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“susan gingell”

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  • Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond

    Interfaces of the Oral, Written, and Visual

    Edited by Susan Gingell, Wendy Roy ...
    Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond is an interdisciplinary collection that gathers the work of scholars and performance practitioners who together explore questions about the oral, written, and visual. The book includes the voices of oral performance practitioners, while the scholarship of many of the academic contributors is informed by their participation in oral storytelling, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • The Language Hoax

    by John H. McWhorter ...
    Japanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark and light blue. Does this mean that Russians perceive these colors differently from Japanese people? Does language control and limit the way we think? This short, opinionated book addresses the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which argues that the language we speak shapes the way we perceive the world. Linguist John ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Rhetoric

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Richard Toye ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Rhetoric is often seen as a synonym for shallow, deceptive language, and therefore as something negative. But if we view rhetoric in more neutral terms, as the 'art of persuasion', it is clear that we are all forced to engage with it at some level, if only because we are constantly exposed to the rhetoric of others. In this Very Short Introduction, Richard Toye explores the purpose of rhetoric. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Medical Discourse in Professional, Academic and Popular Settings

    Edited by Pilar Ordóñez-López, Nuria Edo-Marzá ...
    Series Book 1 - Language at Work
    This volume investigates the features and challenges of medical discourse between medical professionals as well as with patients and in the media. Based on corpus-driven studies, it includes a wide variety of approaches including cognitive, corpus and diachronic linguistics. Each chapter examines a different aspect of medical communication, including the use of metaphor referring to cancer, the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Raciolinguistics

    How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race

    Edited by H. Samy Alim, John R. Rickford, Arnetha F. Ball ...
    Raciolinguistics reveals the central role that language plays in shaping our ideas about race and vice versa. The book brings together a team of leading scholars-working both within and beyond the United States-to share powerful, much-needed research that helps us understand the increasingly vexed relationships between race, ethnicity, and language in our rapidly changing world. Combining the ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • English as a Local Language

    Post-colonial Identities and Multilingual Practices

    by Christina Higgins ...
    Series Book 2 - Critical Language and Literacy Studies
    When analyzed in multilingual contexts, English is often treated as an entity that is separable from its linguistic environment. It is often the case, however, that multilinguals use English in hybrid and transcultural ways. This book explores how multilingual East Africans make use of English as a local resource in their everyday practices by examining a range of domains, including workplace ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Second Dialect Acquisition

    by Jeff Siegel ...
    What is involved in acquiring a new dialect - for example, when Canadian English speakers move to Australia or African American English-speaking children go to school? How is such learning different from second language acquisition (SLA), and why is it in some ways more difficult? These are some of the questions Jeff Siegel examines in this book, which focuses specifically on second dialect ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Sociocultural Theory and L2 Instructional Pragmatics

    by Rémi A. van Compernolle ...
    Series Book 74 - Second Language Acquisition
    Winner of the AAAL First Book Award 2017!This book outlines a framework for teaching second language pragmatics grounded in Vygotskian sociocultural psychology. The framework focuses on the appropriation of sociopragmatic concepts as psychological tools that mediate pragmalinguistic choices. Using multiple sources of metalinguistic and performance data collected during a six-week pedagogical ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Analysing Genre

    Language Use in Professional Settings

    by V. K. Bhatia ...
    Series series Applied Linguistics and Language Study
    Genre analysis has a long-established tradition in literature, but interest in the analysis of non-literary genres has been very recent. This book examines the theory of genre analysis, looks at genre analysis in action, taking texts from a wide variety of genres and discusses the use of genre analysis in language teaching and language reform. ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Discourse and Practice

    New Tools for Critical Analysis

    by Theo van Leeuwen ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
    Adding a new introduction and two previously unpublished papers, Discourse and Practice: New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis brings together van Leeuwen's methodological work on discourse analysis of the last 15 years. Discourse, van Leeuwen argues, is a resource for representation, a knowledge about some aspect of reality which can be drawn upon when that aspect of reality has to be ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Literacy and the Bilingual Learner

    Texts and Practices in London Schools

    by Catherine Wallace ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Literacy and the Bilingual Learner explores the literacy development of bilingual learners in London (UK) schools and colleges through a series of vignettes and case studies of learners and their educational experiences. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Quotatives

    New Trends and Sociolinguistic Implications

    by Isabelle Buchstaller ...
    Series series Language in Society
    Quotatives considers the phenomenon “quotation” from a wealth of perspectives. It consolidates findings from different strands of research, combining formal and functional approaches for the definition of reported discourse and situating the phenomenon in a broader typological and sociolinguistic perspective.Provides an interface between sociolinguistic research and other linguistic disciplines, ... Read more

    $114.00 USD