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Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends
by Deborah Tannen  Publisher Comments This revised edition of Deborah Tannen's first discourse analysis book, Conversational Style--first published in 1984--presents an approach to analyzing conversation that later became the hallmark and foundation of her extensive body of work in discourse...
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Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language #23: Language, Culture, and Society
by Christine Jourdan Publisher Comments A discussion of some important questions in linguistic anthropology, the study of language in relation to culture and social interaction....
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Korle Meets the Sea: A Sociolinguistic History of Accra
by M E Kropp Dakubu Publisher Comments Ghana has played a key role in African/Western relations since medieval times. For this reason and others, Ghana has evolved into a linguistic quilt that contains forty-four indigenous languages and several exotic ones, of which most Ghanians speak at...
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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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Introduction To Sociolinguistics 4TH Edition
by Ronald Wardhaugh Publisher Comments Since it first appeared more than fifteen years ago, Ronald Wardhaugh's An Introduction to Sociolinguistics has been an immensely popular textbook for courses in sociolinguistics and the sociology of language. Provides an accessible, comprehensive...
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Syntactic Theory (Modern Linguistics Series)
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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Discourse: A Critical Introduction (Key Topics in Sociolinguistics)
by Jan Blommaert Publisher Comments 'Organized thematically, this introduction outlines the basic principles and moves on to examine the methods and theory of CDA (critical discourse analysis). Topics covered include text and context, language and inequality, choice and determination...
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Anthropological Linguistics (97 Edition)
by William A. Foley Synopsis This is a textbook for courses in language and culture for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students. It starts from a theoretical viewpoint of both language and culture as conventionalized forms of situated practice and uses this as a unifying...
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Language, Culture & Society: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
by Zdenek Salzmann About the Author Zdenek Salzmann, a native of Prague, is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst . A specialist in Native American languages and folklore, he has held guest professorships at Yale University and the University of...
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Language Misconceived: Arguing for Applied Cognitive Sociolinguistics
by Karol Janicki Publisher Comments Linguistics is important. An understanding of linguistic principles is as essential to the layperson as it is to the language scholar. Using concrete examples from politics, law, and education, this book shows how people misconceive language every day...
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Language and Social Relations : Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language (06 Edition)
by Asif Agha Publisher Comments Provides a new way of accounting for the relationship between language and a variety of social phenomena....
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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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Language Culture & Society an Introduction 3RD Edition
by Zdenek Salzmann Publisher Comments The third edition of Language, Culture, and Society continues to address the full spectrum of fundamental topics in linguistic anthropology. Because anthropology stresses a holistic view, the integration of data from all subfields of anthropology and...
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Style: Language Variation and Identity (Key Topics in Sociolinguistics)
by Nikolas Coupland Publisher Comments Style refers to ways of speaking - how speakers use the resource of language variation to make meaning in social encounters. This book develops a coherent theoretical approach to style in sociolinguistics, illustrated with copious examples. It explains...
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Gender and Conversational Interaction (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics)
by Deborah Tannen Publisher Comments The author of the best-selling You Just Don't Understand, Deborah Tannen, has collected twelve papers about gender-related patterns in conversational interaction. The theoretical thrust of the collection, like that of Tannen's own work, is...
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Key Terms in Language and Culture (01 Edition)
by Alessandro (ed.) Duranti Synopsis "Key Terms in Language and Culture" is a new collection of 75 short original essays written by leading scholars in linguistic anthropology and related fields, and covering the major issues in the contemporary study of language and culture. Together these...
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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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Oxford Introductions to Language Study: Stylistics (Oxford Introduction to Language Study)
by Peter Verdonk Publisher Comments This series provides brief, clear introductions to the main disciplinary areas of language study. This book examines how style is used inliterary and nonliterary texts. The topics include style as a matter of socialization, the production and reception...
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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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