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  • 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 €

  • Genders and Classifiers
    This volume offers a comprehensive account of the typology of noun classification across the world's languages. Every language has some means of categorizing objects into humans, or animates, or by their shape, form, size, and function. The most widespread are linguistic genders - grammatical classes of nouns based on core semantic properties such as sex (female and male), ...
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    128,53 €

  • The Discourse of Powerlessness and Repression
    Hans J. Ladegaard
    This book provides detailed discourse analysis of abused domestic helpers’ narratives in Hong Kong in their sharing sessions with other helpers, but it also explores larger issues such as global migration, exploitation, language and power, abuse and the psychology of evil, intergroup communication, and peer support and empowerment. ...
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    73,23 €

  • Heritage Language Policies around the World
    Interest in heritage language research around the world, particularly in regards to education and policy, has been increasing. This edited collection will take the development and establishment of heritage language policies as its primary focus and will analyze these policies comparatively through international case studies. ...
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    73,03 €

  • Entangled Discourses
    This book uniquely explores the shifting structures of power and unexpected points of intersection - entanglements - at the nexus of North and South as a lens through which to examine the impact of global and local circuits of people, practices and ideas on linguistic, cultural and knowledge systems. ...
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    73,15 €

  • Discourse and Psychology
    Saumya Sharma
    This book presents a unique understanding of the interdependence between language and psychology and how one’s speech is shaped by and in turn shapes one’s thoughts, beliefs and emotions. Drawing on discourse analysis and psychology, it presents a comprehensive guide to a new and burgeoning area in linguistics and critical theory. ...
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    241,50 €

  • Discourse and Psychology
    Saumya Sharma
    This book presents a unique understanding of the interdependence between language and psychology and how one’s speech is shaped by and in turn shapes one’s thoughts, beliefs and emotions. Drawing on discourse analysis and psychology, it presents a comprehensive guide to a new and burgeoning area in linguistics and critical theory. ...
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    69,71 €

  • Folklinguistics and Social Meaning in Australian English
    Cara Penry Williams
    Penry Williams’ book presents an original study of Australian English and, via this, insights into Australian society. Utilising folklinguistic accounts, it uncovers everyday understandings of contemporary Australian English through variations across linguistic systems (sounds, words, discourse and grammar). ...
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    241,19 €

  • Language variation and change in social networks
    Richard A. Benton / Robin Dodsworth
    This monograph takes up recent advances in social network methods in sociology, together with data on economic segregation, in order to build a quantitative analysis of the class and network effects implicated in vowel change in a Southern American city. ...
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    241,19 €

  • Linguistic Intermarriage in Australia
    Hanna Irving Torsh
    This book examines the experiences of couples with different language backgrounds and different cultural origins as they negotiate love, partnership and parenting. It is based on the author’s doctoral research into the attitudes and experiences of the English-speaking background (ESB) partners of non-English-speaking background (NESB) migrants in Sydney, Australia. In particula...
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    65,21 €

  • Narratives of Immigration and Language Loss
    Gabriele Dürbeck / 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Internationalising Learning in Higher Education
    María Luisa Carrió-Pastor
    This edited book examines the use of English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in a variety of international higher education contexts. The internationalization of education - indicated by increasing mobility of students, staff and ideas, as well as by policies and programmes put in place to facilitate educational exchange - has led to increasing adoption of English as a Lingua ...
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    157,05 €

  • Nationalism, Language, and Identity in India
    A P Ashwin Kumar
    This book examines linguistic nationalism in India. It focuses on the emergence of language as a marker of identity by analysing themes such as nationalism, philology, and linguistic identity. It will be useful for scholars and researchers of political studies, political sociology, sociology, linguistics and cultural studies. ...
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    241,39 €

  • Creating Belonging in San Francisco Chinatown’s Diasporic Community
    Adina Staicov
    This book presents a much-needed discussion on ethnic identification and morphosyntactic variation in San Francisco Chinatown-a community that has received very little attention in linguistic research. An investigation of original, interactive speech data sheds light on how first- and second-generation Chinese Americans signal (ethnic) identity through morphosyntactic variation...
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    48,42 €

