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  • Duanaire Na Sracaire

    Anthology of Medieval Gaelic Poetry

    by Wilson McLeod, Meg Bateman ...
    The definitive Gaelic-English anthology of medieval Scottish verse: an annotated treasure trove of literary history spanning a millennium.Duanaire na Sracaire—or Songbook of the Pillagers—is the first anthology to bring together Scotland's Gaelic poetry from c.600-1600 AD, a time when Scotland shared its rich culture with Ireland. It includes a huge range of diverse poetry: prayers and hymns of ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Duanaire na Sracaire: Songbook of the Pillagers

    Anthology of Scotland's Gaelic Verse to 1600

    Edited by Wilson McLeod ...
    Duanaire na Sracaire is the first anthology to bring together Scotland's Gaelic poetry from the millenium c.600-1600 AD, when Scotland shared its rich culture with Ireland. It includes a huge range of diverse poetry: prayers and hymns of Iona, Fenian lays, praise poems and satires, courtly songs and lewd rants, songs of battle and death, incantations and love poems.All poems appear with facing ... Read more

    $9.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transmitting Minority Languages

    Complementary Reversing Language Shift Strategies

    Edited by Michael Hornsby, Wilson McLeod ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
    This book gives fresh insight into the diverse ways in which the transmission of minority and heritage languages is carried out in a range of sociolinguistic contexts. When traditional modes of intergenerational transmission begin to break down, minority language and diaspora communities resort to other modes of transmission, out of necessity, to complement traditional mechanisms and secure ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Language Revitalisation and Social Transformation

    Edited by Huw Lewis, Wilson McLeod ...
    Series series Language and Globalization
    This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of academic researchers in order to examine how and to what extent the challenge of language revitalisation should be reassessed and reconceptualised to take account of our fast-changing social context. The period of four decades between 1980 and 2020 that straddled the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first is widely ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Gaelic in Scotland

    Policies, Movements, Ideologies

    by Wilson McLeod ...

    $116.79 USD

  • Language, Policy and Territory

    A Festschrift for Colin H. Williams

    Edited by Wilson McLeod, Rob Dunbar, Kathryn Jones, John Walsh ...
    This volume celebrates the contribution of Professor Colin Williams, an immensely important and influential scholar in the field of language policy for more than forty years. Eighteen chapters by former students, colleagues and collaborators address a range of topics involving different aspects of language legislation and language rights, governance, economics, territoriality, land use planning, ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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    by Peter Garrett ...
    Series series Key Topics in Sociolinguistics
    Just about everyone seems to have views about language. Language attitudes and language ideologies permeate our daily lives. Our competence, intelligence, friendliness, trustworthiness, social status, group memberships, and so on, are often judged from the way we communicate. Even the speed at which we speak can evoke reactions. And we often try to anticipate such judgements as we communicate. In ... Read more

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  • Exploring Intercultural Communication

    Language in Action

    by Zhu Hua ...
    Series series Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics
    Exploring Intercultural Communication investigates the role of language in intercultural communication, paying particular attention to the interplay between cultural diversity and language practice. This second edition increases and updates the coverage on emerging key topics, including symbolic power, communicative turbulence, conversational inequality, stereotypes, racism, Nationality and ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Modern Languages Across the Curriculum

    Edited by Michael Grenfell ...
    This book sets out the agenda for the future of modern language teaching in schools. It aims to look beyond the dominant methods of second language teaching to a new approach emphasising the integration of language learning within the wider curriculum. Through research and case studies from the UK, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium and Finland, the book shows how teachers and policy makers ... Read more

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  • Language Strategies for Trilingual Families

    Parents' Perspectives

    by Dr. Andreas Braun, Prof. Tony Cline ...
    Series Book 17 - Parents' and Teachers' Guides
    This book aims to enable parents in trilingual families to consider possible language strategies on the basis of analysing their individual circumstances. It includes a tool for diagnostic self-analysis that will help each reader to identify their situation and learn how parents in similar situations have approached the task of supporting their children’s use of languages. Based on a unique survey ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • From Foreign Language Education to Education for Intercultural Citizenship

    Essays and Reflections

    by Prof. Michael Byram ...
    Series Book 17 - Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education
    This collection of essays and reflections starts from an analysis of the purposes of foreign language teaching and argues that this should include educational objectives which are ultimately similar to those of education for citizenship. It does so by a journey through reflections on what is possible and desirable in the classroom and how language teaching has a specific role in education systems ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Cultural Policy

    Management, Value and Modernity in the Creative Industries

    by Dave O'Brien ...
    Contemporary society is complex; governed and administered by a range of contradictory policies, practices and techniques. Nowhere are these contradictions more keenly felt than in cultural policy. This book uses insights from a range of disciplines to aid the reader in understanding contemporary cultural policy.Drawing on a range of case studies, including analysis of the reality of work in the ... Read more

    $76.99 USD