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  • Multilingualism
    Adrian Blackledge / Angela Creese
    What does it mean to young people to be multilingual? What do multilingual speakers’ linguistic resources mean to them? Are they happy to discard their languages, and assimilate to English, or are there other issues at stake? Do communities set out to ensure that their languages are maintained and passed on to the next generation, and if so, how, and why? What if speakers appro...
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    96,68 €

  • Bodies and Language
    Vaidehi Ramanathan
    Focusing on body conditions associated with breast cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, (type-1) diabetes, epilepsy, partial hearing and autism, this book draws on a range of critical theories to contest collectively assembled notions of ’abnormality,’ ’disability’ and ’impairments’ and ways in which they emerge through language. ...
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    42,34 €

  • The Fate Of The Children Of Lir (1883)
    Society Preservation Irish Language
    ''The Fate of the Children of Lir'' is a novel written by the Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language in 1883. It is a retelling of an ancient Irish myth about a king’s four children who are turned into swans by their jealous stepmother and forced to live as birds for 900 years. The novel explores themes of love, loss, and the enduring power of family bonds. It is wr...
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    28,02 €

  • Language Diversity in the Classroom
    John Edwards
    This book provides comprehensive coverage of language contact in classroom settings. Particularly highlighted are the range and implications of attitudes towards languages and dialects, as well as broad consideration of the assumptions and intentions underpinning bilingual and multicultural education. ...
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    47,54 €

  • What We Say, Who We Are
    Parker English
    In What We Say, Who We Are, Parker English explores the commonality between Leopold Senghor’s concept of 'negritude' and Zora Neale Hurston’s view of 'Negro expression.' For English, these two concepts emphasize that a person’s view of herself is above all dictated by the way in which she talks about herself. Focusing on 'performism,' English discusses the presentational/repres...
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    125,36 €

  • Change in Contemporary English
    Christian Mair / Geoffrey Leech / Marianne Hundt
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    162,95 €

  • Cantonese Apothegms (1902)
    Harry Jabez Stevens
    Cantonese Apothegms is a book written by Harry Jabez Stevens in 1902. The book is a compilation of wise sayings, proverbs, and aphorisms in the Cantonese language. These apothegms cover a wide range of topics, including life, love, family, friendship, success, and happiness. The book is organized thematically, with each chapter focusing on a specific topic. In addition to the a...
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    28,02 €

  • Conversation Analysis
    Jack Sidnell
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    180,02 €

  • Language and Identity
    John Edwards
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    168,08 €

  • Language and Human Relations
    Catrin Norrby / Jane Warren / Michael Clyne
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    130,70 €

  • The Idea of English in Japan
    Philip Seargeant
    This book examines the ways in which English is conceptualised as a global language in Japan, and considers how the resultant language ideologies - drawn in part from universal discourses; in part from context-specific trends in social history - inform the relationships that people in Japan have towards the language. ...
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    42,05 €

  • Spanish as an International Language
    Deborah Arteaga / Lucía Llorente
    Spanish is spoken in many countries around the world. Like all languages, it has regional and social variation. Spanish speakers in the US will invariably come into contact with this great variety. This book addresses these aspects of Spanish, while describing its most important linguistic features. ...
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    41,75 €

  • English as a Local Language
    Christina Higgins
    This book explores how multilingualism involving English is ordered in post-colonial, globalizing societies. By placing multilingual practices at the theoretical center, the author investigates a range of sociolinguistic domains to demonstrate how individuals use English as a local resource to produce an array of local and global identifications. ...
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    42,16 €

  • Medical and Scientific Writing in Late Medieval English
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    59,05 €

  • Aspects of Cognitive Ethnolinguistics
    Jerzy Bartminski
    The book provides an introduction into a highly developed, coherent, and extensively tested cognitive linguistic approach to lexical semantics, which is not currently accessible to readers of English. This makes the book important to researchers and students in lexical semantics, in Cognitive Linguistics and beyond. It also strengthens the Cognitive Linguistics enterprise in ge...
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    157,64 €

