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  • The Politics of Writing

    by Romy Clark, Roz Ivanic ...
    Writing matters: it plays a key role in the circulation of ideas in society and has a direct impact on the development of democracy. But only a few get to do the kind of writing that most influence this development.The Politics of Writing examines writing as a social practice. The authors draw on critical linguistics, cultural studies and literacy studies, as they explore and analyse:* the social ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • Do You Speak American?

    by Robert Macneil, William Cran ...
    Is American English in decline? Are regional dialects dying out? Is there a difference between men and women in how they adapt to linguistic variations?These questions, and more, about our language catapulted Robert MacNeil and William Cran—the authors (with Robert McCrum) of the language classic The Story of English—across the country in search of the answers. Do You Speak American? is the tale ... Read more

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  • Keeping Languages Alive

    Documentation, Pedagogy and Revitalization

    by Mari C. Jones, Sarah Ogilvie ...
    Many of the world's languages have diminishing numbers of speakers and are in danger of falling silent. Around the globe, a large body of linguists are collaborating with members of indigenous communities to keep these languages alive. Mindful that their work will be used by future speech communities to learn, teach and revitalise their languages, scholars face new challenges in the way they ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Contact Languages

    Ecology and Evolution in Asia

    by Umberto Ansaldo ...
    Series series Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
    Why do groups of speakers in certain times and places come up with new varieties of languages? What are the social settings that determine whether a mixed language, a pidgin or a Creole will develop, and how can we understand the ways in which different languages contribute to the new grammar? Through the study of Malay contact varieties such as Baba Malay, Cocos Malay and Sri Lanka Malay, as well ... 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

    $68.99 USD

  • English as a Contact Language

    Edited by Daniel Schreier, Marianne Hundt ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    Recent developments in contact linguistics suggest considerable overlap of branches such as historical linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics, pidgin/creole linguistics, language acquisition, etc. This book highlights the complexity of contact-induced language change throughout the history of English by bringing together cutting-edge research from these fields. Special focus is on recent ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Discourse, Gender and Shifting Identities in Japan

    The Longitudinal Study of Kobe Women�s Ethnographic Interviews 1989-2019, Phase One

    Edited by Claire Maree, Kaori Okano ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
    This book is the first in a unique series drawn from an interdisciplinary, longitudinal project entitled ‘Thirty Years of Talk.’ For 30 years, Okano recorded ethnographic interviews and collected data on the language of working class women in Kobe, Japan. This long-range study sketches the transitions in these women's lives and how their language use, discourse and identities change in specific ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Standardizing Minority Languages

    Competing Ideologies of Authority and Authenticity in the Global Periphery

    Edited by Pia Lane, James Costa, Haley De Korne ...
    The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781138125124**, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.**This volume addresses a crucial, yet largely unaddressed dimension of minority language standardization, namely how social actors engage with, support, negotiate, resist and even reject such ... Read more

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  • A Guide to Useful Evaluation of Language Programs

    by John McE. Davis, Todd H. McKay, Francesca Venezia, Lara Bryfonski, Jorge Méndez Seijas, Janire Zalbidea, Cristi Vallejos, Amy Kim ...
    Departments and language programs often are asked to evaluate the efficacy of their own programs and make curricular decisions on the basis of evidence. This guide, designed to help language educators meet the needs of program evaluation and assessment often requested by their institutions, provides step-by-step advice to help language educators conduct evaluation and assessment and to show how it ... Read more

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  • New Speakers of Minority Languages

    Linguistic Ideologies and Practices

    Edited by Cassie Smith-Christmas, Noel P. Ó Murchadha, Michael Hornsby, Máiréad Moriarty ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book represents the first collection specifically devoted to New Speaker Studies, focusing on language ideologies and practices of speakers in a variety of minority language communities. Over thirteen chapters, it uses the new speaker lens to investigate not only linguistic issues, such as language variation and change, phonetics, morphosyntax, language acquisition, code-switching, but also ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Interactional Linguistics

    Studying Language in Social Interaction

    by Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, Margret Selting ...
    The first textbook dedicated to interactional linguistics, focusing on linguistic analyses of conversational phenomena, this introduction provides an overview of the theory and methodology of interactional linguistics. Reviewing recent findings on linguistic practices used in turn construction and turn taking, repair, action formation, ascription, and sequence and topic organization, the book ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Designing Communities

    by Wolff-Michael Roth ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The study described in this book arose in the contextof a three-year collective effort to bring about change in science teaching at Mountain Elementary School. 1 This opportunity emerged after I contacted the school with the idea to help teachers implement student-centered science teaching. At the same time, the teachers collectively had come to realize that their science teaching was not as ... Read more

    $49.49 USD