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  • Exploring Ecolinguistics
    Douglas Mark Ponton
    Contributing to the rapidly emerging field of ecolinguistics, this book explores the role of language in mediating and determining our relationship with nature and in shaping attitudes and social practices in environmental areas.In doing so, it maps out research pathways for informed ecological debate that concerns both the planet and the discipline.The book centres on two case...
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    51,32 €

  • Language as an Ecological Phenomenon
    Moving beyond a more traditional view of language as a discrete sociocultural and cognitive entity that distorts our understanding of surrounding ecologies, this book argues that the starting point for ecolinguistics is an appreciation of language as not just about nature, but of nature.Exploring this conceptual change in the field, the book presents a process view in which lan...
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    50,96 €

  • Analysing Environmental Discourse
    Scott Burnett
    The sheer scale of global ecosystem devastation and the crescendo of the climate crisis may serve as good reasons for scholars and commentators to welcome any social mobilization that tries to save the earth. And yet not all environmentalisms are good environmentalisms. From eco-fascism to greenwashing and neoliberal conservation, not all ’green’ action has a positive value. Of...
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    167,00 €

  • Pedagogical Translation for Language Teaching
    Sarah Albrecht
    This book combines translation and second language acquisition with literacy as a social practice for a powerful new approach to language teaching and learning. It provides the reader with transdisciplinary theoretical grounding, an overview of translation benefits and approaches, and sample translation activities as guidance for applying translation as a collaborative pedagogi...
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    154,26 €

  • Constructing Brexit Britain
    Tamsin Parnell
    Combining corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, and a discourse analysis of narratives, this book considers one aspect of the Brexit process: the language that journalists, politicians and individuals used to write and talk about what it means to be British and European around the time of Brexit. It reveals a trajectory towards a discourse of national division in Bre...
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    51,10 €

  • Interdisciplinary Approaches to Environmental Identity and Portrayal
    Interdisciplinary Approaches to Environmental Identity and Portrayal explores the complex relationship between humans and environment through diverse disciplinary perspectives. It examines how we construct environmental identities and represent our surroundings across multiple domains.The book begins with food production narratives and animal welfare implications before explori...
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    140,75 €

  • British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End
    Fatima Rajina
    Popular discourse around British Muslims has often been dominated by a focus on Muslim women and their sartorial choices, particularly the hijab and niqab. This book takes a different angle and focuses on Muslim men, examining how factors like the global war on terror influenced and changed their sartorial choices and use of language. The book denaturalises the ubiquitous and d...
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    44,56 €

  • The Public Pedagogy of the Master Narrative
    JPB Gerald
    Discusses the many ways that racism and hierarchies of language hinder honesty and harm society.In this bold attempt to challenge readers’ assumptions about racial prejudice, JPB Gerald explores how racism and hierarchies of language hinder effective education and harm societies around the world. Through a wide range of interviews with experts in areas ranging from US states ge...
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    28,09 €

  • The Public Pedagogy of the Master Narrative
    JPB Gerald
    Discusses the many ways that racism and hierarchies of language hinder honesty and harm society.In this bold attempt to challenge readers’ assumptions about racial prejudice, JPB Gerald explores how racism and hierarchies of language hinder effective education and harm societies around the world. Through a wide range of interviews with experts in areas ranging from US states ge...
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    153,54 €

  • Languages We Live By
    Clara Molina / Katrin Ahlgren
    This book invites readers to reflect on the impact of languages and create workshops to develop inclusive and responsible societies.Language plays a crucial role in the creation and reproduction of social inequalities, but it can also be a key factor in their deconstruction and in the creation of a more multilingual and inclusive world. This book guides the reader through an ex...
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    17,66 €

  • Languages We Live By
    Clara Molina / Katrin Ahlgren
    This book invites readers to reflect on the impact of languages and create workshops to develop inclusive and responsible societies.Language plays a crucial role in the creation and reproduction of social inequalities, but it can also be a key factor in their deconstruction and in the creation of a more multilingual and inclusive world. This book guides the reader through an ex...
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    90,90 €

  • Estudios de (des)cortesía verbal en la historia del español
    Esta monografía colectiva profundiza en diferentes estrategias lingüísticas de (des)cortesía verbal documentadas en los períodos evolutivos tradicionalmente considerados en historia de la lengua española. Los diez capítulos que constituyen el libro, cuyos autores son especialistas en la materia, ofrecen novedosas aportaciones sobre el funcionamiento de diferentes actos de habla...
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    95,75 €

  • World Englishes
    Gunnel Melchers / Peter Sundkvist / Philip Shaw
    A comprehensive guide to global English variations in phonology, grammar, vocabulary, and pragmatics. Features new audio examples, updated models, inclusive language sections, and expanded foreign-variety descriptions. ...
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    77,25 €

  • Language, Gender, and Identities at Work
    Joelle Loew
    This book critically examines gender and professional communication in the IT industry, demonstrating the value of an applied linguistics perspective in better understanding the discourses and gendering of work in the field and more broadly. ...
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    268,01 €

  • World Englishes
    Gunnel Melchers / Peter Sundkvist / Philip Shaw
    A comprehensive guide to global English variations in phonology, grammar, vocabulary, and pragmatics. Features new audio examples, updated models, inclusive language sections, and expanded foreign-variety descriptions. ...
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    267,98 €

  • The Routledge Handbook of Language and Race
    The Routledge Handbook of Language and Race provides an up-to-date overview of language and race from a modern global perspective. ...
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    401,92 €

