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Adult Language Education and Migration: Challenging agendas in policy and practice

Adult Language Education and Migration: Challenging...

Author: James Simpson (University of Leeds, UK) ,  Anne Whiteside (San Francisco State University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415733595
Format: Hardback
$326.00

Adult Language Education and Migration: Challenging Agendas in Policy and Practice provides a lively and critical...  Read More >>

Standards of English: Codified Varieties around the World

Standards of English: Codified Varieties around the...

Author: Raymond Hickey (Universität Duisburg–Essen)
ISBN: 9781107515659
Format: Paperback
$103.50

This volume provides the first book-length exploration of 'standard Englishes', with chapters on areas as diverse...  Read More >>

Discourses of Ideology and Identity: Social Media and the Iranian Election Protests

Discourses of Ideology and Identity: Social Media and...

Author: Chris Featherman (Northeastern University, USA) ,  Michelle Lazar
ISBN: 9781138825581
Format: Hardback
$200.00

In this monograph, Chris Featherman adopts a discourse analytical approach to explore the ways in which social movement...  Read More >>

Multilingual Learners and Academic Literacies: Sociocultural Contexts of Literacy Development in Adolescents

Multilingual Learners and Academic Literacies: Sociocultural...

Author: Daniella Molle (University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA) ,  Edynn Sato (Next Generation Learning & Assessment Center, Pearson, USA)
ISBN: 9781138846470
Format: Hardback
$336.00

Shifting the discourse from a focus on academic language to the more dynamic construct of academic literacies, this...  Read More >>

Moribund Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Findings

Moribund Germanic Heritage Languages in North America:...

Author: B. Richard Page ,  Michael Putnam
ISBN: 9789004289604
Format: Hardback
$438.24

The contributions in this volume explore the grammars of moribund varieties of heritage Germanic languages and contribute...  Read More >>

Language, Youth and Identity in the 21st Century: Linguistic Practices across Urban Spaces

Language, Youth and Identity in the 21st Century: Linguistic...

Author: Jacomine Nortier (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands) ,  Bente A. Svendsen (Universitetet i Oslo)
ISBN: 9781107016989
Format: Hardback
$390.72

Brings together a team of leading scholars to explore and compare linguistic practices among young people. It is...  Read More >>

Good Humor, Bad Taste: A Sociology of the Joke

Good Humor, Bad Taste: A Sociology of the Joke

Author: Giselinde Kuipers
ISBN: 9781501510441
Format: Electronic book text
$2217.60

Using a combination of interview materials, survey data, and historical materials, this book explores the relationship...  Read More >>

New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South: Historical and Contemporary Approaches

New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South: Historical...

Author: Picone Michael D. ,  Catherine Evans Davies
ISBN: 9780817318154
Format: Hardback
$158.27

An outgrowth of the LAVIS III symposium (2004), New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South: Historical and...  Read More >>

Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia: The State of the Art

Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia: The State of the...

Author: N.J. Enfield ,  Bernard Comrie
ISBN: 9781501508431
Format: Hardback
$403.89

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Deixis in der face-to-face-Interaktion

Deixis in der face-to-face-Interaktion

Author: Anja Stukenbrock
ISBN: 9783110307252
Format: Hardback
$480.48

In dem Buch wird eine empirisch fundierte Theorie der Deixis im Deutschen vorgestellt, die an Karl Bühler anknüpft...  Read More >>

Entextualizing Domestic Violence: Language Ideology and Violence Against Women in the Anglo-American Hearsay Principle

Entextualizing Domestic Violence: Language Ideology...

Author: Jennifer Andrus (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, University of Utah)
ISBN: 9780190225834
Format: Hardback
$170.95

This book explores how language ideologies circulated in the hearsay rule of the Anglo-American law of evidence...  Read More >>

Language in Cognition and Affect

Language in Cognition and Affect

Author: Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel ,  Elżbieta Szymańska-Czaplak
ISBN: 9783642440724
Format: Paperback
$290.37

The volume contains most updated theoretical and empirical research on foreign or second language processes analyzed...  Read More >>

Multilingual Learners and Academic Literacies: Sociocultural Contexts of Literacy Development in Adolescents

Multilingual Learners and Academic Literacies: Sociocultural...

Author: Daniella Molle (University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA) ,  Edynn Sato (Next Generation Learning & Assessment Center, Pearson, USA)
ISBN: 9781138846487
Format: Paperback
$116.00

Shifting the discourse from a focus on academic language to the more dynamic construct of academic literacies, this...  Read More >>

Social Linguistics and Literacies: Ideology in Discourses

Social Linguistics and Literacies: Ideology in Discourses...

Author: James Gee
ISBN: 9781138853867
Format: Paperback
$116.00

Covering contemporary, social and cultural approaches to literacy, this text helps bridge the disciplinary gap between...  Read More >>

Language and Society in the Middle East and North Africa

Language and Society in the Middle East and North Africa...

Author: Yasir Suleiman
ISBN: 9781138869868
Format: Paperback
$98.99

This book explores the language situation and issues relevant to language use among diaspora communities outside...  Read More >>

African American Slang: A Linguistic Description

African American Slang: A Linguistic Description

Author: Maciej Widawski
ISBN: 9781107074170
Format: Hardback
$343.20

In this pioneering exploration of African American slang, Widawski explores patterns of form, meaning, theme and...  Read More >>

Languages in Africa: Multilingualism, Language Policy, and Education

Languages in Africa: Multilingualism, Language Policy,...

Author: Elizabeth C. Zsiga ,  One Tlale Boyer
ISBN: 9781626161528
Format: Paperback
$116.00

Explore the layers of African multilingualism as they affect language policy and education. This book includes case...  Read More >>

Language and Culture in EU Law: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Language and Culture in EU Law: Multidisciplinary Perspectives...

Author: Susan Šarčević ,  Professor Vijay K. Bhatia
ISBN: 9781472428974
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Provides multidisciplinary perspectives on the vital role of language and culture as key forces shaping the dynamics...  Read More >>

Markets of English: Linguistic Capital and Language Policy in a Globalizing World

Markets of English: Linguistic Capital and Language...

Author: Joseph Sung-Yul Park (National University of Singapore) ,  Lionel Wee (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
ISBN: 9781138902510
Format: Paperback
$120.00

This book links Bourdieu’s theory of the linguistic market with recent advances in sociolinguistics and linguistic...  Read More >>

Social Linguistics and Literacies: Ideology in Discourses

Social Linguistics and Literacies: Ideology in Discourses...

Author: James Gee
ISBN: 9781138853850
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Covering contemporary, social and cultural approaches to literacy, this text helps bridge the disciplinary gap between...  Read More >>

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