Sociolinguistics books

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Planning Chinese Characters: Reaction, Evolution or Revolution?

Planning Chinese Characters: Reaction, Evolution or...

Author: Shouhui Zhao ,  Richard B. Jr. Baldauf
ISBN: 9781441943064
Format: Paperback
$419.76

One of the remarkable things about Chinese language policy over the millennia has been the power of the writing...  Read More >>

Contests and Contexts: The Irish Language and Ireland’s Socio-Economic Development

Contests and Contexts: The Irish Language and Ireland’s...

Author: John Walsh
ISBN: 9783039119141
Format: Paperback
$127.56

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Language Issues: Ireland, France, Spain

Language Issues: Ireland, France, Spain

Author: Wesley Hutchinson ,  Clíona Ní Ríordáin
ISBN: 9789052016498
Format: Paperback
$97.55

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Language and Religion: A Journey into the Human Mind

Language and Religion: A Journey into the Human Mind...

Author: William Downes (Senior Fellow)
ISBN: 9780511780110
Format: Undefined
$435.60

Language and Religion offers an innovative theory of religion as a class of cultural representations, dependent...  Read More >>

The Bilingual Mind: Thinking, Feeling and Speaking in Two Languages

The Bilingual Mind: Thinking, Feeling and Speaking in...

Author: Rafael Art Javier
ISBN: 9781441940414
Format: Paperback
$261.36

As bilingual individuals enter the educational system and the clinical landscape, they struggle with intricate,...  Read More >>

Social Structure, Space and Possession in Tongan Culture and Language: An ethnolinguistic study

Social Structure, Space and Possession in Tongan Culture...

Author: Svenja Völkel (University of Mainz)
ISBN: 9789027202833
Format: Hardback
$377.52

Investigates the relationship between culture, language and cognition based on the aspects of social structure,...  Read More >>

New Perspectives on Endangered Languages: Bridging gaps between sociolinguistics, documentation and language revitalization

New Perspectives on Endangered Languages: Bridging gaps...

Author: José Antonio Flores Farfán (CIESAS-México & University of Amsterdam) ,  Fernando F. Ramallo (University of Vigo)
ISBN: 9789027202819
Format: Hardback
$356.40

Understanding sociolinguistics as a theoretical and methodological framework hopefully could attempt to promote...  Read More >>

Language, Culture and the Dynamics of Age

Language, Culture and the Dynamics of Age

Author: Anna Duszak ,  Urszula Okulska
ISBN: 9783110238105
Format: Hardback
$308.79

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Language and Cognition in Bilinguals and Multilinguals: An Introduction

Language and Cognition in Bilinguals and Multilinguals:...

Author: Annette M.B. de Groot (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781848729018
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Psycholinguistics -- the field of science that examines the mental processes and knowledge structures involved in...  Read More >>

Contesting Europe's Eastern Rim: Cultural Identities in Public Discourse

Contesting Europe's Eastern Rim: Cultural Identities...

Author: Ljiljana Saric ,  Andreas Musolff
ISBN: 9781847693242
Format: Hardback
$297.43

Combining theory-oriented and empirical approaches, this book analyzes modes of identity construction in public...  Read More >>

Language Attrition

Language Attrition

Author: Monika S Schmid (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9786613298386
Format: Electronic book text
$348.48

'Language attrition' describes the loss of, or changes to, grammatical and other features of a language as a result...  Read More >>

Language Attrition

Language Attrition

Author: Monika S Schmid (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781283298384
Format: Electronic book text
$361.15

'Language attrition' describes the loss of, or changes to, grammatical and other features of a language as a result...  Read More >>

Understanding Russianness

Understanding Russianness

Author: Risto Alapuro (University of Helsinki, Finland) ,  Arto Mustajoki (University of Helsinki, Finland)
ISBN: 9781283462907
Format: Electronic book text
$409.20

In today s world where other cultures are being tapped to a greater extent than ever before, the processes of mixing...  Read More >>

Creating Worldviews: Metaphor, Ideology and Language

Creating Worldviews: Metaphor, Ideology and Language...

Author: James W Underhill
ISBN: 9781283221764
Format: Electronic book text
$343.17

Reflecting upon language and the role metaphor plays in patterning ideas and thought, Underhill analyses the discourse...  Read More >>

Power of Silence

Power of Silence

Author: Colum Kenny
ISBN: 9781283118637
Format: Electronic book text
$205.79

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Message in a Mobile: Mixed-Messages, Tales of Missing and Mobile Communities at the University of Khartoum

Message in a Mobile: Mixed-Messages, Tales of Missing...

Author: Siri Lamoureaux
ISBN: 9781283412759
Format: Electronic book text
$132.00

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Language Policy and Nation-Building in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Language Policy and Nation-Building in Post-Apartheid...

Author: Jon Orman
ISBN: 9789048180189
Format: Paperback
$366.96

Adopting a rigorous theoretical approach to the study of language policy and national identity, both generally and...  Read More >>

Language, Gender and Sexual Identity: Poststructuralist perspectives

Language, Gender and Sexual Identity: Poststructuralist...

Author: Heiko Motschenbacher (Goethe University Frankfurt)
ISBN: 9789027218681
Format: Hardback
$393.36

Presents a critical perspective on the discursive construction of heteronormativity and gender binarism from a linguistic...  Read More >>

The Ecology of Arabic: A Study of Arabicization

The Ecology of Arabic: A Study of Arabicization

Author: Muhammad al-Sharkawi
ISBN: 9789004186064
Format: Hardback
$443.52

This book offers a comprehensive theory of Arabicization in the Middle East and Egypt in the early period of the...  Read More >>

Bourdieu, Language and Linguistics

Bourdieu, Language and Linguistics

Author: Michael Grenfell
ISBN: 9781847065698
Format: Hardback
$350.00

Pierre Bourdieu is regarded as one of the foremost social philosophers of the twentieth century. His output included...  Read More >>

Semantics and Pragmatics of False Friends

Semantics and Pragmatics of False Friends

Author: Pedro J. Chamizo-Domínguez (University of Malaga, Spain)
ISBN: 9780415887885
Format: Paperback
$101.00

This book approaches the topic of false friends from a theoretical perspective, arguing that false friends carry...  Read More >>

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