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  • Translating Buddhism
    Alice Collett
    Explores key questions about translations and translators of South Asian Buddhist texts, past and present. ...
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    121,58 €

  • The Performance of Multilingual and ’Ultralingual’ Devotional Practices by Young British Muslims
    Andrey Rosowsky
    This book examines the wide range of multilingual devotional performances engaged in by young Muslims in the UK today. It evaluates the contemporary mosque school in the UK and contrasts this with practices from the past and with prevailing discourses (both political and other) which suggest that such institutions are problematic. ...
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    169,85 €

  • Language Learning in Study Abroad
    This book addresses the multilingual reality of study abroad across a variety of national contexts and target languages. The chapters examine multilingual socialization and translanguaging; how the target language is entwined in global, local and historical contexts; and how students use local and global varieties of English. ...
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    181,95 €

  • Language Learning in Study Abroad
    This book addresses the multilingual reality of study abroad across a variety of national contexts and target languages. The chapters examine multilingual socialization and translanguaging; how the target language is entwined in global, local and historical contexts; and how students use local and global varieties of English. ...
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    60,34 €

  • European Identities in Discourse
    Franco Zappettini
    Based on empirical research, this book closely analyses how European identities are discursively produced. It focuses on discourse from members of a civic association active in promoting democracy and attempting participation in the transnational public sphere. Unlike previous books that have addressed the question of European identity from top-down stances or through methodolo...
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    55,07 €

  • Identity and Ideology in Digital Food Discourse
    Exploring food-related interactions in various digital and cultural contexts, this book demonstrates how food as a discursive resource can be mobilized to accomplish actions of social, cultural, and political consequence. The chapters in this volume demonstrate how social media users employ language, images, and videos to construct identities and ideologies that both encompass,...
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    193,35 €

  • Offensive Language
    Jim O’Driscoll
    Why do people take offence at things that are said? What is it exactly about an offending utterance which causes this negative reaction? How well motivated is the response to the offence?Offensive Language addresses these questions by applying an array of concepts from linguistic pragmatics and sociolinguistics to a wide range of examples, from TV to Twitter and from Mel Gibson...
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    193,66 €

  • The History of Language Learning and Teaching I
    This three-volume set brings together current research in the history of language learning and teaching (HoLLT) in Europe and beyond. Providing the first overview of research in the field, it will be an indispensable reference for teachers, teacher educators and all those interested in the history of language learning and teaching and the history of applied linguistics avant la...
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    17,48 €

  • The History of Language Learning and Teaching II
    This three-volume set brings together current research in the history of language learning and teaching (HoLLT) in Europe and beyond. Providing the first overview of research in the field, it will be an indispensable reference for teachers, teacher educators and all those interested in the history of language learning and teaching and the history of applied linguistics avant la...
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    20,61 €

  • The History of Language Learning and Teaching III
    This three-volume set brings together current research in the history of language learning and teaching (HoLLT) in Europe and beyond. Providing the first overview of research in the field, it will be an indispensable reference for teachers, teacher educators and all those interested in the history of language learning and teaching and the history of applied linguistics avant la...
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    20,77 €

  • Researching Language in Superdiverse Urban Contexts
    Clare Mar-Molinero
    This book analyses research methods and theoretical concepts for exploring multilingualism in the context of contemporary superdiversity, in environments dramatically transformed by transnational migration and movement of peoples. It examines language in urban contexts: the city as a site for experimentation and creativity in language practices. ...
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    60,35 €

  • Researching Language in Superdiverse Urban Contexts
    Clare Mar-Molinero
    This book analyses research methods and theoretical concepts for exploring multilingualism in the context of contemporary superdiversity, in environments dramatically transformed by transnational migration and movement of peoples. It examines language in urban contexts: the city as a site for experimentation and creativity in language practices. ...
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    181,96 €

  • Language Prescription
    This book is a detailed examination of social connections to language evaluation with a specific focus on the values associated with both prescriptivism and descriptivism. The chapters, written by authors from many different linguistic and national backgrounds, use a variety of approaches and methods to discuss values in linguistic prescriptivism. ...
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    193,82 €

  • Linguistics in Pursuit of Justice
    John Baugh
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    40,73 €

  • O is for Hoolet
    Ishbel McFarlane
    A one-woman show about the Scots language made from collected fragments - stories, interviews, memories, characters and attitudes - challenging and disrupting our expectations and prejudices about language. ...
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    12,82 €

  • Language Contact
    Yaron Matras
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    140,37 €

  • Indigenous Language Acquisition, Maintenance, and Loss and Current Language Policies
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    216,13 €

