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  • Honoring Richard Ruiz and his Work on Language Planning and Bilingual Education
    This volume brings together a selection of Richard Ruiz’ writings on language planning orientations, bilingual and language minority education, language threat and endangerment, voice and empowerment, and even language fun, accompanied by contributions from colleagues and former students reflecting and expanding on Ruiz’ ground-breaking work. ...
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    71,23 €

  • Transcultural Flows of English and Education in Asian Contexts
    Tyler Andrew Barrett
    Transcultural Flows of English and Education in Asian Contexts examines issues concerning the potential of English learning and teaching to go beyond the classroom and affect the multicultural realities of Asian societies. Asian societies often carry long histories and traditions that influence beliefs about identities,which are changing in our globalizing world. The authors in...
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    120,81 €

  • Different Tongues
    Patrick A. McCarthy
    “Different Tongues” (Why Children Code Switch?) is a valuable book that gives us answers to endless questions that we have as parents who wish to raise bilingual children: Will teaching the child two languages end up with the child not speaking any language clearly? What role do parents play in controlling their children’s code switching? When children switch languages when spe...
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    9,99 €

  • Language Teaching and the Older Adult
    Danya Ramírez Gómez
    This book focuses on issues regarding the learning of a foreign language in older adults (aged 60 and over). It details a multidisciplinary study on Japanese older learners of Spanish and discusses the influence of learning experiences on vocabulary learning strategy use. It also proposes concrete techniques for teachers of older learners. ...
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    169,61 €

  • Studies in Nigerian Linguistics
    Ozo-mekuri Ndimele
    Studies in Nigerian Linguistics is a compilation of research papers on topical issues in Nigerian languages and linguistics covering three main areas of research, viz.: Language and Society, Applied Linguistics and Formal Linguistics. The papers in this volume are sectioned as such, even though there are bits of overlapping, especially for some of the papers contained in the fi...
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    83,57 €

  • Language Maintenance and Shift
    Anne Pauwels
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    141,49 €

  • Issues in Contemporary African Linguistics
    The book is devoted to Professor Ọladele Awobuluyi of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Nigeria. It contains forty (40) well-researched papers selected through a rigorous assessment process out of the many submitted for consideration. The papers are grouped into four sections: Language and Society; Formal Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Pragmatics, Language Acquisit...
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    83,84 €

  • Spoken Discourse
    Rodney Jones
    This book provides an overview of current theories of and methods for analysing spoken discourse. It includes discussions of both the more traditional approaches of pragmatics, conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and critical discourse analysis, and more recently developed approaches such as multimodal discourse analysis and critical s...
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    245,86 €

  • Human Communication Across Cultures
    Karen Williams / Vincent Remillard
    Human Communication Across Cultures is a highly interactive textbook and workbook on how human communication takes place. Unlike other textbooks which focus only on sociolinguistics this book employs both sociolinguistics and pragmatics. Sociolinguistics explores how language is used in social interactions. There are differences in the way we speak due to where we live, gender,...
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    128,28 €

  • Network Society; How Social Relations rebuild Space(s)
    Emanuela Ferreri / Maria Cristina Marchetti / Roberta Iannone
    The present volume attempts to critically evaluate claims that modern society may be read and understood as a network. Accepting that this perspective holds some potential, the question becomes how to best capitalize on it. To analyze society as a network means to respond not only to the 'actual needs', but also to highlight the 'opportunities' and the 'utilities', and to inves...
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    93,96 €

  • Sociolinguistics
    Nikolas Coupland
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    148,31 €

  • Weighing the Word
    Peter Samsel
    A comprehensive survey of traditional and contemporary views on the Qur’an, including textual, historical, sociological, philosophical, aesthetic, linguistic and experiential, brought together in an effort to ascertain whether Islam’s sacred book is the word of God, as it claims to be, or not. Readers will find here the earliest ancient sources and the latest scientific studies...
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    9,63 €

  • Rethinking Second Language Learning
    This book evaluates a project where formal classroom learning of a second language was supplemented with informal, natural interactions with older native speakers of the target language, delivering a number of pedagogical and societal benefits. It introduces a model of language learning for students that can be used for any language or locality. ...
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    47,91 €

  • Cultural Memory of Language
    Susan Samata
    "I can’t even speak my own language," were the words overheard in a college staffroom that triggered the writing of this book. Calling something ’my own’ implies a personal, proprietorial relationship with it. But how can it be your own if you cannot speak it?The Cultural Memory of Language looks at unintended monolingualism - a lack of language fluency in a migratory cultura...
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    64,33 €

  • The Linguistic Landscape of Chinatown
    Jackie Jia Lou
    This book presents a sociolinguistic ethnography of the linguistic landscape of Chinatown in Washington, DC. The book sheds new light on the impact of urban development on traditionally ethnic neighbourhoods and discusses the various historical, social and cultural factors that contribute to this area’s shifting linguistic landscape. ...
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    169,66 €

