Catálogo de libros: Sociolingüística

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  • Sociolingüística y pragmática del español
    Andrés Enrique-Arias / Carmen Silva-Corvalán
    This updated second edition provides a comprehensive overview of sociolinguistics and the pragmatics of oral communication in Spanish. While maintaining the same structure as the first edition, it includes revised 'Ejercicios de reflexión' and new comprehension checks at the end of each chapter, along with numerous bibliographic references throughout. ...
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    63,64 €

  • 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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    52,38 €

  • Network Society; How Social Relations Rebuild Space(s)
    Emanuela Ferreri / Maria Cristina Marchetti / Roberta Iannone
    The present volume attempts to critically evaluate claims that modern society may be read and understood as a network. Accepting that this perspective holds some potential, the question becomes how to best capitalize on it. To analyze society as a network means to respond not only to the "actual needs," but also to highlight the "opportunities" and the "utilities," and to inves...
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    78,87 €

  • Southern Regional French
    Damien Mooney
    Despite apparent interest in defining français régional since as early at the nineteenth century, we have been left wondering about the precise origins and changing nature of contemporary regional varieties of French, particularly in the south of France. Through an examination of linguistic transfer, in a situation of bilingualism, and of levelling and diffusion during dialect ...
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    133,16 €

  • Proceedings of the 7th World Congress of African Linguistics, Buea, 17-21 August 2012
    This book is a composite of 40 purely scientific and peer-reviewed papers presented during the Seventh World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL7) at the University of Buea, Cameroon, in 2012. The different chapters of the volume fall within the scope of African languages in relation to linguistics and other related disciplines, where a varied range of theoretical examinatio...
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    77,38 €

  • Proceedings of the 7th World Congress of African Linguistics, Buea, 17-21 August 2012
    This book is a composite of 40 purely scientific and peer-reviewed papers presented during the Seventh World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL7) at the University of Buea, Cameroon, in 2012. The different chapters of the volume fall within the scope of African languages in relation to linguistics and other related disciplines, where a varied range of theoretical examinatio...
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    77,68 €

  • ICT, Globalisation and the Study of Languages and Linguistics in Africa
    Ozo-mekuri Ndimele
    This book contains papers which focus on the twin subjects of globalisation and information/communication technologies (ICTs). They express either fear or optimism regarding their effects on the survival of indigenous cultures, languages and literature. This book is a must read for anyone who is interested to learn more about the role of globalisation in the erosion of cultural...
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    56,33 €

  • Engaging Superdiversity
    Through case studies of language practices in spaces understood as inherently translocal and multi-layered (classrooms and schools, youth spaces, mercantile spaces and nation-states), this book explores the relevance of superdiversity for the social and human sciences and positions it as a research perspective in sociolinguistics and beyond. ...
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    59,84 €

  • Honoring Richard Ruiz and his Work on Language Planning and Bilingual Education
    This volume brings together a selection of Richard Ruiz’ writings on language planning orientations, bilingual and language minority education, language threat and endangerment, voice and empowerment, and even language fun, accompanied by contributions from colleagues and former students reflecting and expanding on Ruiz’ ground-breaking work. ...
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    71,23 €

  • Transcultural Flows of English and Education in Asian Contexts
    Tyler Andrew Barrett
    This book investigates the “collision” or “synthesis” that occurs between people when cultures are shared and reconstructed in different contexts and result in hybridity. By focusing on transcultural flows the authors acknowledge the hybridity in educational concepts and practices that emerge as a result of relationships and processes that occur inside and outside of the classr...
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    120,81 €

  • Different Tongues
    Patrick A. McCarthy
    “Different Tongues” (Why Children Code Switch?) is a valuable book that gives us answers to endless questions that we have as parents who wish to raise bilingual children: Will teaching the child two languages end up with the child not speaking any language clearly? What role do parents play in controlling their children’s code switching? When children switch languages when spe...
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    9,99 €

  • Language Teaching and the Older Adult
    Danya Ramírez Gómez
    This book focuses on issues regarding the learning of a foreign language in older adults (aged 60 and over). It details a multidisciplinary study on Japanese older learners of Spanish and discusses the influence of learning experiences on vocabulary learning strategy use. It also proposes concrete techniques for teachers of older learners. ...
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    169,61 €

  • Studies in Nigerian Linguistics
    Ozo-mekuri Ndimele
    Studies in Nigerian Linguistics is a compilation of research papers on topical issues in Nigerian languages and linguistics covering three main areas of research, viz.: Language and Society, Applied Linguistics and Formal Linguistics. The papers in this volume are sectioned as such, even though there are bits of overlapping, especially for some of the papers contained in the fi...
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    83,57 €

  • Language Maintenance and Shift
    Anne Pauwels
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    133,05 €

  • Issues in Contemporary African Linguistics
    The book is devoted to Professor Ọladele Awobuluyi of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Nigeria. It contains forty (40) well-researched papers selected through a rigorous assessment process out of the many submitted for consideration. The papers are grouped into four sections: Language and Society; Formal Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Pragmatics, Language Acquisit...
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    83,84 €

