Sociolinguistics books

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Revivals, Nationalism, and Linguistic Discrimination: Threatening Languages

Revivals, Nationalism, and Linguistic Discrimination:...

Author: Kara Fleming (KIMEP University, Kazakhstan) ,  Umberto Ansaldo (Curtin University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781032082998
Format: Paperback
$90.99

This book argues that respect for linguistic diversity, multilingualism, and multiculturalism is not compatible...  Read More >>

Memes, Communities and Continuous Change: Chinese Internet Vernacular Explained

Memes, Communities and Continuous Change: Chinese Internet...

Author: Hua Nie
ISBN: 9781626430181
Format: Paperback
$224.40

A pioneering digital ethnography of language varieties and practices on Chinese internet as a holistic sociolinguistic...  Read More >>

Language Activism: Imaginaries and Strategies of Minority Language Equality

Language Activism: Imaginaries and Strategies of Minority...

Author: Haley De Korne
ISBN: 9781501517402
Format: Hardback
$197.25

Through an ethnographic account of Isthmus Zapotec language advocates in Oaxaca, Mexico, this study illuminates...  Read More >>

Schreiben im Ersten Weltkrieg: Französische Briefe und Tagebücher wenig geübter Schreiber aus der deutsch-französischen Grenzregion

Schreiben im Ersten Weltkrieg: Französische Briefe und...

Author: Lena Sowada
ISBN: 9783110718799
Format: Hardback
$222.99

What shape does written language usage take in the diaries and letters of people with little routine or experience...  Read More >>

Place-Name Politics in Multilingual Areas: A Comparative Study of Southern Carinthia (Austria) and the Těšín/Cieszyn Region (Czechia)

Place-Name Politics in Multilingual Areas: A Comparative...

Author: Peter Jordan ,  Přemysl Mácha
ISBN: 9783030694876
Format: Hardback
$362.22

This book explores the role of place names in the formation and maintenance of individual and group identities in...  Read More >>

Language, Gender and Videogames: Using Corpora to Analyse the Representation of Gender in Fantasy Videogames

Language, Gender and Videogames: Using Corpora to Analyse...

Author: Frazer Heritage
ISBN: 9783030743970
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book explores how corpus linguistic techniques can be applied to close analysis of videogames as a text, particularly...  Read More >>

Between the Andes and the Amazon: Language and Social Meaning in Bolivia

Between the Andes and the Amazon: Language and Social...

Author: Anna M. Babel
ISBN: 9780816543403
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Why can't a Quechua speaker wear pants? Anna Babel uses this question to open an analysis of language and social...  Read More >>

Manhattan to Minisink: American Indian Place Names of Greater New York and Vicinity

Manhattan to Minisink: American Indian Place Names of...

Author: Robert S. Grumet
ISBN: 9780806169026
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Drivers exiting the New Jersey Turnpike for Perth Amboy, and map readers marveling at all the places in Pennsylvania...  Read More >>

Metaphor, Sustainability, Transformation: Transdisciplinary Perspectives

Metaphor, Sustainability, Transformation: Transdisciplinary...

Author: Ian Hughes ,  Edmond Byrne
ISBN: 9780367698553
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book offers an eclectic range of transdisciplinary insights into the role of metaphor, myth and fable in shaping...  Read More >>

Multilingualism in Education in Nepal: Ideology and Identity

Multilingualism in Education in Nepal: Ideology and...

Author: Laxman Ghimire
ISBN: 9780367682224
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Your Voice Speaks Volumes: It's Not What You Say, But How You Say It

Your Voice Speaks Volumes: It's Not What You Say, But...

Author: Jane Setter (Professor of Phonetics, Professor of Phonetics, University of Reading)
ISBN: 9780192843029
Format: Paperback
$34.95

Why do we speak the way we do, and what do our voices tell others about us? What is the truth behind the myths that...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Handbook of Language Standardization

The Cambridge Handbook of Language Standardization

Author: Wendy Ayres-Bennett (University of Cambridge) ,  John Bellamy (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781108471817
Format: Hardback
$338.96

Surveying a wide range of languages and approaches, this Handbook is an essential resource for all those interested...  Read More >>

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

Author: Amanda Montell
ISBN: 9780062993151
Format: Hardback
$49.99

The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from...  Read More >>

Discourses in Traffic: Communication between Traffic Signs and Their Users in China

Discourses in Traffic: Communication between Traffic...

Author: Hui Dai
ISBN: 9781527571747
Format: Paperback
$263.87

In recent decades, China has transitioned from an inherently agricultural country to an emerging economic titan...  Read More >>

Ethnic Identity of the Kam People in Contemporary China: Government versus Local Perspectives

Ethnic Identity of the Kam People in Contemporary China:...

Author: Wei Wang (The University of Sydney, Australia) ,  Lisong Jiang
ISBN: 9780367895808
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Based on over two years of fieldwork, this book presents a sociolinguistic analysis of how the ethnic identity of...  Read More >>

Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Acquisition across the Lifespan

Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Acquisition across...

Author: Anna Ghimenton (Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage (UMR5596, CNRS & Université Lyon 2)) ,  Aurélie Nardy (Université Grenoble Alpes)
ISBN: 9789027209078
Format: Hardback
$227.70

The book integrates sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic issues by bringing together scholars who have been developing...  Read More >>

Metaphor in Language and Culture across World Englishes

Metaphor in Language and Culture across World Englishes...

Author: Dr Marcus Callies (University of Bremen, Germany) ,  Dr Marta Degani (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)
ISBN: 9781350157538
Format: Hardback
$220.00

This book advances and broadens the scope of research on conceptual metaphor at the nexus of language and culture...  Read More >>

Research Developments in World Englishes

Research Developments in World Englishes

Author: Dr Alexander Onysko (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)
ISBN: 9781350167056
Format: Hardback
$220.00

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com....  Read More >>

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