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Sage Focus Editions #3: Power in Language: Verbal Communication and Social Influence
by Sik Hung Ng  Synopsis "The literature review provided by Sik Hung Ng and James J. Bradac is particularly thorough and informative." --Canadian Journal of Communication "This volume, the third in the Language and Language Behaviors Series, fits nicely with the series' aim to...
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Multiple Voices: An Introduction to Bilingualism
by Carol Myers-scotton Publisher Comments Multiple Voices: An Introduction to Bilingualism provides a comprehensive overview of all major features of bilingualism, including grammatical, cognitive, and social aspects....
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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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Language of Conversation (01 Edition)
by Francesca Pridham Publisher Comments "The Language of Conversation: " * Analyzes exactly what happens during conversation and why * Discusses the structure, purpose, and features of conversation * Explores the relationship between speaker and listener * Examines different...
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On Literacy: The Politics of the Word from Homer to the Age of Rock
by Robert Pattison Review "Intellectually and morally acute, vibrantly alive...parents, teachers or legislators who miss this richly clarifying discourse on the contemporary politics of literacy deserve to sit in the corner for a week."--Benjamin DeMott, Amherst College...
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Living Speech: Resisting the Empire of Force (06 Edition)
by White Publisher Comments Language is our key to imagining the world, others, and ourselves. Yet sometimes our ways of talking dehumanize others and trivialize human experience. In war other people are imagined as enemies to be killed. The language of race objectifies those it...
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Ethnography, Linguistics, Narrative Inequality: Target Organ and Modulator of Toxicity
by Dell H. Hymes Publisher Comments Dell Hymes has revisited, enlarged and re-contextualized some of his leading essays, written over the last two decades, into a volume which addresses the contribution that ethnography and linguistics make to education, and the contribution that research...
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Dimensions of Register Variation: A Cross Linguistic Comparison
by Douglas Biber Publisher Comments Douglas Biber??'s new book gives a linguistic analysis of register in four widely differing languages: English, Nukulaelae Tuvaluan, Korean, and Somali....
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Women, Men and Language
by Jennifer Coates Publisher Comments New edition of the bestselling linguistics title, a key introduction to language and gender....
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Spanglish _ (Ilan Stavans Library of Latino Civilization)
by Ilan Stavans Publisher Comments Spanglish-a hybrid of Spanish and English-is intricately interwoven with the history and culture of Latinos, the largest and fastest-growing minority group in the United States. With deep roots that trace back to the U.S. annexation of Mexican...
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Maintaining Minority Languages in Transnational Contexts: Australian and European Perspectives (Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities)
by Anne Pauwels Publisher Comments This volume deals with challenges to the maintenance of minority (or community) languages in this era of globalization and increasing transnational movements of people. The contributors, experts in language policy, language maintenance and...
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The Amazonian Languages (Cambridge Language Surveys)
by R M W Dixon Publisher Comments An overview of one of the richest and most complex linguistic regions in the world, the Amazon Basin....
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Qualitative Research Methods #35: Conversation Analysis
by George Psathas Synopsis This book provides an introduction to conversation analysis as an approach and a method for studying social interaction usable not only for investigating the organization of naturally occurring talk, but for investigating the forms, the structures, and...
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Empirical Approaches to Language Typology #37: Alignment Change in Iranian Languages: A Construction Grammar Approach
by Geoffrey L. J Haig Book News Annotation Haig (linguistics, Christian-Albrechts-Universit...
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The Secular Poetry of El'azar Ben YA'Aqov Ha-Bavli: Baghdad, Thirteenth Century on the Basis of Manuscript Firkovicz Heb. Iia, 210.1 (Itudes Sur Le Judaosme Midiival)
by Wout Jac. Van Bekkum Synopsis A critical edition with introduction and commentaries of the poetry of Elazar ha-Bavli (Baghdad, 13th century)....
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Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science #312: Sociolinguistics: An International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society/Ein Internationales Handbuch Zur Wissenschaft Von Spr
by Peter Trudgill Publisher Comments - new completely revised and extended edition<BR>- encyclopedia-like useability for readers<BR>- international handbook series<BR>- three volumes offering the current state of sociolinguistics...
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Language and Social Change #2: Gendered Talk at Work: Constructing Social Identity Through Workplace Discourse
by Janet Holmes Publisher Comments Gendered Talk at Work examines how women and men negotiate their gender identities as well as their professional roles in everyday workplace communication....
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The Polemical Force of Chekhov's Comedies; a Rhetorical Analysis.
by John Mckellor Reid Book News Annotation Reid (drama, U. of the West of England) bucks the trend in his understanding of Chekov's work. Rather than emphasizing the dramatist's objectivity and stateliness, Reid is inspired by the idea that Chekov did have something to say, and there was a...
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Language Policy in Britain and France: The Processes of Policy (Open Linguistics)
by Dennis Ernest Ager Publisher Comments This book examines the making of language policy, and to a certain extent language policy itself, in Britain and France. It defines what language policy is and to what is applies, and how disciplines such as sociolinguistics and the analysis of the...
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Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language #10: Ku Waru: Language and Segmentary Politics in the Western Nebilyer Valley, Papua New Guinea
by Francesca Merlan Publisher Comments This book furthers our understanding of the interaction between social structures, historical events and particularly, of the crucial role of talk....
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