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  • Language and Belonging

    Local Categories and Practices in a Guatemalan Highland Community

    by Konstanze Jungbluth, Rita Vallentin ...
    Series Book 4 - Sprachliche Konstruktion sozialer Grenzen: Identitaeten und Zugehoerigkeiten / Linguistic Construction of Social Boundaries: Identities and Belonging
    In this book, the author introduces belonging from a sociolinguistic perspective as a concept that is accomplished in interaction. Belonging can be expressed linguistically in social, spatial and temporal categories – indexing rootedness, groupness and cohesion. It can also be captured through shared linguistic practices within a group, e.g. collectively shared narrative practices. Using ... Read more

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  • Translanguaging with Multilingual Students

    Learning from Classroom Moments

    Edited by Ofelia García, Tatyana Kleyn ...
    Looking closely at what happens when translanguaging is actively taken up to teach emergent bilingual students across different contexts, this book focuses on how it is already happening in classrooms as well as how it can be implemented as a pedagogical orientation. It extends theoretical understandings of the concept and highlights its promises and challenges. Using a Transformative Action ... Read more

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  • Evaluation in Translation

    Critical points of translator decision-making

    by Jeremy Munday ...
    In this book, Jeremy Munday presents advances towards a general theory of evaluation in translator decision-making that will be of high importance to translator and interpreter training and to descriptive translation analysis. By ‘evaluation’ the author refers to how a translator’s subjective stance manifests itself linguistically in a text.In a world where translation and interpreting function as ... Read more

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  • The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics

    Edited by Manuel Díaz-Campos ...
    Series series Wiley Handbooks in Linguistics
    This Handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of theoretical and descriptive research in contemporary Hispanic sociolinguistics.Offers the first authoritative collection exploring research strands in the emerging and fast-moving field of Spanish sociolinguisticsHighlights the contributions that Spanish Sociolinguistics has offered to general linguistic theoryBrings together a ... Read more

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  • Translanguaging

    Language, Bilingualism and Education

    by O. Garcia, L. Wei ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Winner of the British Association of Applied Linguistics Book Prize 2015This book addresses how the new linguistic concept of 'Translanguaging' has contributed to our understandings of language, bilingualism and education, with potential to transform not only semiotic systems and speaker subjectivities, but also social structures. ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Expanding Definitions of Giftedness

    The Case of Young Interpreters From Immigrant Communities

    by Guadalupe Valdes ...
    Series series Educational Psychology Series
    This book is about bilingual young people who have been selected by their families to carry out the hard work of interpreting and translating to mediate communication between themselves and the outside world--between minority and majority communities. It examines the experiences of these young interpreters and the skills they develop in order to fulfill this role.The authors' purpose in this ... Read more

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  • Discourse and Identity

    Edited by Anna De Fina, Deborah Schiffrin, Michael Bamberg ...
    Series Book 23 - Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics
    The relationship between language, discourse and identity has always been a major area of sociolinguistic investigation. In more recent times, the field has been revolutionized as previous models - which assumed our identities to be based on stable relationships between linguistic and social variables - have been challenged by pioneering new approaches to the topic. This volume brings together a ... Read more

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  • Research on Politeness in the Spanish-Speaking World

    Edited by Maria Elena Placencia, Carmen Garcia-Fernandez ...
    One of the main contributions of this important book is that it offers a thorough survey of the theoretical and empirical developments that have occurred in the area of (im)politeness in the different regions of the Spanish-speaking world, gathering together overviews by distinguished scholars. Additionally, the book advances the field with new empirical research on linguistic (im)politeness, and ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Pluricentric Languages and Language Education

    Pedagogical Implications and Innovative Approaches to Language Teaching

    Edited by Marcus Callies, Stefanie Hehner ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Language Education
    This book maps out the pedagogical implications of the global spread and diversification of pluricentric languages for language education and showcases new approaches that can take account of linguistic diversity.Moving the discussion of contemporary norms, aims, and approaches to pluricentric languages in language education beyond English, this book provides a multilingual, comparative ... Read more

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  • A Sociolinguistics of Diaspora

    Latino Practices, Identities, and Ideologies

    Edited by Rosina Márquez Reiter, Luisa Martín Rojo ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism
    This volume brings together scholars in sociolinguistics and the sociology of new media and mobile technologies who are working on different social and communicative aspects of the Latino diaspora. There is new interest in the ways in which migrants negotiate and renegotiate identities through their continued interactions with their own culture back home, in the host country, in similar diaspora ... Read more

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  • Psychoanalytic Work with Families and Couples

    Clinical Perspectives on Suffering

    by Susana Kuras Mauer, Sara Moscona, Silvia Resnizky ...
    Series series The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series
    Psychoanalytic Work with Families and Couples rethinks the ways in which conflicts present today in psychoanalytic consulting rooms and the nature of suffering in family, couple, and sibling bonds.Based on two major concepts, that of device (drawn from the philosophers Foucault, Deleuze, and Agamben) and that of link (developed by Berenstein and Puget), the authors have developed new approaches to ... Read more

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  • From the Lab to the Classroom and Back Again

    Perspectives on Translation and Interpreting Training

    Edited by Celia Martín de León, Víctor González-Ruiz ...
    Series Book 19 - New Trends in Translation Studies
    This collection of essays brings to the fore some of the most pressing concerns in the training of translators and interpreters. It does so by acknowledging the primary role of research in both the development and the results of that training. The eleven chapters of the book, authored by a range of established international scholars, touch on the interlocking nature of didactics and research and ... Read more

    $92.59 USD