Sociolinguistics books

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Rethinking Linguistic Relativity

Rethinking Linguistic Relativity

Author: John J. Gumperz (University of California, Berkeley) ,  Stephen C. Levinson (Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9780511620546
Format: Undefined
$594.00

Linguistic relativity is the claim that culture, through language, affects the way in which we think, and especially...  Read More >>

Responsibility and Evidence in Oral Discourse

Responsibility and Evidence in Oral Discourse

Author: Jane H. Hill (University of Arizona) ,  Judith T. Irvine (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
ISBN: 9781139170338
Format: Undefined
$594.00

Twelve prominent linguists and linguistic anthropologists examine 'responsibility', 'authority', and 'knowledge',...  Read More >>

Rethinking Context: Language as an Interactive Phenomenon

Rethinking Context: Language as an Interactive Phenomenon...

Author: Alessandro Duranti ,  Charles Goodwin, PhD
ISBN: 9781139166355
Format: Undefined
$594.00

The essays in this collection critically re-examine the concept of context from a variety of different angles.  Read More >>

Talk at Work: Interaction in Institutional Settings

Talk at Work: Interaction in Institutional Settings...

Author: Paul Drew (University of York) ,  John Heritage (University of California, Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9781139166324
Format: Undefined
$594.00

Talk at Work is a major collection of studies of language and interaction in a wide variety of institutional and...  Read More >>

The Commodification of Language: Conceptual Concerns and Empirical Manifestations

The Commodification of Language: Conceptual Concerns...

Author: John E. Petrovic ,  Bedrettin Yazan (The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
ISBN: 9780367464073
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This volume seeks to add to our understanding of how language is constructed in late capitalist societies. It is...  Read More >>

The Commodification of Language: Conceptual Concerns and Empirical Manifestations

The Commodification of Language: Conceptual Concerns...

Author: John E. Petrovic ,  Bedrettin Yazan (The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
ISBN: 9780367464080
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This volume seeks to add to our understanding of how language is constructed in late capitalist societies. It is...  Read More >>

Sign Language Brokering in Deaf-Hearing Families

Sign Language Brokering in Deaf-Hearing Families

Author: Jemina Napier
ISBN: 9783030671396
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book details a study of sign language brokering that is carried out by deaf and hearing people who grow up...  Read More >>

Alpha Masculinity: Hegemony in Language and Discourse

Alpha Masculinity: Hegemony in Language and Discourse...

Author: Eric Louis Russell
ISBN: 9783030704698
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book examines the linguistic and discursive mechanisms that realize the mythological American Alpha Male. Providing...  Read More >>

The Great Pronoun Shift: The Big Impact of Little Parts of Speech

The Great Pronoun Shift: The Big Impact of Little Parts...

Author: Helene Seltzer Krauthamer
ISBN: 9780367210083
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This book is a holistic exploration of personal pronouns in English and their development: Krauthamer gives an overview...  Read More >>

The Great Pronoun Shift: The Big Impact of Little Parts of Speech

The Great Pronoun Shift: The Big Impact of Little Parts...

Author: Helene Seltzer Krauthamer
ISBN: 9780367210076
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book is a holistic exploration of personal pronouns in English and their development: Krauthamer gives an overview...  Read More >>

Spanish Socio-Historical Linguistics: Isolation and contact

Spanish Socio-Historical Linguistics: Isolation and...

Author: Whitney Chappell (University of Texas, San Antonio) ,  Bridget Drinka (University of Texas, San Antonio)
ISBN: 9789027208644
Format: Hardback
$214.76

This volume explores the role of the sociohistorical factors of isolation and contact in motivating change in the...  Read More >>

Immigration as a Process: Temporality Concepts in Blogs of Latin American Immigrants to Quebéc

Immigration as a Process: Temporality Concepts in Blogs...

Author: Barbara Frank-Job (Bielefeld University)
ISBN: 9781608012152
Format: Paperback
$63.36

In their weblogs, immigrants from Latin America to Quebéc discuss the migration process in narrative reconstructions...  Read More >>

Family Language Policy in the Polish Diaspora: A Focus on Australia

Family Language Policy in the Polish Diaspora: A Focus...

Author: Piotr Romanowski
ISBN: 9780367706449
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book explores language practices, beliefs, and management across a group of Polish immigrant families in Australia,...  Read More >>

Language Perceptions and Practices in Multilingual Universities

Language Perceptions and Practices in Multilingual Universities...

Author: Maria Kuteeva ,  Kathrin Kaufhold
ISBN: 9783030387570
Format: Paperback
$388.10

This edited book examines language perceptions and practices in multilingual university contexts in the aftermath...  Read More >>

Rhetoric and Sociolinguistics in Times of Global Crisis

Rhetoric and Sociolinguistics in Times of Global Crisis...

Author: Eda Başak Hancı-Azizoglu ,  Maha Alawdat
ISBN: 9781799867326
Format: Hardback
$364.10

Explores the concept of global crisis within rhetoric and sociolinguistics as well as other disciplines such as...  Read More >>

The Discourse of Perceived Discrimination: Perspectives from Contemporary Australian Society

The Discourse of Perceived Discrimination: Perspectives...

Author: Sol Rojas-Lizana
ISBN: 9780367776763
Format: Paperback
$90.99

This book highlights ways in which a discourse-based framework, drawing on tools from cognitive linguistics and...  Read More >>

Language variation and change in social networks: A bipartite approach

Language variation and change in social networks: A...

Author: Robin Dodsworth ,  Richard A. Benton
ISBN: 9780367777500
Format: Paperback
$94.99

This monograph takes up recent advances in social network methods in sociology, together with data on economic segregation,...  Read More >>

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