Catálogo de libros: Sociolingüística

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  • Reading the Country
    Steeped in story-telling and endlessly curious, Reading the Country: An Introduction to Nomadology (1984) was the product of Paddy Roe, Stephen Muecke and Krim Benterrak, experimenting with what it might be like to think together about country. In the process a senior traditional owner, a cultural theorist and a painter produced a text unlike any other. Reading the Country: 30 ...
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    28,76 €

  • Study Abroad, Second Language Acquisition and Interculturality
    Martin Howard
    This book unites studies on second language acquisition and interculturality in a study abroad context, providing timely perspectives on research in each area while also exploring the interface between them. Chapters highlight innovative themes such as social networks, input matters, learner identities and study abroad in lingua franca contexts. ...
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    60,08 €

  • Study Abroad, Second Language Acquisition and Interculturality
    Martin Howard
    This book unites studies on second language acquisition and interculturality in a study abroad context, providing timely perspectives on research in each area while also exploring the interface between them. Chapters highlight innovative themes such as social networks, input matters, learner identities and study abroad in lingua franca contexts. ...
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    181,69 €

  • Language Politics and Policies
    Thomas Ricento
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    150,74 €

  • Register, Genre, and Style
    Douglas Biber / Susan Conrad
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    131,96 €

  • Personal Names, Hitler, and the Holocaust
    I M Nick / I. M. Nick / IMNick
    During the Third Reich, in the name of national security, the Nazis introduced legislation to quickly and easily mark residents with Jewish heritage to expedite their isolation, deportation, and final extermination. Then as now, the tool used for this lethal demarcation was as innocuous as it was ubiquitous: personal names. ...
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    190,01 €

  • Language and Tourism in Postcolonial Settings
    This book focuses on perspectives from and on the global south, providing fresh data and analyses on languages in African, Caribbean, Middle-Eastern and Asian tourism contexts. It provides a critical perspective on tourism in postcolonial and neocolonial settings, explored through in-depth case studies. ...
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    48,28 €

  • Language and Tourism in Postcolonial Settings
    This book focuses on perspectives from and on the global south, providing fresh data and analyses on languages in African, Caribbean, Middle-Eastern and Asian tourism contexts. It provides a critical perspective on tourism in postcolonial and neocolonial settings, explored through in-depth case studies. ...
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    169,88 €

  • Multilingualism in European Language Education
    This book explores how different European education systems manage multilingualism. Each chapter focuses on one of ten diverse settings and considers how its education system is influenced by historical, sociolinguistic and political processes and how it handles languages, stressing the challenges and opportunities. ...
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    170,44 €

  • Political Discourses at the Extremes
    The authors of this edited volume focus on the emergence of populist discourses, coming from movements or parties from Romance-speaking countries in Europe and in Latin America. By combining linguistics, social and political sciences in a discourse analytical approach, the sixteen papers enlighten the mechanisms behind populist discourses yielding from different socio-cultural ...
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    27,77 €

  • Discourses of Men’s Suicide Notes
    Dariusz Galasinski
    Deaths by suicide are high: every 40 seconds, someone in the world chooses to end their life. Despite acknowledgement that suicide notes are social texts, there has been no book which analyzes suicide notes as discursive texts and no attempt at a qualitative discourse analysis of them. Discourses of Men’s Suicide Notes redresses this gap in the literature.Focussing on men and m...
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    57,77 €

  • Onomastics between Sacred and Profane
    Oliviu Felecan
    Religiously, God is the creator of everything seen and unseen; thus, one can ascribe to Him the names of His creation as well, at least in their primordial form. In the mentality of ancient Semitic peoples, naming a place or a person meant determining the role or fate of the named entity, as names were considered to be mysteriously connected with the reality they designated. Su...
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    80,35 €

  • The Language of Organizational Styling
    Lionel Wee
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    38,38 €

  • Exploring Multilingual Hawai’i
    Scott Saft
    Through an approach informed by language ecology and linguistic ethnography, this book examines Hawaiʻi as a complex multilingual society. Focusing on situated language usage as well as underlying ideological beliefs, the book offers analyses of Hawaiian, Pidgin, Japanese, the languages of Micronesia, and the phenomenon of language mixing. ...
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    128,99 €

  • Gender, Neoliberalism and Distinction through Linguistic Capital
    Mark Fifer Seilhamer
    This book presents the narratives of four Taiwanese young women, all proficient in English, set against the background of the dynamics of multilingualism in Taiwan. It chronicles their strategies and struggles when utilizing cultural goods - in this case their linguistic resources - to differentiate themselves within Taiwanese society. ...
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    169,37 €

  • Second-Generation South Asian Britons
    Sheena Kalayil
    Second-Generation South Asian Britons: Multilingualism, Heritage Languages, and Diasporic Identity offers scholars in the field of sociolinguistics a valuable insight into the discourses of second-generation British South Asians, and their relationship with the heritage languages and cultures. ...
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    122,44 €

  • Critical Inquiries in the Sociolinguistics of Globalization
    This book seeks to examine the notions of ’linguistic diversity’ and ’hybridity’ using new critical theoretical frameworks embedded within the broader discussion of the sociolinguistics of globalization. The research took place in contexts that include linguistic landscapes, schools, classrooms, neighborhoods and virtual spaces around the world. ...
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    181,84 €

  • Critical Inquiries in the Sociolinguistics of Globalization
    This book seeks to examine the notions of ’linguistic diversity’ and ’hybridity’ using new critical theoretical frameworks embedded within the broader discussion of the sociolinguistics of globalization. The research took place in contexts that include linguistic landscapes, schools, classrooms, neighborhoods and virtual spaces around the world. ...
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    60,57 €

  • Metaphor from the Ground Up
    Daniel C Strack / Daniel C. Strack / Daniel CStrack
    Cross-referencing neurobiological knowledge with the invariance hypothesis, relevance theory, and frame semantics, Metaphor from the Ground Up: Understanding Figurative Language in Context unifies metaphor theory, fundamentally rethinks “context,” and moves linguistics into the twenty-first century. ...
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    129,18 €

  • Written Afrikaans since Standardization
    Johanita Kirsten
    This book examines a century of language change in written Afrikaans since it's standardization in the early twentieth century. It also explores theoretical questions regarding language change, contact induced language change, and external influences on language use. ...
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    136,02 €

  • Celtic Reiki Seer
    Martyn Pentecost
    There are times when most people feel ignored by others; when they look out into the world and feel completely misunderstood by everyone around them. Perhaps you feel like that more than most…Maybe, you have something burning deep within you—a profound desire to share your message with the world. To create something bigger than your own lifetime will ever allow you to do.For yo...
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    222,02 €

  • Language and the Construction of Multiple Identities in the Nigerian Novel
    Romanus Aboh
    Language and the construction of multiple identities in the Nigerian novel examines the multifaceted relation between people and the various identities they construct for themselves and for others through the context-specific ways they use language. Specifically, this book pays attention to how forms of identities – ethnic, cultural, national and gender – are constructed throug...
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    43,65 €

  • Applied Psycholinguistics and Multilingual Cognition in Human Creativity
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    183,47 €

  • Comics in Contemporary Arab Culture
    Jacob Høigilt
    Comic books for adults have become one of the most novel and colourful forms of cultural expression in the Arab world today. During the last ten years, young Arabs have crafted stories explaining issues such as authoritarianism, resistance, war, sex, gender relations and youth culture. These are distributed through informal channels as well as independent bookstores and website...
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    173,87 €

  • Interjections, Translation, and Translanguaging
    Rosanna Masiola
    Challenging theoretical concepts, this study of translation extends the field of inquiry to cross-cultural factors and ideology. The corpus spans across languages and literatures, highlighting themes across multimodal genres. It accounts for the universalistic view of interjections, and conversely their linguistic specificity as identity markers. ...
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    129,02 €

  • Tool Intelligence as an Explanation of Cross-Linguistic Variation and Family Resemblance
    Anneliese Kuhle
    Tool Intelligence taps primatological and linguistic field research to draw an analogy between prelinguistic material cultures of nonhuman primates and natural human languages. Linguistics and cognitive science are given new incentives to search for cognitive homology in areas of extended problem awareness and manipulative intentionality. ...
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    121,92 €

  • Other People’s English
    Rusty Barrett / Vershawn Ashanti Young / Y'Shanda Young-Rivera / Y’Shanda Young-Rivera
    AUTHORS: Vershawn Ashanti Young, Rusty Barrett, Y’Shanda Young-Rivera, and Kim Brian Lovejoy. SERIES: Working and Writing for Change edited by Steve Parks. With a new Foreword by April Baker-Bell and a new Preface by Vershawn Ashanti Young and Y’Shanda Young-Rivera, Other People’s English: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and African American Literacy presents an empirically groun...
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    34,50 €

  • The Multilingual Reality
    Ajit K. Mohanty / Ajit KMohanty
    This book is a multidisciplinary analysis of the meaning and dynamics of multilingualism from the perspectives of multilingual communities in the margins. Its comparative analysis of language-in-education policies and applications of multilingual education in diverse contexts shows some promises and challenges in the education of minority children. ...
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    181,74 €

  • The Multilingual Reality
    Ajit K Mohanty / Ajit K. Mohanty
    This book is a multidisciplinary analysis of the meaning and dynamics of multilingualism from the perspectives of multilingual communities in the margins. Its comparative analysis of language-in-education policies and applications of multilingual education in diverse contexts shows some promises and challenges in the education of minority children. ...
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    60,13 €

  • The Language of Illness and Death on Social Media
    Carsten Stage / Tina Thode Hougaard
    This book investigates the language created in Facebook groups that relate shared experiences of illness, dying and mourning. It develops a theoretical and analytical framework for understanding the use and rhythms of emojis, interjections and other forms of 'intensive' writing in social media of this kind. ...
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    104,45 €


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