Sociolinguistics books

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Language Contact and Language Conflict in Arabic

Language Contact and Language Conflict in Arabic
Author: Aleya Rouchdy ISBN: 9780700713790 Format: Hardback	$305.00
This volume contains 28 studies on Arabic sociolinguistics. It introduces the different studies, deals with the... Read More >>

Contact Linguistics: Bilingual Encounters and Grammatical Outcomes

Contact Linguistics: Bilingual Encounters and Grammatical...
Author: Carol Myers-Scotton (, Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, University of South Carolina) ISBN: 9780198299530 Format: Paperback	$119.95
Language contact phenomena describe the linguistic varieties, or intrusions of one variety into another, that arise... Read More >>

Gender, Language and Discourse

Gender, Language and Discourse
Author: Ann Weatherall ISBN: 9780415169066 Format: Paperback	$83.99
Is language sexist? Do women and men speak different languages? ""Gender, Language and Discourse"" examines the... Read More >>

Gender, Language and Discourse

Gender, Language and Discourse
Author: Ann Weatherall ISBN: 9780415169059 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Is language sexist? Do women and men speak different languages? ""Gender, Language and Discourse"" examines the... Read More >>

Oxford Guide to World English

Oxford Guide to World English
Author: Tom McArthur ISBN: 9780198662488 Format: Hardback	$75.00
This is a survey of English both as a pre-eminent world language and as an increasingly divergent language. It... Read More >>

Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect

Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect
Author: Lorenzo D. Turner ISBN: 9781570034527 Format: Paperback	$45.10
This text presents a reference point for today's discussions about ever-present language varieties, Ebonics, and... Read More >>

Linguistic Emotivity: Centrality of place, the topic-comment dynamic, and an ideology of pathos in Japanese discourse

Linguistic Emotivity: Centrality of place, the topic-comment...
Author: Senko K. Maynard (Rutgers University) ISBN: 9789027251176 Format: Hardback	$282.04
In this text on emotives in Japanese, Senko examines linguistic signs and strategies on varied levels. He takes... Read More >>

Signal, Meaning, and Message: Perspectives on sign-based linguistics

Signal, Meaning, and Message: Perspectives on sign-based...
Author: Wallis Reid (Rutgers University) , Ricardo Otheguy (City University of New York) ISBN: 9789027215574 Format: Hardback	$282.04
This is the second volume of papers to emerge from Columbia School linguistics conferences. It assumes a basic familiarity... Read More >>

Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages

Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages...
Author: Daniel Nettle , Suzanne Romaine (, University of Oxford) ISBN: 9780195152463 Format: Paperback	$31.95
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Linguistic Fieldwork

Linguistic Fieldwork
Author: Colette G. Craig , Judy Kegl ISBN: 9780521379496 Format: Paperback	$301.49
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Language in Social Worlds

Language in Social Worlds
Author: W. Peter Robinson (University of Bristol) ISBN: 9780631193364 Format: Paperback	$93.95
This is the first text on language in communication written from a social psychological perspective that sets issues... Read More >>

Language in Social Worlds

Language in Social Worlds
Author: W. Peter Robinson (University of Bristol) ISBN: 9780631193357 Format: Hardback	$269.95
This is the first comprehensive text on language and communication to be written from a social psychological perspective.... Read More >>

Ethnosyntax: Explorations in Grammar and Culture

Ethnosyntax: Explorations in Grammar and Culture
Author: N. J. Enfield (, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) ISBN: 9780199249060 Format: Hardback	$369.00
Meanings of cultural importance are found not only in words but also in the very grammar of a language. This volume... Read More >>

Brown Tide Rising: Metaphors of Latinos in Contemporary American Public Discourse

Brown Tide Rising: Metaphors of Latinos in Contemporary...
Author: Otto Santa Ana ISBN: 9780292777675 Format: Paperback	$61.95
Since 1993, metaphorical language has permeated mainstream media reporting on the United States' growing Latino... Read More >>

Troubling Education: ""Queer"" Activism and Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy

Troubling Education: ""Queer"" Activism and Anti-Oppressive...
Author: Kevin Kumashiro ISBN: 9780415933124 Format: Paperback	$105.00
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Race and the Rise of Standard American

Race and the Rise of Standard American
Author: Thomas Paul Bonfiglio ISBN: 9783110171907 Format: Paperback	$134.64
This study examines the effect of race-consciousness upon the pronunciation of American English and upon the ideology... Read More >>

Race and the Rise of Standard American

Race and the Rise of Standard American
Author: Thomas Paul Bonfiglio ISBN: 9783110171891 Format: Hardback	$330.00
This study examines the effect of race-consciousness upon the pronunciation of American English and upon the ideology... Read More >>

Sista, Speak!: Black Women Kinfolk Talk About Language and Literacy

Sista, Speak!: Black Women Kinfolk Talk About Language...
Author: Sonja L. Lanehart ISBN: 9780292747296 Format: Paperback	$41.95
Explores how the valorization of ""proper"" English has affected the language, literacy, educational achievements,... Read More >>

Applying Sociolinguistics: Domains and face-to-face interaction

Applying Sociolinguistics: Domains and face-to-face...
Author: Diana Boxer (University of Florida, Gainesville) ISBN: 9789027218513 Format: Paperback	$142.56
This title provides an overview of discourse studies in oral interaction. Its focus is on encounters in the various... Read More >>

Language Education Policy: The Arab Minority in Israel

Language Education Policy: The Arab Minority in Israel...
Author: M. Amara , Abd Al-Rahman Mar'i ISBN: 9781402005855 Format: Hardback	$446.16
In this book we will explore in more detail some aspects of the Arab-Jewish divide, which raise fundamental questions... Read More >>

The Slavonic Languages

The Slavonic Languages
Author: Professor Greville Corbett , Professor Bernard Comrie ISBN: 9780415280785 Format: Paperback	$179.00
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Orality and Literacy

Orality and Literacy
Author: Walter J. Ong ISBN: 9780415281294 Format: Paperback	$81.71
This work explores the vast differences between oral and literate cultures and offers a lucid account of the intellectual,... Read More >>

English in Europe

English in Europe
Author: Manfred Görlach (, Englisches Seminar, Universität zu Köln) ISBN: 9780198237143 Format: Hardback	$320.00
Twenty-two scholars in sixteen European countries chart the English invasion of their national languages over the... Read More >>

Buergerliches Wissen – Nationalsozialistische Herrschaft: Sprache in Goebbels’ Zeitung ""Das Reich""

Buergerliches Wissen – Nationalsozialistische Herrschaft:...
Author: Mathias Aljoscha Winde ISBN: 9783631396094 Format: Paperback	$67.79
Sprache im Nationalsozialismus: Bisher wurde dieses Thema vor allem mit rhetorischen Analysen der NSDAP-Parteisprache... Read More >>

Beyond Ebonics: Linguistic Pride and Racial Prejudice

Beyond Ebonics: Linguistic Pride and Racial Prejudice...
Author: John Baugh (Professor of Education and Linguistics, Professor of Education and Linguistics, Stanford University) ISBN: 9780195152890 Format: Paperback	$102.95
John Baugh here offers a short explanation of the origins of the term ebonics, the linguistic reality behind the... Read More >>

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