The essays in this volume describe some of the problems that bedevil the study of dialect and the methodological solutions employed to minimize them. They also survey the contributions that linguistic cartography can make to the study of English and the of language in general.

Studies in Linguistic Geography: The Dialects of English in Britain and Ireland

Reference

KIRK, John M.

Sanderson, Stewart

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Routledge& Kegan Paul

Venerated as the creator of Cuba’s first republic, declared by Fidel Castro to be the “intellectual author” of the second revolution, revered by Cuban exiles as the premier visionary of the democratic Cuban state, Jose Marti (1853-95) was a prolific and eclectic writer and a practical philosopher.Â  In Jose Marti: Mentor of the Cuban Nation, John M. Kirk leads us to a better understanding of “the purest man” of the Latin race and one of the most underrated political thinkers of modern times.As a scholarly statement, Kirk’s work contributes to a necessary reappraisal of Marti; it is a quest after the true esencia martianaâthe essence of Marti’s sociopolitical thought.Â  Kirk deliberately departs from a strictly theoretical viewpoint in his well-documented synthesis of Marti’s theories.Â  The result is partially an explanation for the Cuban leader’s continued exaltation as the “apostle” of modern political movements of both the right and the left.Kirk reviews the formative experiences of Marti’s youth through his letters and early literary endeavors to his deportation to Spain before the age of eighteen.Â  Marti’s observations from his travels on the realities of North American democracy and the struggles of Latin American nations to emerge from colonialism are used by Kirk to trace Marti’s sociopolitical development, culminating in his aspirations for Cuba following its independence from Spain.Kirk clarifies Marti’s visionary but quite specific designs for the moral foundation, social, political, and economic structures and policies of the liberated republicâconcepts that Marti would have attempted to implement had he not been killed by Spanish forces.Marti’s own words, here translated by Kirk, show a wise and compassionate leader dedicated to the welfare of all peoples.

José Martí, mentor of the Cuban nation

History

Americas

University Presses of Florida

Venerated as the creator of Cuba’s first republic, declared by Fidel Castro to be the “intellectual author” of the second revolution, revered by Cuban exiles as the premier visionary of the democratic Cuban state, Jose Marti (1853-95) was a prolific and eclectic writer and a practical philosopher.  In Jose Marti: Mentor of the Cuban Nation, John M. Kirk leads us to a better understanding of “the purest man” of the Latin race and one of the most underrated political thinkers of modern times.As a scholarly statement, Kirk’s work contributes to a necessary reappraisal of Marti; it is a quest after the true esencia martiana—the essence of Marti’s sociopolitical thought.  Kirk deliberately departs from a strictly theoretical viewpoint in his well-documented synthesis of Marti’s theories.  The result is partially an explanation for the Cuban leader’s continued exaltation as the “apostle” of modern political movements of both the right and the left.Kirk reviews the formative experiences of Marti’s youth through his letters and early literary endeavors to his deportation to Spain before the age of eighteen.  Marti’s observations from his travels on the realities of North American democracy and the struggles of Latin American nations to emerge from colonialism are used by Kirk to trace Marti’s sociopolitical development, culminating in his aspirations for Cuba following its independence from Spain.Kirk clarifies Marti’s visionary but quite specific designs for the moral foundation, social, political, and economic structures and policies of the liberated republic—concepts that Marti would have attempted to implement had he not been killed by Spanish forces.Marti’s own words, here translated by Kirk, show a wise and compassionate leader dedicated to the welfare of all peoples.

Jose Marti: Mentor of the Cuban Nation

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

University Press of Florida

Between God and the Party: Religion and Politics in Revolutionary Cuba

John Kirk's thorough look at the Cathlolic church, from colonial times to the present, shores up his argument that many influences in Fidel Castro's Cuba have pre-revolutionary roots. Kirk explores Castro's views on religion and their effects on the Cuban Revolution.

Univ of Southern Florida

World

Guerrilla-priests and liberation theology are not new phenomena in Nicaragua. Ever since the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores, Catholic Church leaders have played a major role in that country's politics. The result, John Kirk writes, is a polarized church, one with a progressive minority at loggerheads with the conservative hierarchy. Kirk sets each stage of the church-state debate in a historical continuum, then examines the forty-year period of Somocismo and the Sandinista period (1979-90) that followed. This social revolution - blending nationalism, Marxism, and Catholicism - dared to be different, he claims, and accordingly it paid the price. Kirk wrote this book following three trips to Nicaragua during the 1980s, when he witnessed firsthand the social polarization occurring at the time. But the involvement of the Catholic Church in Nicaraguan politics is not exceptional, he says: "Most - if not all - religions are also encumbered with socio-political concerns that go beyond the essentially 'religious.'"

