose: A Northwest Bantu Language by Robert Hedinger, PL 143, 2008, 318 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-222-7, $38.00

The purpose of this book is to describe the grammatical structure of Akoose, also known as Bakossi, one of the north-western most narrow-Bantu languages of Cameroon.

The In-Between People: Language and Culture Maintenance and Mother-Tongue Education in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea by Dennis Malone, PLE 3, 2004, 263 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-147-3, $24.95

The In-Between People studies how the Kaugel-speaking people of Papua New Guinea approach the tension that results from the intersection of the old and new cultures.

Language Contact and Composite Structures in New Ireland by Rebecca Sue Jenkins, PLE 4, 2005, 253 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-156-5, $24.95

In this book, the author examines the relationship of indigenous Austronesian languages and the pidgin/creole language, Tok Pisin.

Reading Is For Knowing: Literacy Acquisition, Retention, and Usage among the Machiguenga by Patricia M Davis, PLE 1, 2004, 332 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-094-0, $35.50

Bilingual schools were initiated at the end of the 1940s among the Machiguenga people of the Peruvian rainforest. This study presents a forty-year chronology of the sociological and educational aspects of the program.

Studying and Describing Unwritten Languages by Jacqueline M. C. Thomas; Luc Bouquiaux; translated by James Roberts, 1992, 737 pp., ISBN 978-0-88312-814-5, $52.50

A one-volume English translation of a three-volume French work with techniques for gathering and processing data from unwritten languages.