Sociolinguistics books

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Scripting Japan: Orthography, Variation, and the Creation of Meaning in Written Japanese

Scripting Japan: Orthography, Variation, and the Creation...

Author: Wesley C. Robertson (Macquarie University, Australia)
ISBN: 9780367353728
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This monograph provides the first investigation into the ways these authors and their readers engage with script...  Read More >>

German as a Jewish Problem: The Language Politics of Jewish Nationalism

German as a Jewish Problem: The Language Politics of...

Author: Marc Volovici
ISBN: 9781503612303
Format: Hardback
$130.95

The German language holds an ambivalent and controversial place in the modern history of European Jews, representing...  Read More >>

Language of Conflict: Discourses of the Ukrainian Crisis

Language of Conflict: Discourses of the Ukrainian Crisis...

Author: Dr Natalia Knoblock
ISBN: 9781350098565
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Exploring the ways in which language and conflict are intertwined and interrelated, this volume examines the patterns...  Read More >>

A Sociolinguistic View of A Japanese Ethnic Church Community

A Sociolinguistic View of A Japanese Ethnic Church Community...

Author: Tyler Barrett
ISBN: 9780367460396
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Drawing on sociolinguistic approaches, this book presents unique insights into a Japanese ethnic church community...  Read More >>

The Discourse of Desperation: Late 18th and Early 19th Century Letters by Paupers, Prisoners, and Rogues

The Discourse of Desperation: Late 18th and Early 19th...

Author: Ivor Timmis (Leeds Beckett University, UK)
ISBN: 9780367000264
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book discusses how the poor and desperate in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries mobilised their...  Read More >>

How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish

How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed...

Author: Ilan Stavans ,  Ilan Stavans
ISBN: 9798200227303
Format: Audio
$65.97

2020 Foreword INDIES Silver Winner for AnthologiesWinner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award (Yiddish)A momentous...  Read More >>

How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish

How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed...

Author: Ilan Stavans ,  Ilan Stavans
ISBN: 9798200227297
Format: Audio
$65.97

2020 Foreword INDIES Silver Winner for AnthologiesWinner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award (Yiddish)A momentous...  Read More >>

How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish

How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed...

Author: Ilan Stavans ,  Ilan Stavans
ISBN: 9798200227280
Format: Audio
$65.97

2020 Foreword INDIES Silver Winner for AnthologiesWinner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award (Yiddish)A momentous...  Read More >>

Language, Ideology and Social Consciousness: Developing a Sociohistorical Approach

Language, Ideology and Social Consciousness: Developing...

Author: Chik Collins
ISBN: 9780367134839
Format: Paperback
$69.99

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Variation and Change in Gallo-Romance Grammar

Variation and Change in Gallo-Romance Grammar

Author: Sam Wolfe (University of Oxford) ,  Martin Maiden (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780191875724
Format: Undefined
$277.20

This volume offers a wide-range of case studies on variation and change in the sub-family of the Romance languages...  Read More >>

Critical Perspectives of the Language Gap

Critical Perspectives of the Language Gap

Author: Eric J. Johnson
ISBN: 9780367586669
Format: Paperback
$81.99

"The contributing authors in this book contest the original concept of a ""language-gap"" as well as the recent...  Read More >>

Social Theory and Language: The Construction of Meaning

Social Theory and Language: The Construction of Meaning...

Author: Glyn Williams
ISBN: 9780367472986
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume offers a comprehensive treatment of the historical developments underpinning our present understandings...  Read More >>

Multimodality in Practice: Investigating Theory-in-Practice-through-Methodology

Multimodality in Practice: Investigating Theory-in-Practice-through-Methodology...

Author: Sigrid Norris
ISBN: 9780367602130
Format: Paperback
$83.99

In this wide-ranging collection, contributors present examples of multimodal discourse analysis in practice. The...  Read More >>

Historical Spoken Language Research: Corpus Perspectives

Historical Spoken Language Research: Corpus Perspectives...

Author: Ivor Timmis
ISBN: 9780367594695
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book uses historical sources to discuss continuity and change in spoken language. Based on two corpora compiled...  Read More >>

Language and Social Structure in Urban France

Language and Social Structure in Urban France

Author: David Hornsby ,  David Hornsby
ISBN: 9780367600747
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book discusses the on-going exchange of ideas between variationist linguistics and sociology by extending the...  Read More >>

The Anatomy of Laughter

The Anatomy of Laughter

Author: Toby Garfitt ,  Edith McMorran
ISBN: 9780367605254
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Language Management and Its Impact: The Policies and Practices of Confucius Institutes

Language Management and Its Impact: The Policies and...

Author: Linda Mingfang Li
ISBN: 9780367584153
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Racialization and Language: Interdisciplinary Perspectives From Perú

Racialization and Language: Interdisciplinary Perspectives...

Author: Michele Back ,  Virginia Zavala
ISBN: 9780367587307
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Building on recent debates in Peru on cultural and biological definitions of race, this book seeks to re-examine...  Read More >>

Emerging Hispanicized English in the Nuevo New South: Language Variation in a Triethnic Community

Emerging Hispanicized English in the Nuevo New South:...

Author: Erin Callahan
ISBN: 9780367607135
Format: Paperback
$46.99

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary language shift and identity in a language community...  Read More >>

Global Englishes and Change in English Language Teaching: Attitudes and Impact

Global Englishes and Change in English Language Teaching:...

Author: Nicola Galloway (University of Edinburgh, UK)
ISBN: 9780367607371
Format: Paperback
$46.99

Global Englishes and Change in English Language Teaching: Attitudes and Impact brings together research from the...  Read More >>

The Politics of English in Hong Kong: Attitudes, Identity, and Use

The Politics of English in Hong Kong: Attitudes, Identity,...

Author: Jette G. Hansen Edwards (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9780367583606
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The book examines the status of Hong Kong English in light of attitudes towards Cantonese, English, and Putonghua,...  Read More >>

What the Signs Say: Language, Gentrification, and Place-Making in Brooklyn

What the Signs Say: Language, Gentrification, and Place-Making...

Author: Shonna Trinch ,  Edward Snajdr
ISBN: 9780826522788
Format: Paperback
$68.20

Although we may not think we notice them, storefronts and their signage are meaningful, and the impact they have...  Read More >>

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