Sociolinguistics books

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Language Contact in a Postcolonial Setting: The Linguistic and Social Context of English and Pidgin in Cameroon

Language Contact in a Postcolonial Setting: The Linguistic...

Author: Eric A. Anchimbe
ISBN: 9781614512486
Format: Hardback
$274.47

This volume moves the investigation of World Englishes beyond the processes of indigenization and evolution, focusing...  Read More >>

An Interdisciplinary Bibliography on Language, Gender and Sexuality (2000–2011)

An Interdisciplinary Bibliography on Language, Gender...

Author: Heiko Motschenbacher (Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main)
ISBN: 9789027212009
Format: Hardback
$214.76

Documents the research activity in the field of language, gender and sexuality. This book provides experts in the...  Read More >>

A Psycholinguistic Perspective on Finnish and Japanese Prosody: Perception, Production and Child Acquisition of Consonantal Quantity Distinctions

A Psycholinguistic Perspective on Finnish and Japanese...

Author: Katsura Aoyama
ISBN: 9781461346814
Format: Paperback
$290.37

Presents a series of psycholinguistic investigations on consonantal distinctions in Finnish and Japanese. This work...  Read More >>

Bilingual Community Education and Multilingualism: Beyond Heritage Languages in a Global City

Bilingual Community Education and Multilingualism: Beyond...

Author: Ofelia García ,  Zeena Zakharia
ISBN: 9781847697998
Format: Paperback
$113.39

This book explores bilingual community education, specifically the educational spaces shaped and organized by American...  Read More >>

Bilingual Community Education and Multilingualism: Beyond Heritage Languages in a Global City

Bilingual Community Education and Multilingualism: Beyond...

Author: Ofelia García ,  Zeena Zakharia
ISBN: 9781847698001
Format: Hardback
$395.87

This book explores bilingual community education, specifically the educational spaces shaped and organized by American...  Read More >>

Japanese Applied Linguistics: Discourse and Social Perspectives

Japanese Applied Linguistics: Discourse and Social Perspectives...

Author: Junko Mori ,  Amy Snyder Ohta
ISBN: 9781441185549
Format: Paperback
$76.99

Offers a showcase of the developments in Japanese applied linguistics, within discourse analysis and sociolinguistics....  Read More >>

Language Ideologies and the Globalization of 'Standard' Spanish

Language Ideologies and the Globalization of 'Standard'...

Author: Dr Darren Paffey
ISBN: 9781441187406
Format: Hardback
$350.00

Critically analyses press discourse in which the Real Academia Española promotes a global vision of the Spanish...  Read More >>

New Trends and Methodologies in Applied English Language Research II: Studies in Language Variation, Meaning and Learning

New Trends and Methodologies in Applied English Language...

Author: David Tizón Couto ,  Beatriz Tizon-Couto
ISBN: 9783034310611
Format: Paperback
$157.32

A selection of the papers presented at the Second ELC International Postgraduate Conference on English Linguistics...  Read More >>

Politeness and Culture in Second Language Acquisition

Politeness and Culture in Second Language Acquisition...

Author: Sooho Song
ISBN: 9786613954060
Format: Electronic book text
$253.44

This book examines the importance of politeness in pragmatic expression and communication, making a significant...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes

The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes

Author: Andy Kirkpatrick (Griffith University, Australia)
ISBN: 9780415622646
Format: Paperback
$120.00

The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes constitutes a comprehensive introduction to the study of world Englishes...  Read More >>

A Grammar of Bardi

A Grammar of Bardi

Author: Claire Bowern
ISBN: 9783110278156
Format: Hardback
$686.40

The Bardi language is currently spoken by fewer than 10 people. The language is a member of the Nyulnyulan family,...  Read More >>

Legal Communication of Chinese Judiciary: A Discourse-based View

Legal Communication of Chinese Judiciary: A Discourse-based...

