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  • The Multivoices of Kenyan Primary School Children Learning to Read and Write
    Esther Mukewa Lisanza
    This book provides a rich and nuanced examination of children learning to read and write a second language in primary schools in Kenya, taught by teachers who themselves have often learned English as a second or third language. The author uses two case studies, of an urban and a rural school, to explore how different socioeconomic and cultural contexts can affect the enactment ...
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    65,12 €

  • Linguistic Variation and Social Practices of Normative Masculinity
    Fergus O’Dwyer
    This book explores the ways in which linguistic variation and complex social practices interact toward the formation of male interactional identities in a sports club in Dublin, illustrating the affordances of studying sporting contexts in contributing to advancing sociolinguistic theory. ...
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    240,93 €

  • Gaelic Language Revitalization Concepts and Challenges
    Emily McEwan-Fujita
    Based on research about Scottish Gaelic, this collection focuses on a number of interconnected themes, including the intersection of neoliberalism and minority language revitalization; discourses of language death and revival in literature, media, and academia; the intertwining of language ideologies and affective stances in speaking and speakerhood; power and knowledge in the ...
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    55,98 €

  • Gaelic Language Revitalization Concepts and Challenges
    Emily McEwan-Fujita
    Based on research in Scotland and Nova Scotia, the papers in this collection focus on a number of interconnected themes, including language ideologies and affective stances about what it means to be a Gaelic speaker, media discourses of Gaelic language death and revitalization, the intersection of neoliberalism and minority language revitalization, the theoretical frameworks of...
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    27,75 €

  • Multimodalities and Chinese Students’ L2 Practices
    Min Wang
    Adopting a poststructural approach, Multimodalities and Chinese Students' L2 Practices examines the intertwined relationship between positioning and agency in multilingual, multicultural, and multimodal contexts, using evidence from Chinese international students’ experiences as English learners. ...
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    122,47 €

  • Language, Lies and Irrational Thinking
    David Garnett
    Why do we make bad decisions? How do people justify bad arguments? Is being sincere the same thing as being authentic? What is common sense? What is the link between ideology and delusion? Is populist rhetoric undermining democracy? What is the difference between strategic thinking and strategic planning? What is a 'sustainable decision'? What is Multiple Rati...
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    16,74 €

  • Speaking with Substance
    Jeffrey B. Fleisher / Kathryn M. de Luna
    This volume proposes a supplemental approach to interdisciplinary historical reconstructions that draw on archaeological and linguistic data. The introduction lays out the supplemental approach, situating it in the broader context of similar interdisciplinary research methods in other world regions. Reflecting the arguments of the volume and its goal to document the process rat...
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    48,37 €

  • Translingual Identities and Transnational Realities in the U.S. College Classroom
    Heather Robinson / Jonathan Hall / Nela Navarro
    Providing an original reconsideration of the impact of translanguaging, this book examines both transnationality and translinguality as ubiquitous phenomena that affect students’ lives. ...
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    66,46 €

  • Empty Signs, Historical Imaginaries
    Berecz Ágoston
    Set in a multiethnic region of the nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire, this thoroughly interdisciplinary study maps out how the competing Romanian, Hungarian and German nationalization projects dealt with proper names. With particular attention to their function as symbols of national histories, Berecz makes a case for names as ideal guides for understanding historical imaginar...
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    203,16 €

  • Language Policy in Superdiverse Indonesia
    Subhan Zein
    Zein assesses the language problems and policies in Indonesia using a superdiversity perspective. He explores topics such as status, prestige, acquisition, cultivation, access, community policy, personnel policy, family language policy and global English, providing a frame for the adoption of superdiversity perspective globally. ...
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    240,80 €

  • Bridging the Humor Barrier
    Humor competence in the target language is an overlooked tool for English language learners to communicate confidently and proficiently in English. In this innovative edited collection, language teachers and researchers from around the globe share their latest research on helping learners to overcome the humor barrier. ...
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    128,88 €

  • Nimble Tongues
    Steven G. Kellman / Steven GKellman
    Nimble Tongues is a collection of essays that continues Steven G. Kellman’s work in the fertile field of translingualism, focusing on the phenomenon of switching languages. A series of investigations and reflections rather than a single thesis, the collection is perhaps more akin in its aims-if not accomplishment-to George Steiner’s Extraterritorial: Papers on Literature and th...
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    64,73 €

  • The Dynamics of Language and Inequality in Education
    This book contributes new perspectives from the Global South on the ways in which linguistic and discursive boundaries shape inequalities in educational contexts, ranging from Amazonian missions to Mongolian universities, using critical ethnographic and sociolinguistic analyses. ...
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    157,60 €

  • The Dynamics of Language and Inequality in Education
    This book contributes new perspectives from the Global South on the ways in which linguistic and discursive boundaries shape inequalities in educational contexts, ranging from Amazonian missions to Mongolian universities, using critical ethnographic and sociolinguistic analyses. ...
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    42,14 €

