Sociolinguistics books

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The Discourse of Powerlessness and Repression: Life stories of domestic migrant workers in Hong Kong

The Discourse of Powerlessness and Repression: Life...

Author: Hans J. Ladegaard (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9781138640474
Format: Hardback
$326.00

This book provides detailed discourse analysis of abused domestic helpers’ narratives in Hong Kong in their sharing...  Read More >>

Situations and Speech Acts: Toward a Formal Semantics of Discourse

Situations and Speech Acts: Toward a Formal Semantics...

Author: David A. Evans
ISBN: 9781138224674
Format: Hardback
$305.00

First published in 1985, this book aims to develop an approach to speech acts that has the virtue of being straight-forward,...  Read More >>

Linguistic and Cultural Foreign Policies of European States: 18th-20th Centuries

Linguistic and Cultural Foreign Policies of European...

Author: Karène Sanchez Summerer ,  Willem Frijhoff
ISBN: 9789462980600
Format: Hardback
$287.21

This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to distinguishing and analysing several different types of linguistic...  Read More >>

Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights Collection (Vols 1-10)

Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights Collection...

Author: Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
ISBN: 9781783097470
Format: Hardback
$2626.80

This set contains the first ten volumes of the series. This collection is available by special order only. Please...  Read More >>

Sociolinguistic Variation and Acquisition in Two-Way Language Immersion: Negotiating the Standard

Sociolinguistic Variation and Acquisition in Two-Way...

Author: Rebecca Lurie Starr
ISBN: 9781783096374
Format: Hardback
$297.43

This book investigates the acquisition of sociolinguistic knowledge in the early elementary school years of Mandarin-English...  Read More >>

Reporting Cultures on 60 Minutes: Missing the Finnish Line in an American Newscast

Reporting Cultures on 60 Minutes: Missing the Finnish...

Author: Donal Carbaugh (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA) ,  Michael Berry (University of Turku, Finland)
ISBN: 9781138191051
Format: Paperback
$54.99

This work delves into the act of reporting on different cultures as a means of exploring our own. The way culture...  Read More >>

Translating Women: Different Voices and New Horizons

Translating Women: Different Voices and New Horizons...

Author: Luise von Flotow (University of Ottawa, Canada.) ,  Farzaneh Farahzad (Allahmeh Tabataba’i University, Iran)
ISBN: 9781138651562
Format: Hardback
$326.00

This book focuses on women and translation in cultures 'across other horizons' well beyond the European or Anglo-American...  Read More >>

Multilingualism, Nationhood, and Cultural Identity: Northern Europe, 16th-19th Centuries

Multilingualism, Nationhood, and Cultural Identity:...

Author: Willem Frijhoff ,  Marie-Christine Kok Escalle
ISBN: 9789462980617
Format: Hardback
$287.21

This book brings together historians and linguists, who apply their respective analytic tools to offer an interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

Language, Hegemony and the European Union: Re-examining ‘Unity in Diversity’

Language, Hegemony and the European Union: Re-examining...

Author: Glyn Williams ,  Gruffudd Williams
ISBN: 9783319334158
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This book critically examines the European Union’s “Unity in Diversity” mantra with regard to language. The book...  Read More >>

Elective Language Study and Policy in Israel

Elective Language Study and Policy in Israel

Author: Malka Muchnik ,  Marina Niznik
ISBN: 9783319340357
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This book presents research on the instruction of two heritage languages and two foreign languages in Israeli schools....  Read More >>

Diversification of Mexican Spanish: A Tridimensional Study in New World Sociolinguistics

Diversification of Mexican Spanish: A Tridimensional...

Author: Margarita Hidalgo
ISBN: 9781501512629
Format: Hardback
$205.83

This book covers the analysis of Spanish written from the early 16th to the early 19th century, immediately before...  Read More >>

Descriptions, Translations and the Caribbean: From Fruits to Rastafarians

Descriptions, Translations and the Caribbean: From Fruits...

Author: Rosanna Masiola ,  Renato Tomei
ISBN: 9783319409368
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This book offers a new perspective on the role played by colonial descriptions and translation of Caribbean plants...  Read More >>

Transcultural Flows of English and Education in Asian Contexts

Transcultural Flows of English and Education in Asian...

Author: Tyler Andrew Barrett ,  Melissa Fellin
ISBN: 9781498526999
Format: Hardback
$224.00

This book investigates the ""collision"" or ""synthesis"" that occurs between people when cultures are shared and...  Read More >>

Codeswitching in Igbo-English Bilingualism: A Matrix Language Frame Account

Codeswitching in Igbo-English Bilingualism: A Matrix...

Author: Kelechukwu Ihemere (University of Westminster, UK)
ISBN: 9781474278140
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Codeswitching occurs when multilingual speakers embed elements of more than one language into the dominant (or Matrix)...  Read More >>

Speaking as Women Leaders: Meetings in Middle Eastern and Western Contexts

Speaking as Women Leaders: Meetings in Middle Eastern...

Author: Judith Baxter ,  Haleema Al A'ali
ISBN: 9781137506207
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This book offers new insights on how senior business women in Middle Eastern and Western companies use language...  Read More >>

The English Language in Hong Kong: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives

The English Language in Hong Kong: Diachronic and Synchronic...

Author: Stephen Evans
ISBN: 9781137506238
Format: Hardback
$145.17

Researchers and students working in the fields of sociolinguistics, English as a global language, world Englishes,...  Read More >>

Surviving in Violent Conflicts: Chinese Interpreters in the Second Sino-Japanese War 1931–1945

Surviving in Violent Conflicts: Chinese Interpreters...

Author: Ting Guo
ISBN: 9781137461186
Format: Hardback
$145.17

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Identity in Communicative Contexts

Identity in Communicative Contexts

Author: Kamila Ciepiela
ISBN: 9783631666616
Format: Hardback
$143.74

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Reading Together, Reading Apart: Identity, Belonging, and South Asian American Community

Reading Together, Reading Apart: Identity, Belonging,...

Author: Tamara Bhalla
ISBN: 9780252081958
Format: Paperback
$56.99

Often thought of as a solitary activity, the practice of reading can in fact encode the complex politics of community...  Read More >>

Language Rights

Language Rights

Author: Tove Skutnabb-Kangas ,  Robert Phillipson
ISBN: 9780415740821
Format: Mixed media product
$2415.00

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Reading Together, Reading Apart: Identity, Belonging, and South Asian American Community

Reading Together, Reading Apart: Identity, Belonging,...

Author: Tamara Bhalla
ISBN: 9780252040481
Format: Hardback
$239.00

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Social Semiotics for a Complex World: Analysing Language and Social Meaning

Social Semiotics for a Complex World: Analysing Language...

Author: Bob Hodge
ISBN: 9780745696218
Format: Paperback
$34.95

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Decolonizing Rhetoric and Composition Studies: New Latinx Keywords for Theory and Pedagogy

Decolonizing Rhetoric and Composition Studies: New Latinx...

Author: Iris D. Ruiz ,  Raúl Sánchez
ISBN: 9781137527233
Format: Hardback
$343.17

They also theorize new keywords to shed light on the great varieties of Latinx writing, rhetoric, and literacies...  Read More >>

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