Sociolinguistics books

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Everybody's Autonomy: Connective Reading and Collective Identity

Everybody's Autonomy: Connective Reading and Collective...
Author: Juliana Spahr ISBN: 9780817310547 Format: Paperback	$65.87
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Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 2: Social Factors

Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 2: Social Factors...
Author: William Labov (University of Pennsylvania, USA) ISBN: 9780631179160 Format: Paperback	$80.95
* written by one of the founders of modern sociolinguistics * presents the results of several decades of inquiry... Read More >>

Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 2: Social Factors

Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 2: Social Factors...
Author: William Labov (University of Pennsylvania, USA) ISBN: 9780631179153 Format: Hardback	$267.95
* written by one of the founders of modern sociolinguistics * presents the results of several decades of inquiry... Read More >>

Ethnocentrism and the English Dictionary

Ethnocentrism and the English Dictionary
Author: Phil Benson ISBN: 9780415220743 Format: Hardback	$189.00
This unique work challenges the assumption that dictionaries act as objective records of our language, and instead... Read More >>

Can Threatened Languages be Saved?

Can Threatened Languages be Saved?
Author: Joshua A. Fishman ISBN: 9781853594922 Format: Paperback	$113.39
This book provides both practical case studies and theoretical directions from five continents and advances the... Read More >>

Language, Ethnicity and the State, Volume 2: Minority Languages in Eastern Europe Post-1989

Language, Ethnicity and the State, Volume 2: Minority...
Author: C. O'Reilly ISBN: 9781349425464 Format: Paperback	$290.37
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When Listeners Talk: Response tokens and listener stance

When Listeners Talk: Response tokens and listener stance...
Author: Rod Gardner (University of Melbourne) ISBN: 9789027251114 Format: Hardback	$250.99
"This work examines brief listener responses to shed light on one of the central features of this human togetherness:... Read More >>

A History of English: A Sociolinguistic Approach

A History of English: A Sociolinguistic Approach
Author: Barbara Fennell (University of Aberdeen) ISBN: 9780631200734 Format: Paperback	$72.95
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A Community Text Arises: A Literate Text and a Literacy Tradition in African American Churches

A Community Text Arises: A Literate Text and a Literacy...
Author: Beverly J. Moss ISBN: 9781572733961 Format: Paperback	$55.31
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Language Revitalization: Policy and Planning

Language Revitalization: Policy and Planning
Author: Colin H. Williams ISBN: 9780708316672 Format: Hardback	$184.67
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Pronoun Envy: Literary Uses of Linguistic Gender

Pronoun Envy: Literary Uses of Linguistic Gender
Author: Anna Livia (Visiting Assistant Professor of French, Visiting Assistant Professor of French, University of California at Berkeley, USA) ISBN: 9780195138535 Format: Paperback	$256.00
In this interdisciplinary book, Livia examines a broad corpus of written texts in English and French, concentrating... Read More >>

A Community Text Arises: A Literate Text and a Literacy Tradition in African American Churches

A Community Text Arises: A Literate Text and a Literacy...
Author: Beverly J. Moss ISBN: 9781572733954 Format: Hardback	$65.00
This text emerges from an ethnographic study of literacy in three African American churches. These data illuminate... Read More >>

Englishes in Contact: Anglophone Caribbean Students in an Urban College

Englishes in Contact: Anglophone Caribbean Students...
Author: Shondel Nero ISBN: 9781572733251 Format: Hardback	$65.00
This is a longitudinal study of four anglophone Caribbean students at a New York City college. It offers an examination... Read More >>

Metaphor and the Dynamics of Knowledge

Metaphor and the Dynamics of Knowledge
Author: Sabine Maasen , Peter Weingart ISBN: 9780415208024 Format: Hardback	$315.00
This book opens up a new route to the study of knowledge dynamics and the sociology of knowledge. The focus is... Read More >>

Pronoun Envy: Literary Uses of Linguistic Gender

Pronoun Envy: Literary Uses of Linguistic Gender
Author: Anna Livia (Visiting Assistant Professor of French, Visiting Assistant Professor of French, University of California at Berkeley, USA) ISBN: 9780195138528 Format: Hardback	$384.00
In this interdisciplinary book, Livia examines a broad corpus of written texts in English and French, concentrating... Read More >>

Language and Society in a Changing Italy

Language and Society in a Changing Italy
Author: Arturo Tosi ISBN: 9781853595004 Format: Paperback	$113.39
This book examines the interrelation between language and society in contemporary Italy. It aims to provide an up... Read More >>

Language and Nationalism in Europe

Language and Nationalism in Europe
Author: Stephen Barbour (Lecturer in German, Lecturer in German, University of Oxford) , Cathie Carmichael (Lecturer in Contemporary History, Lecturer in Contemporary History, Middlesex University) ISBN: 9780198236719 Format: Hardback	$301.95
This book examines the role of language in the present and past creation of social, cultural, and national identities... Read More >>

Gender, Heteroglossia and Power: A Sociolinguistic Study of Youth Culture

Gender, Heteroglossia and Power: A Sociolinguistic Study...
Author: Joan Pujolar ISBN: 9783110167979 Format: Hardback	$303.57
Based on an ethnographic study carried out in Spain, this text proposes a new way of analyzing the relation between... Read More >>

Analysing the Language of Discourse Communities

Analysing the Language of Discourse Communities
Author: Joan Cutting ISBN: 9780080438931 Format: Hardback	$191.35
This text describes how the language used in social interaction evolves from the time the speakers first meet and... Read More >>

Seldom Ask, Never Tell: Labor and Discourse in Appalachia

Seldom Ask, Never Tell: Labor and Discourse in Appalachia...
Author: Anita Puckett (Assistant Professor of Appalachian Studies, Assistant Professor of Appalachian Studies, Virginia Tech) ISBN: 9780195102772 Format: Hardback	$222.95
Puckett takes a look at the relationship between language, society, and economics, by examining how people talk... Read More >>

The Viking-Age Rune-Stones: Custom and Commemoration in Early Medieval Scandinavia

The Viking-Age Rune-Stones: Custom and Commemoration...
Author: Birgit Sawyer (, Professor of History, Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet, Trondheim) ISBN: 9780198206439 Format: Hardback	$334.95
This is the first historical study of the whole body of late Viking runic inscription stones in Scandinavia. The... Read More >>

Lines of Narrative: Psychosocial Perspectives

Lines of Narrative: Psychosocial Perspectives
Author: Molly Andrews , Shelley Day Sclater ISBN: 9780415242332 Format: Hardback	$305.00
A focus on the inter-relationship between experience, self and society brilliantly advances our understanding of... Read More >>

Studies in Interactional Linguistics

Studies in Interactional Linguistics
Author: Margret Selting (Universität Potsdam) , Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen (University of Konstanz) ISBN: 9789027226204 Format: Hardback	$271.69
This work discusses linguistic phenomena explained in terms of the actions that participants are engaged in when... Read More >>

Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English

Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English
Author: John Russell Rickford , Russell John Rickford ISBN: 9780471399575 Format: Paperback	$42.11
In Praise of Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English ""Spoken Soul brilliantly fills a huge gap... a delightfully... Read More >>

Franglais, Le: Forbidden English, Forbidden American - Law, Politics and Language in Contemporary France

Franglais, Le: Forbidden English, Forbidden American...
Author: Philip Thody ISBN: 9780485121155 Format: Paperback	$190.08
A study of the attempt by French politicians to use the law to forbid the use of words of English and American... Read More >>

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