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  • Sociolinguistics and Social Theory

    by Nikolas Coupland, Srikant Sarangi, Christopher N. Candlin ...
    Series series Language In Social Life
    The empirical and descriptive strengths of sociolinguistics, developed over more than 40 years of research, have not been matched by an active engagement with theory. Yet, over this time, social theorising has taken important new turns, linked in many ways to linguistic and discursive concerns. Sociolinguistics and Social Theory is the first book to explore the interface between sociolinguistic ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Sociolinguistics from the Periphery

    Small Languages in New Circumstances

    by Sari Pietikäinen, Alexandra Jaffe, Helen Kelly-Holmes, Nikolas Coupland ...
    This leading team of scholars presents a fascinating book about change: shifting political, economic and cultural conditions; ephemeral, sometimes even seasonal, multilingualism; and altered imaginaries for minority and indigenous languages and their users. The authors refer to this network of interlinked changes as the new conditions surrounding small languages (Sámi, Corsican, Irish and Welsh) ... Read more

    $118.89 USD

  • Investigating Language Attitudes

    Social Meanings of Dialect, Ethnicity and Performance

    by Peter Garrett, Nikolas Coupland, Angie Williams ...
    This is a systematic and critical appraisal of the variety of ways in which people's attitudes to language have been researched internationally over recent decades. The authors explain this complex field through clear reviews and commentary on previous work, while also offering a demonstration of language attitude research in one specific and important context, the English language in Wales. In ... Read more

    $24.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Style, Mediation, and Change

    Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Talking Media

    Edited by Janus Mortensen, Nikolas Coupland, Jacob Thogersen ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
    Technologically mediated talk is organized around familiar styles-styles of person, relationship and genre. But media also consistently remake and re-style these familiar patterns. This book brings together original research on media styling in different national contexts and languages, written by authors at the forefront of sociolinguistic research on mediated talk. It highlights and theorizes ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • The Handbook of Language and Globalization

    Edited by Nikolas Coupland ...
    Series Book 64 - Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
    The Handbook of Language and Globalization brings together important new studies of language and discourse in the global era, consolidating a vibrant new field of sociolinguistic research.The first volume to assemble leading scholarship in this rapidly developing fieldFeatures new contributions from 36 internationally-known scholars, bringing together key research in the field and establishing a ... Read more

    $49.00 USD

  • Sociolinguistics

    Theoretical Debates

    Edited by Nikolas Coupland ...
    Sociolinguistics is a dynamic field of research that explains the role and function of language in social life. This book offers the most substantial account available of the core contemporary ideas and arguments in sociolinguistics, with an emphasis on innovation and change. Bringing together original writing by more than twenty of the field's most influential international thinkers and ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Styles of Discourse

    Edited by Nikolas Coupland ...
    Series series RLE: Discourse Analysis
    First published in 1988, this book focuses on diversity and discourse, and collects contemporaneous research across a wide range of topics including: description, polemic, narrative analysis, DJ talk, philosophical history, conversation, children’s books and nuclear deterrence. The essays demonstrate analyses of discourse in the service of stylistic inquiry, exploring relationships of text and ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • 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

  • What is Anthropology?

    by Thomas Hylland Eriksen ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    Leading anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen shows how anthropology is a revolutionary way of thinking about the human world. Perfect for students, but also for those who have never encountered anthropology before, this book explores the key issues in an exciting and innovative way.Lucid and accessible, What is Anthropology? draws examples from current affairs as well as previous anthropological ... Read more

    $21.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Critical Discourse Analysis

    The Critical Study of Language

    by Norman Fairclough ...
    Bringing together papers written by Norman Fairclough over a 25 year period, Critical Discourse Analysis represents a comprehensive and important contribution to the development of this popular field.The book is divided into seven sections covering the following themes:language in relation to ideology and powerdiscourse in processes of social and cultural changedialectics of discourse, dialectical ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Ironic Spectator

    Solidarity in the Age of Post-Humanitarianism

    by Lilie Chouliaraki ...
    WINNER of the 2015 ICA Outstanding Book AwardThis path-breaking book explores how solidarity towards vulnerable others is performed in our media environment. It argues that stories where famine is described through our own experience of dieting or or where solidarity with Africa translates into wearing a cool armband tell us about much more than the cause that they attempt to communicate. They ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Linguistic Imperialism Continued

    by Robert Phillipson ...
    This volume brings together key writings since the 1992 publication of Linguistic Imperialism – Robert Phillipson’s controversial benchmark volume, which triggered a major re-thinking of the English teaching profession by connecting the field to wider political and economic forces. Analyzing how the global dominance of English in all domains of power is maintained, legitimized and persists in the ... Read more

    $86.99 USD