  • Nigerian Languages, Literatures, Culture and Reforms
    Ozo-mekuri Ndimele
    The papers in this volume were selected from the Silver Jubilee edition of the Annual Conference of the Linguistic Association of Nigerian (LAN) which was held at the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC), Abuja, Nigeria. The Silver Jubilee edition is dedicated to the father of Nigerian Linguistics, Professor Emeritus Ayo Bamgbose. Professor Emeritus Bam...
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    105,90 €

  • Language Policy, Planning and Management in Nigeria
    Ozo-mekuri Ndimele
    There are 75 papers in this collection covering both formal and secular linguistics, with particular focus on languages spoken and used by Nigerians as they interact in the global situation. The majority of the papers address the main theme of this project: Language Policy, Planning and Management. There are, however, a good number of other well-researched papers which cater fo...
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    123,21 €

  • Public and Political Discourses of Migration
    Popular, political and media discourses frame the issue of migration and shape how and when it enters the public and political consciousness. These discourses are of crucial importance as they influence both the general public’s perception of migration and the policies which regulate both the act of migration itself and migrant residents.Public and Political Discourses of Mi...
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    209,10 €

  • Language, Immigration and Naturalization
    This volume focuses on the everyday legalities and practicalities of naturalization, bringing together scholars from a wide range of specialities all accentuating language. The book raises issues that often remain unarticulated or masked in the media and will be of interest to scholars of policy and politics as well as linguists. ...
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    48,10 €

  • Authenticity, Language and Interaction in Second Language Contexts
    This book addresses issues of authenticity and interaction in second language contexts from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. Contributions focus on authenticity as it relates to patterns of language and meaning, and to agency, identity and culture, and examines authenticity in both classroom and study abroad situations. ...
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    47,96 €

  • Public and Political Discourses of Migration
    Popular, political and media discourses frame the issue of migration and shape how and when it enters the public and political consciousness. These discourses are of crucial importance as they influence both the general public’s perception of migration and the policies which regulate both the act of migration itself and migrant residents.Public and Political Discourses of Mi...
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    69,36 €

  • Towards Openly Multilingual Policies and Practices
    Anneli Sarhimaa / Johanna Laakso / Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark
    This book investigates the maintenance of multilingualism and minority languages in 12 different minority communities across Europe. The authors argue that legislation and institutional and educational support provide no guarantee for minority language maintenance, surmising that changes in attitudes and language ideologies are the key. ...
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    169,48 €

  • The Cultural and Intercultural Dimensions of English as a Lingua Franca
    This book investigates the cultural and intercultural aspects of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). The chapters consider the communication and pedagogical implications of these dimensions and offer suggestions for new directions in ELF research, pedagogy and curriculum development. ...
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    48,06 €

  • Community Translation
    Mustapha Taibi / Uldis Ozolins
    Investigating an important field within translation studies, Community Translation addresses the specific context, characteristics and needs of translation in and for communities. Traditional classifications in the fields of discourse and genre are of limited use to the field of translation studies, as they overlook the social functions of translation. Instead, this book argues...
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    67,00 €

  • Names and Naming
    This book explores international trends in naming and contributes to the growing field of critical onomastic enquiry. The contributors to this publication examine why names are not only symbols of a person or place, but also manifestations of cultural, linguistic and social heritage in their own right. ...
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    72,43 €

  • Names and Naming
    This book explores international trends in naming and contributes to the growing field of critical onomastic enquiry. The contributors to this publication examine why names are not only symbols of a person or place, but also manifestations of cultural, linguistic and social heritage in their own right. ...
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    194,03 €

  • Mythology and Ideology of the Basque Language
    Antonio Tovar / Jennifer R. Ottman
    This small book on ideas about the nature and origin of the Basque language up to the early twentieth century is a highly erudite essay, even if the motivation for its composition was ultimately political. Its erudition is guaranteed by the professional credentials of its author, Antonio Tovar, one of twentieth-century Spain's most polymathic intellectuals and men of letters, a...
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    35,55 €

  • Intercultural Contact, Language Learning and Migration
    Barbara Geraghty
    At the heart of this volume lies an exploration of what actually happens to languages and their users when cultures come into contact. What actions do supra-national institutions, nation states, communities and individuals take in response to questions raised by the increasingly diverse forms of migration experienced in a globalized world? The volume reveals the profound impact...
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    64,12 €

  • The Acquisition of Heritage Languages
    Silvina Montrul
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    177,17 €

  • Conceptualizing Racism
    Noel A. Cazenave / Noel ACazenave / Noel Cazenave
    Conceptualizing Racism is a provocative book that confronts the language we use to discuss and understand racism. Author Noel A. Cazenave argues that American social science has, since its inception, practiced linguistic racial accommodation that blurs our understanding of systemic racism and makes it difficult to effect meaningful change. Conceptualizing Racism highlights how ...
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    129,01 €


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