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Alton L. Becker

Biography:
Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Dept. of Asian Languages & Cultures, app’t 1961
B.A. University of Michigan, 1954
M.A. University of Connecticut, 1956
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1967

Research/Teaching Specializations: Languages and literatures of Indonesia, Malaysia and Burma

Field Research: Burma: 1958-61; Indonesia: 1975, 1978, 1980; Malaysia: 1986-87; Sri Lanka: 1996

Publications: Beyond Translation: Toward Modern Philology, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995; “Repetition and Otherness: An Essay” in Barbara Johnstone, ed., Repetition in Discourse: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1994; “Culture Troping: A Dialogue Between A. L. Becker and Bruce Mannheim” in The Dialogic Emergence of Culture, ed. Dennis Tedlock and B. Manheim, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1995; “On Arnheim on Language” in Journal of Aesthetic Education, 27 (4) Winter 1993; “The Elusive Figures of Burmese Grammar” in The Role of Theory in Language Description (Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs 69),ed. W. Foley, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1993.

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