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Ideologies of Language by John E. Joseph
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Is the study of language ideologically neutral? If so, is this study objective and autonomous?One of the most cherished assumptions of modern academic linguistics is that the study of language is, or... -
Saussure by John E. Joseph 9780199695652
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £44.56"In a language there are only differences without positive terms. Whether we take the signified or the signifier, the language contains neither ideas nor sounds that pre-exist the linguistic system,... -
Language and Politics by John E. Joseph 9780748624539
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £30.23Language, 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... -
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Saussure John E. Joseph 9781350379787
Booksplease Price: £142.83For linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure is the defining figure of its modern period. For semiotics too he is the founding figure within Europe, alongside Peirce in America. Yet Saussure's influence... -
Language, Mind and Body: A Conceptual History by John E. Joseph
Booksplease Price: £32.12Where is language? Answers to this have attempted to 'incorporate' language in an 'extended mind', through cognition that is 'embodied', 'distributed', 'situated' or 'ecological'. Behind these... -
Language, Mind and Body: A Conceptual History by John E. Joseph 9781107149557
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £95.30Where is language? Answers to this have attempted to 'incorporate' language in an 'extended mind', through cognition that is 'embodied', 'distributed', 'situated' or 'ecological'. Behind these... -
Landmarks in Linguistic Thought Volume II: The Western Tradition in the Twentieth Century by John E. Joseph 9780415063975
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £52.08Landmarks in Linguistic Thought II introduces the major issues and themes that have determined the development of Western thinking about language, meaning and communication in the twentieth century... -
Language Policy and Language Planning: From Nationalism to Globalisation by Sue Wright 9780230302617
Booksplease Price: £56.12This revised second edition is a comprehensive overview of why we speak the languages that we do. It covers language learning imposed by political and economic agendas as well as language choices... -
Language Policy and Language Planning: From Nationalism to Globalisation by Sue Wright 9780230302600
Booksplease Price: £81.02This revised second edition is a comprehensive overview of why we speak the languages that we do. It covers language learning imposed by political and economic agendas as well as language choices... -
The Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy by Bernard Spolsky 9781108454117
Booksplease Price: £43.14Over the last fifty years, language policy has developed into a major discipline, drawing on research and practice in many nations and at many levels. This is the first Handbook to deal with language... -
The Sociology of Language and Religion: Change, Conflict and Accommodation by Tope Omoniyi 9780230516991
Booksplease Price: £46.74This is an eclectic collection of essays which successfully demonstrate how the Sociology of Language and Religion as a disciplinary paradigm responds to change, conflict and accommodation. The... -
Challenges in the Social Life of Language by John Edwards 9780230500310
Booksplease Price: £92.27The first book to highlight the most pressing sociology-of-language themes of our times. All of which have to do with the twin issues of power and identity . Important evidence and illustrations... -
Language Assemblages Alastair Pennycook 9781009348652
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £72.86What are languages? An assemblage approach to language gives us ways of thinking about language as dynamic, constructed, open-ended, and in and of the world. This book unsettles regular accounts of... -
Arabic in the Fray: Language Ideology and Cultural Politics by Yasir Suleiman 9780748637409
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £105.94The pre-modern period saw a background of inter-ethnic strife among Arabs and non-Arabs, mainly Persians. Starting from the symbolic and cognitive roles of language, Yasir Suleiman shows how... -
The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics Keith Allan 9780367868079
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics offers a comprehensive introduction and reference point to the discipline of linguistics. This wide-ranging survey of the field brings together a range of... -
The Ethics of Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah 9780691254074
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.06A bold vision of liberal humanism for navigating today's complex world of growing identity politics and rising nationalismCollective identities such as race, nationality, religion, gender, and... -
The Ethics of Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and...