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  • Hacia una sociolingüística crítica
    Virginia Zavala
    Desde su inicio como campo de estudio en las décadas de 1960 y 1970, la sociolingüística ha sido parte de un debate por los significados del término y lo que abarca la propia disciplina. A partir del surgimiento de una serie de corrientes como el variacionismo, la etnografía de la comunicación, la sociología del lenguaje o los estudios críticos del discurso en el último tercio ...
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    29,12 €

  • Bridging the Humor Barrier
    The language barrier is a familiar term, but what exactly is the humor barrier? Humor is a universal phenomenon, but the cultural variance in how humor is used can prove to be a major obstacle for English language learners hoping to communicate effectively in cross-cultural contexts. While a growing number of researchers have explored the importance of helping language learners...
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    128,88 €

  • Nimble Tongues
    Steven G. Kellman / Steven GKellman
    Nimble Tongues is a collection of essays that continues Steven G. Kellman’s work in the fertile field of translingualism, focusing on the phenomenon of switching languages. A series of investigations and reflections rather than a single thesis, the collection is perhaps more akin in its aims-if not accomplishment-to George Steiner’s Extraterritorial: Papers on Literature and th...
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    64,73 €

  • The Dynamics of Language and Inequality in Education
    This book contributes new perspectives from the Global South on the ways in which linguistic and discursive boundaries shape inequalities in educational contexts, ranging from Amazonian missions to Mongolian universities, using critical ethnographic and sociolinguistic analyses. ...
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    157,60 €

  • The Dynamics of Language and Inequality in Education
    This book contributes new perspectives from the Global South on the ways in which linguistic and discursive boundaries shape inequalities in educational contexts, ranging from Amazonian missions to Mongolian universities, using critical ethnographic and sociolinguistic analyses. ...
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    42,14 €

  • Communication Across Cultures
    Basil Hatim / Basil Prof. Hatim
    A unique synthesis of contrastive linguistics and discourse analysis, providing a core text for undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in language, applied linguistics, translation and cultural studies. Also of interest to language teachers, applied linguists, translators and interpreters. ...
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    127,73 €

  • Communication Across Cultures
    Basil Hatim / Basil Prof. Hatim
    A unique synthesis of contrastive linguistics and discourse analysis, providing a core text for undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in language, applied linguistics, translation and cultural studies. Also of interest to language teachers, applied linguists, translators and interpreters. ...
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    46,70 €

  • Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Migration Control
    Each chapter in this volume adds an empirical perspective to our understanding of how language relates to migration in a specific national context. The chapters use innovative combinations of multimodal, qualitative and quantitative analyses to examine a broad range of genres and data related to the voices of migrants and reporting about migrants. ...
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    157,28 €

  • Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Migration Control
    Each chapter in this volume adds an empirical perspective to our understanding of how language relates to migration in a specific national context. The chapters use innovative combinations of multimodal, qualitative and quantitative analyses to examine a broad range of genres and data related to the voices of migrants and reporting about migrants. ...
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    42,16 €

  • African Multilingualisms
    Although multilingualism is the norm in the day-to-day lives of most sub-Saharan Africans, multilingualism in settings outside of cities has so far been under-explored. This gap is striking when considering that in many parts of Africa, individual multilingualism was widespread long before the colonial period and centuries before the continent experienced large-scale urbanizati...
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    128,65 €

  • Urban Multilingualism in East-Central Europe
    Jan Fellerer
    Urban Multilingualism in East-Central Europe: The Polish Dialect of Late-Habsburg Lviv makes the case for a two-pronged approach to past urban multilingualism in East-Central Europe, one that considers both historical and linguistic features. Based on archival materials from late-Habsburg Lemberg--now Lviv in western Ukraine--the author examines its workings in day-to-day life ...
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    128,86 €

  • Italy and the USA
    This collection takes a cross-disciplinary, transnational approach and gathers together essays from a range of subjects including linguistics, film studies, folk music, oral and written narrative, and history, which provide new comparative perspectives on the questions surrounding the mutual influence between Italian and U.S. cultures. The volume also showcases new research — q...
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    132,62 €

  • Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Perspectives of Youth Language Practices in Africa
    With the demographic explosion of young people in major African cities, we are witnessing the emergence of youth languages and new speech forms. In search of well-being, these young people, plagued by poverty, social injustice, unemployment and idleness, invent linguistic codes that allow them to find themselves. The linguistic and sociolinguistic description of these youth lan...
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    67,66 €

  • Chronotopic Identity Work
    The concept of chronotopicity is increasingly used in sociolinguistic theorizing as a new way of looking at context and scale in studies of language, culture and identity. This volume brings together empirical work that puts flesh on the bones of this rather abstract theorizing, focusing on the discursive construction of chronotopic identities. ...
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    169,42 €

  • Chronotopic Identity Work
    The concept of chronotopicity is increasingly used in sociolinguistic theorizing as a new way of looking at context and scale in studies of language, culture and identity. This volume brings together empirical work that puts flesh on the bones of this rather abstract theorizing, focusing on the discursive construction of chronotopic identities. ...
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    48,15 €

  • Language, Identity and Symbolic Culture
    David Evans
    Language is integral to the construction of personal, socio-cultural and socio-political identities. Language, Identity and Symbolic Culture closely investigates the relationship between language and identities, offering a comprehensive yet progressive view of how linguistics relates to development and education, both in theoretical and real world applications. Progressing from...
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    57,40 €

