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  • The Cultural and Intercultural Dimensions of English as a Lingua Franca
    This book investigates the cultural and intercultural aspects of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). The chapters consider the communication and pedagogical implications of these dimensions and offer suggestions for new directions in ELF research, pedagogy and curriculum development. ...
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    48,06 €

  • Community Translation
    Mustapha Taibi / Uldis Ozolins
    Investigating an important field within translation studies, Community Translation addresses the specific context, characteristics and needs of translation in and for communities. Traditional classifications in the fields of discourse and genre are of limited use to the field of translation studies, as they overlook the social functions of translation. Instead, this book argues...
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    67,00 €

  • Names and Naming
    This book explores international trends in naming and contributes to the growing field of critical onomastic enquiry. The contributors to this publication examine why names are not only symbols of a person or place, but also manifestations of cultural, linguistic and social heritage in their own right. ...
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    194,03 €

  • Names and Naming
    This book explores international trends in naming and contributes to the growing field of critical onomastic enquiry. The contributors to this publication examine why names are not only symbols of a person or place, but also manifestations of cultural, linguistic and social heritage in their own right. ...
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    72,43 €

  • Mythology and Ideology of the Basque Language
    Antonio Tovar / Jennifer R. Ottman
    This small book on ideas about the nature and origin of the Basque language up to the early twentieth century is a highly erudite essay, even if the motivation for its composition was ultimately political. Its erudition is guaranteed by the professional credentials of its author, Antonio Tovar, one of twentieth-century Spain's most polymathic intellectuals and men of letters, a...
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    35,55 €

  • Intercultural Contact, Language Learning and Migration
    Barbara Geraghty
    At the heart of this volume lies an exploration of what actually happens to languages and their users when cultures come into contact. What actions do supra-national institutions, nation states, communities and individuals take in response to questions raised by the increasingly diverse forms of migration experienced in a globalized world? The volume reveals the profound impact...
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    64,12 €

  • The Acquisition of Heritage Languages
    Silvina Montrul
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    166,57 €

  • Conceptualizing Racism
    Noel A. Cazenave / Noel ACazenave / Noel Cazenave
    Conceptualizing Racism is a provocative book that confronts the language we use to discuss and understand racism. The author traces the history of linguistic racial accommodation through the development of sociology of a discipline and illustrates how it is at play today, not only within the discipline but in public life. ...
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    129,01 €

  • Black Names Matter
    Bobby Cenoura
    “Antwaneisha”, “Brionshay” and “Tayvion”—for some, pronouncing these names are a daunting task, and for others, it’s a symbol of cultural identity. Black Names Matter: The Black Names Book defines names commonly referred to as “Ghetto”, “Ratchet” and “Hood”, in American society by dissecting them.  The lesson that the book teaches is that the majority of “Black Names” aren’t  A...
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    13,81 €

  • Reconceptualizing Literacy in the New Age of Multiculturalism and Pluralism, 2nd Edition (HC)
    A volume in Literacy, Language and LearningSeries Editors: Claudia Finkbeiner, Universitaet Kassel; Althier M. Lazar, Saint Joseph’s University;Wen Ma, Le Moyne CollegeThe 2nd Edition of Reconceptualizing Literacy in the New Age of Multiculturalism and Pluralism honors the geniusof Dr. Peter Mosenthal. His contributions to the field of literacy were unprecedented. Many describe...
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    140,40 €

  • Reconceptualizing Literacy in the New Age of Multiculturalism and Pluralism, 2nd Edition
    A volume in Literacy, Language and LearningSeries Editors: Claudia Finkbeiner, Universitaet Kassel; Althier M. Lazar, Saint Joseph’s University;Wen Ma, Le Moyne CollegeThe 2nd Edition of Reconceptualizing Literacy in the New Age of Multiculturalism and Pluralism honors the geniusof Dr. Peter Mosenthal. His contributions to the field of literacy were unprecedented. Many describe...
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    97,85 €

  • Word
    Fraser / Mariam Motamedi Fraser
    Explores the epistemological, experiential and political implications that follow when words are lifted out of language and discursive meaning. ...
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    177,60 €

  • Word
    Mariam Motamedi Fraser
    Explores the epistemological, experiential and political implications that follow when words are lifted out of language and discursive meaning. ...
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    58,61 €

  • Language Ideology, Policy and Planning in Peru
    Serafín M. Coronel-Molina / Serafin MCoronel-Molina
    This book explores the role that the High Academy of the Quechua Language plays in language policy and planning, and revitalization efforts for Quechua in the Andean region. This book would appeal to researchers of the Quechua language, and those studying Indigenous language policy and planning, maintenance and revitalization. ...
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    169,34 €

