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“james costa”

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  • Standardizing Minority Languages

    Competing Ideologies of Authority and Authenticity in the Global Periphery

    Edited by Pia Lane, James Costa, Haley De Korne ...
    Series series
    The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781138125124**, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.**This volume addresses a crucial, yet largely unaddressed dimension of minority language standardization, namely how social actors engage with, support, negotiate, resist and even reject such ... Read more

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    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

  • Collocation

    Applications and Implications

    by G. Barnbrook, O. Mason, R. Krishnamurthy ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book presents a comprehensive description of collocation, covering both the theoretical and practical background and the implications and applications of the concept as language model and analytical tool. It provides a definitive survey of currently available techniques and a detailed description of their implementation. ... Read more

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  • Global Portuguese

    Linguistic Ideologies in Late Modernity

    Edited by Luiz Paulo Moita-Lopes ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism
    This book aims at deconstructing and problematizing linguistic ideologies related to Portuguese in late modernity and questioning the theoretical presuppositions which have led us to call Portuguese ‘a language.’ Such an endeavor is crucial when we know that Portuguese is a language which is increasingly internationalized, used as the official language in four continents (in ten countries) and ... Read more

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  • Prescription and Tradition in Language

    Establishing Standards across Time and Space

    Edited by Prof. Carol Percy, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade ...
    Series Book 165 - Multilingual Matters
    This book contextualises case studies across a wide variety of languages and cultures, crystallising key interrelationships between linguistic standardisation and prescriptivism, and between ideas and practices. It focuses on different traditions of standardisation and prescription throughout the world and addresses questions such as how nationalistic idealisations of ‘traditional’ language ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • African American Slang

    A Linguistic Description

    by Maciej Widawski ...
    In this pioneering exploration of African American slang - a highly informal vocabulary and a significant aspect of African American English - Maciej Widawski explores patterns of form, meaning, theme and function, showing it to be a rule-governed, innovative and culturally revealing vernacular. Widawski's comprehensive description is based on a large database of contextual citations from ... Read more

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  • Family Talk

    Discourse and Identity in Four American Families

    by Deborah Tannen, Shari Kendall, Cynthia Gordon ...
    Through everyday talk, individuals forge the ties that can make a family. Family members use language to manage a household, create and maintain relationships, and negotiate and reinforce values and beliefs. The studies gathered in Family Talk are based on a unique research project in which four dual-income American families recorded everything they said for a week. Family Talk extends our ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Language Education Policy: The Arab Minority in Israel

    by Abd Al-Rahman Mar'i, M. Amara ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    In this book we will explore in more detail some aspects of the Arab-Jewish divide, which raise fundamental questions regarding the place of the Arabs and Arab language education in the Jewish State. More specifically, the aim of this book is to describe and analyze language education in the Arab society in Israel from the establishment of the state in 1948 until today. For this purpose, internal ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Translation Under Fascism

    Edited by C. Rundle, K. Sturge ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The history of translation has focused on literary work but this book demonstrates the way in which political control can influence and be influenced by translation choices. New research and specially commissioned essays give access to existing research projects which at present are either scattered or unavailable in English. ... Read more

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  • Standardization, Ideology and Linguistics

    by N. Armstrong, I. Mackenzie ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The authors explore some of the ways in which standardization, ideology and linguistics are interrelated. Through a number of case studies they show how concepts such as grammaticality and structural change covertly rely on a false conceptualization of language, one that derives ultimately from standardization. ... Read more

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  • Markets of English

    Linguistic Capital and Language Policy in a Globalizing World

    by Joseph Sung-Yul Park, Lionel Wee ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
    The global spread of English both reproduces and reinforces oppressive structures of inequality. But such structures can no longer be seen as imposed from an imperial center, as English is now actively adopted and appropriated in local contexts around the world. This book argues that such conditions call for a new critique of global English, one that is sensitive to both the political economic ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Nurse Practitioners and the Performance of Professional Competency

    Accomplishing Patient-centered Care

    by Staci Defibaugh ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines the interactional practices of nurse practitioners (NPs) and the delivery of health care in the US. The author takes a discourse analytic approach, examining the linguistic resources that NPs employ in their interactions with patients. These linguistic features are connected to the concept of professional competency with specific focus on the enactment of the patient-centered ... Read more

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