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  • Attitudes to Endangered Languages

    Identities and Policies

    by Julia Sallabank ...
    Language attitudes and ideologies are of key importance in assessing the chances of success of revitalisation efforts for endangered languages. However, few book-length studies relate attitudes to language policies, or address the changing attitudes of non-speakers and the motivations of members of language movements. Through a combination of ethnographic research and quantitative surveys, this ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages

    Edited by Peter K. Austin, Julia Sallabank ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    It is generally agreed that about 7,000 languages are spoken across the world today and at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of this century. This state-of-the-art Handbook examines the reasons behind this dramatic loss of linguistic diversity, why it matters, and what can be done to document and support endangered languages. The volume is relevant not only to researchers in language ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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    by F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
    “His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.”Jay Gatsby is mysterious, wealthy, and throws the most lavish parties at his mansion on Long Island. Among all the bright young things in Gatsby’s circle, the brightest is Daisy Buchanan – the girl he fell in love with before the war. Having lost her to marriage with the ... Read more

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  • Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 3

    Cognitive and Cultural Factors

    by William Labov ...
    Series Book 36 - Language in Society
    Written by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modern sociolinguistics, this volume examines the cognitive and cultural factors responsible for linguistic change, tracing the life history of these developments, from triggering events to driving forces and endpoints.Explores the major insights obtained by combining sociolinguistics with the results of dialect geography on a large ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • Language Policy

    by D. Johnson ...
    Series series Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics
    A detailed overview of the theories, concepts, research methods, and findings in the field of language policy is provided here in one accessible source. The author proposes new methodological, theoretical, and conceptual directions and offers guidance for doing language policy research. ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do men and women really speak different languages?

    Do men and women really speak different languages?

    by Deborah Cameron ...
    Popular assumptions about gender and communication - famously summed up in the title of the massively influential 1992 bestseller Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus - can have unforeseen but far-reaching consequences in many spheres of life, from attitudes to the phenomenon of 'date-rape' to expectations of achievement at school, and potential discrimination in the work-place. In this wide ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Discourse of Politics in Action

    Politics as Usual

    by R. Wodak ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    An interdisciplinary study providing first-hand evidence of the everyday lives of politicians; what politicians actually do on 'the backstage' in political organizations. The book offers answers to the widely discussed phenomena of disenchantment with politics and depoliticization. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Politicians and Rhetoric

    The Persuasive Power of Metaphor

    by J. Charteris-Black ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This analysis of the rhetoric of nine successfully persuasive politicians explains how their use of language created credible and consistent stories about themselves and the social world they inhabit. It explores their use of metaphors, their myths and how language analysis helps us to understand how politicians are able to persuade. ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • A Rationalist Critique of Deconstruction: Demystifying Poststructuralism and Derrida's Science of the "Non"

    by Morgan A. Brown ...
    This book endeavors to provide a thorough critique of Deconstruction and Structuralism from the standpoint of rationalist epistemology in the Misesian tradition of Austrian Economics. Deconstruction, the author contends, is best examined through the lens of microeconomic rationalism, since Derrida's theory is at its base a literary incarnation of Vilfredo Pareto's Indifference Theory. This book is ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Understanding Politeness

    by Dániel Z. Kádár, Michael Haugh ...
    Politeness is key to all of our relationships and plays a fundamental part in the way we communicate with each other and the way we define ourselves. It is not limited only to conventional aspects of linguistic etiquette, but encompasses all types of interpersonal behaviour through which we explore and maintain our relationships. This groundbreaking exploration navigates the reader through this ... Read more

    $50.89 USD

  • The Semiotics of Movement in Space

    by Robert James McMurtrie ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Multimodality
    The Semiotics of Movement in Space explores how people move through buildings and interact with objects in space. Focusing on visitors to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, McMurtrie analyses and interprets movement and space relations to highlight new developments and applications of spatial semiotics as he proposes that people’s movement options have the potential to transform the meaning ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Morality of Knowledge in Conversation

    Edited by Tanya Stivers, Lorenza Mondada, Jakob Steensig ...
    Series Book 29 - Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics
    Each time we take a turn in conversation we indicate what we know and what we think others know. However, knowledge is neither static nor absolute. It is shaped by those we interact with and governed by social norms - we monitor one another for whether we are fulfilling our rights and responsibilities with respect to knowledge, and for who has relatively more rights to assert knowledge over some ... Read more

    $43.49 USD