  • Multilingual Encounters in Europe’s Institutional Spaces
    Multilingual encounters have been commonplace in many types of institutions, and have become an essential part of supranational institutions such as the EU since their inception. This volume explores and discusses different ways of researching the discursive dimension of these encounters, and critically examines their relevance to policy, politics and society as a whole. This i...
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    63,96 €

  • Sex in Language
    Eliecer Crespo-Fernández
    Metaphor has long provided a rich way to speak about the unspeakable, to refer to delicate issues. Sex is one such area. This book follows a cognitive-linguistic and relevance-theoretic approach to the language of sex, considering metaphor as a bridge that brings together mind and language. It does this through the analysis of the antithetical mechanisms of verbal mitigation ...
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    206,56 €

  • The Language of Robert Burns
    Alex Broadhead
    This is the first monograph to focus exclusively on the language of Robert Burns. While engaging fully with up-to-date literary criticism, it makes use of theories and analytical techniques from twenty-first-century sociolinguistics in order to offer a new understanding of how Burns’s language works. ...
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    61,25 €

  • Language Choice and Identity Politics in Taiwan
    Jennifer M. Wei / Jennifer MWei
    Language Choice and Identity Politics in Taiwan brings new perspectives to—and invites comparative study within—the general study of language choice through its empirical focus on Chinese sociopolitical contexts and cultural practices. ...
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    58,79 €

  • Same-Sex Marriage, Context, and Lesbian Identity
    Julie Whitlow / Patricia Ould
    This book shows how the first lesbians to marry in the United States are using or avoiding the word wife at this historic juncture when the definition of marriage is undergoing a shift. It will interest the LGBTQ community and its allies, political activists, feminists, and scholars of sociology, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and gender. ...
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    125,13 €

  • Interactional Categorization and Gatekeeping
    Louise Tranekjær
    This book is about categorization processes in native/non-native workplace interaction, in the context of internship interviews between Danish employers and second language speakers who were born abroad. This book, which is one of the 1st on gatekeeping, seeks to address processes of power and ideology from a conversation analytical perspective. ...
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    169,01 €

  • The Dialogic Nation of Cape Verde
    M Rego / Maarcia Rego / Márcia Rego
    Dialogic Nation is a study of language use and ideology in Cape Verde. It weaves together historical, linguistic, and ethnographic research on the Cape Verdean Kriolu and its relation to Portuguese, showing how the legacies of slavery structure contemporary language practices, which in turn inform the imagining of a sovereign, creole nation. ...
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    125,12 €

  • White Race Discourse
    John Foster
    White Race Discourse exposes a race discourse displayed by a group of sixty-one white college students in the United States. Foster’s discussion of “racetalk” bridges both the theoretical and methodological gaps between whiteness scholars and discourse analysts. ...
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    63,99 €

  • The Language of Organizational Styling
    Lionel Wee
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    130,49 €

  • Multilingualism
    Anat Stavans / Charlotte Hoffmann
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    129,98 €

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages
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    56,32 €

  • Perspektiven linguistischer Sprachkritik.
    Birte Arendt / Magnus Ängsal / Nils Bahlo
    Der vorliegende Band versammelt aktuelle Beiträge zur linguistischen Sprachkritik. Diese verfolgt das Ziel, systematisch die linguistischen Dimensionen sprachkritischer Untersuchungsgegenstände sowie die komplexeren Handlungs- und Diskurszusammenhänge aufzuarbeiten, in denen diese Gegenstände als kontroverse Bindeglieder zwischen Sprache und Gesellschaft zutage treten. Die ling...
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    44,16 €

  • Semantic Variation
    Ruqaiya Hasan
    The sociolinguistic turn of the 60’s has been remarkably successful: variability of language is no longer an issue open to debate. But studies of variation have by and large been restricted to the level of expression. This volume offers a critique of present day sociolinguistics, arguing that since meaning is critical to all contexts of life in society, ignoring it has led to a...
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    120,44 €

  • Semantic Variation
    Ruqaiya Hasan
    The sociolinguistic turn of the 60’s has been remarkably successful: variability of language is no longer an issue open to debate. But studies of variation have by and large been restricted to the level of expression. This volume offers a critique of present day sociolinguistics, arguing that since meaning is critical to all contexts of life in society, ignoring it has led to a...
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    63,00 €

  • Language Policy in Higher Education
    This volume deals with multilingualism in higher education by focusing on a number of medium-sized languages. It explores how these languages achieved the status of lingua academica, reviews the social functions they serve as means of instruction, research and administration, and analyses the challenges posed to them by globalisation. ...
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    169,34 €

  • From Heart into Art
    Raymond Luczak
    For over a decade, Raymond Luczak, author of Silence Is a Four-Letter Word: On Art & Deafness, has been interviewing Deaf and hard of hearing artists and their allies about their creative and arts accessibility work. This volume features over 70 people sharing what it means to be an artist who happens to be different. 'When I was little, I never really quite questioned all tho...
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    14,59 €


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