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  • Language Politics and Policies
    Thomas Ricento
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    150,74 €

  • Register, Genre, and Style
    Douglas Biber / Susan Conrad
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    131,96 €

  • Personal Names, Hitler, and the Holocaust
    I M Nick / I. M. Nick / IMNick
    Personal Names, Hitler, and the Holocaust: A Socio-Onomastic Study of Genocide and Nazi Germany provides readers with an increased understanding of and sensitivity to the many powerful ways in which personal names are used by both perpetrators and victims during wartime. This book concentrates on one of the most terrifying and yet fascinating periods of modern history: the Holo...
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    190,01 €

  • Language and Tourism in Postcolonial Settings
    This book focuses on perspectives from and on the global south, providing fresh data and analyses on languages in African, Caribbean, Middle-Eastern and Asian tourism contexts. It provides a critical perspective on tourism in postcolonial and neocolonial settings, explored through in-depth case studies. ...
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    48,28 €

  • Language and Tourism in Postcolonial Settings
    This book focuses on perspectives from and on the global south, providing fresh data and analyses on languages in African, Caribbean, Middle-Eastern and Asian tourism contexts. It provides a critical perspective on tourism in postcolonial and neocolonial settings, explored through in-depth case studies. ...
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    169,88 €

  • Multilingualism in European Language Education
    This book explores how different European education systems manage multilingualism. Each chapter focuses on one of ten diverse settings and considers how its education system is influenced by historical, sociolinguistic and political processes and how it handles languages, stressing the challenges and opportunities. ...
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    170,44 €

  • Political Discourses at the Extremes
    The authors of this edited volume focus on the emergence of populist discourses, coming from movements or parties from Romance-speaking countries in Europe and in Latin America. By combining linguistics, social and political sciences in a discourse analytical approach, the sixteen papers enlighten the mechanisms behind populist discourses yielding from different socio-cultural ...
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    27,77 €

  • Discourses of Men’s Suicide Notes
    Dariusz Galasinski
    Deaths by suicide are high: every 40 seconds, someone in the world chooses to end their life. Despite acknowledgement that suicide notes are social texts, there has been no book which analyzes suicide notes as discursive texts and no attempt at a qualitative discourse analysis of them. Discourses of Men’s Suicide Notes redresses this gap in the literature.Focussing on men and m...
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    57,77 €

  • Onomastics between Sacred and Profane
    Oliviu Felecan
    Religiously, God is the creator of everything seen and unseen; thus, one can ascribe to Him the names of His creation as well, at least in their primordial form. In the mentality of ancient Semitic peoples, naming a place or a person meant determining the role or fate of the named entity, as names were considered to be mysteriously connected with the reality they designated. Su...
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    80,35 €

  • ocabulario de Mérida (Badajoz)
    Elena Fernández de Molina Ortés
    El material que se presenta en el Vocabulario de Mérida (Badajoz) es el resultado de una investigación centrada en recopilar el léxico activo de los hablantes de esta localidad extremeña desde una perspectiva variacionista y sociolingüística. En este volumen se pueden encontrar las soluciones que los emeritenses utilizaron a partir de un cuestionario compuesto por 12 campos sem...
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    16,95 €

  • The Language of Organizational Styling
    Lionel Wee
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    40,83 €

  • Exploring Multilingual Hawai’i
    Scott Saft
    Employing an approach informed by language ecology and linguistic ethnography, Exploring Multilingual Hawaiʻi examines situated language usage and underlying ideological beliefs to explore and understand Hawaiʻi’s multilingualism. This book begins with a description of the ideologies that developed as a result of contact with the West and then offers analyses that concentrate s...
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    128,99 €

  • Gender, Neoliberalism and Distinction through Linguistic Capital
    Mark Fifer Seilhamer
    This book presents the narratives of four Taiwanese young women, all proficient in English, set against the background of the dynamics of multilingualism in Taiwan. It chronicles their strategies and struggles when utilizing cultural goods - in this case their linguistic resources - to differentiate themselves within Taiwanese society. ...
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    169,37 €

  • Second-Generation South Asian Britons
    Sheena Kalayil
    Second-Generation South Asian Britons: A Narrative Inquiry into Multilingualism, Heritage Languages, and Diasporic Identity uses the narratives of seven high-professional, second-generation South Asian Britons to explore issues related to Heritage Language learning and maintenance, discourses of identity and the practices of multicultural families in the UK. Through semi-struct...
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    122,44 €

  • Critical Inquiries in the Sociolinguistics of Globalization
    This book seeks to examine the notions of ’linguistic diversity’ and ’hybridity’ using new critical theoretical frameworks embedded within the broader discussion of the sociolinguistics of globalization. The research took place in contexts that include linguistic landscapes, schools, classrooms, neighborhoods and virtual spaces around the world. ...
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    181,84 €

  • Critical Inquiries in the Sociolinguistics of Globalization
    This book seeks to examine the notions of ’linguistic diversity’ and ’hybridity’ using new critical theoretical frameworks embedded within the broader discussion of the sociolinguistics of globalization. The research took place in contexts that include linguistic landscapes, schools, classrooms, neighborhoods and virtual spaces around the world. ...
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    60,57 €

