Catálogo de libros: Sociolingüística

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  • Gaelic Language Revitalization Concepts and Challenges
    Emily McEwan-Fujita
    Based on research in Scotland and Nova Scotia, the papers in this collection focus on a number of interconnected themes, including language ideologies and affective stances about what it means to be a Gaelic speaker, media discourses of Gaelic language death and revitalization, the intersection of neoliberalism and minority language revitalization, the theoretical frameworks of...
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    27,75 €

  • Multimodalities and Chinese Students’ L2 Practices
    Min Wang
    Adopting a poststructural approach, Multimodalities and Chinese Students' L2 Practices examines the intertwined relationship between positioning and agency in multilingual, multicultural, and multimodal contexts, using evidence from Chinese international students’ experiences as English learners. ...
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    122,47 €

  • Language, Lies and Irrational Thinking
    David Garnett
    Why do we make bad decisions? How do people justify bad arguments? Is being sincere the same thing as being authentic? What is common sense? What is the link between ideology and delusion? Is populist rhetoric undermining democracy? What is the difference between strategic thinking and strategic planning? What is a 'sustainable decision'? What is Multiple Rati...
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    16,74 €

  • Empty Signs, Historical Imaginaries
    Berecz Ágoston
    Set in a multiethnic region of the nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire, this thoroughly interdisciplinary study maps out how the competing Romanian, Hungarian and German nationalization projects dealt with proper names. With particular attention to their function as symbols of national histories, Berecz makes a case for names as ideal guides for understanding historical imaginar...
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    203,16 €

  • Bridging the Humor Barrier
    Humor competence in the target language is an overlooked tool for English language learners to communicate confidently and proficiently in English. In this innovative edited collection, language teachers and researchers from around the globe share their latest research on helping learners to overcome the humor barrier. ...
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    128,88 €

  • Nimble Tongues
    Steven G. Kellman / Steven GKellman
    Nimble Tongues is a collection of essays that continues Steven G. Kellman’s work in the fertile field of translingualism, focusing on the phenomenon of switching languages. A series of investigations and reflections rather than a single thesis, the collection is perhaps more akin in its aims-if not accomplishment-to George Steiner’s Extraterritorial: Papers on Literature and th...
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    64,73 €

  • The Dynamics of Language and Inequality in Education
    This book contributes new perspectives from the Global South on the ways in which linguistic and discursive boundaries shape inequalities in educational contexts, ranging from Amazonian missions to Mongolian universities, using critical ethnographic and sociolinguistic analyses. ...
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    157,60 €

  • The Dynamics of Language and Inequality in Education
    This book contributes new perspectives from the Global South on the ways in which linguistic and discursive boundaries shape inequalities in educational contexts, ranging from Amazonian missions to Mongolian universities, using critical ethnographic and sociolinguistic analyses. ...
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    42,14 €

  • Communication Across Cultures
    Basil Hatim / Basil Prof. Hatim
    A unique synthesis of contrastive linguistics and discourse analysis, providing a core text for undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in language, applied linguistics, translation and cultural studies. Also of interest to language teachers, applied linguists, translators and interpreters. ...
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    127,73 €

  • Communication Across Cultures
    Basil Hatim / Basil Prof. Hatim
    A unique synthesis of contrastive linguistics and discourse analysis, providing a core text for undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in language, applied linguistics, translation and cultural studies. Also of interest to language teachers, applied linguists, translators and interpreters. ...
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    46,70 €

  • Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Migration Control
    Each chapter in this volume adds an empirical perspective to our understanding of how language relates to migration in a specific national context. The chapters use innovative combinations of multimodal, qualitative and quantitative analyses to examine a broad range of genres and data related to the voices of migrants and reporting about migrants. ...
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    42,16 €

  • Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Migration Control
    Each chapter in this volume adds an empirical perspective to our understanding of how language relates to migration in a specific national context. The chapters use innovative combinations of multimodal, qualitative and quantitative analyses to examine a broad range of genres and data related to the voices of migrants and reporting about migrants. ...
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    157,28 €

  • African Multilingualisms
    African Multilingualisms is the first book dedicated to presenting case studies of small-scale multilingualism in rural Africa. Contributors present extensive new data on sociolinguistic patterns found in these contexts and consider new, more ethnographically sensitive methods for exploring multilingualism of this kind. ...
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    128,65 €

  • Urban Multilingualism in East-Central Europe
    Jan Fellerer
    Urban Multilingualism in East-Central Europe makes the case for an interdisciplinary approach to past urban multilingualism, using both historical and linguistic resources. It analyzes the Polish-Ukrainian-Yiddish-German encounter of late-Habsburg Lemberg (Lviv) and the city’s distinct historical Polish dialect that resulted from it. ...
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    128,86 €

  • Italy and the USA
    This collection takes a cross-disciplinary, transnational approach and gathers together essays from a range of subjects including linguistics, film studies, folk music, oral and written narrative, and history, which provide new comparative perspectives on the questions surrounding the mutual influence between Italian and U.S. cultures. The volume also showcases new research — q...
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    132,62 €

  • Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Perspectives of Youth Language Practices in Africa
    With the demographic explosion of young people in major African cities, we are witnessing the emergence of youth languages and new speech forms. In search of well-being, these young people, plagued by poverty, social injustice, unemployment and idleness, invent linguistic codes that allow them to find themselves. The linguistic and sociolinguistic description of these youth lan...
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    67,66 €

  • Chronotopic Identity Work
    The concept of chronotopicity is increasingly used in sociolinguistic theorizing as a new way of looking at context and scale in studies of language, culture and identity. This volume brings together empirical work that puts flesh on the bones of this rather abstract theorizing, focusing on the discursive construction of chronotopic identities. ...
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    169,42 €

  • Chronotopic Identity Work
    The concept of chronotopicity is increasingly used in sociolinguistic theorizing as a new way of looking at context and scale in studies of language, culture and identity. This volume brings together empirical work that puts flesh on the bones of this rather abstract theorizing, focusing on the discursive construction of chronotopic identities. ...
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    48,15 €

  • Language, Identity and Symbolic Culture
    David Evans
    Language is integral to the construction of personal, socio-cultural and socio-political identities. Language, Identity and Symbolic Culture closely investigates the relationship between language and identities, offering a comprehensive yet progressive view of how linguistics relates to development and education, both in theoretical and real world applications. Progressing from...
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    57,40 €

  • In Between
    The essays in this anthology probe and comment on the "space/time/issue between" in aesthetic or linguistic productions in a variety of cultures. For over three decades the Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Film (SCFLLF), which convenes biennially, has been and continues to be a showcase for scholarship in the Humanities with a special emphasis on non-...
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    44,54 €

  • Intercultural Crisis Communication Translation, Interpreting and Languages in Local Crises
    Intercultural Crisis Communication poses pertinent questions and provides powerful responses to crises that have characterised the modern world since 2010. Language mediation in situations of disaster, emergency and conflict is an under-developed area of scholarship in Translation Studies. This book responds to a clear need for research drawn from practical experiences in the f...
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    206,39 €

  • Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Second or Foreign Language
    This edited collection, with a focus on Chinese as a second or foreign language acquisition, consists of research studies that address one of three emerging themes: information and communication technology (ICT), young learners, and Chinese-character teaching and learning. ...
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    129,10 €

  • Socio-educational Factors and the Soft Power of Language
    Anna Odrowaz-Coates
    This book examines the soft power of language, its cultural influence, and its empowering and disempowering potential for social positioning. Anna Odrowąż-Coates uses a critical lens to present original research findings from Poland and Portugal about English as a tool of social stratification and social reproduction. ...
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    122,31 €

  • Multilingual Memories
    Drawing on a range of disciplines from within the humanities and social sciences, Multilingual Memories addresses questions of remembering and forgetting from an explicitly multilingual perspective. From a museum at Victoria Falls in Zambia to a Japanese-American internment in Arkansas, this book probes how the medium of the communication of memories affirms social orders acros...
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    206,23 €

  • Languages and Culture in Nigeria
    Ozo-mekuri Ndimele
    Language and Culture in Nigeria contains 97 papers from a wide range of areas in Language and Linguistics written by colleagues, friends and former students of Professor Okon Essien. The collection fulfills a gap in the quest for a documented piece of work on the general pattern and structure of Nigerian names and is an invaluable material for comparative purposes.There are 19 ...
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    182,06 €

  • Multilingualism, (Im)mobilities and Spaces of Belonging
    The chapters in this volume investigate how diverse forms of (im)mobility and multilingualism are (re-)negotiated in relationship to space, identity and power. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars taking ethnographic and critical sociolinguistic approaches to the study of language and belonging in the context of globalisation. ...
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    193,79 €

  • Multilingualism, (Im)mobilities and Spaces of Belonging
    The chapters in this volume investigate how diverse forms of (im)mobility and multilingualism are (re-)negotiated in relationship to space, identity and power. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars taking ethnographic and critical sociolinguistic approaches to the study of language and belonging in the context of globalisation. ...
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    72,52 €

  • Choosing a Mother Tongue
    Corinne A. Seals / Corinne ASeals
    This book investigates narrative accounts of language and politics in Ukraine, including the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war, providing a detailed analysis of how national and linguistic identity are discursively renegotiated during a time of mass conflict. It examines connections between language, identity and politics in Ukraine and the diaspora. ...
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    169,73 €

  • The Evolution of the Slavic Dual
    Tatyana G. Slobodchikoff / Tatyana GSlobodchikoff
    Developing a new theory of morphosyntactic feature economy in a morphology framework, this book uses a biolinguistic approach to examine the evolution of Slavic languages to discover how some developed a separate dual number category while others have only singular and plural and to explain the evolution of the number category in Slavic languages. ...
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    129,41 €

  • Narratives of Immigration and Language Loss
    Gabriele Durbeck / Maris R. Thompson / Maris RThompson
    This book examines narratives of anti-German sentiment and language loss from German American communities in southwestern Illinois. The narratives and sociolinguistic practices illustrate the multiple ways that family members responded to periods of anti-German sentiment and constructed a past that gives coherence and meaning to the present. ...
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    50,56 €


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