Sociolinguistics books

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A Critical Discourse Analysis of Violence against Women: From D.A.R.V.O. to Institutional Courage

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Violence against Women:...

Author: Giuseppina Scotto di Carlo
ISBN: 9783031888656
Format: Hardback
$284.60

Ultimately, the book advocates for a shift in both individual and institutional responses, urging a collective commitment...  Read More >>

The Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes and Multilingualism

The Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes and Multilingualism...

Author: Durk Gorter (University of the Basque Country, Spain) ,  Jasone Cenoz (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
ISBN: 9781394231775
Format: Hardback
$301.95

An essential resource for understanding linguistic landscapes and their role in multilingual contexts worldwide...  Read More >>

Modern Hebrew in Israel: Representations of Linguistic Variation and Standard

Modern Hebrew in Israel: Representations of Linguistic...

Author: Philipp Striedl
ISBN: 9783111390550
Format: Hardback
$319.41

Scholars have been asserting that there are no dialects in Modern Hebrew, which makes Israel an interesting case...  Read More >>

The Comfort of Screens: Literacy in Postdigital Times

The Comfort of Screens: Literacy in Postdigital Times...

Author: Jennifer Rowsell (University of Sheffield) ,  Samuel Sandor (Trinity College, Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781009480383
Format: Paperback
$72.45

Are screens the modern mirrors of the soul? This book explores the screen lives of seventeen people living on the...  Read More >>

Youth Language Practices and Urban Language Contact in Africa

Youth Language Practices and Urban Language Contact...

Author: Rajend Mesthrie (University of Cape Town) ,  Ellen Hurst-Harosh (University of Cape Town)
ISBN: 9781316622056
Format: Paperback
$67.25

This fascinating study explores male youth language practices in different urban centres in Africa, showing their...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics

The Cambridge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics

Author: Karin Ryding (Georgetown University, Washington DC) ,  David Wilmsen (American University of Beirut)
ISBN: 9781108404891
Format: Paperback
$108.65

With contributions from international specialists, this handbook provides a state-of-the-art overview of key issues...  Read More >>

Comparative Variation Analysis: Grammatical Alternations in World Englishes

Comparative Variation Analysis: Grammatical Alternations...

Author: Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (KU Leuven, Belgium) ,  Jason Grafmiller (University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781108798471
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Taking an interdisciplinary stance, this pioneering book shows what we can learn about the grammatical choices that...  Read More >>

Contact and Evolution in the History of Krio

Contact and Evolution in the History of Krio

Author: Malcolm Awadajin Finney
ISBN: 9783110784527
Format: Hardback
$348.45

This book appraises the effects of language contact on the development and evolution of the linguistic properties...  Read More >>

The Comfort of Screens: Literacy in Postdigital Times

The Comfort of Screens: Literacy in Postdigital Times...

Author: Jennifer Rowsell (University of Sheffield) ,  Samuel Sandor (Trinity College, Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781009480369
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Are screens the modern mirrors of the soul? This book explores the screen lives of seventeen people living on the...  Read More >>

Migration, Adult Language Learning and Multilingualism: Critical Sociolinguistics Research with New Speakers of Faroese

Migration, Adult Language Learning and Multilingualism:...

Author: Anna-Elisabeth Holm
ISBN: 9781032371528
Format: Paperback
$90.99

This book focuses on the nexus of migration, adult language learning, and multilingualism of migrants in the Faroe...  Read More >>

Appraisal, Sentiment and Emotion Analysis in Political Discourse: A Multimodal, Multi-method Approach

Appraisal, Sentiment and Emotion Analysis in Political...

Author: Claudia Roberta Combei ,  Valeria Reggi
ISBN: 9781032214214
Format: Paperback
$90.99

This book adopts a multi-method multimodal approach to the study of online political communication. This book will...  Read More >>

Unpacking Metaphor-related Prepositions in Political Discourse: From Polysemous to Powerful

Unpacking Metaphor-related Prepositions in Political...

Author: Mokhtar Ounis
ISBN: 9781032439662
Format: Paperback
$46.99

This book explores the context around why English prepositions are used in figurative language. This volume will...  Read More >>

Discourse in the Digital Age: Social Media, Power, and Society

Discourse in the Digital Age: Social Media, Power, and...

Author: Eleonora Esposito ,  Majid KhosraviNik (Newcastle University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032292731
Format: Paperback
$90.99

This collection engages with the new communicative parameters, power dynamics, and technological affordances of...  Read More >>

Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages

Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages...

Author: Lorna Gibb
ISBN: 9780691274171
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Rare Tongues is an enthralling tour around the rarest languages in the world.  Read More >>

Travel Writing

Travel Writing

Author: Carl Thompson (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
ISBN: 9780367492359
Format: Paperback
$29.99

The new edition of Travel Writing is an accessible and interdisciplinary guide to this prolific and popular literary...  Read More >>

Travel Writing

Travel Writing

Author: Carl Thompson (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
ISBN: 9780367493059
Format: Hardback
$183.00

The new edition of Travel Writing is an accessible and interdisciplinary guide to this prolific and popular literary...  Read More >>

Unpacking Creativity: The Power of Figurative Communication in Advertising

Unpacking Creativity: The Power of Figurative Communication...

Author: Paula Pérez Sobrino ,  Jeannette Littlemore (University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781108461863
Format: Paperback
$67.25

Drawing on the results of empirical research across a number of authentic advertisements from around the world,...  Read More >>

English and Spanish: World Languages in Interaction

English and Spanish: World Languages in Interaction...

Author: Danae Perez ,  Marianne Hundt
ISBN: 9781108736978
Format: Paperback
$67.25

As the first book-length comparison of the history and current status of English and Spanish, this volume reveals...  Read More >>

Translation, Pornography, Performativity: Experimenting with That Dangerous Supplement

Translation, Pornography, Performativity: Experimenting...

Author: Douglas Robinson (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen) ,  Xiaorui Sun
ISBN: 9781032981154
Format: Hardback
$112.00

Robinson and Sun’s book explores the neglected metaphorics of translation in pornography using poststructuralist...  Read More >>

Police Interrogation, Language, and the Law: The Invocation Game

Police Interrogation, Language, and the Law: The Invocation...

Author: Marianne Mason (James Madison University, Virginia)
ISBN: 9781009055017
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Drawing on a wide range of case studies, this book provides an examination of the role of United States federal...  Read More >>

Silence in English Language Pedagogy: From Research to Practice

Silence in English Language Pedagogy: From Research...

Author: Dat Bao (Monash University, Victoria)
ISBN: 9781009011273
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Drawing on empirical data, this book addresses silence in language pedagogy from a positive perspective, translating...  Read More >>

Bookish Words & their Surprising Stories

Bookish Words & their Surprising Stories

Author: David Crystal
ISBN: 9781851246519
Format: Hardback
$38.79

This book tells the fascinating stories behind 100 everyday words that have been influenced by writing, reading...  Read More >>

Speaking in Tongues

Speaking in Tongues

Author: J. M. Coetzee ,  Mariana Dimópulos
ISBN: 9781324096450
Format: Hardback
$71.25

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Socio-Cultural Concepts of (Im)Politeness: Interpretation, Linguistics, and Discourse Analysis

Socio-Cultural Concepts of (Im)Politeness: Interpretation,...

Author: Abderrahmane Ismaili-Alaoui
ISBN: 9798337309644
Format: Hardback
$382.80

""The primary objective of this book is to advance scholarship on (im)politeness by integrating diverse theoretical...  Read More >>

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