Sociolinguistics books

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Pragmatics

Pragmatics

Author: Jean Stilwell Peccei (formerly at Roehampton University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415205238
Format: Paperback
$58.99

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Code-Switching in Conversation: Language, Interaction and Identity

Code-Switching in Conversation: Language, Interaction...

Author: Peter Auer
ISBN: 9780415216098
Format: Paperback
$98.99

This volume brings together contributions from a wide variety of sociolinguistic settings in which this phenomenon...  Read More >>

Sprachkultur und Sprachgeschichte: Herausbildung und Forderung von Sprachbewufstsein und wissenschaftlicher Sprachpflege in Europa

Sprachkultur und Sprachgeschichte: Herausbildung und...

Author: Jurgen Scharnhorst
ISBN: 9783631336779
Format: Paperback
$137.28

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The Social Shaping of Technology

The Social Shaping of Technology

Author: Donald MacKenzie ,  Judy Wajcman
ISBN: 9780335199136
Format: Paperback
$73.95

The book draws on authors from Karl Marx to Cynthia Cockburn to show that production technology is shaped by social...  Read More >>

Community Besieged: The Anglophone Minority and the Politics of Quebec

Community Besieged: The Anglophone Minority and the...

Author: Garth Stevenson ,  Garth Stevenson
ISBN: 9780773518391
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Until the Quiet Revolution, English-speaking Quebecers seldom thought of themselves as a minority. Over the last...  Read More >>

Wege zur Kultursprache: Die Polyfunktionalisierung des Deutschen im juridischen Diskurs (1200-1800)

Wege zur Kultursprache: Die Polyfunktionalisierung des...

Author: Ingo Warnke
ISBN: 9783110164299
Format: Hardback
$325.95

This text looks at the conditions which led to the establishment of German as the standard language, thus addressing...  Read More >>

Dialect in Aristophanes: The Politics of Language in Ancient Greek Literature

Dialect in Aristophanes: The Politics of Language in...

Author: Stephen Colvin (Assistant Professor in Greek Literature and Linguistics, Assistant Professor in Greek Literature and Linguistics, Yale University)
ISBN: 9780198152491
Format: Hardback
$236.95

Did the Greeks find it amusing, irritating or threatening when they heard another Greek speaking in a different...  Read More >>

Encyclopedia of Language and Education: Language Policy and Political Issues in Education

Encyclopedia of Language and Education: Language Policy...

Author: Ruth Wodak ,  P. Corson
ISBN: 9780792349280
Format: Paperback
$116.41

Covers basic fields of sociolinguistics and the sociology of language; both macro- and micro-domains are presented...  Read More >>

Encyclopaedia of Language and Education

Encyclopaedia of Language and Education

Author: Nancy H. Hornberger
ISBN: 9780792349365
Format: Paperback
$947.76

This set seeks to enable language and education practitioners, researchers, and interested lay readers alike to...  Read More >>

Feminist Perspectives on Language

Feminist Perspectives on Language

Author: Margaret Gibbon
ISBN: 9780582356368
Format: Paperback
$118.00

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Interlanguage Refusals: A Cross-cultural Study of Japanese-English

Interlanguage Refusals: A Cross-cultural Study of Japanese-English...

Author: Noël Houck ,  Susan M. Gass
ISBN: 9783110163865
Format: Hardback
$110.88

This text takes an in-depth look at the speech act of refusals as performed in English by native speakers of Japanese....  Read More >>

Spanish in the United States: Linguistic Contact and Diversity

Spanish in the United States: Linguistic Contact and...

Author: Ana Roca ,  John M. Lipski
ISBN: 9783110165722
Format: Hardback
$129.36

No detailed description available for ""Spanish in the United States"".  Read More >>

Governing The Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England

Governing The Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early...

Author: Jane Kamensky (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Brandeis University)
ISBN: 9780195130904
Format: Paperback
$84.95

Examines the special nature and power of speech in Puritan New England, where the twin desires to promote godly...  Read More >>

Writing Business: Genres, Media and Discourses

Writing Business: Genres, Media and Discourses

Author: Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini ,  Catherine Nickerson
ISBN: 9780582319851
Format: Paperback
$121.97

This collection of essays aims to offer a cross-section of the generic types, the media and the functions of written...  Read More >>

Images of Language: Six essays on German attitudes to European languages from 1500 to 1800

Images of Language: Six essays on German attitudes to...

Author: William Jervis Jones (Royal Holloway, University of London)
ISBN: 9789027245779
Format: Hardback
$261.34

In this collection of essays, two broad issues are covered: German speakers are seen in the act of discovering and...  Read More >>

Speaking Chicana: Voice, Power, and Identity

Speaking Chicana: Voice, Power, and Identity

Author: D. Letticia Galindo ,  María D. Gonzales
ISBN: 9780816518159
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Offers an examination of language issues among Chicanas. Flowing throughout this collection of essays are themes...  Read More >>

Language Death in the Isle of Man: An investigation into the decline and extinction of Manx Gaelic as a community language in the Isle of Man

Language Death in the Isle of Man: An investigation...

Author: George Broderick
ISBN: 9783484303959
Format: Hardback
$188.67

Die Buchreihe Linguistische Arbeiten (LA) trägt wesentlich zur aktuellen linguistischen Theoriebildung im Bereich...  Read More >>

Identity, Insecurity and Image: France and Language

Identity, Insecurity and Image: France and Language...

Author: Dennis E Ager
ISBN: 9781853594427
Format: Paperback
$97.55

This book is about the relationship between language and the society that uses it. It specifically aims to discover...  Read More >>

Heinrich Heine's Contested Identities: Politics, Religion, and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Germany

Heinrich Heine's Contested Identities: Politics, Religion,...

Author: Jost Hermand ,  Robert C Holub
ISBN: 9780820441054
Format: Hardback
$155.63

This volume collects the papers presented at a conference that took place in Berkeley, California, in October 1997...  Read More >>

Identity and Ethnicity in the Rural South: a Sociolinguistic View Through Past and Present Be

Identity and Ethnicity in the Rural South: a Sociolinguistic...

Author: Kirk Hazen
ISBN: 9780822364719
Format: Paperback
$37.95

Investigates the interaction of cultural and ethnic identity as realised in language variation. Through the quantitative...  Read More >>

Standard English: The Widening Debate

Standard English: The Widening Debate

Author: Tony Bex ,  Richard J. Watts
ISBN: 9780415191623
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The debates surrounding Standard English, grammar and correctness are as intense today as ever and extend far beyond...  Read More >>

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