Author: Zhengrui Han
ISBN: 9783034311991
Format: Paperback
$166.76

The judicial reform changes a number of aspects of Chinese litigation practices. This research aims at describing,...  Read More >>

Creatures of Politics Creatures of Politics: Media, Message, and the American Presidency Media, Message, and the American Presidency

Creatures of Politics Creatures of Politics: Media,...

Author: Michael Lempert (University of Michigan) ,  Professor of Anthropology Linguistics and Psychology Michael Silverstein, M.a (University of Chicago)
ISBN: 9780253007568
Format: Electronic book text
$58.05

It's a common complaint that a presidential candidate's style matters more than substance and that the issues have...  Read More >>

Living Memory: The Social Aesthetics of Language in a Northern Italian Town

Living Memory: The Social Aesthetics of Language in...

Author: Jillian R. Cavanaugh (Brooklyn College)
ISBN: 9781118277430
Format: Paperback
$63.95

Living Memory investigates the complex question of language and its place at the heart of Bergamasco culture in...  Read More >>

The Language in Science Fiction and Fantasy: The Question of Style

The Language in Science Fiction and Fantasy: The Question...

Author: Susan Mandala
ISBN: 9781441145482
Format: Paperback
$76.99

The language of science fiction, and of fantasy, has a steep challenge: that of the creation of other worlds, societies...  Read More >>

Sprachwechsel bei Sprachminderheiten: Motive und Bedingungen. Eine soziolinguistische Studie zur deutschen Sprachinselminderheit in Blumenau, Brasilien

Sprachwechsel bei Sprachminderheiten: Motive und Bedingungen....

Author: Dagna Zinkhahn Rhobodes ,  Sascha Michel
ISBN: 9783838203447
Format: Paperback
$144.64

Dagna Zinkhahn Rhobodes l�dt ihre Leser dazu ein, mit ihr gedanklich zu einer Deutsch sprechenden Sprachminderheit...  Read More >>

Languages and the Military: Alliances, Occupation and Peace Building

Languages and the Military: Alliances, Occupation and...

Author: H. Footitt ,  M. Kelly
ISBN: 9780230365513
Format: Hardback
$290.37

Through detailed case studies ranging from the 18th century until today,this book explores the role of foreign languages...  Read More >>

Talk, Text and Technology: Literacy and Social Practice in a Remote Indigenous Community

Talk, Text and Technology: Literacy and Social Practice...

Author: Inge Kral
ISBN: 9781847697585
Format: Paperback
$85.26

This is an ethnography of language, learning and literacy in remote Indigenous Australia. It traces one group from...  Read More >>

Talk, Text and Technology: Literacy and Social Practice in a Remote Indigenous Community

Talk, Text and Technology: Literacy and Social Practice...

Author: Inge Kral
ISBN: 9781847697592
Format: Hardback
$297.43

This is an ethnography of language, learning and literacy in remote Indigenous Australia. It traces one group from...  Read More >>

Hybrid Voices and Collaborative Change: Contextualising Positive Discourse Analysis

Hybrid Voices and Collaborative Change: Contextualising...

Author: Tom Bartlett (Cardiff University, Wales, UK Cardiff University, Wales, UK Cardiff University, Wales, UK University of Wales, Cardiff, UK) ,  Michelle Lazar
ISBN: 9780415893381
Format: Hardback
$368.00

This book frames an in-depth analysis of institutional discourse between indigenous communities and government and...  Read More >>

Multimodal Texts from Around the World: Cultural and Linguistic Insights

Multimodal Texts from Around the World: Cultural and...

Author: W. Bowcher
ISBN: 9780230251632
Format: Hardback
$290.37

A first in multimodal/multisemiotic discourse studies this collection of original articles by international scholars...  Read More >>

Bilingual Pre-Teens: Competing Ideologies and Multiple Identities in the U.S. and Germany

Bilingual Pre-Teens: Competing Ideologies and Multiple...

Author: Janet M Fuller (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA)
ISBN: 9781283586177
Format: Electronic book text
$660.00

This volume examines the connection between socio-economic class and bilingual practices, a previously under-researched...  Read More >>

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