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  • Black Names Matter
    Bobby Cenoura
    “Antwaneisha”, “Brionshay” and “Tayvion”—for some, pronouncing these names are a daunting task, and for others, it’s a symbol of cultural identity. Black Names Matter: The Black Names Book defines names commonly referred to as “Ghetto”, “Ratchet” and “Hood”, in American society by dissecting them.  The lesson that the book teaches is that the majority of “Black Names” aren’t  A...
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    13,81 €

  • Reconceptualizing Literacy in the New Age of Multiculturalism and Pluralism, 2nd Edition (HC)
    A volume in Literacy, Language and LearningSeries Editors: Claudia Finkbeiner, Universitaet Kassel; Althier M. Lazar, Saint Joseph’s University;Wen Ma, Le Moyne CollegeThe 2nd Edition of Reconceptualizing Literacy in the New Age of Multiculturalism and Pluralism honors the geniusof Dr. Peter Mosenthal. His contributions to the field of literacy were unprecedented. Many describe...
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    140,40 €

  • Reconceptualizing Literacy in the New Age of Multiculturalism and Pluralism, 2nd Edition
    A volume in Literacy, Language and LearningSeries Editors: Claudia Finkbeiner, Universitaet Kassel; Althier M. Lazar, Saint Joseph’s University;Wen Ma, Le Moyne CollegeThe 2nd Edition of Reconceptualizing Literacy in the New Age of Multiculturalism and Pluralism honors the geniusof Dr. Peter Mosenthal. His contributions to the field of literacy were unprecedented. Many describe...
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    97,85 €

  • Word
    Fraser / Mariam Motamedi Fraser
    Words are everywhere. Ubiquitous, pervasive. Yet our relations with words are narrowly defined. How does the sound, feel, touch, taste, place, position, speed, and direction of words come to matter in their uses? Word begins from the premise that, if we consider words only in terms of language and as images, we overlook a range of bodily, sensory, affective and non-conscious re...
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    177,60 €

  • Word
    Mariam Motamedi Fraser
    Words are everywhere. Ubiquitous, pervasive. Yet our relations with words are narrowly defined. How does the sound, feel, touch, taste, place, position, speed, and direction of words come to matter in their uses? Word begins from the premise that, if we consider words only in terms of language and as images, we overlook a range of bodily, sensory, affective and non-conscious re...
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    58,61 €

  • Language Ideology, Policy and Planning in Peru
    Serafín M. Coronel-Molina / Serafin MCoronel-Molina
    This book explores the role that the High Academy of the Quechua Language plays in language policy and planning, and revitalization efforts for Quechua in the Andean region. This book would appeal to researchers of the Quechua language, and those studying Indigenous language policy and planning, maintenance and revitalization. ...
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    169,34 €

  • Multilingual Encounters in Europe’s Institutional Spaces
    Multilingual encounters have been commonplace in many types of institutions, and have become an essential part of supranational institutions such as the EU since their inception. This volume explores and discusses different ways of researching the discursive dimension of these encounters, and critically examines their relevance to policy, politics and society as a whole. This i...
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    63,96 €

  • Sex in Language
    Eliecer Crespo-Fernández
    Metaphor has long provided a rich way to speak about the unspeakable, to refer to delicate issues. Sex is one such area. This book follows a cognitive-linguistic and relevance-theoretic approach to the language of sex, considering metaphor as a bridge that brings together mind and language. It does this through the analysis of the antithetical mechanisms of verbal mitigation ...
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    206,56 €

  • The Language of Robert Burns
    Alex Broadhead
    This monograph offers a radical reconceptualization of the relationship between the poetics and practice of Robert Burns and reevaluates the nature of his role in the history of Scots. By drawing on ideas from twenty-first-century sociolinguistic theory, it seeks to transform the debate surrounding Burns’s language. Through a series of readings that explore the way in which Bur...
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    61,25 €

  • Language Choice and Identity Politics in Taiwan
    Jennifer M. Wei / Jennifer MWei
    Jennifer M. Wei argues that construction and perceptions of language and identity parallel sociopolitical transformations, and language and identity crises arise during power transitions. Under these premises, language and identity are never well-defined or well-bounded. Instead, they are best viewed as political symbols subject to manipulation and exploitation during socio-his...
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    58,79 €

  • Same-Sex Marriage, Context, and Lesbian Identity
    Julie Whitlow / Patricia Ould
    This book demonstrates that everyday interactions and struggles over the right words to use are at the heart of the experience of those in same-sex marriages. At a time when same-sex marriage is on the cusp of becoming legal across the United States, the authors demonstrate through in-depth interviews and rich survey data how the use of relationship terms by married lesbians is...
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    125,13 €

  • Interactional Categorization and Gatekeeping
    Louise Tranekjær
    This book is about categorization processes in native/non-native workplace interaction, in the context of internship interviews between Danish employers and second language speakers who were born abroad. This book, which is one of the 1st on gatekeeping, seeks to address processes of power and ideology from a conversation analytical perspective. ...
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    169,01 €