  • Language Rights and the Law in the European Union
    Eduardo D. Faingold
    This book examines the language policies relating to linguistic rights in European Union law and in the constitutions and legal statutes of some European Union member states. In recent years, the European Union has seen an increase in claims for language recognition by minority groups representing a considerable population (such as Catalan in Spain and Welsh in the UK). Additio...
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    77,50 €

  • Communication Across Cultures
    Basil Hatim / Basil Prof. Hatim
    A unique synthesis of contrastive linguistics and discourse analysis, providing a core text for undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in language, applied linguistics, translation and cultural studies. Also of interest to language teachers, applied linguists, translators and interpreters. ...
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    127,73 €

  • Communication Across Cultures
    Basil Hatim / Basil Prof. Hatim
    A unique synthesis of contrastive linguistics and discourse analysis, providing a core text for undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in language, applied linguistics, translation and cultural studies. Also of interest to language teachers, applied linguists, translators and interpreters. ...
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    46,70 €

  • Language Before Stonewall
    William L. Leap
    This book explores the linguistic and social practices related to same-sex desires and identities that were widely attested in the USA during the years preceding the police raid on the Stonewall Inn in 1969. The author demonstrates that this language was not a unified or standardized code, but rather an aggregate of linguistic practices influenced by gender, racial, and class d...
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    143,83 €

  • Code-Switching
    Mareike L. Keller
    This book systematically discusses the link between bilingual language production and its manifestation in historical documents, drawing together two branches of linguistics which have much in common but are traditionally dealt with separately. By combining the study of historical mixed texts with the principles of modern code-switching and bilingualism research, the author arg...
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    71,62 €

  • Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Migration Control
    Each chapter in this volume adds an empirical perspective to our understanding of how language relates to migration in a specific national context. The chapters use innovative combinations of multimodal, qualitative and quantitative analyses to examine a broad range of genres and data related to the voices of migrants and reporting about migrants. ...
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    42,16 €

  • Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Migration Control
    Each chapter in this volume adds an empirical perspective to our understanding of how language relates to migration in a specific national context. The chapters use innovative combinations of multimodal, qualitative and quantitative analyses to examine a broad range of genres and data related to the voices of migrants and reporting about migrants. ...
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    157,28 €

  • EFL Pedagogy as Cultural Discourse
    Muzna Awayed-Bishara
    This book offers unique insight into the role that English as a Foreign Language (EFL) discourse plays in shaping the ideological terrain of contemporary Israel/Palestine through constructing the subjectivities of those who plan, teach, and learn it. While the EFL curriculum is uniform across Hebrew and Arabic-speaking educational contexts, this book traces how its cultural con...
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    69,43 €

  • EFL Pedagogy as Cultural Discourse
    Muzna Awayed-Bishara
    This book offers insight into the role of English as a foreign language (EFL) discourse in shaping the ideological positions of those involved in teaching English in Israel to both the Jewish majority and the Palestinian minority. It promotes an ’ecological discourse’ to render EFL teaching as a possible arena for affecting social change. ...
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    241,23 €

  • African Multilingualisms
    African Multilingualisms is the first book dedicated to presenting case studies of small-scale multilingualism in rural Africa. Contributors present extensive new data on sociolinguistic patterns found in these contexts and consider new, more ethnographically sensitive methods for exploring multilingualism of this kind. ...
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    128,65 €

  • Language Shock
    Michael H Agar / Michael H. Agar
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    21,00 €

  • Urban Multilingualism in East-Central Europe
    Jan Fellerer
    Urban Multilingualism in East-Central Europe makes the case for an interdisciplinary approach to past urban multilingualism, using both historical and linguistic resources. It analyzes the Polish-Ukrainian-Yiddish-German encounter of late-Habsburg Lemberg (Lviv) and the city’s distinct historical Polish dialect that resulted from it. ...
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    128,86 €

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics
    Romani is the first language, and family and community language, of upwards of 3-4 million people and possibly many more in Europe, the Americas, and Australia. Documentation and research on the language draws on a tradition of more than two centuries, yet it remains relatively unknown and often engulfed by myths. In recent decades there has been an upsurge of interest in the l...
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    217,07 €

  • Italy and the USA
    This collection takes a cross-disciplinary, transnational approach and gathers together essays from a range of subjects including linguistics, film studies, folk music, oral and written narrative, and history, which provide new comparative perspectives on the questions surrounding the mutual influence between Italian and U.S. cultures. The volume also showcases new research — q...
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    132,62 €

  • Children’s English in Singapore
    Sarah Buschfeld
    This book investigates children’s acquisition of L1 English in the context of Singapore, one of the Kachruvian Outer Circle or ESL countries.This book also sheds light on how the acquisitional steps taken by children differ across regions. ...
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    243,22 €

  • Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Perspectives of Youth Language Practices in Africa
    With the demographic explosion of young people in major African cities, we are witnessing the emergence of youth languages and new speech forms. In search of well-being, these young people, plagued by poverty, social injustice, unemployment and idleness, invent linguistic codes that allow them to find themselves. The linguistic and sociolinguistic description of these youth lan...
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    71,16 €


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