Politics and the Catholic Church in Nicaragua

In the "neighborhood" of the Americas, Canada alone has maintained consistently cordial relations with Cuba, in spite of considerable pressure from the United States. In the first book-length study of the subject, John M. Kirk and Peter McKenna explore this unusual dynamic, focusing mainly on the period since 1959. They begin with the evolution of the Canadian-Cuban relationship, which was initially founded on pragmatic economic and commercial considerations. Cuba has always been one of Canada's major trading partners in Latin America, and it is the second most popular vacation resort for Canadians. Subsequent chapters, ordered historically, explore each Canadian prime minister's response to the revolutionary government in Havana. Changing personalities and ideologies in that office have had a significant impact on Canada's Cuba policy. The author also look at the relationship from the Cuban point of view: they have drawn on privileged interview and archival material from Cuba, including never-before-seen diplomatic records from Cuba's Foreign Ministry, to create a thoroughly rounded portrait. In what is perhaps a controversial stance, the authors seek to use Canada's Cuba policy as a lesson in good neighborliness for the United States, and they dedicate their book to "all those who struggle for the introduction of common sense, dignity, and justice into U.S.-Cuban relations."

Canada-Cuba Relations: The Other Good Neighbor Policy

McKenna, Peter

“Kirk’s invaluable study reveals to us, for the first time, the range and character of Cuba’s remarkable achievements, which should be an inspiration and a model for those with far greater advantages.”—Noam Chomsky, author of Manufacturing Consent “Invaluable. Provides ample, detailed, and clear evidence of the whole evolution of medical internationalism within Cuban foreign and social policy, going well beyond the headlines to trace that evolution carefully and honestly.”—Antoni Kapcia, coeditor of The Changing Dynamic of Cuban Civil Society “Offers a textured and nuanced assessment of a complex politico-cultural phenomenon.”—Louis A. Pérez, author of The Structure of Cuban History: Meanings and Purpose of the Past Cuba has more medical personnel serving abroad—over 50,000 in 66 countries—than all of the G-7 countries combined, and also more than the World Health Organization. For over five decades, the island nation has been a leading force in the developing world, providing humanitarian aid (or “cooperation,” as Cuba’s government prefers) and initiating programs for preventative care and medical training. In Healthcare without Borders, John Kirk examines the role of Cuban medical teams in disaster relief, biotechnology joint ventures, and in the Latin American School of Medicine—the largest medical faculty in the world. He looks at their responses to various crises worldwide, including the 1960 earthquake in Chile, the Chernobyl disaster in the Ukraine, the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti and the subsequent cholera outbreak, and the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa. Kirk issues an informative and enlightening corrective for what he describes as the tendency of the industrialized world’s media to ignore or underreport this medical aid phenomenon. In the process, Kirk explores the philosophical underpinnings of human rights and access to medical care at the core of Cuba’s medical internationalism programs and partnerships.

Healthcare without Borders: Understanding Cuban Medical Internationalism (Contemporary Cuba)

With the fall of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Cuba's hold on socialism seems tenuous, yet it remains dedicated to revolutionary goals. This book analyzes the nature of participatory democracy in a revolutionary context, examines Cuba's economic prospects in a rapidly changing international environment, and offers a series of studies of the texture of every day life in the Western hemisphere's only socialist country.

Cuba In Transition: Crisis And Transformation (Latin American Perspectives Series)

Stubbs, Jean

Zimbalist, Andrew

Harris, Richard L.

Bengelsdorf, Carollee

Halebsky, Sandor

Westview Press

"Corpora Galoreis a selection of papers from the Nineteenth International Conference in English Language Research on Computerised Corpora (ICAME 19) ... As John Kirk remarks in his preface (p i), ICAME conferences are 'invariable innovatory' ... [These articles] provide useful information for anyone interested in the linguistic description of English, and potential inspiration for many others in literary and linguistic computing." in: Literary and Linguistics Computing, Vol. 16, No. 4, 2001 "... this collection is, on the whole, as worth-reading as the proceedings of previous ICAME conferences as it introduces 'new descriptions from new corpora using new techniques' (p. i), as Kirk points out in his preface (correctly, I believe)... On the whole, Corpora Galoreis a celebration of the fact that only a few years after Jan Svartvik's (1992:7) statement that '[c]orpus linguistics comes of age', it has by now come of age and is rapidly growing and consistently flourishing. The book provides many interesting results by using many different methods and many different corpora. Everyone who is interested in the linguistic description of authentic English, will no doubt profit from reading this selection. As conference proceedings tend to be in general (and this is not a criticism at all), it is more like a jigsaw puzzle and not a straight-forward introduction to the state of the art in corpus linguistics. Hopefully, many linguists will try to put the puzzle together by reading the book." in: THE LINGUIST LIST11.1905, Sat. Sep. 9, 2000

Corpora Galore: Analyses and Techniques in Describing English (Language and Computers)

Brill/Rodopi

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Studies in Linguistic Geography: The Dialects of English in Britain and Ireland

José Martí, mentor of the Cuban nation

Jose Marti: Mentor of the Cuban Nation

Between God and the Party: Religion and Politics in Revolutionary Cuba

Between God and the Party: Religion and Politics in Revolutionary Cuba

Politics and the Catholic Church in Nicaragua

Canada-Cuba Relations: The Other Good Neighbor Policy

Healthcare without Borders: Understanding Cuban Medical Internationalism (Contemporary Cuba)

Cuba In Transition: Crisis And Transformation (Latin American Perspectives Series)

Corpora Galore: Analyses and Techniques in Describing English (Language and Computers)