Sociolinguistics

New Approaches to Language and Identity in Contexts of Migration and Diaspora draws together expertise and contemporary research findings in respect of language and identity in migrant and diasporic contexts throughout the world.Over thirteen chapters,...

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Wisconsin is one of the most linguistically rich places in North America. It has the greatest diversity of American Indian languages east of the Mississippi, including Ojibwe and Menominee from the Algonquian language family, Ho-Chunk from the Siouan...

SCHOTT IS BACK - and better than ever. From the mind behind the million-copy bestseller Schott's Original Miscellany comes an indispensable field guide to the hidden lore and secret languages of our modern age.A must-have book for word nerds, culture...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783770567348Author Jenny HaaseFormat PaperbackPage Count 209Imprint Brill U FinkPublisher Brill U FinkWeight(grams) 395g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498571357Author Natsuko TsujimuraFormat PaperbackImprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books

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In Presented Discourse in Popular Science, Olga A. Pilkington explores the forms and functions of the voices of scientists in books written for non-professionals. This study confirms the importance of considering presentation of discourse outside of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555407704Author Ron E. TappyFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Scholars PressPublisher Scholars PressWeight(grams) 557g

Drawing on usage-based theory, neurocognition, and complex systems, Languaging Beyond Languages elaborates an elegant model accommodating accumulated insights into human language even as it frees linguistics from its two-thousand-year-old, ideological...

Covering all seven countries on the isthmus, this volume presents the first collection of original linguistic studies on Central American Spanish varieties, which have long been neglected in Hispanic Linguistics. The analyses in this collection span...

In Dynamics of Teaching and Learning Modern Hebrew as an Additional Language Yona Gilead presents original research into classroom interactional practices by offering a thick description of a successful beginner-level Modern Hebrew program at an...

Cognitive Sociolinguistics combines the interest in meaning of Cognitive Linguistics with the interest in social variation of sociolinguistics, converging on two domains of enquiry: variation of meaning, and the meaning of variation. These Ten Lectures,...

Pragmatic Issues in Specialized Communicative Contexts, edited by Francesca Bianchi and Sara Gesuato, illustrates how interactants systematically and effectively employ micro and macro linguistic resources and textual strategies to engage in...

Working with the Phonetics of English and Dutch is a workbook intended to be used in conjunction with The Phonetics of English and Dutch (Brill, 1996). (An accompanying cassette is available on request from the authors at a nominal charge). The workbook...

Small linguistic tricks can have big footprints. This book examines how India's current Hindu nationalist government uses language as a weapon against its Muslim citizens. Each chapter provides a discursive history of matters that have been a source of...

Although it feels like we live in a time of seeming hopelessness, this pioneering book illustrates what language can teach us about the practice, logic, and feasibility of hope in the twenty-first century. Silva and Lee highlight how people living in...

Bringing together a diverse collection of studies from a team of international scholars, this pioneering volume focuses on interactions in shops, exploring the dynamics of conversation between sellers and customers. Beginning with the emergence of a...

How do you react to an intercultural situation that you do not understand? There are four options. You wait until it’s over. You adjust your behavior and “do as the natives do.” You blame the other as strange and stupid. Or you start to wonder by...

This book exemplifies that research into linguistic and cultural diversity not only contributes to the reduction of unjust human relations, but also has its own added value in creating and exposing new connections, relationships, identities, and...

This volume collects selected papers from the twenty-third New Ways of Analyzing Variation conference held at Stanford University. It is a collection of innovative papers on the newest developments in research on variation. The range of topics covered in...

The work of speechwriters is prominent in political discourse, yet the writers themselves remain in the shadows of the powerful, public figures they work for. This book throws the spotlight on these invisible wordsmiths, illuminating not only what they...

The work of speechwriters is prominent in political discourse, yet the writers themselves remain in the shadows of the powerful, public figures they work for. This book throws the spotlight on these invisible wordsmiths, illuminating not only what they...

Which ideas about language are prevalent in cultures that are not framed in Western nationalist and literate traditions? How do people conceptualise language if speakers of the same community are multilingual, have access to different language resources...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904768357Author Ruqaiya HasanFormat HardbackPage Count 277Imprint Equinox Publishing LtdPublisher Equinox Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 1g

In recent times, there has been a growing interest in how Celtic languages are acquired, due to ongoing efforts for minority language revitalisation through immersion education. With contributions from a team of leading scholars, this is the first volume...

Now in its second edition, this is an invaluable manual for teaching and learning variation analysis, the quantitative study of linguistic variation and change. Written by a leading scholar in the field with over thirty years of experience, it provides...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009403085Author Sali TagliamonteFormat HardbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

A comprehensive and thought-provoking investigation into one of the most polarizing words in the English language.Few words in the English language are as misunderstood as “like.” Indeed, excessive use of this word is a surefire way to make those who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039193307Author Marc TatehFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 481g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733937528Author Steve LeveenFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint America the Bilingual Levenger FoundationPublisher America the Bilingual Levenger...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788170209874Author Brian T. RileyFormat HardbackPage Count 331Imprint Cosmo PublicationsPublisher Cosmo PublicationsWeight(grams) 140g

The area of research on printed word recognition has been one of the most active in the field of experimental psychology for well over a decade. However, notwithstanding the energetic research effort and despite the fact that there are many points of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735487656Author Jon OrmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 486Imprint IaislcPublisher IaislcWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783965580480Author Antonio CastoreFormat HardbackPage Count 262Imprint ICI Berlin PressPublisher ICI Berlin PressWeight(grams) 540g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789785644098Author Okon EssienFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint M & J Grand Orbit CommunicationsPublisher M & J Grand Orbit CommunicationsWeight(grams)...

The Sociophonetics of Dublin English shows how social inequalities and language are connected by the stances speakers take in interaction. It is based on an instrumental phonetic analysis of recorded interviews and broadcasting data and a detailed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733937559Author Steve LeveenFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint America the Bilingual Levenger FoundationPublisher America the Bilingual Levenger...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782406085164Author Xavier NorthFormat PaperbackPage Count 335Imprint Classiques GarnierPublisher Classiques GarnierWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 218mm *...

An accessible, user-friendly guide to the variety of different experimental methods used in sociolinguistics, Experimental Research Methods in Sociolinguistics walks students through the "how-to" of experimental methods used to investigate...