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  • Consequences of Language

    From Primary to Enhanced Intersubjectivity

    by N. J. Enfield, Jack Sidnell ...
    What is it about humans that makes language possible, and what is it about language that makes us human?If you are reading this, you have done something that only our species has evolved to do. You have acquired a natural language. This book asks, How has this changed us?Where scholars have long wondered what it is about humans that makes language possible, N. J. Enfield and Jack Sidnell ask ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Concept of Action

    by N. J. Enfield, Jack Sidnell ...
    Series series New Departures in Anthropology
    When people do things with words, how do we know what they are doing? Many scholars have assumed a category of things called actions: 'requests', 'proposals', 'complaints', 'excuses'. The idea is both convenient and intuitive, but as this book argues, it is a spurious concept of action. In interaction, a person's primary task is to decide how to respond, not to label what someone just did. The ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology

    Edited by N. J. Enfield, Paul Kockelman, Jack Sidnell ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    The field of linguistic anthropology looks at human uniqueness and diversity through the lens of language, our species' special combination of art and instinct. Human language both shapes, and is shaped by, our minds, societies, and cultural worlds. This state-of-the-field survey covers a wide range of topics, approaches and theories, such as the nature and function of language systems, the ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Conversational Repair and Human Understanding

    Edited by Makoto Hayashi, Geoffrey Raymond, Jack Sidnell ...
    Series Book 30 - Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics
    Humans are imperfect, and problems of speaking, hearing and understanding are pervasive in ordinary interaction. This book examines the way we 'repair' and correct such problems as they arise in conversation and other forms of human interaction. The first book-length study of this topic, it brings together a team of scholars from the fields of anthropology, communication, linguistics and sociology ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • The Handbook of Conversation Analysis

    Edited by Jack Sidnell, Tanya Stivers ...
    Series series Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
    Presenting a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of theoretical and descriptive research in the field, The Handbook of Conversation Analysis brings together contributions by leading international experts to provide an invaluable information resource and reference for scholars of social interaction across the areas of conversation analysis, discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology, ... Read more

    $49.00 USD

  • Conversation Analysis

    An Introduction

    by Jack Sidnell ...
    Series Book 45 - Language in Society
    Combining the main findings, methods and analytic techniques of this central approach to language and social interaction, along with real-life examples and step-by-step explanations, Conversation Analysis is the ideal student guide to the field.Introduces the main findings, methods and analytic techniques of conversation analysis (CA) – a growing interdisciplinary field exploring language and ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • Conversation Analysis

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Jack Sidnell ...
    Series Book 27 - Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics
    'Conversation analysis' is an approach to the study of social interaction that focuses on practices of speaking that recur across a range of contexts and settings. The early studies in this tradition were based on the analysis of English conversation. More recently, however, conversation analysts have begun to study talk in a broader range of communities around the world. Through detailed analyses ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

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    by Penelope_Eckert, Sally_McConnell-Ginet ...
    Language and Gender is an introduction to the study of the relation between gender and language use, written by two leading experts in the field. This new edition, thoroughly updated and restructured, brings out more strongly an emphasis on practice and change, while retaining the broad scope of its predecessor and its accessible introductions which explain the key concepts in a non-technical way. ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Politeness

    Some Universals in Language Usage

    by Penelope Brown, Stephen C. Levinson ...
    Series Book 4 - Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics
    This study is about the principles for constructing polite speeches. The core of it first appeared in Questions and Politeness, edited by Esther N. Goody (now out of print). It is here reissued with a fresh introduction that surveys the considerable literature in linguistics, psychology and the social sciences that the original extended essay stimulated, and suggests distinct directions for ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Consciousness: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Darragh Byrne ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Language Matters: A Guide to Everyday Questions About Language

    A Guide to Everyday Questions About Language

    by Donna Jo Napoli, Vera Lee-Schoenfeld ...
    Is Ebonics really a dialect or simply bad English? Do women and men speak differently? Will computers ever really learn human language? Does offensive language harm children? These are only a few of the issues surrounding language that crop up every day. Most of us have very definite opinions on these questions one way or another. Yet as linguists Donna Jo Napoli and Vera Lee-Schoenfeld point out ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Research Methods in Sociolinguistics

    A Practical Guide

    Edited by Kirk Hazen, Janet Holmes ...
    Series series Guides to Research Methods in Language and Linguistics
    This single-volume guide equips students of sociolinguistics with a full set of methodological tools including data collection and analysis techniques, explained in clear and accessible terms by leading experts. It features project suggestions, troubleshooting tips, and data assessment across diverse languages.Explores an array of anthropological and scientific methods that cover the full spectrum ... Read more

    $46.00 USD