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  • Sustaining Language Use

    by M. Paul Lewis, Gary F. Simons ...
    How does a language community sustain their language in the face of ever-increasing forces of language shift? This volume, both a textbook and a handbook, is the result of ten years of reflection by the authors in light of SIL International’s 80 years of fieldwork in local language communities. Using the Sustainable Use Model detailed here, readers learn how to advise maintaining use of their ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Language and Identity in a Multilingual, Migrating World

    by Stephen J Quakenbush, Gary F Simons ...
    Series Book 9 - Publications in Sociolinguistics
    Multilingualisms vary. Given such variation, how can those from essentially mono-chromatic, monolingual backgrounds begin to appreciate the colorful multilingual realities of the majority world? This question led to the symposium Language and Identity in a Multilingual, Migrating World, May 10–15, 2018, in Penang, Malaysia. This resulting four-part collection of papers. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and

    by Richard Nisbett, Ph.D. ...
    A “landmark book” (Robert J. Sternberg, president of the American Psychological Association) by one of the world's preeminent psychologists that proves human behavior is not “hard-wired” but a function of culture.Everyone knows that while different cultures think about the world differently, they use the same equipment for doing their thinking. But what if everyone is wrong?The Geography of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

    by Ronald Wardhaugh ...
    Series Book 28 - Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics
    This comprehensive new edition of Wardhaugh’s textbook incorporates additional study features and numerous new and updated references to bring the book completely up-to-date, whilst maintaining the features that made the book so popular with lecturers and students: accessible coverage of a wide range of issues, clearly written, and with useful student study features.A fully revised new edition of ... Read more

    $53.00 USD

  • An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

    by Ronald Wardhaugh, Janet M. Fuller ...
    Series series Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics
    AN INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLINGUISTICSThe new eighth edition of An Introduction to Sociolinguistics brings this valuable, bestselling textbook up to date with the latest in sociolinguistic research and pedagogy, providing a broad overview of the study of language in social context with accessible coverage of major concepts, theories, methods, issues, and debates within the field. This leading text ... Read more

    $44.00 USD

  • Sociolinguistics

    The Study of Speakers' Choices

    by Florian Coulmas ...
    Why do we speak the way we do? What are the social factors that influence our choices of expression? This best-selling introduction to the study of language and society encourages students to think about these fundamental questions, asking how and why we select from the vast range of different words, accents, varieties and languages available to us. In this new and updated edition, students are ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • Living Language

    An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology

    by Laura M. Ahearn ...
    Series Book 7 - Primers in Anthropology
    Accessible and clearly written, Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology introduces readers to the study of language in real-life social contexts around the world through the contemporary theory and practice of linguistic anthropology.A highly accessible introduction to the study of language in real-life social contexts around the worldCombines classic studies on language and ... Read more

    $46.75 USD

  • An Introduction to Multilingualism

    Language in a Changing World

    by Florian Coulmas ...
    Series series Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics
    This book offers an introduction to the many facets of multilingualism in a changing world. It begins with an overview of the multiplicity of human languages and their geographic distribution, before moving on to the key question of what multilingualism actually is and what is understood by terms such as 'mother tongue', 'native speaker', and 'speech community'. In the chapters that follow, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Handbook of Bilingualism and Multilingualism

    Edited by Tej K. Bhatia, William C. Ritchie ...
    Series series Wiley Handbooks in Linguistics
    **Honored as a 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title**Comprising state-of-the-art research, this substantially expanded and revised Handbook discusses the latest global and interdisciplinary issues across bilingualism and multilingualism.Includes the addition of ten new authors to the contributor team, and coverage of seven new topics ranging from global media to heritage language ... Read more

    $54.00 USD

  • Learning to be Literate

    by Viv EDWARDS ...
    This textbook brings together research on literacy and multilingualism from a variety of settings: the learning of English in migrant destinations, immersion and bilingual education, and the maintenance of heritage languages. Designed to be accessible to students from a wide range of disciplines, the book explores multilingualism as a global phenomenon at both the individual and societal level, ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • English as a Lingua Franca in ASEAN

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    The lingua franca role of English, coupled with its status as the official language of ASEAN, has important implications for language policy and language education. These include the relationship between English, the respective national languages of ASEAN and thousands of local languages. How can the demand for English be balanced against the need for people to acquire their national language and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Discovering Sociolinguistics

    From Theory to Practice

    by Dick Smakman ...
    This engagingly written textbook provides a unique 'hands-on' introduction to sociolinguistics, which equips readers with the tools to start their own sociolinguistic research project. The book begins by outlining the historical, theoretical and cultural space in which language use occurs, before delving into the key topics and concepts of today's field. It examines the choices speakers make in ... Read more

    $29.99 USD