Sociolinguistics books

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Language Politics and Policies: Perspectives from Canada and the United States

Language Politics and Policies: Perspectives from Canada...

Author: Thomas Ricento (University of Calgary)
ISBN: 9781108429139
Format: Hardback
$297.56

Explores the nature and effects of language politics on language minority communities in Canada and the United States,...  Read More >>

What's Your Sign for Pizza?: An Introduction to Variation in American Sign Language

What's Your Sign for Pizza?: An Introduction to Variation...

Author: Ceil Lucas ,  Robert Bayley
ISBN: 9781563685729
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Originally published in hardback in 2003.  Read More >>

Wortschaetze und Sprachwelten: Beitraege zu Sprachtypologie, kontrastiver Wort- bzw. Wortschatzforschung und Pragmatik

Wortschaetze und Sprachwelten: Beitraege zu Sprachtypologie,...

Author: Andrzej Kątny ,  Michail L Kotin
ISBN: 9783631792155
Format: Hardback
$143.87

Die Autoren behandeln drei Themenbereiche, die von Relevanz für verschiedene Generationen von Linguisten sind: Sprachtypologie...  Read More >>

Translation and Public Policy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Case Studies

Translation and Public Policy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives...

Author: Gabriel González Núñez (Assistant Professor of Modern Languages, University of Texas - Brownsville, USA) ,  Reine Meylaerts
ISBN: 9780367365844
Format: Paperback
$94.99

The book lays out different theoretical frameworks for the study of translation policy and takes into account various...  Read More >>

Advancing Multimodal and Critical Discourse Studies: Interdisciplinary Research Inspired by Theo Van Leeuwen’s Social Semiotics

Advancing Multimodal and Critical Discourse Studies:...

Author: Sumin Zhao (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) ,  Emilia Djonov (Macquarie University, Australia)
ISBN: 9780367366391
Format: Paperback
$94.99

This volume highlights the contributions of Theo van Leeuwen to the fields of multimodality, social semiotics, and...  Read More >>

Panel Studies of Variation and Change

Panel Studies of Variation and Change

Author: Suzanne Evans Wagner (Michigan State University, USA) ,  Isabelle Buchstaller (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
ISBN: 9780367366278
Format: Paperback
$94.99

This edited volume brings together the major researchers in the field of panel research, highlighting connections...  Read More >>

Creating Canadian English: The Professor, the Mountaineer, and a National Variety of English

Creating Canadian English: The Professor, the Mountaineer,...

Author: Stefan Dollinger (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
ISBN: 9781108708753
Format: Paperback
$72.45

This lively account of the making of Canadian English traces the variety's conceptual, social and linguistic developments...  Read More >>

The Emoji Revolution: How Technology is Shaping the Future of Communication

The Emoji Revolution: How Technology is Shaping the...

Author: Philip Seargeant
ISBN: 9781108721790
Format: Paperback
$72.45

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Creating Canadian English: The Professor, the Mountaineer, and a National Variety of English

Creating Canadian English: The Professor, the Mountaineer,...

Author: Stefan Dollinger (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
ISBN: 9781108497718
Format: Hardback
$245.81

This lively account of the making of Canadian English traces the variety's conceptual, social and linguistic developments...  Read More >>

Language and Culture in Dialogue

Language and Culture in Dialogue

Author: Andrew Strathern ,  Professor Pamela J. Stewart
ISBN: 9781350059818
Format: Hardback
$194.00

In this book, Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart delineate the relationship between “language in particular”...  Read More >>

The Emoji Revolution: How Technology is Shaping the Future of Communication

The Emoji Revolution: How Technology is Shaping the...

Author: Philip Seargeant
ISBN: 9781108496643
Format: Hardback
$173.36

Ideal for general readers as well as students and researchers of language, linguistics and communication, this book...  Read More >>

The Sociolinguistics of Iran’s Languages at Home and Abroad: The Case of Persian, Azerbaijani, and Kurdish

The Sociolinguistics of Iran’s Languages at Home and...

Author: Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi
ISBN: 9783030196042
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book examines the sociolinguistics of some of Iran’s languages at home and in the diaspora.  Read More >>

Verbale Aggression: Multidisziplinäre Zugänge zur verletzenden Macht der Sprache

Verbale Aggression: Multidisziplinäre Zugänge zur verletzenden...

Author: Silvia Bonacchi
ISBN: 9783110646481
Format: Paperback
$68.55

This compendium presents essays from various language-related disciplines to provide a comprehensive theoretical...  Read More >>

A Grammar of Kuuk Thaayorre

A Grammar of Kuuk Thaayorre

Author: Alice R. Gaby
ISBN: 9783110653304
Format: Paperback
$68.55

This grammar offers a comprehensive description of Kuuk Thaayorre, a Paman language spoken on the west coast of...  Read More >>

From Speech Acts to Lay Understandings of Politeness: Multilingual and Multicultural Perspectives

From Speech Acts to Lay Understandings of Politeness:...

Author: Eva Ogiermann (King's College London) ,  Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
ISBN: 9781107198050
Format: Hardback
$297.56

An up-to-date survey of im/politeness research from both a multilingual and a multicultural perspective, in which...  Read More >>

The Tyranny of Ordinary Meaning: Corbett v Corbett and the Invention of Legal Sex

The Tyranny of Ordinary Meaning: Corbett v Corbett and...

Author: Christopher Hutton
ISBN: 9783030202705
Format: Hardback
$168.16

The case raises fundamental questions concerning law in its historical and intellectual context, in particular relating...  Read More >>

Celebrity Accents and Public Identity Construction: Analyzing Geordie Stylizations

Celebrity Accents and Public Identity Construction:...

Author: Emilia Di Martino
ISBN: 9780367226800
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Australia's Original Languages: An introduction

Australia's Original Languages: An introduction

Author: R. M. W. Dixon
ISBN: 9781760875237
Format: Paperback
$32.99

An introduction to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait languages that explains their distinctive features accessibly...  Read More >>

Hessisches Jiddisch: Quellen Zur Sprache Der Juden Im Zentralhessischen Raum

Hessisches Jiddisch: Quellen Zur Sprache Der Juden Im...

Author: Lea Schafer
ISBN: 9783447112383
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Ein zentrales Merkmal der judisch-aschkenasischen Kultur ist die jiddische Sprache, die heute zumeist mit den (orthodoxen)...  Read More >>

Signs of Difference: Language and Ideology in Social Life

Signs of Difference: Language and Ideology in Social...

Author: Susan Gal (University of Chicago) ,  Judith T. Irvine (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
ISBN: 9781108741293
Format: Paperback
$59.51

How are peoples' ideas about languages, ways of speaking and expressive styles shaped by their social positions...  Read More >>

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