  • Spoken Discourse
    Rodney Jones
    This book provides an overview of current theories of and methods for analysing spoken discourse. It includes discussions of both the more traditional approaches of pragmatics, conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and critical discourse analysis, and more recently developed approaches such as multimodal discourse analysis and critical s...
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    245,86 €

  • Human Communication Across Cultures
    Karen Williams / Vincent Remillard
    Human Communication Across Cultures is a highly interactive textbook and workbook on how human communication takes place. Unlike other textbooks which focus only on sociolinguistics this book employs both sociolinguistics and pragmatics. Sociolinguistics explores how language is used in social interactions. There are differences in the way we speak due to where we live, gender,...
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    128,28 €

  • Network Society; How Social Relations rebuild Space(s)
    Emanuela Ferreri / Maria Cristina Marchetti / Roberta Iannone
    The present volume attempts to critically evaluate claims that modern society may be read and understood as a network. Accepting that this perspective holds some potential, the question becomes how to best capitalize on it. To analyze society as a network means to respond not only to the 'actual needs', but also to highlight the 'opportunities' and the 'utilities', and to inves...
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    93,96 €

  • Sociolinguistics
    Nikolas Coupland
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    139,39 €

  • Weighing the Word
    Peter Samsel
    A comprehensive survey of traditional and contemporary views on the Qur’an, including textual, historical, sociological, philosophical, aesthetic, linguistic and experiential, brought together in an effort to ascertain whether Islam’s sacred book is the word of God, as it claims to be, or not. Readers will find here the earliest ancient sources and the latest scientific studies...
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    9,63 €

  • Rethinking Second Language Learning
    This book evaluates a project where formal classroom learning of a second language was supplemented with informal, natural interactions with older native speakers of the target language, delivering a number of pedagogical and societal benefits. It introduces a model of language learning for students that can be used for any language or locality. ...
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    47,91 €

  • Cultural Memory of Language
    Susan Samata
    "I can’t even speak my own language," were the words overheard in a college staffroom that triggered the writing of this book. Calling something ’my own’ implies a personal, proprietorial relationship with it. But how can it be your own if you cannot speak it?The Cultural Memory of Language looks at unintended monolingualism - a lack of language fluency in a migratory cultura...
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    64,33 €

  • The Linguistic Landscape of Chinatown
    Jackie Jia Lou
    This book presents a sociolinguistic ethnography of the linguistic landscape of Chinatown in Washington, DC. The book sheds new light on the impact of urban development on traditionally ethnic neighbourhoods and discusses the various historical, social and cultural factors that contribute to this area’s shifting linguistic landscape. ...
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    169,66 €

  • Nigerian Languages, Literatures, Culture and Reforms
    Ozo-mekuri Ndimele
    The papers in this volume were selected from the Silver Jubilee edition of the Annual Conference of the Linguistic Association of Nigerian (LAN) which was held at the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC), Abuja, Nigeria. The Silver Jubilee edition is dedicated to the father of Nigerian Linguistics, Professor Emeritus Ayo Bamgbose. Professor Emeritus Bam...
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    105,90 €

  • Language Policy, Planning and Management in Nigeria
    Ozo-mekuri Ndimele
    There are 75 papers in this collection covering both formal and secular linguistics, with particular focus on languages spoken and used by Nigerians as they interact in the global situation. The majority of the papers address the main theme of this project: Language Policy, Planning and Management. There are, however, a good number of other well-researched papers which cater fo...
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    123,21 €

  • Public and Political Discourses of Migration
    A critical interrogation of the public and political discourses which shape the management and lived experience of migration. The collection brings together essays from established and rising academics in the field of migration studies to address the relationship between discourse and migration in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East. ...
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    209,10 €

  • Authenticity, Language and Interaction in Second Language Contexts
    This book addresses issues of authenticity and interaction in second language contexts from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. Contributions focus on authenticity as it relates to patterns of language and meaning, and to agency, identity and culture, and examines authenticity in both classroom and study abroad situations. ...
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    47,96 €

  • Language, Immigration and Naturalization
    This volume focuses on the everyday legalities and practicalities of naturalization, bringing together scholars from a wide range of specialities all accentuating language. The book raises issues that often remain unarticulated or masked in the media and will be of interest to scholars of policy and politics as well as linguists. ...
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    48,10 €

  • Public and Political Discourses of Migration
    A critical interrogation of the public and political discourses which shape the management and lived experience of migration. The collection brings together essays from established and rising academics in the field of migration studies to address the relationship between discourse and migration in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East. ...
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    69,36 €

  • Towards Openly Multilingual Policies and Practices
    Anneli Sarhimaa / Johanna Laakso / Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark
    This book investigates the maintenance of multilingualism and minority languages in 12 different minority communities across Europe. The authors argue that legislation and institutional and educational support provide no guarantee for minority language maintenance, surmising that changes in attitudes and language ideologies are the key. ...
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    169,48 €


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