  • Metaphor from the Ground Up
    Daniel C Strack / Daniel C. Strack / Daniel CStrack
    Metaphor from the Ground Up introduces Conceptual Filtering Theory, a theory of mental processing that describes figurative language communication in terms of conceptual domain projection and contextual disambiguation. In an attempt to match theoretical observations from cognitive semantics and pragmatics with related knowledge about mental processes from cognitive neuroscience...
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    129,18 €

  • Written Afrikaans since Standardization
    Johanita Kirsten
    This book focuses on a century of language change, starting early in the 20th century when Standard Afrikaans first emerged. Different areas of language use are explored, such as pronoun use, tenses, possession, and connectives. The changes in these areas are divided into three categories of types of change: paradigmatic changes, grammaticalization, and discursive and socio-cul...
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    136,02 €

  • Celtic Reiki Seer
    Martyn Pentecost
    There are times when most people feel ignored by others; when they look out into the world and feel completely misunderstood by everyone around them. Perhaps you feel like that more than most…Maybe, you have something burning deep within you—a profound desire to share your message with the world. To create something bigger than your own lifetime will ever allow you to do.For yo...
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    222,02 €

  • Language and the Construction of Multiple Identities in the Nigerian Novel
    Romanus Aboh
    Language and the construction of multiple identities in the Nigerian novel examines the multifaceted relation between people and the various identities they construct for themselves and for others through the context-specific ways they use language. Specifically, this book pays attention to how forms of identities – ethnic, cultural, national and gender – are constructed throug...
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    43,65 €

  • Applied Psycholinguistics and Multilingual Cognition in Human Creativity
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    183,47 €

  • Comics in Contemporary Arab Culture
    Jacob Høigilt
    Comic books for adults have become one of the most novel and colourful forms of cultural expression in the Arab world today. During the last ten years, young Arabs have crafted stories explaining issues such as authoritarianism, resistance, war, sex, gender relations and youth culture. These are distributed through informal channels as well as independent bookstores and website...
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    173,87 €

  • Interjections, Translation, and Translanguaging
    Rosanna Masiola
    This book is about interjections and their transcultural issues. Challenging the marginalization of the past, the ubiquity of interjections and translational practices are presented in their multilingual and cross-cultural aspects. The survey widens the field of inquiry to a multi-genre and context-based perspective. The quanti-qualitative corpus has been processed on the base ...
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    129,02 €

  • Tool Intelligence as an Explanation of Cross-Linguistic Variation and Family Resemblance
    Anneliese Kuhle
    Tool Intelligence taps primatological and linguistic field research to draw an analogy between prelinguistic material cultures of nonhuman primates and natural human languages. Linguistics and cognitive science are given new incentives to search for cognitive homology in areas of extended problem awareness and manipulative intentionality. ...
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    121,92 €

  • Other People’s English
    Rusty Barrett / Vershawn Ashanti Young / Y'Shanda Young-Rivera / Y’Shanda Young-Rivera
    AUTHORS: Vershawn Ashanti Young, Rusty Barrett, Y’Shanda Young-Rivera, and Kim Brian Lovejoy. SERIES: Working and Writing for Change edited by Steve Parks. With a new Foreword by April Baker-Bell and a new Preface by Vershawn Ashanti Young and Y’Shanda Young-Rivera, Other People’s English: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and African American Literacy presents an empirically groun...
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    34,50 €

  • The Multilingual Reality
    Ajit K. Mohanty / Ajit KMohanty
    This book is a multidisciplinary analysis of the meaning and dynamics of multilingualism from the perspectives of multilingual communities in the margins. Its comparative analysis of language-in-education policies and applications of multilingual education in diverse contexts shows some promises and challenges in the education of minority children. ...
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    181,74 €

  • The Multilingual Reality
    Ajit K Mohanty / Ajit K. Mohanty
    This book is a multidisciplinary analysis of the meaning and dynamics of multilingualism from the perspectives of multilingual communities in the margins. Its comparative analysis of language-in-education policies and applications of multilingual education in diverse contexts shows some promises and challenges in the education of minority children. ...
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    60,13 €

  • The Language of Illness and Death on Social Media
    Carsten Stage / Tina Thode Hougaard
    This book investigates the language created in Facebook groups that relate shared experiences of illness, dying and mourning. It develops a theoretical and analytical framework for understanding the use and rhythms of emojis, interjections and other forms of 'intensive' writing in social media of this kind. ...
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    104,45 €

  • Applied Psycholinguistics and Multilingual Cognition in Human Creativity
    Multilingualism is becoming a social phenomenon governed by the needs of globalization and cultural openness. Owing to the ease of access to information facilitated by the internet, individuals’ exposure to multiple languages is becoming increasingly frequent, thereby promoting a need to acquire successful methods in understanding language. Applied Psycholinguistics and Multili...
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    242,79 €

  • Language Rights and the Law in the United States and Its Territories
    Eduardo D. Faingold / Eduardo Faingold
    This book analyzes the language policies that result from the promulgation of linguistic rights in the constitutions and statutes of the United States and its territories. The United States is a nation in which speakers of minority languages were conquered or incorporated and the languages spoken by them were suppressed or neglected. Since the 1960’s, the United States and its ...
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    108,82 €


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