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Violence: A Reader by Catherine Besteman 9780814798997
Booksplease Price: $177.20Historians consider the previous century to have been one of the most violent periods in human history. As we move into an era where violence is sanitized and normalized in the media, and depicted as... -
Multilingual Identities in a Global City: London Stories by D. Block 9781403939647
Booksplease Price: $90.25Opening with a discussion of the key issues of globalization, migration, multiculturalism, multilingualism and global cities, David Block then turns to four detailed case studies: East Asian students... -
Fixing English: Prescriptivism and Language History by Anne Curzan 9781316604885
Booksplease Price: $69.17Over the past 300 years, attempts have been made to prescribe how we should and should not use the English language. The efforts have been institutionalized in places such as usage guides,... -
Metalanguage: Social and Ideological Perspectives by Adam Jaworski 9783110178777
RRP: $266.18Booksplease Price: $179.97Metalanguage brings together new, original contributions on people's knowledge about language and representations of language, e.g., representations of dialects, styles, utterances, stances and goals... -
Research Methods in Linguistics by Robert J. Podesva 9781107014336
Booksplease Price: $162.83A comprehensive guide to conducting research projects in linguistics, this book provides a complete training in state-of-the-art data collection, processing, and analysis techniques. The book follows... -
Pornography: Women, Violence, and Civil Liberties by Catherine Itzin 9780198257554
Booksplease Price: $97.34This book is not a diatribe against eroticism or a moral crusade to stamp out sex. Rather, it is an attack on the international industry in pornography which, in abusing and degrading women... -
Stance and Voice in Written Academic Genres by Ken Hyland 9781349337880
Booksplease Price: $147.81Stance and Voice in Written Academic Genres brings together a range of perspectives on two of the most important and contested concepts in applied linguistics: stance and voice. International experts... -
Gender and Discourse: Language and Power in Politics, the Church and Organisations Clare Walsh 9780582418929
Booksplease Price: $153.11Real Language Series General Editors:Jennifer Coates, Jenny Cheshire, Euan Reid This is a sociolinguistics series about the relationships between language, society and social change. Books in the... -
Speaking Out: The Female Voice in Public Contexts by J. Baxter 9781403994073
Booksplease Price: $179.81Focusing on the female voice in public contexts, language and gender specialists consider the barriers and opportunities encountered by women in gaining recognition in politics, law, the church,... -
Women, Men and Language: A Sociolinguistic Account of Gender Differences in Language Jennifer Coates 9781138948785
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40Women, Men and Language has long been established as a seminal text in the field of language and gender, providing an account of the many ways in which language and gender intersect. In this... -
Speaking Out: The Female Voice in Public Contexts by J. Baxter 9781403994080
Booksplease Price: $179.71Focusing on the female voice in public contexts, language and gender specialists consider the barriers and opportunities encountered by women in gaining recognition in politics, law, the church,... -
How People Talk About Politics: Brexit and Beyond by Dr Stephen Coleman 9780755618798
Booksplease Price: $218.65During the Brexit referendum campaign it became clear how easily national conversations around politics could become raucous and bitter. This book explores the nature of talking about politically... -
How People Talk About Politics: Brexit and Beyond by Dr Stephen Coleman 9780755635603
Booksplease Price: $65.99During the Brexit referendum campaign it became clear how easily national conversations around politics could become raucous and bitter. This book explores the nature of talking about politically... -
What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She by Dennis Baron
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.50Like trigger warnings and gender-neutral bathrooms, pronouns spark debate, prompting new policies about what pronouns to use. More than a by-product of the culture wars, gender-neutral pronouns are,... -
What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She by Dennis Baron 9781631496042
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $32.94Like trigger warnings and gender-neutral bathrooms, pronouns spark debate, prompting new policies about what pronouns to use. More than a by-product of the culture wars, gender-neutral pronouns are,... -
Language and Gender: An Advanced Resource Book by Jane Sunderland 9780415311045
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $91.24Language and Gender:presents an up-to-date introduction to language and genderincludes diverse work from a range of cultural, including non-Western, contexts, and represents a range of methodological... -
Language Learning, Gender and Desire: Japanese Women on the Move by Kimie Takahashi 9781847698537
RRP: $56.45Booksplease Price: $53.27For many Japanese women, the English language has never been just another school subject. For them, English is the tool of identity transformation and the means of obtaining what they passionately... -
Love Stories: Language, Private Love, and Public Romance in Georgia by Paul Manning 9781442608962
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $41.22In the remote highlands of the country of Georgia, a small group of mountaindwellers called the Khevsurs used to express sexuality and romance in ways that appear to be highly paradoxical. On the one... -
The Language Wars Henry Hitchings 9781848542099
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.46The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been acrimonious, and those involved have always really been contesting values - to do with... -
Reclaiming the F Word: Feminism Today by Catherine Redfern 9781780326276
Booksplease Price: $30.73Feminism is so last century. Surely in today's world the idea is irrelevant and unfashionable? Wrong. Since the turn of the millennium a revitalised feminist movement has emerged to challenge... -
Language and Politics by John E. Joseph 9780748624539
RRP: $66.28Booksplease Price: $58.95Language, this book argues, is political from top to bottom, whether considered at the level of an individual speaker's choice of language or style of discourse with others (where interpersonal... -
Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice: An Introduction to Applied Sociolinguistics by Ingrid Piller 9780199937264
Booksplease Price: $83.05Understanding and addressing linguistic disadvantage must be a central facet of the social justice agenda of our time. This book explores the ways in which linguistic diversity mediates social... -
Sex and Gender: A Contemporary Reader Alice Sullivan (University College London, UK) 9781032261195
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08Sex and Gender: A Contemporary Reader is a much-needed exploration of the relationship between sex, gender and gender identity. Its multidisciplinary approach provides fascinating perspectives from... -
Sounds & Furies: The Love-Hate Relationship between Women and Slang by Jonathon Green
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $7.20'In terms of a non-fiction account of how historical and contemporary language has been shaped by women, I really recommend lexicographer Jonathon Green's Sounds and Furies'ELEY WILIAMS, author of... -
Reclaiming the F Word: The New Feminist Movement by Catherine Redfern 9781848133945
Booksplease Price: $178.21In today's 'post-feminist' society, feminism is often portrayed as unfashionable and irrelevant. But since the turn of the millennium, a revitalised feminist movement has emerged to challenge these... -
Deep Secrets: Boys' Friendships and the Crisis of Connection by Niobe Way 9780674072428
RRP: $40.85Booksplease Price: $33.05"Boys are emotionally illiterate and don't want intimate friendships." In this empirically grounded challenge to our stereotypes about boys and men, Niobe Way reveals the intense intimacy among... -
Talking Difference: On Gender and Language by Mary Crawford 9780803988286
Booksplease Price: $232.11`I love the warmth and wit in this book, but I say this in no way to detract from the seriousness of its subject matter and its incisive treatment by Mary Crawford... this is a great book and an...