Sociolinguistics books

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The Language and Intercultural Communication Reader

The Language and Intercultural Communication Reader...
Author: Zhu Hua (University College London, UK) ISBN: 9780415549134 Format: Paperback	$98.99
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A Reader in Sociophonetics

A Reader in Sociophonetics
Author: Dennis R. Preston , Nancy Niedzielski ISBN: 9781934078051 Format: Paperback	$58.26
Advances in speech science and technological simulations allow sophisticated studies of language contact and change.... Read More >>

The War on Terror Narrative: Discourse and Intertextuality in the Construction and Contestation of Sociopolitical Reality

The War on Terror Narrative: Discourse and Intertextuality...
Author: Adam Hodges ISBN: 9786613349132 Format: Electronic book text	$356.40
The War on Terror Narrative provides a longitudinal and holistic study of the formation, circulation, and contestation... Read More >>

Language without Rights

Language without Rights
Author: Lionel Wee (Associate Professorof English Language and Literature, Associate Professorof English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore) ISBN: 9780199737437 Format: Hardback	$245.95
A book-length critique of the concept of language rights and an exploration of language in social life. Read More >>

Variation in the Caribbean: From creole continua to individual agency

Variation in the Caribbean: From creole continua to...
Author: Lars Hinrichs (University of Texas at Austin) , Joseph T. Farquharson (University of the West Indies, St. Augustine) ISBN: 9789027252593 Format: Hardback	$393.36
The study of linguistic variation in the Caribbean has been central to the emergence of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics... Read More >>

On the Death and Life of Languages

On the Death and Life of Languages
Author: Claude Hagege (Hagège) , Jody Gladding ISBN: 9780300167870 Format: Paperback	$52.80
Twenty-five languages die each year; at this pace, half the world's five thousand languages will disappear within... Read More >>

The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics

The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics
Author: Manuel Díaz-Campos (Indiana University, USA) ISBN: 9781405195003 Format: Hardback	$95.95
This Handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of theoretical and descriptive research in contemporary... Read More >>

Language without Rights

Language without Rights
Author: Lionel Wee (Associate Professorof English Language and Literature, Associate Professorof English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore) ISBN: 9780199737420 Format: Paperback	$93.95
A book-length critique of the concept of language rights and an exploration of language in social life. Read More >>

The Social History of Language and Social Interaction Research: People, Places, Ideas (Hampton Press Communication Series, Social Approaches to Interaction)

The Social History of Language and Social Interaction...
Author: Leeds-Hurwitz ISBN: 9781572738263 Format: Paperback	$75.90
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Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora

Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora
Author: Jing Tsu ISBN: 9780674055407 Format: Hardback	$109.95
What happens when language wars are not about hurling insults or quibbling over meanings, but are waged in the physical... Read More >>

Framing Discourse on the Environment: A Critical Discourse Approach

Framing Discourse on the Environment: A Critical Discourse...
Author: Richard Alexander (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria) ISBN: 9780415888356 Format: Paperback	$101.00
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The Language Difference: Language and Development in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region

The Language Difference: Language and Development in...
Author: Paulin G. Djité ISBN: 9781847693402 Format: Hardback	$297.43
This book asks whether language makes a difference when it comes to development, and whether there is a perceptible... Read More >>

Culture and Language: Multidisciplinary Case Studies

Culture and Language: Multidisciplinary Case Studies...
Author: Jürgen Erfurt , Michael Morris ISBN: 9783631601679 Format: Hardback	$116.70
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Changes in Complementation in British and American English: Corpus-Based Studies on Non-Finite Complements in Recent English

Changes in Complementation in British and American English:...
Author: J. Rudanko , Kenneth A. Loparo ISBN: 9781349359097 Format: Paperback	$145.17
The book shows how the system of English predicate complementation has been undergoing an amazing amount of variation... Read More >>

Swearing: A Cross-Cultural Linguistic Study

Swearing: A Cross-Cultural Linguistic Study
Author: M. Ljung ISBN: 9781349366156 Format: Paperback	$369.57
This study provides a definition and a typology of swearing and compares its manifestations in English and 24 other... Read More >>

Challenges in the Social Life of Language

Challenges in the Social Life of Language
Author: John Edwards ISBN: 9781349352463 Format: Paperback	$290.37
The first book to highlight the most pressing sociology-of-language themes of our times. All of which have to do... Read More >>

Galician and Irish in the European Context: Attitudes Towards Weak and Strong Minority Languages

Galician and Irish in the European Context: Attitudes...
Author: B. O'Rourke ISBN: 9781349365111 Format: Paperback	$116.41
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Democratic Policies for Language Revitalisation: The Case of Catalan

Democratic Policies for Language Revitalisation: The...
Author: M. Strubell , E. Boix-Fuster ISBN: 9781349330232 Format: Paperback	$116.41
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Displaying Competence in Organizations: Discourse Perspectives

Displaying Competence in Organizations: Discourse Perspectives...
Author: K. Pelsmaekers , C. Rollo ISBN: 9781349328505 Format: Paperback	$116.41
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Discourses of Deficit

Discourses of Deficit
Author: C. Candlin , J. Crichton ISBN: 9781349320899 Format: Paperback	$145.17
Key practitioners and researchers explore how people routinely and at particular sites are discursively constructed... Read More >>

A Comparative and Dialectical Lexicon of Variations in Modern Spanish Vocabulary: Tracking Linguistic Differences Across Cultural, National, and Dialectical Boundaries

A Comparative and Dialectical Lexicon of Variations...
Author: Lorenzo R. Florian ISBN: 9780773414372 Format: Hardback	$316.67
A comparison of the lexicons of all Spanish-speaking countries. It includes English translations and Spanish definitions.... Read More >>

Should the United States be Multilingual?

Should the United States be Multilingual?
Author: Amy Francis , Christine Watkins ISBN: 9780737748925 Format: Paperback	$88.97
Several articles discuss the issues surrounding whether the United States should accept multilingualism. Read More >>

We Are Our Language: An Ethnography of Language Revitalization in a Northern Athapascan Community

We Are Our Language: An Ethnography of Language Revitalization...
Author: Barbra A. Meek , Barbra A Meek ISBN: 9780816527175 Format: Paperback	$131.87
Presenting the case of Kaska, an endangered language in an Athabaskan community in the Yukon, the author asserts... Read More >>

Variety and Variability: A Corpus-based Cognitive Lexical-semantics Analysis of Prepositional Usage in British, New Zealand and Malaysian English

Variety and Variability: A Corpus-based Cognitive Lexical-semantics...
Author: Imran Ho-Abdullah ISBN: 9783034305822 Format: Paperback	$124.72
Based on corpora data from the three varieties, this book provides usage types analysis of the prepositions at,... Read More >>

Chinese PhD thesis acknowledgements: A communities of practice perspective

Chinese PhD thesis acknowledgements: A communities of...
Author: Peng Hua ISBN: 9783034305679 Format: Paperback	$154.73
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