Sociolinguistics books

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The Study of Names: A Guide to the Principles and Topics

The Study of Names: A Guide to the Principles and Topics...

Author: Frank Nuessel
ISBN: 9780313283567
Format: Hardback
$121.00

An introduction and research guide to onomastics the study of names, this book covers the major areas of name study...  Read More >>

Language Death: Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa

Language Death: Factual and Theoretical Explorations...

Author: Matthias Brenzinger
ISBN: 9783110134049
Format: Hardback
$395.97

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Codeswitching

Codeswitching

Author: Carol M Eastman
ISBN: 9781853591679
Format: Hardback
$316.67

This book focuses on codeswitching as an urban language-contact phenomenon. The chapters discuss such topics as...  Read More >>

That's Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes Or Breaks Your Relations With Others

That's Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes...

Author: Deborah Tannen
ISBN: 9781853815126
Format: Paperback
$31.99

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The Dialogics of Critique: M.M. Bakhtin and the Theory of Ideology

The Dialogics of Critique: M.M. Bakhtin and the Theory...

Author: Michael Gardiner
ISBN: 9780415060646
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Discourse Networks, 1800/1900

Discourse Networks, 1800/1900

Author: Friedrich Kittler ,  Chris Cullens
ISBN: 9780804720991
Format: Paperback
$52.95

This is an original book about the connections between historical moment, social structure, technology, communication...  Read More >>

Variation in Language: Code switching in Czech as a challenge for sociolinguistics

Variation in Language: Code switching in Czech as a...

Author: Petr Sgall ,  Jirí Hronek
ISBN: 9789027215482
Format: Hardback
$271.69

In sociolinguistic studies, intralingual code-switching has been given less attention than other areas, and linguists'...  Read More >>

The Contextualization of Language

The Contextualization of Language

Author: Peter Auer ,  Aldo Di Luzio
ISBN: 9789027250346
Format: Hardback
$446.16

Suggests a novel treatment of context in the analysis of everyday interaction. The volume is also an appraisal of...  Read More >>

Towards a Theory of Text for Contrastive Rhetoric: An Introduction to Issues of Text for Students and Practitioners of Contrastive Rhetoric

Towards a Theory of Text for Contrastive Rhetoric: An...

Author: James E Martin
ISBN: 9780820418551
Format: Hardback
$139.79

This important book deals with the fascinating and often misunderstood field of Contrastive Rhetoric, the study...  Read More >>

Language Contact: Theoretical and Empirical Studies

Language Contact: Theoretical and Empirical Studies...

Author: Ernst H. Jahr
ISBN: 9783110128024
Format: Hardback
$517.44

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Variation in Language: Code Switching in Czech as a Challenge for Sociolinguistics

Variation in Language: Code Switching in Czech as a...

Author: Petr Sgall ,  Jiri Hronek
ISBN: 9786613328120
Format: Electronic book text
$595.58

Czech, a clear case of a language having a Standard and a strong central vernacular with intensive shifting between...  Read More >>

Bedouin, Village and Urban Arabic: An Ecolinguistic Study

Bedouin, Village and Urban Arabic: An Ecolinguistic...

Author: F. J. Cadora
ISBN: 9789004096271
Format: Hardback
$398.64

This study introduces the notion of ""ecolinguistics"" to identify the linguistic correlates of ecological — bedouin,...  Read More >>

English in Its Social Contexts

English in Its Social Contexts

Author: Machan ,  Scott
ISBN: 9780195065008
Format: Paperback
$236.00

A collection of essays on the social history of the English language. It is the second volume in the Oxford Studies...  Read More >>

The Language of Jokes: Analysing Verbal Play

The Language of Jokes: Analysing Verbal Play

Author: Delia Chiaro
ISBN: 9786610651863
Format: Electronic book text
$422.14

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Language and the Distortion of Meaning

Language and the Distortion of Meaning

Author: Patrick Degramont
ISBN: 9780814718445
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Draws upon evidence from infant observation and linguistics as well as from information theory in order to make...  Read More >>

You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation

You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation...

Author: Deborah Tannen
ISBN: 9781853814716
Format: Paperback
$26.99

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The Other Tongue: English Across Cultures

The Other Tongue: English Across Cultures

Author: Braj B. Kachru
ISBN: 9780252062001
Format: Paperback
$80.99

When The Other Tongue appeared in 1982, it was called ""required reading for all those concerned with English teaching...  Read More >>

Reconstructing Languages and Cultures

Reconstructing Languages and Cultures

Author: Edgar C. Polomé ,  Werner Winter
ISBN: 9783110126716
Format: Hardback
$847.44

Papers from a symposium on Indo-European studies sponsored by the U. of Texas on the occasion of Professor Winfred...  Read More >>

Social Stylistics: Syntactic Variation in British Newspapers

Social Stylistics: Syntactic Variation in British Newspapers...

Author: Andreas H. Jucker
ISBN: 9783110129694
Format: Hardback
$480.48

The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical...  Read More >>

Cursing in America: A psycholinguistic study of dirty language in the courts, in the movies, in the schoolyards and on the streets

Cursing in America: A psycholinguistic study of dirty...

Author: Timothy Jay (Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, Massachusetts)
ISBN: 9781556194511
Format: Hardback
$195.36

Psychologist Jay presents a serious and extensive examination of American profanity from a psycholinguistic-contextual...  Read More >>

Rewriting Literacy: Culture and the Discourse of the Other

Rewriting Literacy: Culture and the Discourse of the...

Author: Candace Mitchell ,  Kathleen Weiler
ISBN: 9780897892254
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Links fields such as linguistics, anthropology, sociolinguistics and education to illustrate how the problem of...  Read More >>

Conversation for Action: The computer terminal as medium of communication

Conversation for Action: The computer terminal as medium...

Author: Denise E. Murray (San Jose State University)
ISBN: 9781556192760
Format: Hardback
$393.36

Examines communication events in which the computer is the medium and views such computer-mediated communication...  Read More >>

Rewriting Literacy: Culture and the Discourse of the Other

Rewriting Literacy: Culture and the Discourse of the...

Author: Candace Mitchell ,  Kathleen Weiler
ISBN: 9780897892285
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Links fields such as linguistics, anthropology, sociolinguistics and education to illustrate how the problem of...  Read More >>

The Archaeology of Israelite Samaria. Volume 1: Early Iron Age through the Ninth Century BCE

The Archaeology of Israelite Samaria. Volume 1: Early...

Author: Ron E. Tappy
ISBN: 9781555407704
Format: Paperback
$174.24

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