Sociolinguistics books

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Exploring World Englishes: Language in a Global Context

Exploring World Englishes: Language in a Global Context...

Author: Philip Seargeant (The Open University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415572101
Format: Paperback
$98.99

Beginning with a discussion of real-life challenges relating to world Englishes that are faced by language professionals...  Read More >>

Exploring World Englishes: Language in a Global Context

Exploring World Englishes: Language in a Global Context...

Author: Philip Seargeant (The Open University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415572095
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Beginning with a discussion of real-life challenges relating to world Englishes that are faced by language professionals...  Read More >>

Orthography as Social Action: Scripts, Spelling, Identity and Power

Orthography as Social Action: Scripts, Spelling, Identity...

Author: Alexandra Jaffe ,  Jannis Androutsopoulos
ISBN: 9781614511366
Format: Hardback
$525.33

This edited volume brings together leading authors in the field of sociolinguistics who explore the sociolinguistic...  Read More >>

A Cognitive Linguistics View of Terminology and Specialized Language

A Cognitive Linguistics View of Terminology and Specialized...

Author: Pamela Faber
ISBN: 9783110275568
Format: Hardback
$525.33

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Any Questions?: Identity Construction in Academic Conference Discussions

Any Questions?: Identity Construction in Academic Conference...

Author: Carmen Konzett
ISBN: 9781614510222
Format: Hardback
$205.83

Academics go to conferences for two main reasons: first, to discuss their research; While at first sight the researchers...  Read More >>

Dynamic Vocabulary Development in a Foreign Language

Dynamic Vocabulary Development in a Foreign Language...

Author: Yongyan Zheng
ISBN: 9783034311069
Format: Paperback
$135.59

Offers new lenses to probe into long-term foreign language development. This title reports on findings of a longitudinal...  Read More >>

Language and Humour in the Media

Language and Humour in the Media

Author: Jan Chovanec ,  Isabel Ermida
ISBN: 9781443838948
Format: Hardback
$179.39

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Proverbs: A Handbook

Proverbs: A Handbook

Author: Wolfgang Mieder ,  Wolfgang Mieder
ISBN: 9781433120244
Format: Paperback
$141.90

This series includes theoretical studies of any genre or aspect of folklore. The emphasis will be on analytic and...  Read More >>

Origins of a Creole: The History of Papiamentu and Its African Ties

Origins of a Creole: The History of Papiamentu and Its...

Author: Bart Jacobs
ISBN: 9781614511427
Format: Hardback
$274.47

This study embarks on the intriguing quest for the origins of the Caribbean creole language Papiamentu, casting...  Read More >>

Name and Naming: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives

Name and Naming: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives...

Author: Oliviu Felecan
ISBN: 9781443837521
Format: Hardback
$224.27

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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: 9780415882910
Format: Hardback
$326.00

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

Proverbs Are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age

Proverbs Are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in...

Author: Wolfgang Mieder ,  Carolyn Dundes
ISBN: 9781433119910
Format: Paperback
$141.90

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Language of Migration: Self- and Other-Representation of Korean Migrants in Germany

Language of Migration: Self- and Other-Representation...

Author: Suin Roberts
ISBN: 9781433114243
Format: Hardback
$298.98

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Selected Topics in Intercultural Communication

Selected Topics in Intercultural Communication

Author: Samuel Gyasi Obeng
ISBN: 9781614702504
Format: Hardback
$369.60

Focuses on the analysis of communication within and between cultures. This book presents such topics as various...  Read More >>

Harnessing Linguistic Variation to Improve Education

Harnessing Linguistic Variation to Improve Education...

Author: Androula Yiakoumetti
ISBN: 9783034307260
Format: Paperback
$159.91

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Linguistic Diversity in Europe: Current Trends and Discourses

Linguistic Diversity in Europe: Current Trends and Discourses...

Author: Patrick Studer ,  Iwar Werlen
ISBN: 9783110270839
Format: Hardback
$525.33

This book, which emerges in the context of the European research network LINEE (Languages in a Network of European...  Read More >>

European Multilingualism: Current Perspectives and Challenges

European Multilingualism: Current Perspectives and Challenges...

Author: Rosita Rindler Schjerve ,  Eva Vetter
ISBN: 9781847697349
Format: Paperback
$85.26

Expanding on the results of the EU project LINEE (Languages in a Network of European Excellence), this book pursues...  Read More >>

Toward a Sociobiological Hermeneutic: Darwinian Essays on Literature

Toward a Sociobiological Hermeneutic: Darwinian Essays...

Author: M. Wainwright
ISBN: 9781349351749
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book draws on post-Darwinian advances in scientific disciplines to reanalyze canonical works of literature....  Read More >>

Past Human Migrations in East Asia: Matching Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics

Past Human Migrations in East Asia: Matching Archaeology,...

Author: Alicia Sanchez-Mazas (University of Geneva, Switzerland) ,  Roger Blench (Mallam Dendo Ltd, UK)
ISBN: 9780415541886
Format: Paperback
$116.00

Drawing upon the latest evidence in genetics, linguistics and archaeology, this exciting book examines the history...  Read More >>

Toward a Sociobiological Hermeneutic: Darwinian Essays on Literature

Toward a Sociobiological Hermeneutic: Darwinian Essays...

Author: M. Wainwright
ISBN: 9780230391802
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This book draws on post-Darwinian advances in scientific disciplines to reanalyze canonical works of literature....  Read More >>

Analysing English as a Lingua Franca: A Corpus-driven Investigation

Analysing English as a Lingua Franca: A Corpus-driven...

Author: Alessia Cogo ,  Martin Dewey
ISBN: 9781441158376
Format: Paperback
$118.67

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Analysing English as a Lingua Franca: A Corpus-driven Investigation

Analysing English as a Lingua Franca: A Corpus-driven...

Author: Alessia Cogo ,  Martin Dewey
ISBN: 9781441137258
Format: Hardback
$350.00

There have been considerable demographic shifts in the use of English worldwide. The sociolinguistic reality of...  Read More >>

Multilingualism, Discourse, and Ethnography

Multilingualism, Discourse, and Ethnography

Author: Sheena Gardner (Coventry University, UK) ,  Marilyn Martin-Jones (MOSAIC Group for Research on Multilingualism, University of Birmingham, UK)
ISBN: 9780415874946
Format: Hardback
$315.00

In addressing the changing field of multilingualism, this volume hopes to focus on research on multilingualism which...  Read More >>

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