  • Irish Speakers and Schooling in the Gaeltacht, 1900 to the Present
    Teresa O’Doherty / Tom O’Donoghue
    This book offers the first full-length study of the education of children living within the Gaeltacht, the Irish-speaking communities in Ireland, from 1900 to the present day. While Irish was once the most common language spoken in Ireland, by 1900 the areas in which native speakers of Irish were located contracted to such an extent that they became clearly identifiable from th...
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    119,95 €

  • The Business of Words
    Crispin Thurlow
    The Business of Words examines the practices of ’high-end’ language workers or wordsmiths. An essential resource for researchers, advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of English Language, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Communication and Media Studies, and Anthropology. ...
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    241,10 €

  • Language, Social Media and Ideologies
    Sender Dovchin
    This book seeks to contribute to the critical applied linguistics by investigating the dynamic role of English on social media, focusing on EFL university students in East Asia - Mongolia and Japan. Drawing on sets of Facebook data, the book primarily emphasizes that the presence of English on social media should be understood as ’translingual’ not only due to its multiple reco...
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    48,54 €

  • The Business of Words
    Crispin Thurlow
    The Business of Words examines the practices of ’high-end’ language workers or wordsmiths where we find words being professionally designed, institutionally managed, and, inevitably, objectified for status and profit.Aligned with existing work on language and political economy in critical sociolinguistics and discourse studies, the volume offers a novel, complementary insight i...
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    69,32 €

  • English Language in India
    Jaskiran Bedi
    This volume examines the relationship between the English language and economic growth in India. The volume will be of great interest to scholars of sociolinguistics, development studies, politics and sociology. It will also be of great interest to the interested general reader. ...
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    241,34 €

  • 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 €

  • The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya
    This highly original and timely collection brings together case studies from salient areas of the Himalayan region to explore the politics of language contact. Promoting a linguistically and historically grounded perspective, The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya offers nuanced insights into language and its relation to power in this geopolitically complex region.Edi...
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    29,11 €

  • The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya
    This highly original and timely collection brings together case studies from salient areas of the Himalayan region to explore the politics of language contact. Promoting a linguistically and historically grounded perspective, The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya offers nuanced insights into language and its relation to power in this geopolitically complex region.Edi...
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    43,53 €

  • Community Based Research in Language Policy and Planning
    Ellen-Petra Kester / Eric Mijts / Nicholas Faraclas
    This volume focuses on a case where community organizing, academic research and governmental responsibility were successfully mobilized and synchronized to bring about change in educational policy and practice. The focus of this book is the methodology implemented and the results obtained over the course of a year-long action research project on language and education in St. Eu...
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    132,97 €

  • Authority and Power in Social Interaction
    The volume explores methods of analyzing authority and power in the minutiae of interaction. Drawing on the expertise of a diverse international team of organizational communication and language and social interaction scholars, this book suggests reverting the perspective that notions of authority and power constrain human activity. ...
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    241,39 €

  • The UK ’at Risk’
    Jens O. Zinn
    This book presents a case study of the proliferation of at risk-language in The Times news coverage from 1785 to 2009, illuminating the changing social experience of risk.Zinn presents an historical examination of the forces which have shaped the language of risk over time, and considers how linguistic developments in recent decades are underpinned by issues such as cultural an...
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    48,02 €

  • Language Politics and Policies
    Thomas Ricento
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    182,71 €

  • The Role of Language in the Climate Change Debate
    Kjersti Flottum
    This volume takes a distinctive look at the climate change debate, already widely studied across a number of disciplines, by exploring the myriad linguistic and discursive perspectives and approaches at play in the climate change debate as represented in a variety of genres ...
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    78,90 €

  • The Tyranny of Ordinary Meaning
    Christopher Hutton
    This book offers an in-depth analysis of the case of Corbett v Corbett, a landmark in terms of law’s engagement with sexual identity, marriage, and transgender rights. The judgement was handed down in 1970, but the decision has shaped decades of debate about the law’s control and recognition of non-normative gender identities. The decision in this case - that the marriage betwe...
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    101,94 €


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