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  • The Northern Triangle: El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras

    A Global Perspective of Migration

    by Carol L. Schmid ...
    Many studies of migration from the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras focus on a single aspect, such as the reasons of the migrants for leaving. This book presents a complete picture of what happens to the migrants from the time they are leaving to the time they arrive in the United States. It puts into perspective the history of the three countries, along with the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Transnationalism and the Politics of Sending States

    The Cases of Italy, Mexico, Turkey, and Ecuador

    by Carol L. Schmid ...
    Theories on transnationalism are primarily interested in the practices of immigrant populations. Few studies analyze sending states, the perceived state of origin of immigrants, and their attempts to extend beyond state borders to both enrich the emigrant state and bind together the emigrants in comparative perspective. Carol Schmid explores the transnational sending state policies of Italy in the ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • The Politics of Language

    Conflict, Identity, and Cultural Pluralism in Comparative Perspective

    by Carol L. Schmid ...
    Important aspects of the history of language in the United States remain shrouded in myth and legend. The notion of "one nation, one language" is part of the idealized history of the United States, although in its short history it has probably been host to more bilingual people than any other country in the world. Language is more than a means of communication. It brings into play an entire range ... Read more

    $63.89 USD

  • Higher Education and Equality of Opportunity

    Cross-National Perspectives

    by Ayelet Harel-Shalev, John Hawkins, Ka Ho Mok, Rick Wolff, Miri Amit, Pamela Blackmon, Josiah A. M. Cobbah, Steven J. Diner, Judith Naomi Friedlander, Gaele Goastellec, John Hattie, Sue Jackson, Ki-Seok Kim, David Kirp, Noga O'Connor, Hwanbo Park, Adel Pasztor, Carol Schmid, Boaz Shulruf, Don Stewart, Charles Tien, Sarah Tumen, Adrian Ziderman ...
    Series series Studies in Public Policy
    The movement to broaden access to public universities, the dominant strategy during the 1970s and 1980s, has largely shifted to enable the marketplace, rather than the government, to shape the contours of higher education. Government funding is being reduced, affirmative action and other programs designed to insure broader access are in decline and personal fulfillment is replacing a public good ... Read more

    $129.99 USD

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  • What Is Sociolinguistics?

    by Gerard Van Herk ...
    Series series Linguistics in the World
    How is our language affected by our ethnicity, gender, and region? How are our conversations and other interactions structured? How does society view and regulate language? How do we use language to present ourselves to others? In this revised and updated second edition of the popular What Is Sociolinguistics? Gerard Van Herk explores these and other intriguing questions about language, how we use ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • Articulate While Black

    Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S.

    by H. Samy Alim, Geneva Smitherman ...
    Barack Obama is widely considered one of the most powerful and charismatic speakers of our age. Without missing a beat, he often moves between Washington insider talk and culturally Black ways of speaking--as shown in a famous YouTube clip, where Obama declined the change offered to him by a Black cashier in a Washington, D.C. restaurant with the phrase, "Nah, we straight." In Articulate While ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Conversational Style

    Analyzing Talk among Friends

    by Deborah Tannen ...
    This revised edition of Deborah Tannen's first discourse analysis book, Conversational Style--first published in 1984--presents an approach to analyzing conversation that later became the hallmark and foundation of her extensive body of work in discourse analysis, including the monograph Talking Voices, as well as her well-known popular books You Just Don't Understand, That's Not What I Meant!, ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Code-switching

    Edited by Barbara E. Bullock, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    Code-switching – the alternating use of two languages in the same stretch of discourse by a bilingual speaker – is a dominant topic in the study of bilingualism and a phenomenon that generates a great deal of pointed discussion in the public domain. This handbook provides the most comprehensive guide to this bilingual phenomenon to date. Drawing on empirical data from a wide range of language ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Short Cuts

    A Guide to Oaths, Ring Tones, Ransom Notes, Famous Last Words, and Other Forms of Minimalist Communication

    by Alexander Humez, Nicholas Humez, Rob Flynn ...
    Our everyday lives are inevitably touched--and immeasurably enriched--by an extraordinary variety of miniature forms of verbal communication, from classified ads to street signs, and from yesterday's graffito to tomorrow's headline. Celebrating our long history of compact speech, Short Cuts offers a well-researched and vibrantly written account of this unsung corner of the linguistic world, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Contact Languages

    Ecology and Evolution in Asia

    by Umberto Ansaldo ...
    Series series Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
    Why do groups of speakers in certain times and places come up with new varieties of languages? What are the social settings that determine whether a mixed language, a pidgin or a Creole will develop, and how can we understand the ways in which different languages contribute to the new grammar? Through the study of Malay contact varieties such as Baba Malay, Cocos Malay and Sri Lanka Malay, as well ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Duels and Duets

    Why Men and Women Talk So Differently

    by John L. Locke ...
    Why do men and women talk so differently? And how do these differences interfere with communication between the sexes? In search of an answer to these and other questions, John Locke takes the reader on a fascinating journey, from human evolution through ancient history to the present, revealing why men speak as they do when attempting to impress or seduce women, and why women adopt a very ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Leadership, Discourse, and Ethnicity

    by Janet Holmes, Meredith Marra, Bernadette Vine ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
    This is the first book in the field of workplace discourse to examine the relationships among leadership, ethnicity, and language use. Taking a social constructionist approach to the ways in which leadership is enacted through discourse, Leadership, Discourse, and Ethnicity problematizes the concept of ethnicity and demonstrates the importance of context-particularly the community of practice-in ... Read more

    $34.19 USD