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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “sheena gardner”
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  • Multilingualism, Discourse, and Ethnography

    Edited by Sheena Gardner, Marilyn Martin-Jones ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism
    Over the last twenty years, sociolinguistic research on multilingualism has been transformed. Two processes have been at work: first, an epistemological shift to a critical ethnographic approach, which has contributed to a larger turn toward post-structuralist perspectives on social life. Second, the effects of globalization—transnational population flows, new communication technologies, ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

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  • Madre

    Perilous Journeys with a Spanish Noun

    by Liza Bakewell ...
    Why is the word madre, "mother," so complicated in Spanish—especially in Mexico?Leaping off the page with energy, insight, and attitude, Liza Bakewell's exploration of language is anything but "just semantics." Why does me vale madre mean worthless, while ¡qué padre! means fabulous, she asks? And why do one hundred madres disappear when one padre enters the room, converting the group from madres ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 3

    Cognitive and Cultural Factors

    by William Labov ...
    Series Book 36 - Language in Society
    Written by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modern sociolinguistics, this volume examines the cognitive and cultural factors responsible for linguistic change, tracing the life history of these developments, from triggering events to driving forces and endpoints.Explores the major insights obtained by combining sociolinguistics with the results of dialect geography on a large ... Read more

    $46.00 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 Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Multi-Competence

    Edited by Vivian Cook, Li Wei ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    How are two or more languages learned and contained in the same mind or the same community? This handbook presents an up-to-date view of the concept of multi-competence, exploring the research questions it has generated and the methods that have been used to investigate it. The book brings together psychologists, sociolinguists, Second Language Acquisition (SLA) researchers, and language teachers ... Read more

    $165.69 USD

  • Facetten der Mehrsprachigkeit / Reflets du plurilinguisme

    Die Wahl der Sprachen: Luxemburg in Europa / Le choix des langues : le Luxembourg à l'heure européenne

    Edited by Michael Langner, Vic Jovanovic ...
    Series Book 10 - Mehrsprachigkeit in Europa / Multilingualism in Europe
    Worin besteht die europäische Mehrsprachigkeit? Was sind die Spezifika individueller Mehrsprachigkeit in Europa? Welche Beispiele für institutionelle Mehrsprachigkeit gibt es an europäischen Universitäten und Schulen? Und wie mehrsprachig ist das Sprachenlaboratorium Luxemburg? Wie sehen verschiedene Luxemburger Institutionen die Sprachensituation? Und wie schlägt sich Mehrsprachigkeit in ... Read more

    $109.09 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

  • Sociolinguistics in England

    Edited by Natalie Braber, Sandra Jansen ...
    This book presents an overview of sociolinguistic research in England. Showcasing developments in sociolinguistic theory, method and application, the chapters examine sociolinguistic topics on different linguistic levels and in different geographical areas across the country. Allowing the reader to engage with contemporary research in the field, each chapter is unique in the topic or geographical ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Language of Museum Communication

    A Diachronic Perspective

    by Cecilia Lazzeretti ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume explores the evolution of the language of museum communication from 1950 to the present day, focusing on its most salient tool, the press release. The analysis is based on a corpus of press releases issued by eight high-profile British and American museums, and has been carried out adopting corpus linguistics and genre analysis methodologies. After identifying the typical features of ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Standards of English

    Codified Varieties around the World

    Edited by Raymond Hickey ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    The notion of a 'standard' variety of English has been the subject of a considerable body of research. Studies have tended to focus on the standard features of British and American English. However, more recently interest has turned to the other varieties of English that have developed around the world and the ways in which these have also been standardised. This volume provides the first book ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Discursive Constructions of Corporate Identities by Chinese Banks on Sina Weibo

    An Integrated Sociolinguistics Approach

    by Wei Feng ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book addresses the discursive construction of corporate identities in social media on the part of Chinese corporations, particularly highlighting how followers of corporate social media co-create corporate identities during firm-follower interactions. Toward this end, it pursues an integrated sociolinguistics approach combining e.g. thematic analysis, interactional analysis and in-depth ... Read more

    $49.49 USD