  • Language Disabilities in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity
    Deirdre Martin
    This book offers a solution to the familiar dilemma of decoding communication difficulties for learners developing the language of schooling. The author takes a sociocultural Vygotskian approach to reinterpret international research in language disabilities, namely specific language impairment, communication difficulties, dyslexia and deafness. ...
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    47,61 €

  • The Story of Yiddish
    Neal Karlen
    A delightfully unconventional tale of a people, their place in the world, and the fascinating language that held them together.Yiddish is an unlikely survivor of the ages, much like the Jews themselves. Incorporating antique German dialects and elements from more than a dozen other tongues, the Yiddish language bears the imprint of the many places where European Jews were brief...
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    16,19 €

  • Du Fanatisme Dans La Langue Revolutionnaire
    Jean-Francois Laharpe
    ''Du Fanatisme Dans La Langue Revolutionnaire: Ou De La Persecution'' est un essai �����crit par Jean-Fran�����ois Laharpe en 1797. Dans cet ouvrage, l’auteur examine la fa�����on dont les r�����volutionnaires fran�����ais ont utilis����� la langue pour promouvoir leur id�����ologie et pour pers�����cuter ceux qui ne partageaient pas leurs opinions. Laharpe critique la violence...
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    27,98 €

  • The Sociology of Terrorism
    Michael Blain
    This book is a compilation of previously published studies on the role of culture and language in political violence and terrorism. These studies have contributed to a paradigmatic shift in sociological thinking about language and culture in politics, particularly in regard to the genesis and dynamics of violence and terrorism. Blending ideas derived from Michel Foucault and Ke...
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    32,94 €

  • Language Management
    Bernard Spolsky
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    77,20 €

  • Language Management
    Bernard Spolsky
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    180,38 €

  • Language, Knowledge and Pedagogy
    This book explores the nature of knowledge, language and pedagogy from the perspective of two complementary theories: systemic functional linguistics, and Bernstein-inspired sociology. Bernstein’s sociology of knowledge makes a distinction between horizontal and vertical discourses as ways in which knowledge is transmitted in institutional settings, with teachers as agents of s...
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    96,64 €

  • The Power of Talk
    Felecia Briscoe / Gilberto Arriaza / Rosemary C. Henze
    This enlightening book helps educators use everyday language to create more equitable school environments, and offers exercises that strengthen communication and leadership skills. ...
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    45,16 €

  • English as an International Language
    Farzad Sharifian
    This volume makes a significant contribution to the emerging paradigm of English as an International Language (EIL) by exploring various aspects of the English language and its pedagogy in the context of the globalization of this language. The books aims to expand the paradigm and also establish new grounds for thinking, research and practice. ...
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    47,74 €

  • Language and Poverty
    This volume explores the complex interactions of language with economic resources. The authors address the issues of poverty and language survival from multiple perspectives, drawing on linguistics, language policy and planning, economics, anthropology, and sociology. ...
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    39,20 €

  • Topical Issues in Sociolinguistics
    This book on language and society focusses on the Nigerian situation comprises 22 chapters with an introduction. The papers are written by all generations of Nigeria linguists with varying experiences regarding the interaction of languages spoken in Nigeria and the Nigerian social context.The book is divided into five sections: Section 1 contains four papers which address the i...
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    100,94 €

  • Languages in Contact
    John Holm
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    55,80 €

  • Language and Sexism
    Sara Mills
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    64,30 €

  • You Know what I Mean?
    Ruth Wajnryb
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    73,82 €

  • Language As Commodity
    Rani Rubdy
    Throughout human history, languages have been in competition with each other. As the world becomes more globalized, this trend increases. It affects the decision-making of those in positions of power and determines macro language policies and planning. Often decisions about language (or dialects or language variety) are related to usefulness - defined in terms of their pragmati...
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    284,97 €