Products In Sociolinguistics (Total Products 60, Showing: 1 -> 20)
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In this revised and updated 2nd edition of her pioneering textbook, Allyson Jule offers fresh insights into the study of language and gender for those...
This book examines how language is a central resource in transforming migrant women into transnational domestic workers. Focusing on the migration of ...
This book deals with intercultural pragmatics and how both nonnative teachers (NNTs) and native teachers (NTs) may enhance their classroom instruction...
Humans are imperfect, and problems of speaking, hearing and understanding are pervasive in ordinary interaction. This book examines the way we 'repair...
The study of bilingualism and all of its aspects - from theory and models to social approaches and their practical applications - forms the cornerston...
For many Japanese women, the English language has never been just another school subject. For them, English is the tool of identity transformation and...
Raymond Williams' seminal exploration of the history of meaning of some of the most important words in the English language.First published in 1976, a...
This book looks at how language has evolved around the globe from ancestral proto-languages to our recognisable modern tongues. It demonstrates how la...
A Rulebook for Arguments is a succinct introduction to the art of writing and assessing arguments, organized around specific rules, each illustrated a...
It's not what you say, it's the way that you say it ...
There have long been debates about 'correct' pronunciation in the English language, and Brit...
Swearing, it turns out, is an incredibly useful part of our linguistic repertoire. Not only has some form of swearing existed since the earliest human...
How are two or more languages learned and contained in the same mind or the same community? This handbook presents an up-to-date view of the concept o...
Language and culture are concepts increasingly found at the heart of developments in applied linguistics and related fields. Taken together, they can ...
In Reading Between the Signs, Anna Mindess provides a perspective on a culture that is not widely understood - American Deaf culture. With the collabo...
Rhetoric is often seen as a synonym for shallow, deceptive language, and therefore as something negative. But if we view rhetoric in more neutral term...
This Very Short Introduction deals with the social life of language: language in its sociocultural context. The field ranges from micro-analyses to b...
A new edition of the highly acclaimed book Multiculturalism and The Politics of Recognition, this paperback brings together an even wider range of l...
This book explores the role of photographs in newspapers and online news, analyzing how meanings are made in images and exploring text-image relations...
What is the nature of human language? How did it originate? How are different languages connected?Exploring over two thousand years of human enquiry, ...
An illustrated analytical study, Words and the First World War considers the situation at home, at war, and under categories such as race, gender and...