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Unorthodox Views: Reflections on Reality, Truth, and Meaning in Current Social, Cultural, and Critical Discourse (Contributions to the Study of World Literature #111)
by James L. Battersby  Publisher Comments Much of contemporary critical theory holds that meaning is relative and subjective. This book scrutinizes the principal assumptions and beliefs about mind, language, meaning, truth, and reality governing current debate and discussion not only in literary...
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Sociolinguistics : an Introduction To Language and Society (4TH 00 Edition)
by Peter Trudgill Publisher Comments Revised fourth edition....
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Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics #5: Telling Our Selves: Ethnicity and Discourse in Southwestern Alaska
by Chase Hensel Publisher Comments In this book, Chase Hensel examines how Yup'ik Eskimos and non-natives construct and maintain gender and ethnic identities through strategic talk about hunting, fishing, and processing....
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Dialects Converging: Rural Speech in Urban Norway
by Paul Kerswill Publisher Comments How and why do adults modify their language when they move to a new area? In this detailed study of rural dialect users who have moved to the Norwegian city of Bergen, Kerswill throws light on this widespread phenomenon. The book is concerned with the...
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Text, Role and Context: Developing Academic Literacies (Cambridge Applied Linguistics)
by Ann M Johns Publisher Comments This text explores fundamental issues relating to student literacies and instructor roles and practices within academic contexts. The paperback edition explores fundamental issues relating to student literacies and instructor roles and practices within...
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Syntactic Theory (02 Edition)
by Geoffrey Poole Publisher Comments "Syntactic Theory" is a new textbook which emphasizes theory-building and hypothesis-testing as it develops and motivates Chomsky's Principles and Parameters framework. The initial chapters guide the student through introductory topics and later chapters...
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Analysing Sociolinguistic Variation (Key Topics in Sociolinguistics)
by Sali Tagliamonte Publisher Comments A comprehensive 'how to' guide to the practical analysis of language variation in a social context....
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Conversations with an Alzheimer's Patient
by Heidi Eher Hamilton Publisher Comments Interactional sociolinguistic study of progressive communicative breakdown of an Alzheimer’s patient....
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Sage Series on Race and Ethnic Relations #1: The Power of Silence: Social and Pragmatic Perspectives
by Adam Jaworski Publisher Comments This book provides a theoretical account of a variety of different communicative aspects of silence and explores new ways of studying socially-motivated language. A research overview shows the influence of related work in the fields of media studies...
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Language and Masculinity
by Sally Johnson Publisher Comments Feminist linguistics has come of age. Yet, in more than two decades of research, male speaking patterns have largely been taken for granted. This is the first extensive account of men's language - of male ways of speaking and of language in the...
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Word and World: Practice and the Foundations of Language
by Patricia Hanna Publisher Comments Proposes a new account of the nature of language, founded upon an original interpretation of Wittgenstein....
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Language in Society
by Suzanne Romaine Publisher Comments Why have 1,500 separate languages developed in Melanesia? Why is a Cornish accent rated higher than Cockney speech but lower than Oxford English? Linguistics tends to ignore the relationship between languages and the societies in which they are spoken...
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Handbook of Language & Ethnic Identity
by Joshua Fishman Publisher Comments This volume presents a comprehensive introduction to the connection between language and ethnicity. Since the "ethnic revival" of the last twenty years, there has been a substantial and interdisciplinary change in our understanding of the connection...
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Language Culture & Society an Introduction 2ND Edition
by Zdenek Salzmann Publisher Comments This second edition of Language, Culture, and Society has profited from the comments of several instructors who have been using the text successfully during the past several years. In his revisions, Zdenek Salzmann has not only updated the text but has...
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Cambridge Studies in German #4: Language: The Socio-Cultural Context
by Frederick Newmeyer Publisher Comments Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey is a comprehensive introduction to current research in all branches of the field of linguistics, from syntactic theory to ethnography of speaking, from signed language to the mental lexicon, from language acquisition to...
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Doing Pragmatics 2ND Edition
by Peter Grundy Publisher Comments The first edition of Peter Grundy's Doing Pragmatics achieved success through its unparalleled capacity to render pragmatics accessible to those studying it. With the same user-friendly style, this revised and updated edition will provide a solid...
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Language and Nationalism in Europe
by Stephen Barbour Publisher Comments This volume examines the role of language in the present and past creation of social, cultural, and national identities in Europe, considering the way in which language may sometimes reinforce national identity (as in England) while tending to subvert...
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Language, Culture and Identity: An Ethnolinguistic Perspective (Advances in Sociolinguistics)
by Philip Riley Publisher Comments How language shapes and is shaped by identity is a key topic within sociolinguistics. An individual's identity is constituted through a variety of different factors, including the social, cultural and ethnic contexts, and issues such as multilingualism...
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Introduction To Language Policy (05 Edition)
by Thomas Ricento Publisher Comments An Introduction to Language Policy: Theories and Method is a collection of newly-written chapters that cover the major theories and methods currently employed by scholars active in the field....
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Language and Sexuality Reader (06 Edition)
by Cameron Synopsis The Language and Sexuality Reader is the first collection to bring together historical and contemporary writings from a range of academic disciplines to explore the connections between sex as a domain of human experience and the language we use to speak...
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