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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “robert m mckenzie”
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  • Implicit and Explicit Language Attitudes

    Mapping Linguistic Prejudice and Attitude Change in England

    by Robert M. McKenzie, Andrew McNeill ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
    This timely volume constitutes the first book-length account of implicit as well as explicit language attitudes. It details the findings of a large-scale study, incorporating cutting-edge implicit and self-report instruments adapted from social psychology, investigating the evaluations of over 300 English nationals of the status and social attractiveness of Northern English and Southern English ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Social Psychology of English as a Global Language

    Attitudes, Awareness and Identity in the Japanese Context

    by Robert M. McKenzie ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This ground-breaking work is a detailed account of an innovative and in-depth study of the attitudes of in excess of 500 Japanese learners towards a number of standard and non-standard as well as native and non-native varieties of English speech. The research conducted refines the investigation of learner attitudes by employing a range of pioneering techniques of attitude measurement. These ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Language Death

    by David Crystal ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    The rapid endangerment and death of many minority languages across the world is a matter of widespread concern, not only among linguists and anthropologists but among all concerned with issues of cultural identity in an increasingly globalized culture. By some counts, only 600 of the 6,000 or so languages in the world are 'safe' from the threat of extinction. A leading commentator and popular ... Read more

    $21.39 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

  • The Ecology and Semiotics of Language Learning

    A Sociocultural Perspective

    by Leo van Lier ...
    Series Book 3 - Educational Linguistics
    In this book I try to give a coherent and consistent overview of what an ecological approach to language learning might look like. This is not a fully fledged grand theory that aims to provide an explanation of everything, but an attempt to provide a rationale for taking an ecological world view and applying it to language education, which I regard as one of the most important of all human ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Linguistic Ethnography

    Interdisciplinary Explorations

    Edited by Fiona Copland, Sara Shaw, Julia Snell ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The collection demonstrates the ways in which established traditions and scholars have come together under the umbrella of linguistic ethnography to explore important questions about how language and communication are used in a range of settings and contexts, and with what effect. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Language Attitudes and Identities in Multilingual China

    A Linguistic Ethnography

    by Sihua Liang ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    These in-depth case studies provide novel insights in to the fast-changing language situation in multilingual China, and how it changes the meanings of language identity and language learning. This linguistic ethnographic study of language attitudes and identities in contemporary China in the era of multilingualism provides a comprehensive and critical review of the state of the art in the field ... Read more

    $49.49 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

  • Women Leaders and Gender Stereotyping in the UK Press

    A Poststructuralist Approach

    by Judith Baxter ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores how the UK press constructs and represents women leaders drawn from three professional spheres: politics, business, and the mass media. Despite significant career progress made by women leaders in these professions, many British newspapers continue to portray these women in stereotyped and essentialist ways: the extent to which this occurs tending to correspond with the ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Trilingual Talk in Sicilian-Australian Migrant Families

    Playing Out Identities Through Language Alternation

    by A. Rubino ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores the linguistic and cultural identities of Sicilians in Australia, through conversations gathered within the family, survey data and interviews. The study is placed in the context of the family migrant experience and the shifting attitudes towards immigrant languages in Australia. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Minority Languages and Multilingual Education

    Bridging the Local and the Global

    Edited by Victoria Zenotz, Durk Gorter, Jasone Cenoz ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book presents research on the situation minority language schoolchildren face when they need to learn languages of international communication, in particular English. The book takes minority languages as a starting point and it bridges local and global perspectives in the analysis of multilingual education contexts. It examines the interaction of minority languages and cultures, majority ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Researching Chinese Learners

    Skills, Perceptions and Intercultural Adaptations

    Edited by L. Jin, M. Cortazzi ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This collection focuses on Chinese learners with original data sets using innovative research methods. It investigates Chinese learners' learning and language skills, perceptions and particularly the processes of reciprocal intercultural adaptations in a wide international context of Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, New Zealand and the UK. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD