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The Sounds of English Around the World: An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology

The Sounds of English Around the World: An Introduction...

Author: Jette G. Hansen Edwards (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9781108795029
Format: Paperback
$69.84

Focusing on English varieties around the world, this textbook provides a full introduction to key concepts in phonetics...  Read More >>

A History of the Scots Language

A History of the Scots Language

Author: Robert McColl Millar (Professor in Linguistics and Scots Language, Professor in Linguistics and Scots Language, University of Aberdeen)
ISBN: 9780198863991
Format: Hardback
$149.95

This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English....  Read More >>

Nomen Est Omen: Die Bedeutung Von Namen in Sudosteuropaischen Kulturen

Nomen Est Omen: Die Bedeutung Von Namen in Sudosteuropaischen...

Author: Wolfgang Dahmen ,  Petra Himstedt-Vaid
ISBN: 9783447120623
Format: Paperback
$176.88

Nomen est omen vereint Beitrage zu einer Konferenz, die im Oktober 2021 vom Balkanologenverband (Berlin) in Zusammenarbeit...  Read More >>

Borrowings in Informal American English

Borrowings in Informal American English

Author: Małgorzata Kowalczyk
ISBN: 9781009346870
Format: Hardback
$245.81

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Spatializing Language Studies: Pedagogical Approaches in the Linguistic Landscape

Spatializing Language Studies: Pedagogical Approaches...

Author: Sébastien Dubreil ,  David Malinowski
ISBN: 9783031395802
Format: Paperback
$131.97

This open access volume offers valuable new perspectives on the question of how mobility, locatedness and immersion...  Read More >>

Spatializing Language Studies: Pedagogical Approaches in the Linguistic Landscape

Spatializing Language Studies: Pedagogical Approaches...

Author: Sébastien Dubreil ,  David Malinowski
ISBN: 9783031395772
Format: Hardback
$158.37

This open access volume offers valuable new perspectives on the question of how mobility, locatedness and immersion...  Read More >>

Essays in Linguistic Ethnography: Ethics, Aesthetics, Encounters

Essays in Linguistic Ethnography: Ethics, Aesthetics,...

Author: Adrian Blackledge ,  Angela Creese
ISBN: 9781788925587
Format: Paperback
$85.26

This book argues for an approach to linguistic ethnography which departs from the perspective of the academic researcher,...  Read More >>

Language, Migration and In/Exclusion in the Workplace

Language, Migration and In/Exclusion in the Workplace...

Author: Jo Angouri ,  Julie Kerekes
ISBN: 9781800416932
Format: Paperback
$85.26

This book focuses on the lived experiences of migrants who (try to) access the workplace, and explores the barriers...  Read More >>

Shades of Decolonial Voices in Linguistics

Shades of Decolonial Voices in Linguistics

Author: Sinfree Makoni ,  Cristine Gorski Severo
ISBN: 9781800418523
Format: Paperback
$85.26

This book argues that Linguistics has been shaped by colonization. It outlines how linguistic practices may be decolonized...  Read More >>

Essays in Linguistic Ethnography: Ethics, Aesthetics, Encounters

Essays in Linguistic Ethnography: Ethics, Aesthetics,...

Author: Adrian Blackledge ,  Angela Creese
ISBN: 9781788925594
Format: Hardback
$297.43

This book argues for an approach to linguistic ethnography which departs from the perspective of the academic researcher,...  Read More >>

Language, Migration and In/Exclusion in the Workplace

Language, Migration and In/Exclusion in the Workplace...

Author: Jo Angouri ,  Julie Kerekes
ISBN: 9781800416949
Format: Hardback
$297.43

This book focuses on the lived experiences of migrants who (try to) access the workplace, and explores the barriers...  Read More >>

Shades of Decolonial Voices in Linguistics

Shades of Decolonial Voices in Linguistics

Author: Sinfree Makoni ,  Cristine Gorski Severo
ISBN: 9781800418530
Format: Hardback
$297.43

This book argues that Linguistics has been shaped by colonization. It outlines how linguistic practices may be decolonized...  Read More >>

You’re All Talk: why we are what we speak

You’re All Talk: why we are what we speak

Author: Rob Drummond
ISBN: 9781914484285
Format: Hardback
$43.96

‘Telling and compelling’ Susie Dent, author of Word Perfect ‘Rob Drummond has achieved something very special...  Read More >>

Complexity of Interaction: Studies in Multimodal Conversation Analysis

Complexity of Interaction: Studies in Multimodal Conversation...

Author: Pentti Haddington ,  Tiina Eilittä
ISBN: 9783031307263
Format: Hardback
$475.17

Everyday social life is deeply tied to the ways in which people talk, interact, and engage in joint activities with...  Read More >>

Language Smugglers: Postlingual Literatures and Translation within the Canadian Context

Language Smugglers: Postlingual Literatures and Translation...

Author: Dr. Arianne Des Rochers (Université de Moncton, Canada)
ISBN: 9781501394119
Format: Hardback
$160.00

""Challenges and contextualizes the standard language used in translation theory and comparative literature within...  Read More >>

Silence and its Derivatives: Conversations Across Disciplines

Silence and its Derivatives: Conversations Across Disciplines...

Author: Mahshid Mayar ,  Marion Schulte
ISBN: 9783031065255
Format: Paperback
$290.37

This edited book examines silence and silencing in and out of discourse, as viewed through a variety of contexts...  Read More >>

Untying the Mother Tongue

Untying the Mother Tongue

Author: Antonio Castore ,  Federico Dal Bo
ISBN: 9783965580497
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Untying the Mother Tongue explores what it might mean today to speak of someone's attachment to a particular, primary...  Read More >>

Dialect and Nationalism in China: 18601960

Dialect and Nationalism in China: 18601960

Author: Gina Tam ,  Kirill Batygin
ISBN: 9798887193687
Format: Hardback
$54.99

Taking aim at the conventional narrative that standard, national languages transform 'peasants' into citizens, Gina...  Read More >>

Linguistic Advances in Central American Spanish

Linguistic Advances in Central American Spanish

Author: Brandon Baird ,  Osmer Balam
ISBN: 9789004679924
Format: Hardback
$366.96

Encompassing historical documents, fieldwork recordings, and Twitter data, this volume presents the first collection...  Read More >>

New Migrations, New Multilingual Practices, New Identities: The Case of Post-2008 Italian Migrants in London

New Migrations, New Multilingual Practices, New Identities:...

Author: Giulia Pepe
ISBN: 9783031096501
Format: Paperback
$290.37

This book presents an original empirical study on the linguistic repertoires of post-2008 Italian migrants living...  Read More >>

The Vernacular: Three Essays on an Ambivalent Concept and its Uses in South Asia

The Vernacular: Three Essays on an Ambivalent Concept...

Author: Hans Harder (Heidelberg University) ,  Nishat Zaidi (Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India)
ISBN: 9781032406275
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book examines the validity of the notion of the ‘vernacular’ and the position of the so-called ‘vernaculars’...  Read More >>

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