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  • Exploring Language in Global Contexts

    Edited by Jeffrey Gil, Sky Marsen ...
    This accessible and engaging textbook offers a practical approach to understanding the complexity of language by exploring language use and language learning in a wide variety of contexts.Bringing together leading specialists who are active researchers in the field of linguistics, this book introduces readers to major fields of language study by focusing on social, cultural and historical factors ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • The Rise of Chinese as a Global Language

    Prospects and Obstacles

    by Jeffrey Gil ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book investigates the macroacquisition of Chinese – its large-scale acquisition and adoption for various purposes by individuals, governments and organisations – and the implications of this process for the future of English as a global language. The author contextualises the macroacquisition of Chinese within the global ecology of languages, then analyses the factors responsible for the ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Soft Power and the Worldwide Promotion of Chinese Language Learning

    The Confucius Institute Project

    by Dr. Jeffrey Gil ...
    Series Book 167 - Multilingual Matters
    ‘The Confucius Institute Project’ – consisting of Confucius Institutes and Classrooms, the posting of Chinese language teachers to overseas schools and universities and the Chinese Bridge language competition – represents an attempt by China to extend its influence globally through the use of soft power. Facilitated by a rapidly increasing demand for Chinese language learning, it has established a ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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  • The Strong State and Curriculum Reform

    Assessing the politics and possibilities of educational change in Asia

    Edited by Leonel Lim, Michael W. Apple ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics
    As Asian education systems increasingly take on a stronger presence on the global educational landscape, of special interest is an understanding of the ways in which many of these states direct their schools towards higher achievement. What is missing, however, are accounts that take seriously the particular construction of the strong, developmental state witnessed across many Asian societies, and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Work, Learning and Transnational Migration

    Opportunities, Challenges, and Debates

    Edited by Shibao Guo ...
    As the globalisation of migration intensifies, many countries have joined the international competition for the most talented, skilful, and resourceful workers. More recently, migration has shifted from international to transnational, characterised by its multiple and circular flows across transnational spaces rather than singular or unidirectional movement. When transnational migrants arrive in a ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Literacies

    by Mary Kalantzis, Bill Cope, Eveline Chan, Leanne Dalley-Trim ...
    With the rise of new technologies and media, the way we communicate is rapidly changing. Literacies provides a comprehensive introduction to literacy pedagogy within today's new media environment. It focuses not only on reading and writing, but also on other modes of communication, including oral, visual, audio, gestural and spatial. This focus is designed to supplement, not replace, the ... Read more

    $86.09 USD

  • Learning to be Literate

    Multilingual Perspectives

    by Prof. Viv Edwards ...
    Series Book 3 - MM Textbooks
    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

    $14.29 USD

  • English Language Education Across Greater China

    Edited by Dr. Anwei Feng ...
    Series Book 80 - Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
    This volume is the first to offer a comprehensive and, at the same time, in-depth examination of the spread of English and English language education across Greater China. It consists of two parts. Part 1 presents rich sociolinguistic data for easy comparisons between mainland China, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao, while Part 2 explores in depth the phenomena inside mainland China to ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia

    Imaginaries, Discourses and Practices of Social Ordering

    by Philipp Lottholz ...
    Series series Spaces of Peace, Security and Development
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Drawing on decolonial perspectives on peace, statehood and development, this illuminating book examines post-liberal statebuilding in Central Asia. It argues that, despite its emancipatory appearance, post-liberal statebuilding is best understood as a set of social ordering mechanisms that lead to new forms of exclusion, marginalization ... Read more

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  • Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice

    An Introduction to Applied Sociolinguistics

    by Ingrid Piller ...
    Understanding and addressing linguistic disadvantage must be a central facet of the social justice agenda of our time. This book explores the ways in which linguistic diversity mediates social justice in liberal democracies undergoing rapid change due to high levels of migration and economic globalization. Focusing on the linguistic dimensions of economic inequality, cultural domination and ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Contemporary China

    Society and Social Change

    by Tamara Jacka, Sally Sargeson, Andrew B. Kipnis ...
    China's rapid economic growth, modernization and globalization have led to astounding social changes. Contemporary China provides a fascinating portrayal of society and social change in the contemporary People's Republic of China. This book introduces readers to key sociological perspectives, themes and debates about Chinese society. It explores topics such as family life, citizenship, gender, ... Read more

    $40.99 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