  • In Between
    The essays in this anthology probe and comment on the "space/time/issue between" in aesthetic or linguistic productions in a variety of cultures. For over three decades the Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Film (SCFLLF), which convenes biennially, has been and continues to be a showcase for scholarship in the Humanities with a special emphasis on non-...
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    44,54 €

  • Intercultural Crisis Communication Translation, Interpreting and Languages in Local Crises
    Intercultural Crisis Communication poses pertinent questions and provides powerful responses to crises that have characterised the modern world since 2010. Language mediation in situations of disaster, emergency and conflict is an under-developed area of scholarship in Translation Studies. This book responds to a clear need for research drawn from practical experiences in the f...
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    206,39 €

  • Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Second or Foreign Language
    Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Second or Foreign Language, edited by Ko-Yin Sung, addresses three emerging themes in the field of Chinese language teaching and learning. (1) Increasingly ubiquitous in all language learning and teaching, and for the learning of Chinese as a second language in particular, information and communication technology (ICT) can serve as an importan...
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    129,10 €

  • Socio-educational Factors and the Soft Power of Language
    Anna Odrowąż-Coates
    Anna Odrowąż-Coates shows that English, as a language of European integration and communication, has become an element of social status. In privileged social groups, its position has changed from a foreign language to a second language, which demonstrates a linguistic shift with long-term consequences. Socio-educational Factors and Soft Power of Language critically examines the...
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    122,31 €

  • Multilingual Memories
    Drawing on a range of disciplines from within the humanities and social sciences, Multilingual Memories addresses questions of remembering and forgetting from an explicitly multilingual perspective. From a museum at Victoria Falls in Zambia to a Japanese-American internment in Arkansas, this book probes how the medium of the communication of memories affirms social orders acros...
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    206,23 €

  • Languages and Culture in Nigeria
    Ozo-mekuri Ndimele
    Language and Culture in Nigeria contains 97 papers from a wide range of areas in Language and Linguistics written by colleagues, friends and former students of Professor Okon Essien. The collection fulfills a gap in the quest for a documented piece of work on the general pattern and structure of Nigerian names and is an invaluable material for comparative purposes.There are 19 ...
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    182,06 €

  • Choosing a Mother Tongue
    Corinne A. Seals / Corinne ASeals
    This book investigates narrative accounts of language and politics in Ukraine, including the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war, providing a detailed analysis of how national and linguistic identity are discursively renegotiated during a time of mass conflict. It examines connections between language, identity and politics in Ukraine and the diaspora. ...
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    169,73 €

  • Multilingualism, (Im)mobilities and Spaces of Belonging
    The chapters in this volume investigate how diverse forms of (im)mobility and multilingualism are (re-)negotiated in relationship to space, identity and power. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars taking ethnographic and critical sociolinguistic approaches to the study of language and belonging in the context of globalisation. ...
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    193,79 €

  • Multilingualism, (Im)mobilities and Spaces of Belonging
    The chapters in this volume investigate how diverse forms of (im)mobility and multilingualism are (re-)negotiated in relationship to space, identity and power. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars taking ethnographic and critical sociolinguistic approaches to the study of language and belonging in the context of globalisation. ...
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    72,52 €

  • The Evolution of the Slavic Dual
    Tatyana G. Slobodchikoff / Tatyana GSlobodchikoff
    The dual number in Slavic has always puzzled linguists. While some Slavic languages, such as Slovenian, have three distinct categories of number--singular (1), dual (2), and plural (3 or more) -other Slavic languages, such as Russian, have no dual number. Considering that all Slavic languages have evolved from a common Proto Slavic language, it is puzzling that there is such a ...
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    129,41 €

  • Narratives of Immigration and Language Loss
    Gabriele Durbeck / Maris R. Thompson / Maris RThompson
    This book examines narratives of anti-German sentiment and language loss from German American communities in southwestern, Illinois. During World War I and II, government sponsored Americanization campaigns brought an abrupt end to German speaking practices in many communities across the Midwest. The narratives and the sociolinguistic practices around their telling detail the e...
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    50,56 €

  • Reading the Country
    Steeped in story-telling and endlessly curious, Reading the Country: An Introduction to Nomadology (1984) was the product of Paddy Roe, Stephen Muecke and Krim Benterrak, experimenting with what it might be like to think together about country. In the process a senior traditional owner, a cultural theorist and a painter produced a text unlike any other. Reading the Country: 30 ...
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    28,76 €

  • Study Abroad, Second Language Acquisition and Interculturality
    Martin Howard
    This book unites studies on second language acquisition and interculturality in a study abroad context, providing timely perspectives on research in each area while also exploring the interface between them. Chapters highlight innovative themes such as social networks, input matters, learner identities and study abroad in lingua franca contexts. ...
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    60,08 €

  • Study Abroad, Second Language Acquisition and Interculturality
    Martin Howard
    This book unites studies on second language acquisition and interculturality in a study abroad context, providing timely perspectives on research in each area while also exploring the interface between them. Chapters highlight innovative themes such as social networks, input matters, learner identities and study abroad in lingua franca contexts. ...
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    181,69 €


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