Sociolinguistics books

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The UK ‘at Risk’: A Corpus Approach to Historical Social Change 1785–2009

The UK ‘at Risk’: A Corpus Approach to Historical Social...

Author: Jens O. Zinn
ISBN: 9783030202408
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book presents a case study of the proliferation of at risk-language in The Times news coverage from 1785 to...  Read More >>

The Tyranny of Ordinary Meaning: Corbett v Corbett and the Invention of Legal Sex

The Tyranny of Ordinary Meaning: Corbett v Corbett and...

Author: Christopher Hutton
ISBN: 9783030202736
Format: Paperback
$116.41

The case raises fundamental questions concerning law in its historical and intellectual context, in particular relating...  Read More >>

Language, Dementia and Meaning Making: Navigating Challenges of Cognition and Face in Everyday Life

Language, Dementia and Meaning Making: Navigating Challenges...

Author: Heidi E. Hamilton
ISBN: 9783030120238
Format: Paperback
$116.41

In doing so, this work reveals how changes in cognition may impact the faces of these individuals, leading some...  Read More >>

The Sociolinguistics of Iran’s Languages at Home and Abroad: The Case of Persian, Azerbaijani, and Kurdish

The Sociolinguistics of Iran’s Languages at Home and...

Author: Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi
ISBN: 9783030196073
Format: Paperback
$206.97

This book examines the sociolinguistics of some of Iran’s languages at home and in the diaspora.  Read More >>

Political Identity in Discourse: The Voices of New Zealand Voters

Political Identity in Discourse: The Voices of New Zealand...

Author: Jay M. Woodhams
ISBN: 9783030186326
Format: Paperback
$129.35

This book takes an innovative view of language and politics, charting the terrain of political identities and discourses...  Read More >>

Community Based Research in Language Policy and Planning: The Language of Instruction in Education in Sint Eustatius

Community Based Research in Language Policy and Planning:...

Author: Nicholas Faraclas ,  Ellen-Petra Kester
ISBN: 9783030232252
Format: Paperback
$232.85

The focus of this book is the methodology implemented and the results obtained over the course of a year-long action...  Read More >>

Social Media Discourse, (Dis)identifications and Diversities

Social Media Discourse, (Dis)identifications and Diversities...

Author: Sirpa Leppanen ,  Elina Westinen
ISBN: 9780367595647
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This volume serves as an in-depth investigation of the diversity of means and practices that constitute (dis)identification...  Read More >>

Development NGOs and Languages: Listening, Power and Inclusion

Development NGOs and Languages: Listening, Power and...

Author: Hilary Footitt ,  Angela M. Crack
ISBN: 9783030517755
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This book addresses, for the first time, the question of how development NGOs attempt to 'listen' to communities...  Read More >>

VARIATIONist Linguistics meets CONTACT Linguistics

VARIATIONist Linguistics meets CONTACT Linguistics

Author: Alexandra N Lenz ,  Mateusz Maselko
ISBN: 9783847111443
Format: Hardback
$186.27

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Multilingualism and Politics: Revisiting Multilingual Citizenship

Multilingualism and Politics: Revisiting Multilingual...

Author: Katerina Strani
ISBN: 9783030407001
Format: Hardback
$448.77

This edited book makes a significant contribution to the relatively under-explored field of multilingualism and...  Read More >>

Ethnographer and Contrarian: Biographical and Anthropological Essays in Honour of Peter Sutton

Ethnographer and Contrarian: Biographical and Anthropological...

Author: Julie D. Finlayson ,  Frances Morphy
ISBN: 9781743057568
Format: Paperback
$34.95

Sutton's colleagues reflect on aspects of his life and work, starting with a set of biographical essays. The second...  Read More >>

More than Mere Words: Essays on Language and Linguistics in Honour of Peter Sutton

More than Mere Words: Essays on Language and Linguistics...

