Sociolinguistics books

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Impoliteness in Language: Studies on Its Interplay with Power in Theory and Practice

Impoliteness in Language: Studies on Its Interplay with...
Author: Derek Bousfield , Miriam A Locher ISBN: 9786613428646 Format: Electronic book text	$4346.50
Drawing on a wide range of empirical data, this volume presents a discussion of impoliteness and power in language.... Read More >>

Heavenly Readings: Liturgical Literacy in a Multilingual Context

Heavenly Readings: Liturgical Literacy in a Multilingual...
Author: Andrey Rosowsky ISBN: 9781847690920 Format: Paperback	$97.55
This ethnographic study is the first in depth study of the literacy practices associated with the religion of Islam... Read More >>

Comprende?: The Significance of Spanish in English-Only Times

Comprende?: The Significance of Spanish in English-Only...
Author: Steven W Bender ISBN: 9781888205084 Format: Paperback	$71.15
Today, the contentious issue of Latino immigration has spurred backlash efforts to anoint English as the official... Read More >>

N Word, The

N Word, The
Author: Jabari Asim ISBN: 9780547053493 Format: Paperback	$39.47
Asim traces the roots and meanings behind the racial slur and argues that using the word keeps blacks at the bottom... Read More >>

Language and Identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croatian and Its Disintegration

Language and Identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croatian...
Author: Robert D. Greenberg (, University of New Haven and Yale University) ISBN: 9780199208753 Format: Paperback	$83.95
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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: 9780415399234 Format: Hardback	$368.00
Drawing upon the latest evidence in genetics, linguistics and archaeology, this exciting book examines the history... Read More >>

The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human...
Author: Steven Pinker ISBN: 9780143114246 Format: Paperback	$44.88
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When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge

When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages...
Author: K. David Harrison (, Assistant Professor of LinguisticsSwarthmore College) ISBN: 9780195372069 Format: Paperback	$43.95
It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe... Read More >>

Supremacist Ideology and the American Language of Empire

Supremacist Ideology and the American Language of Empire...
Author: Linda Mader ISBN: 9783639061581 Format: Paperback	$200.64
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Living Speech: Resisting the Empire of Force

Living Speech: Resisting the Empire of Force
Author: James Boyd White ISBN: 9780691138374 Format: Paperback	$72.99
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Courtroom Talk and Neocolonial Control

Courtroom Talk and Neocolonial Control
Author: Diana Eades , Diana Eades ISBN: 9783110204827 Format: Hardback	$340.56
Examines the social consequences of courtroom talk through detailed investigation of the cross-examination of three... Read More >>

Gender and Language Research Methodologies

Gender and Language Research Methodologies
Author: Ruth Wodak , J. Angermuller ISBN: 9780230550698 Format: Paperback	$232.85
The first book that draws together the main current methodological approaches to the study of language and gender.... Read More >>

Gender and Language Research Methodologies

Gender and Language Research Methodologies
Author: Ruth Wodak , J. Angermuller ISBN: 9780230550681 Format: Hardback	$232.85
The first book that draws together the main current methodological approaches to the study of language and gender.... Read More >>

Men's Discourses of Depression

Men's Discourses of Depression
Author: D. Galasinski ISBN: 9780230507524 Format: Hardback	$224.40
An original and timely study of men's experiences of depression in which the author tackles the discursively constructed... Read More >>

Dictatorship: The Imposition of U.S. Culture on Latin America Through Translation.

Dictatorship: The Imposition of U.S. Culture on Latin...
Author: Peter A Neissa ISBN: 9781888205107 Format: Paperback	$71.15
This book focuses on how a dictator or a culturally dominant power can use language to impose cultural values. Read More >>

Sourcing the Self: Debating the Relations between Language and Consciousness

Sourcing the Self: Debating the Relations between Language...
Author: Kathy Pitt , Graeme Davis ISBN: 9783039113989 Format: Paperback	$163.55
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Read the Cultural Other: Forms of Otherness in the Discourses of Hong Kong's Decolonization

Read the Cultural Other: Forms of Otherness in the Discourses...
Author: Shi-Xu , Manfred Kienpointner ISBN: 9786613396662 Format: Electronic book text	$408.67
Argues that non-Western discourses cannot be contained in a 'general', 'universal', or 'integrated' model of linguistic... Read More >>

Sustaining Language: Essays in Applied Ecolinguistics

Sustaining Language: Essays in Applied Ecolinguistics...
Author: Alwin Fill , Hermine Penz ISBN: 9783825898588 Format: Paperback	$105.47
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Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad

Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad...
Author: Natana J Delong-Bas ISBN: 9780195333015 Format: Paperback	$65.87
Until September 11, 2001 few Westerners had ever heard of ""Wahhabism."" Now most of us recognize the word as describing... Read More >>

Sexed Texts: Language, Gender and Sexuality

Sexed Texts: Language, Gender and Sexuality
Author: Paul Baker ISBN: 9781845530754 Format: Paperback	$54.99
Explores the complex role that language plays in the construction of sexuality and gender, two concepts that are... Read More >>

Sexed Texts: Language, Gender and Sexuality

Sexed Texts: Language, Gender and Sexuality
Author: Paul Baker ISBN: 9781845530747 Format: Hardback	$170.00
Explores the complex role that language plays in the construction of sexuality and gender, two concepts that are... Read More >>

Mapping Linguistic Diversity in Multicultural Contexts

Mapping Linguistic Diversity in Multicultural Contexts...
Author: Monica Barni , Guus Extra ISBN: 9783110195910 Format: Hardback	$401.28
Within the European context, linguistic diversity can be studied at the level of official state languages and non-national... Read More >>

The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom

The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture...
Author: Lisa Delpit , Joanne Kilgour Dowdy ISBN: 9781595583505 Format: Paperback	$47.39
The author of Other People's Children delivers a commemorative edition of this groundbreaking collection that... Read More >>

An Introduction to Language and Society

An Introduction to Language and Society
Author: Martin Montgomery (University of Macau, China) ISBN: 9780415382748 Format: Paperback	$81.99
This book explores how our ways of seeing and engaging with the world may be shaped by the categories, systems and... Read More >>

An Introduction to Language and Society

An Introduction to Language and Society
Author: Martin Montgomery (University of Macau, China) ISBN: 9780415382991 Format: Hardback	$305.00
This book explores how our ways of seeing and engaging with the world may be shaped by the categories, systems and... Read More >>

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