  • The Dialogic Nation of Cape Verde
    M Rego / Maarcia Rego / Márcia Rego
    The Dialogic Nation of Cape Verde: Slavery, Language, and Ideology is an ethnographic study of language use and ideology in Cape Verde, from its early settlement as a center for slave trade, to the postcolonial present. The study is methodologically rich and innovative in that it weaves together historical, linguistic, and ethnographic data from different eras with sketches of ...
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    125,12 €

  • The Language of Organizational Styling
    Lionel Wee
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    138,79 €

  • Multilingualism
    Anat Stavans / Charlotte Hoffmann
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    138,28 €

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages
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    60,00 €

  • Perspektiven linguistischer Sprachkritik.
    Birte Arendt / Magnus Ängsal / Nils Bahlo
    Der vorliegende Band versammelt aktuelle Beiträge zur linguistischen Sprachkritik. Diese verfolgt das Ziel, systematisch die linguistischen Dimensionen sprachkritischer Untersuchungsgegenstände sowie die komplexeren Handlungs- und Diskurszusammenhänge aufzuarbeiten, in denen diese Gegenstände als kontroverse Bindeglieder zwischen Sprache und Gesellschaft zutage treten. Die ling...
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    44,16 €

  • Semantic Variation
    Ruqaiya Hasan
    The sociolinguistic turn of the 60’s has been remarkably successful: variability of language is no longer an issue open to debate. But studies of variation have by and large been restricted to the level of expression. This volume offers a critique of present day sociolinguistics, arguing that since meaning is critical to all contexts of life in society, ignoring it has led to a...
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    120,44 €

  • Semantic Variation
    Ruqaiya Hasan
    The sociolinguistic turn of the 60’s has been remarkably successful: variability of language is no longer an issue open to debate. But studies of variation have by and large been restricted to the level of expression. This volume offers a critique of present day sociolinguistics, arguing that since meaning is critical to all contexts of life in society, ignoring it has led to a...
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    63,00 €

  • Language Policy in Higher Education
    This volume deals with multilingualism in higher education by focusing on a number of medium-sized languages. It explores how these languages achieved the status of lingua academica, reviews the social functions they serve as means of instruction, research and administration, and analyses the challenges posed to them by globalisation. ...
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    169,34 €

  • From Heart into Art
    Raymond Luczak
    For over a decade, Raymond Luczak, author of Silence Is a Four-Letter Word: On Art & Deafness, has been interviewing Deaf and hard of hearing artists and their allies about their creative and arts accessibility work. This volume features over 70 people sharing what it means to be an artist who happens to be different. 'When I was little, I never really quite questioned all tho...
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    14,59 €

  • Challenging the Monolingual Mindset
    This book challenges the monolingual mindset by highlighting how language-related issues surround us in many different ways, and explores the tensions that can develop in managing and understanding multilingualism. It features analysis and discussion on the use of languages across a range of contexts, including policy and education ...
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    47,91 €

  • La francophonie en Acadie
    Laurence Arrighi / Matthieu LeBlanc
    À l’instar des travaux de Louise Péronnet, grande pionnière des études linguistiques acadiennes, les quinze contributions regroupées dans La francophonie en Acadie envisagent la question de la langue française en Acadie sous différentes facettes.Dix-huit chercheures et chercheurs représentant des disciplines et des approches variées signent des textes consacrés tantôt aux prati...
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    30,52 €

  • Migrant Communication Enterprises
    Maria Sabaté i Dalmau / Maria Sabaté-Dalmau
    This critical sociolinguistic ethnography explores 'locutorios' (ethnic call shops) in Barcelona, where migrant populations mobilise to challenge the global private telecommunications sector as well as present-day governments. These migrant-owned businesses act as a window into their multimodal and hybrid communicative practices. ...
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    41,95 €

  • Camfranglais
    Peter Wuteh Vakunta
    This study raises awareness to the emergence of a new genre in world literature-hybridized literature. It rejects the assumption according to which literatures written in less commonly taught languages should be subsumed into one universally accessible global idiom. Instead, Vakunta challenges literary scholars and readers of literature to regard untranslatability as the key to...
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    54,89 €

  • The Language of Adult Immigrants
    Elizabeth R. Miller / Elizabeth RMiller
    This work explores how immigrant small business owners co-construct their theories of agency, in relation to language learning and use. It explores the constitution of language learner agency by drawing on performativity theory. It builds on the work of Vygotsky and Bakhtin along with research on ’agency of spaces’ and language ideologies. ...
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    48,33 €

  • The Bilingual Mind
    Aneta Pavlenko
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    54,32 €

  • The Bilingual Mind
    Aneta Pavlenko
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    152,28 €

  • Principles and Practices of Oral Communication
    Sook Hee Lee
    This is the only book based on the ’appraisal’ theory (evaluative language) that has been applied in a casual conversation context. The appraisal theory has recently been formulated within the interpersonal meaning framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics. This book outlines the newly emerged theory and then applies it to the evaluative expressions that end in ’Y’ (e.g. fus...
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    26,67 €

  • Reading Tourism Texts
    Sabrina Francesconi
    This volume explores the relationship between tourism and travel texts and contemporary society, and how each is shaped by the other. A multimodal analysis is used to look at a variety of texts including novels, travel brochures, blogs and videos. ...
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    48,25 €


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