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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “kasper juffermans”
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  • The Tyranny of Writing

    Ideologies of the Written Word

    Edited by Constanze Weth, Dr Kasper Juffermans ...
    Series series Advances in Sociolinguistics
    This book examines the powerful role of writing in society. The invention of writing, independently at various places and times in history, always stood at the cradle of powerful civilizations. It is impossible to imagine modern life without writing. As individuals and social groups we hold high expectations of its potential for societal and personal development. Globally, huge resources have been ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Local Languaging, Literacy and Multilingualism in a West African Society

    by Kasper Juffermans ...
    Series Book 20 - Critical Language and Literacy Studies
    This book aims to enhance and challenge our understanding of language and literacy as social practice against the background of heightened globalisation. Juffermans presents an ethnographic study of the linguistic landscape of The Gambia, arguing that language should be conceptualised as a verb (languaging) rather than a countable noun (a language, languages). He goes on to argue that ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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  • Raciolinguistics

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  • German

    A Linguistic Introduction

    by Sarah M. B. Fagan ...
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  • Words at Work and Play

    Three Decades in Family and Community Life

    by Shirley Brice Heath ...
    Childhood and family life have changed significantly in recent decades. What is the nature of these changes? How have they affected the use of time, space, work and play? In what ways have they influenced face-to-face talk and the uses of technology within families and communities? Eminent anthropologist Shirley Brice Heath sets out to find answers to these and similar questions, tracking the ... Read more

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  • Jailtacht

    The Irish Language, Symbolic Power and Political Violence in Northern Ireland, 1972-2008

    by Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost ...
    This book tells the dramatic and often surprising story of the learning of the Irish language by Irish Republican prisoners held in the infamous H-block cells during the bloody political conflict in Northern Ireland. Using research methods and techniques, the author closely analyses the emergence of the Irish language amongst republican prisoners and ex prisoners in Northern Ireland from the 1970s ... Read more

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  • Contending with Globalization in World Englishes

    by SAXENA, Mukul, OMONIYI, Tope ...
    This book engages with English in globalization, re-examining and re-interpreting the contemporary contexts of its acquisition and use. The chapters contained in this book weave together four inter-related themes that define the role of English in the global context: the centrality of structure, relationships of interdependence, social constructions of difference and reproduction of inequality. ... Read more

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  • Sociolinguistic Fieldwork

    by Natalie Schilling ...
    Series series Key Topics in Sociolinguistics
    Looking for an easy-to-use, practical guide to conducting fieldwork in sociolinguistics? This invaluable textbook will give you the skills and knowledge required for carrying out research projects in 'the field', including: • How to select and enter a community • How to design a research sample • What recording equipment to choose and how to operate it • How to collect, store and manage data • How ... Read more

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  • Language, Literacy and Diversity

    Moving Words

    Edited by Christopher Stroud, Mastin Prinsloo ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism
    Language, Literacy and Diversity brings together researchers who are leading the innovative and important re-theorization of language and literacy in relation to social mobility, multilingualism and globalization. The volume examines local and global flows of people, language and literacy in relation to social practice; the role (and nature) of boundary maintenance or disruption in global, ... Read more

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  • Discourse and Social Life

    by Srikant Sarangi, Malcolm Coulthard ...
    This collection brings together for the first time in a single volume many of the major figures in contemporary discourse studies. Each chapter is an original contribution which has been specifically commissioned for this book, and together they document the wide range of concerns and techniques which characterise the discipline at the turn of the century.Discourse and Social Life is concerned ... Read more

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  • European Vernacular Literacy

    A Sociolinguistic and Historical Introduction

    by Prof. Joshua A. Fishman ...
    Series Book 19 - New Perspectives on Language and Education
    In this major new text, Joshua Fishman charts the rise of vernacular literacy in Europe, and the major social, economic, religious, political, demographic, educational and philosophical changes that attended it. Following the story up until the present day, the book examines the people who became leaders of the growth of vernacular literacy in Europe, and looks at how European colonizers viewed ... Read more

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