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“heather bowe”

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  • Communication across Cultures

    Mutual Understanding in a Global World

    by Heather Bowe, Kylie Martin, Howard Manns ...
    Communication across Cultures explores how cultural context affects the use and (mis)interpretation of language. It provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to language and language variation in intercultural communication by drawing on both classic and cutting-edge research from pragmatics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and politeness studies. This ... Read more

    $63.19 USD

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  • Language Planning and Policy in Native America

    History, Theory, Praxis

    by Teresa L. McCarty ...
    Series Book 90 - Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
    Comprehensive in scope and rich in detail, this book explores language planning, language education, and language policy for diverse Native American peoples across time, space, and place. Based on long-term collaborative and ethnographic work with Native American communities and schools, the book examines the imposition of colonial language policies against the fluorescence of contemporary ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • More Heat Than Light?

    Sex-difference Science and the Study of Language

    by Deborah Cameron ...
    In the Sedgewick lecture for 2012, Professor Deborah Cameron investigates the age-old question of whether men and women are different kinds of beings, both physically and intellectually. She begins by noting that in the 19th century that most writers saw men as being intellectually superior to women in their use of language. But she also observes that this position was gradually modified in the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Self-designations and Group Identity in the New Testament

    by Paul Trebilco ...
    What terms would early Christians have used to address one another? In the first book-length study on this topic, Paul Trebilco investigates the origin, use and function of seven key self-designations: 'brothers and sisters', 'believers', 'saints', 'the assembly', 'disciples', 'the Way', and 'Christian'. In doing so, he discovers what they reveal about the identity, self-understanding and ... Read more

    $62.39 USD

  • The Native Languages of South America

    Origins, Development, Typology

    Edited by Loretta O'Connor, Pieter Muysken ...
    In South America indigenous languages are extremely diverse. There are over one hundred language families in this region alone. Contributors from around the world explore the history and structure of these languages, combining insights from archaeology and genetics with innovative linguistic analysis. The book aims to uncover regional patterns and potential deeper genealogical relations between ... Read more

    $127.09 USD

  • Community Translation

    by Mustapha Taibi, Uldis Ozolins ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Translation
    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 for a ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Multilingual Internet

    Language, Culture, and Communication Online

    Edited by Brenda Danet, Susan C. Herring ...
    Two thirds of global internet users are non-English speakers. Despite this, most scholarly literature on the internet and computer-mediated-communication (CMC) focuses exclusively on English. This is the first book devoted to analyzing internet related CMC in languages other than English. The volume collects 18 new articles on facets of language and internet use, all of which revolve around ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Fighters, Girls and Other Identities

    Sociolinguistics in a Martial Arts Club

    by Lian Malai Madsen ...
    Series Book 5 - Encounters
    This book examines how young people at a martial arts club in an urban setting participate and interact in a recreational social community. The author relates analyses of their interactions to discussions of relevance to the sociology of sports, anthropology and education, ultimately providing an analytically nuanced contribution to the study of contemporary sociolinguistic processes and identity ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Internationalizing Teaching, Localizing Learning

    An Examination of English Language Teaching Reforms and English Use in China

    by Paul McPherron ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Based on ethnographic and policy data collected over a ten-year span at a university in the People’s Republic of China, this book analyses the history of English Language Teaching (ELT) polices in Chinese higher education. The book uses the university as a lens in which to investigate the creative imaginations and divergent (re)appropriations of teaching methods, learning materials, and language ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • The Emergence of Hybrid Grammars

    Language Contact and Change

    by Enoch Oladé Aboh ...
    Series series Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
    Children are extremely gifted in acquiring their native languages, but languages nevertheless change over time. Why does this paradox exist? In this study of creole languages, Enoch Oladé Aboh addresses this question, arguing that language acquisition requires contact between different linguistic sub-systems that feed into the hybrid grammars that learners develop. There is no qualitative ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Women, Men and Language

    A Sociolinguistic Account of Gender Differences in Language

    by Jennifer Coates ...
    Series series Routledge Linguistics Classics
    Women, Men and Language has long been established as a seminal text in the field of language and gender, providing an account of the many ways in which language and gender intersect. In this pioneering book, bestselling author Jennifer Coates explores linguistic gender differences, introducing the reader to a wide range of sociolinguistic research in the field.Written in a clear and accessible ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Language of the Land

    Policy, Politics, Identity

    Edited by Katherine Schuster, David Witkosky ...
    Series series Studies in the History of Education
    The idea for this volume arose out of a need for a treatment of the interplay between language and ethnonationalism within both formal and nonformal educational settings. In no way intended to be exhaustive in scope, the contents give the reader a critical overview of issues related to language, cultural identity formation, and ethnonationalism. The chapters within this work deal with the effects ... Read more

    $44.29 USD