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  • Language for Specific Purposes

    Trends in Curriculum Development

    by Mary K. Long, Lourdes Sanchez-Lopez, Barbara A. Lafford, Mary Risner, Melissa Swarr, Cristin Bleess, Janet Graham, Carmen King Ramírez, Leann Derby, Jean W. LeLoup0, James Rasmussen1, Ismênia Sales de Souza2, Robert A. Quinn3, Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker4, Anthony Becker5, El-Hussein Ali6, Annie Abbott7, Mary Jill Brody8, Alison Hicks9 ...
    In the United States today there is lively discussion, both among educators and employers, about the best way to prepare students with high-level language and cross-cultural communication proficiency that will serve them both professionally and personally in the global environment of the twenty-first century. At the same time, courses in business language and medical language have become more ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

    by Ronald Wardhaugh ...
    Series Book 28 - Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics
    This comprehensive new edition of Wardhaugh’s textbook incorporates additional study features and numerous new and updated references to bring the book completely up-to-date, whilst maintaining the features that made the book so popular with lecturers and students: accessible coverage of a wide range of issues, clearly written, and with useful student study features.A fully revised new edition of ... Read more

    $53.00 USD

  • White Kids

    Language, Race, and Styles of Youth Identity

    by Mary Bucholtz ...
    In White Kids, Mary Bucholtz investigates how white teenagers use language to display identities based on race and youth culture. Focusing on three youth styles - preppies, hip hop fans, and nerds - Bucholtz shows how white youth use a wealth of linguistic resources, from social labels to slang, from Valley Girl speech to African American English, to position themselves in the school's racialized ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • The State of American Thought: Ensnared in a fallacious liberal-conservative dichotomy

    by Ethan Sewall ...
    The state of American thought: Ensnared in a fallacious liberal-conservative dichotomy is a book in two parts. The first part, Deconstructing social construction: Embracing ecumenical humanism, is a theoretical framework of American culture that investigates the way we human Subjects have constructed our social reality. Its purpose is to expose and facilitate the eradication of negative building ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Remix Multilingualism

    Hip Hop, Ethnography and Performing Marginalized Voices

    by Dr Quentin Williams ...
    Series series Advances in Sociolinguistics
    "Remixing multilingualism" is conceptualised in this book as engaging in the linguistic act of using, combining and manipulating multilingual forms. It is about creating new ways of 'doing' multilingualism through cultural acts and identities and involving a process that invokes bricolage. This book is an ethnographic study of multilingual remixing achieved by highly multilingual participants in ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • How to start, carry on and end conversations

    Scripts for social situations for people on the autism spectrum

    by Paul Jordan ...
    Do you find it hard to make friends? Do you struggle to know what to say to start a conversation?In this book, Paul Jordan, who is on the autism spectrum, explains how to make sense of everyday social situations you might encounter at school, university or in other group settings. He reveals how, with the use of just 65 simple words, it is possible to create 'scripts for thinking' that break ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Language Contact Around the Globe

    Proceedings of the LCTG3 Conference

    Edited by Amei Koll-Stobbe, Sebastian Knospe ...
    Series Book 5 - Sprachkoennen und Sprachbewusstheit in Europa / Language Competence and Language Awareness in Europe
    The fifth volume in the series Language Competence and Language Awareness in Europe unites a collection of peer-reviewed papers delivered at the Third Conference on Language Contact in Times of Globalization (LCTG3) at the University of Greifswald in 2011. The papers are arranged in five thematic sections: Part I studies lexical and grammatical borrowing and pseudo-loans. Part II looks at code ... Read more

    $114.99 USD

  • Business Discourse

    by Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini, Catherine Nickerson, B. Planken ...
    Series series Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics
    This second edition reviews the field of business discourse, centring on the investigation of business language and communication as practice. It combines research-based discussions with innovative practical applications and promotes debate and enquiry on a range of competing issues, emerging from business discourse research and teaching practice. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Grammar in Everyday Talk

    Building Responsive Actions

    by Sandra A. Thompson, Barbara A. Fox, Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen ...
    Series Book 31 - Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics
    Drawing on everyday telephone and video interactions, this book surveys how English speakers use grammar to formulate responses in ordinary conversation. The authors show that speakers build their responses in a variety of ways: the responses can be longer or shorter, repetitive or not, and can be uttered with different intonational 'melodies'. Focusing on four sequence types: responses to ... Read more

    $127.09 USD

  • Language, Education and Nation-building

    Assimilation and Shift in Southeast Asia

    Edited by P. Sercombe, R. Tupas ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This volume tracks the complex relationships between language, education and nation-building in Southeast Asia, focusing on how language policies have been used by states and governments as instruments of control, assimilation and empowerment. Leading scholars have contributed chapters each representing one of the countries in the region. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Elective Language Study and Policy in Israel

    by Malka Muchnik, Marina Niznik, Anbessa Teferra, Tania Gluzman ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents research on the instruction of two heritage languages and two foreign languages in Israeli schools. The authors explore language policy and the way languages are studied from the point of view of students, teachers, schools and curricula. Language in Israel is a loaded concept, closely linked to ideological, political, and social issues. The profound changes in language policy ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Gender, Sexuality, and Meaning

    Linguistic Practice and Politics

    by Sally McConnell-Ginet ...
    Series series Studies in Language and Gender
    This volume offers a representative selection of Sally McConnell-Ginet's publications on language, gender and sexuality, which circle around the following themes: language users are actively engaged in making meanings, both as speakers and listeners; languages and socio-political institutions constrain, but do not determine, communicative possibilities; attention to language deepens understanding ... Read more

    $35.09 USD