  • Ethnographic Fieldwork
    Dong Jie / Jan Blommaert
    The authors draw on their experiences in explaining the complexities of ethnographic fieldwork as a knowledge trajectory. They do so in an accessible way that makes these complexities easier to understand and to handle. The 2nd edition of this bestselling book updates the 1st edition and includes a new postscript on ethnography in an online world. ...
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    30,18 €

  • Ethnographic Fieldwork
    Dong Jie / Jan Blommaert
    The authors draw on their experiences in explaining the complexities of ethnographic fieldwork as a knowledge trajectory. They do so in an accessible way that makes these complexities easier to understand and to handle. The 2nd edition of this bestselling book updates the 1st edition and includes a new postscript on ethnography in an online world. ...
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    96,12 €

  • Translanguaging as Transformation
    This book examines translanguaging as a resource which can disrupt the privileging of particular voices, and a social practice which enables collaboration within and across groups of people. The chapters critically examine how people work together to catalyse change in diverse global contexts. ...
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    60,11 €

  • Translanguaging as Transformation
    This book examines translanguaging as a resource which can disrupt the privileging of particular voices, and a social practice which enables collaboration within and across groups of people. The chapters critically examine how people work together to catalyse change in diverse global contexts. ...
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    181,72 €

  • Mythos
    Melissa Wright
    Mythos: A Map to Metaphors, Myths, and Dreams focuses on the important facets of what makes us human. The book highlights the ways in which we communicate, the ways in which we see the world around us. Importantly, how we conceptualize that world, and how we put it into words.Mythos takes a deep dive into our current history's big topics. The well-researched text shows how ...
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    21,59 €

  • My Name Is Dick
    Dick Sherrod
    When Dick Sherrod was growing up, his name was perfectly acceptable. Most kids even learned to read from books with his name in the title.  As Dick became an adult, all that changed.  And Dick couldn’t choose to go by Richard, because for him, Dick isn’t a nickname, it IS his name. He had to embrace being a “Real Dick” to make it in life.This is his story.Packed with humor and ...
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    12,70 €

  • Language, Culture and Identity in Two Chinese Community Schools
    Sara Ganassin
    This book investigates the social, political and educational role of community language education in migratory contexts. It draws on an ethnographic study that investigates the significance of Mandarin-Chinese community schooling in Britain as an intercultural space for those involved. ...
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    169,83 €

  • Anthropomorphics
    Dennis Bouvard
    Dennis Bouvard’s Anthropomorphics is the inauguration of a meta-discipline: a strategy for entering and transforming the secular disciplines.Where challenges to liberalism often accept some degree of the liberal frame, Bouvard strikes at the very root. Starting with the signifying center rather than agents alienated from each other, he penetrates and repurposes liberal discipli...
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    14,26 €

  • Gaelic Language Revitalization Concepts and Challenges
    Emily McEwan-Fujita
    Based on research about Scottish Gaelic, this collection focuses on a number of interconnected themes, including the intersection of neoliberalism and minority language revitalization; discourses of language death and revival in literature, media, and academia; the intertwining of language ideologies and affective stances in speaking and speakerhood; power and knowledge in the ...
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    55,98 €

  • Gaelic Language Revitalization Concepts and Challenges
    Emily McEwan-Fujita
    Based on research in Scotland and Nova Scotia, the papers in this collection focus on a number of interconnected themes, including language ideologies and affective stances about what it means to be a Gaelic speaker, media discourses of Gaelic language death and revitalization, the intersection of neoliberalism and minority language revitalization, the theoretical frameworks of...
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    27,75 €

  • Multimodalities and Chinese Students’ L2 Practices
    Min Wang
    Multimodalities and Chinese Students’ L2 Practices: Identity, Community, and Literacy explores the complex relations and interactions among multimodality, positioning, and agency in increasingly digitized, multilingual, and multicultural contexts. Min Wang uses interview narratives, WeChat exchanges, and class observations and field notes of three Chinese international students...
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    122,47 €

  • Language, Lies and Irrational Thinking
    David Garnett
    Why do we make bad decisions? How do people justify bad arguments? Is being sincere the same thing as being authentic? What is common sense? What is the link between ideology and delusion? Is populist rhetoric undermining democracy? What is the difference between strategic thinking and strategic planning? What is a 'sustainable decision'? What is Multiple Rati...
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    16,74 €

  • Empty Signs, Historical Imaginaries
    Berecz Ágoston
    Set in a multiethnic region of the nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire, this thoroughly interdisciplinary study maps out how the competing Romanian, Hungarian and German nationalization projects dealt with proper names. With particular attention to their function as symbols of national histories, Berecz makes a case for names as ideal guides for understanding historical imaginar...
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    203,16 €