Sociolinguistics books

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The Ethnography of Reading

The Ethnography of Reading
Author: Jonathan Boyarin ISBN: 9780520081338 Format: Paperback	$50.95
A collection of essays on reading, which analyze the long historical transformation of reading in the West from... Read More >>

Power in Language: Verbal Communication and Social Influence

Power in Language: Verbal Communication and Social Influence...
Author: Sik H. Ng , James J. Bradac ISBN: 9780803944237 Format: Paperback	$316.00
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Images of English: A Cultural History of the Language

Images of English: A Cultural History of the Language...
Author: Richard W. Bailey ISBN: 9780472082421 Format: Paperback	$65.87
Images of English demonstrates how people's opinions about the English language often reflect prejudice and hope,... Read More >>

Dickens' Rhetoric

Dickens' Rhetoric
Author: Sheila M. Foor ISBN: 9780820420110 Format: Hardback	$137.15
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Dynamics of a Contact Continuum: Singaporean English

Dynamics of a Contact Continuum: Singaporean English...
Author: Ho Mian-Lian (Senior Lecturer, School of Accountancy and Business, Senior Lecturer, School of Accountancy and Business, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) , John T. Platt (late Deputy Chairman, Department of Linguistics, late Deputy Chairman, Department of Linguistics, Monash University) ISBN: 9780198248286 Format: Hardback	$165.95
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Spanish in the United States: Linguistic Contact and Diversity

Spanish in the United States: Linguistic Contact and...
Author: Ana Roca , John M. Lipski ISBN: 9783110132045 Format: Hardback	$335.25
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Alsatian Acts of Identity: Language Use and Language Attitudes in Alsace

Alsatian Acts of Identity: Language Use and Language...
Author: Liliane M. Vassberg ISBN: 9781853591723 Format: Paperback	$105.47
Focusing on a German dialect spoken in Alsace, rapidly giving way to French, this book investigates language choice,... Read More >>

The Earliest Stage of Language Planning: ""The First Congress"" Phenomenon

The Earliest Stage of Language Planning: ""The First...
Author: Joshua A. Fishman ISBN: 9783110135305 Format: Hardback	$406.56
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Social Motivations for Codeswitching

Social Motivations for Codeswitching
Author: Carol Myers-Scotton ISBN: 9780198239055 Format: Hardback	$59.95
Discusses codeswitching - the use of more than one language in a conversation. Using data from multilingual African... Read More >>

The Culture of Coincidence

The Culture of Coincidence
Author: Laurence Goldman , W.M. O'Barr ISBN: 9780198278733 Format: Hardback	$190.00
This study provides a full-length account of 'accident' in a non-western society. The author shows how important... Read More >>

The Power of Silence: Social and Pragmatic Perspectives

The Power of Silence: Social and Pragmatic Perspectives...
Author: Adam Jaworski ISBN: 9780803949676 Format: Paperback	$316.00
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White on Black in South Africa: A Study of English-Language Inscriptions of Skin Colour

White on Black in South Africa: A Study of English-Language...
Author: Michael Wade ISBN: 9780333365731 Format: Hardback	$290.37
The English-speaking whites of South Africa participate in the larger culture of the English-speaking world while... Read More >>

White on Black in South Africa: A Study of English-Language Inscriptions of Skin Colour

White on Black in South Africa: A Study of English-Language...
Author: Michael Wade ISBN: 9781349225484 Format: Paperback	$290.37
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The World of Talk on a Fijian Island: An Ethnography of Law and Communicative Causation

The World of Talk on a Fijian Island: An Ethnography...
Author: Andrew Arno ISBN: 9780893919610 Format: Paperback	$76.00
This volume offers a theoretical exploration of the concept of the communication system as a tool of social inquiry.... Read More >>

Advances in Non-Verbal Communication: Sociocultural, clinical, esthetic and literary perspectives

Advances in Non-Verbal Communication: Sociocultural,...
Author: Fernando Poyatos (University of New Brunswick) ISBN: 9789027220851 Format: Hardback	$307.91
A multi- and interdisciplinary contribution to the field of non-verbal communication studies which offers numerous... Read More >>

Language and Literature in the African American Imagination

Language and Literature in the African American Imagination...
Author: Carol A. Blackshire-Belay ISBN: 9780313278266 Format: Hardback	$140.00
A volume of critical and theoretical essays seeking to interpret the current philosophical, aesthetic and literary... Read More >>

The Politics and Philosophy of Political Correctness

The Politics and Philosophy of Political Correctness...
Author: Jung Min Choi , John W. Murphy ISBN: 9780275942861 Format: Hardback	$140.00
Choi and Murphy seek to analyze the key facets of the debate over PC. Starting with an examination of the key concepts... Read More >>

Dimensions of Sociolinguistics in South Asia: Papers in Memory of Gerald Kelley

Dimensions of Sociolinguistics in South Asia: Papers...
Author: Edward C. Dimock , etc. ISBN: 9788120405738 Format: Hardback	$110.88
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The City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speech

The City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speech...
Author: Irving Lewis Allen ISBN: 9786610527694 Format: Electronic book text	$65.21
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Deixis, Grammar, and Culture

Deixis, Grammar, and Culture
Author: Revere D. Perkins (Springville, NY) ISBN: 9781556194139 Format: Paperback	$142.56
Many linguists have believed that there is no connection between culture and language structures. This study reviews... Read More >>

Je, Tu, Nous: Toward a Culture of Difference

Je, Tu, Nous: Toward a Culture of Difference
Author: Luce Irigaray , Alison Martin ISBN: 9780415905824 Format: Paperback	$112.00
Irigaray offers the clearest available introduction to her own work. Focusing on power, women, gender and patriarchal... Read More >>

Politeness Phenomena in England and Greece

Politeness Phenomena in England and Greece
Author: Maria Sifianou ISBN: 9780198239727 Format: Hardback	$55.00
Drawing on a variety of sources, including literature, questionnaires, and personal observation, Maria Sifianou... Read More >>

Deixis, Grammar, and Culture

Deixis, Grammar, and Culture
Author: Revere D Perkins ISBN: 9786613313096 Format: Electronic book text	$570.24
Many linguists have believed that there is no connection between culture and language structures. This study reviews... Read More >>

Feminism and Linguistic Theory

Feminism and Linguistic Theory
Author: Deborah Cameron ISBN: 9780312083762 Format: Paperback	$147.84
Feminism and Linguistic Theory is a critical introduction to feminist scholarship. It encompasses work in linguistics,... Read More >>

Feminism and Linguistic Theory

Feminism and Linguistic Theory
Author: Deborah Cameron ISBN: 9780333558898 Format: Paperback	$237.57
Feminism and Linguistic Theory is a critical introduction to feminist scholarship. It encompasses work in linguistics,... Read More >>

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