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  • Diversity and Super-Diversity

    Sociocultural Linguistic Perspectives

    by Jan Blommaert, Ruth Wodak, Markus Rheindorf, Elana Shohamy, Suresh Canagarajah, Fatma Said, Zhu Hua, Angela Creese, Adrian Blackledge0, Rachel Hu1, Elizabeth Miller2, Anastasia Nylund3, Betsy Rymes4, Geeta Aneja5, Andrea Leone-Pizzighella6, Mark Lewis7, Robert Moore8, Luisa Martin Rojo9, Christine Anthonissen0, Inmaculada García-Sánchez1, Virginia Unamuno2, Anna De Fina4 ...
    Series series Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series
    Sociocultural linguistics has long conceived of languages as well-bounded, separate codes. But the increasing diversity of languages encountered by most people in their daily lives challenges this conception. Because globalization has accelerated population flows, cities are now sites of encounter for groups that are highly diverse in terms of origins, cultural practices, and languages. Further, ... Read more

    $53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Developing Multilingual Education Policies

    Theory, Research, Practice

    by Michal Tannenbaum, Elana Shohamy ...
    Multilingual policies are increasingly important and required in educational settings worldwide, yet a solid experimental body of theory, research, and practice providing guidance for the development of policies is lacking. The Israeli context presented in this book serves as a case study or a model that could be used by bodies or entities seeking to devise a multilingual policy.The authors begin ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Multilingual Israel?

    Old Ideologies and New Realities

    Edited by Iair G. Or, Prof. Elana Shohamy, Prof. Bernard Spolsky ...
    Series Book 182 - Multilingual Matters
    Engages directly with the delicate intersections between homogenizing state policies and the extraordinary linguistic diversity on the ground.This book provides the most comprehensive overview to date of multilingualism in Israel, spanning Hebrew-only ideologies, immigrant and heritage languages, and grassroots community initiatives. The first section ('Ideologies') examines the persistence of ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Power of Tests

    A Critical Perspective on the Uses of Language Tests

    by Elana Shohamy ...
    Series series Language In Social Life
    Language in Social Life is a major series which highlights the importance of language to an understanding of issues of social and professional concern. It will be of practical relevance to all those wanting to understand how the ways we communicate both influence and are influenced by the structures and forces of contemporary social institutions.In all modern societies individuals are subject to ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Second Language Research Methods

    by H. W. Seliger, Shohamy ...
    Series series Oxford Applied Linguistics
    Based on a set of four research parameters, this book discusses the development of research questions and hypotheses, naturalistic and experimental research, data collection, and validation of research instruments. Each chapter includes examples and activities. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Linguistic Landscape in the City

    Edited by Prof. Elana Shohamy, Prof. Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Monica Barni ...
    This book focuses on linguistic landscapes in present-day urban settings. In a wide-ranging collection of studies of major world cities, the authors investigate both the forces that shape linguistic landscape and the impact of the linguistic landscape on the wider social and cultural reality. Not only does the book offer a wealth of case studies and comparisons to complement existing publications ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Language Policy

    Hidden Agendas and New Approaches

    by Elana Shohamy ...
    Policies concerning language use are increasingly tested in an age of frequent migration and cultural synthesis. With conflicting factors and changing political climates influencing the policy-makers, Elana Shohamy considers the effects that these policies have on the real people involved. Using examples from the US and UK, she shows how language policies are promoted and imposed, overtly and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Linguistic Landscape in the City

    by Elana SHOHAMY, Eliezer BEN-RAFAEL and Monica BARNI ...
    This book focuses on linguistic landscapes in present-day urban settings. In a wide-ranging collection of studies of major world cities, the authors investigate both the forces that shape linguistic landscape and the impact of the linguistic landscape on the wider social and cultural reality. Not only does the book offer a wealth of case studies and comparisons to complement existing publications ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Linguistic Landscape

    Expanding the Scenery

    Edited by Elana Shohamy, Durk Gorter ...
    In this comprehensive and pioneering volume, language scholars from around the world examine the "linguistic landscape" from multiple perspectives – theoretical, methodological, and critical. Written by widely recognized experts, the articles in Linguistic Landscape analyze linguistic landscapes in a range of international contexts. Dozens of photographs illustrate the use of language in the ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

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    by Maykel Verkuyten ...
    Series series European Monographs in Social Psychology
    In contrast to other disciplines, social psychology has been slow in responding to the questions posed by the issue of ethnicity. The Social Psychology of Ethnic Identity, Second Edition, demonstrates the important and diverse contribution that social psychology can make.Comprehensively updated to include the latest research on dual and multiple identities, mutual links between sense of ethnic ... Read more

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  • Pierre Bourdieu and Literacy Education

    Edited by James Albright, Allan Luke ...
    In this volume scholars from around the world focus on how a Bourdieusian stance can enable a powerful socicultural and cultural analysis of literacy education theory and practice and serve as an effective tool in analyzing relations of hierarchy and domination. Although there has been a growing body of Bourdieusian-inspired research in various sectors of education, this book is the first to ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society

    Edited by Ofelia Garcia, Nelson Flores, Massimiliano Spotti ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This Oxford Handbook challenges basic concepts that have informed the study of sociolinguistics since its inception in the 1960s. In 27 chapters, the book challenges the modernist positivist perspective of the field that has treated languages and speech communities as bounded and the idealized native speaker as the ultimate authority. Instead, it offers a critical poststructuralist perspective ... Read more

    $44.09 USD