  • Translation Policies for Foreign Languages in Shanghai, China
    Shuxia Zhou
    This book examines translation policies (TP) for foreign languages in Shanghai, China and aims to propose effective TP for communication between authorities and foreigners. By adopting the 3-level framework of TP (management, practices, and beliefs) (González Núñez, 2016a; Meylaerts, 2017), it systematically explores how these three aspects interact or conflict, including the d...
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    169,17 €

  • Cuentos Y Diálogos
    Juan Valera
    In the sun-dappled streets of 19th century Spain, the whispers of human nature unfold with striking clarity. This Spanish literature anthology, once lost to time, resurfaces with a vibrancy that speaks to both the heart and the intellect. A treasure trove of short stories and literary dialogues, it delves into the intricate tapestry of social commentary fiction, offering a mirr...
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    16,97 €

  • On the Place of Linguistics in Northern Afghanistan
    Bringing a timely contribution to scholarship about the linguistic variations of languages spoken in northern Afghanistan, the authors address gaps in existing literature, particularly regarding linguistic areality in Afghanistan and Uzbek identity. By exploring lesser-studied languages like Afghan Wakhi and Turkmen, they also provide fresh insights into Iranian and Turkic lang...
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    32,00 €

  • Lars Porsena
    Robert Graves
    Robert Graves, the acclaimed poet and scholar, delves into the fascinating and often provocative world of forbidden words in 'Lars Porsena; or, the future of swearing and improper language.' This seminal work offers a compelling exploration of swearing, improper language, and taboo words, examining their intricate role within society and culture.Graves applies a unique lens of ...
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    15,91 €

  • A Vocabulary of Criminal Slang
    C. R. (Clifton Robert) Hellyer / Louis E. Jackson
    Delve into the intricate and often cryptic world of American English subculture with Louis E. Jackson’s essential work, 'A vocabulary of criminal slang, with some examples of common usages.' This meticulously compiled dictionary provides an unparalleled glimpse into the specialized language - the cant and argot - employed by various criminal groups across the United States. Jac...
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    17,44 €

  • Multispecies Discourse Analysis
    Gavin Lamb
    This book explores how language and communication shape the increasingly entangled lives of people and sea turtles at the nexus of sea turtle conservation and ecotourism. Here, new ecocultural identities are taking shape as people strive to make sense of their shifting multispecies landscape, and as sea turtles gradually reclaim beaches after decades of absence. The book offers...
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    51,10 €

  • Voice and Nation in Plurinational Bolivia
    Karl Swinehart
    This book offers ethnographic accounts of Aymara language media activism in Bolivia during the presidency of Evo Morales (2006-2019). It draws on research conducted among Aymara language radio broadcasters, hip hop artists, and community members during a period of radical social change and Indigenous political resurgence (pachakuti) in South America’s most Indigenous republic. ...
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    51,33 €

  • Ecological Communication and Ecoliteracy
    This open access volume is a call for ecological awareness and action through communication. It offers perspectives on how we, as humans, posit ourselves in relation to, and as part of, the environment in both verbal and non-verbal discourse.The contributions investigate a variety of situated communicative practices and how they instantiate and potentially influence our actions...
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    50,89 €

  • Applied Cognitive Ecostylistics
    This book offers an up-to-date account of one of the most influential strands of eco-research: cognitive ecostylistics.The onset of the 1970s saw a global shift in scholarly perspective upon the relation between egocentric and ecocentric views of the world. The so-called eco-turn was not only linguistic at its roots, but engaged the bulk of academic thought in social sciences a...
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    51,13 €

  • Harmonious Discourse Analysis
    Guowen Huang / Ruihua Zhao
    Integrating aspects of Chinese culture with modern theories of language, this book puts forward a new approach to ecolinguistics: harmonious discourse analysis (HDA). Supplementing existing approaches to eco-discourse analysis, HDA aims to diversify the landscape of ecolinguistic studies by promoting cultural inclusiveness and ecological education. While enabling readers to emb...
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    167,51 €

  • International Perspectives on Critical English Language Teacher Education
    This book showcases how teacher educators from diverse backgrounds, contexts, and realities approach English language teacher education with a critical stance. Organized into nine parts that explore different facets of English Language Teaching, each section opens with theoretical considerations chapters and features 24 practical application chapters.Written by renowned scholar...
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    50,79 €

  • The Semiotics of Banknotes and Coins
    Sebastián Moreno Barreneche
    This book uses semiotics to study the design of a selection of banknotes and coins currentlycirculating in the American and European continents.Its purpose is to argue how the iconography used to decorate them draws on pre-existing social discourses and meaning.Moreover, it aims to show how currency design is an enunciative praxis and hence, an activity shaped by cultural conve...
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    167,17 €

  • Comparing Linguistic Diachronies
    This volume presents eight case studies examining diachronic linguistics and language contact, as well as different aspects of language change.The chapters cover a variety of topics and consider the relationship between historical data and linguistic theory. They also examine the diachronic development of linguistic characteristics in different levels of linguistic analysis inc...
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    167,69 €

  • Rays of Language
    Renewed attention to the language of ancient documentary sources - above all Greek papyri - has opened new paths in linguistic research. Rays of Language: Linguistic Perspectives on Non-Literary Papyri and Related Sources brings together specialists from across the field to explore how everyday written documents illuminate linguistic diversity, change, and communication in the ...
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    70,68 €


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