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On Language and Sexual Politics
by Deborah Cameron  Publisher Comments This highly accessible collection of articles presents a selection of Deborah Cameron's work on language, gender and sex in one single volume. Arranged thematically, this book covers major developments in Anglo-American feminist linguistics, and Cameron...
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Beyond Two Solitudes
by Donald Smith Publisher Comments Answering the anti-Quebec rhetoric of Diane Francis, Barbara Amiel, and others, this book demonstrates to Quebecers and English Canadians alike that English Canada has a rich and unique culture, and concludes with a vibrant plea for a new Canada based on...
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Language Creation and Language Change: Creolization, Diachrony, and Development (Mit Press Series in Learning, Development, and Conceptual Ch)
by Michel De Graff Publisher Comments Research on creolization, language change over time, and language acquisition has been converging toward a triangulation of the constraints along which grammatical systems develop within individual speakers--and (viewed externally) across generations of...
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Pragmatics & Natural Language 2ndcl (Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Society)
by Georgia M. Green Publisher Comments This book differs from other introductions to pragmatics in approaching the problems of interpreting language use in terms of interpersonal modelling of beliefs and intentions. It is intended to make issues involved in language understanding, such as...
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Contributions to the Sociology of Language [Csl] #92: Along the Routes to Power': Explorations of Empowerment Through Language
by Martin P]tz Synopsis This volume grew out of the 30th International LAUD Symposium, held in 2004 at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. It constitutes a collection of papers by prominent linguists who explore the interdisciplinary area of language and power. The...
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Sociolinguistics (Linguistics)
by Christina Bratt Paulston Publisher Comments Sociolinguistics: The Essential Readings is a collection of classic articles that have helped define the field of sociolinguistics and provide the foundation for future research, paired with more recent articles that indicate the direction the field has...
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The Way We Talk Now: Commentaries on Language and Culture from NPR's Fresh Air
by Geoffrey Nunberg Publisher Comments This engaging collection of National Public Radio broadcasts and magazine pieces by one of America's best-known linguists covers the waterfront of contemporary culture by taking stock of its words and phrases. From our metaphors for the Internet...
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The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics
by Carmen Llamas Synopsis Providing a comprehensive overview of sociolinguistic methods and areas of investigation, this engaging and practical text covers every issue of major concern in the field. Made up of a series of short essays written by renowned international experts and...
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The Ecolinguistics Reader: Language, Ecology and Environment
by Alwin Fil Synopsis Thirty years ago a new linguistic paradigm was created when Einar Haugen combined language with ecology. For Haugen, 'the ecology of language' meant the study of the interrelations between languages in the human mind and in the multilingual community...
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An Introduction to Contact Linguistics (Language in Society)
by Donald Winford Publisher Comments This book is a comprehensive introduction to the study of language contact and its outcomes, as well as the social and linguistic factors involved....
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Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe (Wiles Lectures Given at the Queen's University of Belfast)
by Peter Burke Publisher Comments Peter Burke explores major themes in the social and cultural history of the languages spoken or written in Europe between the invention of printing and the French Revolution. One theme is the relation between languages and communities and the place of...
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Racetalk: Racism Hiding in Plain Sight
by Kristen Myers Publisher Comments Drawing on over 600 incidents of racetalk among whites, blacks, Latinos, and Asians, this book examines private racism. Using a dialectical analysis, this book examines the ways that everyday people help to reproduce racism through their common...
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Speaking Culturally: Language Diversity in the United States
by Fern L. Johnson Publisher Comments Speaking Culturally examines the changing cultural demographics of the United States from a linguistic perspective. Fern L Johnson illuminates the discourses associated with gender and with African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Asian Americans....
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Systemic Functional Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis: Studies in Social Change
by Lynne Young Publisher Comments This collection of papers, with their focus on social change in different settings and through a wide range of voices, offers a fresh view of both Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), and, ultimately, the...
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Language Policy in Schools CL
by David Corson Publisher Comments Provides school administrators and teachers a practical approach for dealing with the language problems that confront modern schools in pluralist contexts. Incorporates up-to-date language plans from North American schools....
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A History of Writing (Globalities)
by Steven Roger Fischer Publisher Comments From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, A History of Writing offers a fascinating investigation into the origin and development of writing throughout the world.Commencing with the first stages of...
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Interlanguage Pragmatics: Exploring Institutional Talk
by Kathleen Bardovi-harlig Publisher Comments This edited volume brings conversational analysis into the study of second language pragmatics as an analytic paradigm. A well-regarded team of researchers addresses a difficult area for the interlanguage pragmatics research community--the balance...
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Nations, Language and Citizenship
by Norman Berdichevsky Publisher Comments This study evaluates the importance of language in achieving a sense of national solidarity, considering factors such as territory, race, religion and historical continuity. The work presents 26 case studies, and addresses such additional issues as...
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Issues in Language Program Direction #2002: The Sociolinguistics of Foreign Language Classrooms: Contributions of the Native, the Near-Native, and the Non-Native Speaker (Aausc 2002)
by Carl Blyth Publisher Comments AAUSC: Issues in Language Program Direction is published by Heinle on behalf of the AAUSC and university foreign language program coordinators. Each volume addresses a single topic in the field of language instruction and program coordination. Advanced...
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Waqfiyah of Ahmed Pasa
by Muhammed Simsar
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