Author: Paul Monaghan ,  Michael Walsh
ISBN: 9781743057551
Format: Paperback
$51.75

The contributors reflect on Sutton's important contribution to linguistics and the study of Australian languages....  Read More >>

Discursive Constructions of the Suicidal Process

Discursive Constructions of the Suicidal Process

Author: Prof Dariusz Galasinski ,  Dr Justyna Ziólkowska
ISBN: 9781350107694
Format: Hardback
$240.00

What is suicide? When does suicide start and when does it end? Who is involved? Examining narratives of suicide...  Read More >>

Perspektiven auf Mehrsprachigkeit im Fremdsprachenunterricht – Regards croisés sur le plurilinguisme et l’apprentissage des langues

Perspektiven auf Mehrsprachigkeit im Fremdsprachenunterricht...

Author: Birgit Schädlich
ISBN: 9783662617694
Format: Paperback
$142.29

Der Sammelband bündelt aktuelle Arbeiten zu Mehrsprachigkeit und Mehrkulturalität aus fremdsprachendidaktischer...  Read More >>

Ten Lectures on Event Structure in a Network Theory of Language

Ten Lectures on Event Structure in a Network Theory...

Author: Nikolas Gisborne
ISBN: 9789004358966
Format: Hardback
$300.96

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Dangerous Crooked Scoundrels: Insulting the President, from Washington to Trump

Dangerous Crooked Scoundrels: Insulting the President,...

Author: Jonathan Yen ,  Edwin L Battistella
ISBN: 9798200193868
Format: Audio
$34.29

Insulting the president is an American tradition. From Washington to Trump, presidents have been called lazy, feeble,...  Read More >>

Dangerous Crooked Scoundrels: Insulting the President, from Washington to Trump

Dangerous Crooked Scoundrels: Insulting the President,...

Author: Jonathan Yen ,  Edwin L Battistella
ISBN: 9798200193882
Format: Audio
$34.29

Insulting the president is an American tradition. From Washington to Trump, presidents have been called lazy, feeble,...  Read More >>

Dangerous Crooked Scoundrels: Insulting the President, from Washington to Trump

Dangerous Crooked Scoundrels: Insulting the President,...

Author: Jonathan Yen ,  Edwin L Battistella
ISBN: 9798200193875
Format: Audio
$34.29

Insulting the president is an American tradition. From Washington to Trump, presidents have been called lazy, feeble,...  Read More >>

Managing Multilingual Workplaces: Methodological, Empirical and Pedagogic Perspectives

Managing Multilingual Workplaces: Methodological, Empirical...

Author: Sierk Horn ,  Philippe Lecomte
ISBN: 9781138364790
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book provides a source that unites insights from multilingual empirical research, methodological considerations...  Read More >>

Speaking American: How Y'All, Youse, and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide

Speaking American: How Y'All, Youse, and You Guys Talk:...

Author: Josh Katz
ISBN: 9780358359937
Format: Paperback
$47.49

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Discourses of Disorder: Riots, Strikes and Protests in the Media

Discourses of Disorder: Riots, Strikes and Protests...

Author: Christopher Hart ,  Darren Kelsey
ISBN: 9781474435444
Format: Paperback
$56.90

Drawing on insights from linguistics, multimodality and media studies, this book explores the ideological dimensions...  Read More >>

Gaelic in Contemporary Scotland: The Revitalisation of an Endangered Language

Gaelic in Contemporary Scotland: The Revitalisation...

Author: Marsaili MacLeod ,  Cassie Smith-Christmas
ISBN: 9781474474672
Format: Paperback
$56.90

The number of young people speaking Gaelic in Scotland is growing for the first time since Census records began...  Read More >>

Maya Ethnolinguistic Identity: Violence, Cultural Rights, and Modernity in Highland Guatemala

Maya Ethnolinguistic Identity: Violence, Cultural Rights,...

Author: Brigittine M. French
ISBN: 9780816542406
Format: Paperback
$73.79

In this valuable book, ethnographer and anthropologist Brigittine French mobilizes new critical-theoretical perspectives...  Read More >>

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