Sociolinguistics books

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Women Changing Language

Women Changing Language

Author: Anne Pauwels
ISBN: 9780582099616
Format: Hardback
$227.04

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The Expressivity of Grammar: Grammatical Devices Expressing Emotion across Time

The Expressivity of Grammar: Grammatical Devices Expressing...

Author: Axel Hübler
ISBN: 9783110157802
Format: Hardback
$554.40

This study investigates the way in which the speaker's attitude to what is said is simplicity coded in grammar....  Read More >>

Everyday English 1500-1700: A Reader

Everyday English 1500-1700: A Reader

Author: Bridget Cusack
ISBN: 9780748607761
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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Local Literacies: Reading and Writing in One Community

Local Literacies: Reading and Writing in One Community...

Author: David Barton ,  Mary Hamilton
ISBN: 9780415171502
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Local Literacies is a unique study of everyday reading and writing. By concentrating on a selection of people in...  Read More >>

Spontaneous Spoken Language: Syntax and Discourse

Spontaneous Spoken Language: Syntax and Discourse

Author: Jim Miller (, University of Edinburgh) ,  Regina Weinert (, University of Sheffield)
ISBN: 9780198236566
Format: Hardback
$447.95

Jim Miller and Regina Weinert examine the types of clauses used by people when they are speaking off the cuff. They...  Read More >>

Local Literacies: Reading and Writing in One Community

Local Literacies: Reading and Writing in One Community...

Author: David Barton ,  Mary Hamilton
ISBN: 9780415171496
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Local Literacies is a unique study of everyday reading and writing. By concentrating on a selection of people in...  Read More >>

Language Wars and Linguistic Politics

Language Wars and Linguistic Politics

Author: Louis-Jean Calvet ,  Michel Petheram
ISBN: 9780198235989
Format: Hardback
$170.00

A consideration of the interaction of language issues and political process. The fundamental problems which arise...  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: 9780195090802
Format: Hardback
$170.95

Governing the Tongue examines the nature and power of speech in Puritan New England, where the twin desires to promote...  Read More >>

Indian English: Texts and Interpretation

Indian English: Texts and Interpretation

Author: Raja Ram Mehrotra (Banaras Hindu University) ,  Manfred Gorlach
ISBN: 9789027247162
Format: Hardback
$214.76

This volume presents Indian English texts drawn from diverse sources and a variety of registers and domains. It...  Read More >>

Feminist Critique of Language: second edition

Feminist Critique of Language: second edition

Author: Deborah Cameron (University of Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9780415164009
Format: Paperback
$103.00

This new edition has been thoroughly updated and expanded to take account of new developments in feminist debates...  Read More >>

Verbstellungswandel Bei Jugendlichen, Frauen Und Männern Im 16. Jahrhundert

Verbstellungswandel Bei Jugendlichen, Frauen Und Männern...

Author: Robert Peter Ebert
ISBN: 9783484311909
Format: Hardback
$406.56

Diese soziolinguistische Studie behandelt Variation und Wandel in der Stellung von einem Hilfsverb und einer infiniten...  Read More >>

Funktionen von Jugendsprache

Funktionen von Jugendsprache

Author: Susanne Augenstein
ISBN: 9783484311923
Format: Hardback
$406.56

In der vorliegenden Studie, die linguistische und sozialpsychologische Forschungsergebnisse zusammenführt, werden...  Read More >>

Feminist Critique of Language: second edition

Feminist Critique of Language: second edition

Author: Deborah Cameron (University of Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9780415163996
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This new edition has been thoroughly updated and expanded to take account of new developments in feminist debates...  Read More >>

Speaking and Social Identity: English in the Lives of Urban Africans

Speaking and Social Identity: English in the Lives of...

Author: Lawrence B. Breitborde
ISBN: 9783110147964
Format: Hardback
$554.40

No detailed description available for ""Speaking and Social Identity"".  Read More >>

Linguistic Culture and Language Policy

Linguistic Culture and Language Policy

Author: Harold Schiffman
ISBN: 9780415184069
Format: Paperback
$139.00

By looking closely at the multilingual democracies of India, France and the USA, Harold F. Schiffman examines how...  Read More >>

White Wash: Racialized Politics and the Media

White Wash: Racialized Politics and the Media

Author: John Gabriel
ISBN: 9781281189882
Format: Electronic book text
$582.91

This book puts the language used in television, the radio, the internet and press, as well as that spoken by key...  Read More >>

Code-Switching in Conversation: Language, Interaction and Identity

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

Author: Peter Auer
ISBN: 9780415158312
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Semantic Analysis

Semantic Analysis

Author: Cliff Goddard
ISBN: 9780198700173
Format: Hardback
$190.00

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Sprache, Kommunikationskultur und Mentalität

Sprache, Kommunikationskultur und Mentalität

Author: Erika Werlen
ISBN: 9783484311947
Format: Hardback
$351.09

Die Untersuchung konkreter Kontaktkommunikation und die Entwicklung theoretischer und methodologischer Einsichten...  Read More >>

Language, Literature and the Negotiation of Identity: Foreign Worker German in the Federal Republic of Germany

Language, Literature and the Negotiation of Identity:...

Author: Barbara A. Fennell
ISBN: 9780807881194
Format: Hardback
$118.80

This study examines the way in which the identity of foreign workers and foreign writers in Germany is negotiated...  Read More >>

The Origins of the Ainu Language: The Ainu Indo-European Controversy

The Origins of the Ainu Language: The Ainu Indo-European...

Author: Kirsten Refsing
ISBN: 9780700710348
Format: Hardback
$4290.00

Concentrating on the origins of the Ainu language, this five volume work presents not only Pierre Naert's initial...  Read More >>

Sociolinguistics

Sociolinguistics

Author: Bernard Spolsky ,  H. G. Widdowson
ISBN: 9780194372114
Format: Paperback
$61.06

Sociolinguistics is the study of the different ways in which different groups of people use language. This book...  Read More >>

Music in Russian Poetry

Music in Russian Poetry

Author: Paul Friedrich
ISBN: 9780820433479
Format: Paperback
$100.19

This groundbreaking work from Paul Friedrich surveys the Russian lyric scene from the eighteenth century through...  Read More >>

English in New Cultural Contexts

English in New Cultural Contexts

Author: J. A. Foley ,  Thiru Kandiah
ISBN: 9780195884159
Format: Paperback
$46.95

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Power of Babel: Language and Governance in the African Experience

Power of Babel: Language and Governance in the African...

Author: Ali A. Mazrui (Author) ,  Alamin Mazrui (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9780852558072
Format: Paperback
$69.84

A consideration of the use of African and European languages by the peoples of Africa. The authors argue that the...  Read More >>

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