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  • Transformative Translanguaging Espacios
    This book shows the transformative power of placing translanguaging at the center of teaching and learning. It shows how the centering of racialized Latinx bilingual students, including their knowledge systems and cultural and linguistic practices, transforms the monolingual-white supremacy ideology of many educational spaces. ...
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    181,50 €

  • Dire le silence
    Annette Boudreau
    Dire le silence présente l’évolution des discours sur la langue en Acadie de 1867 à 1970 en analysant, d’une part, des textes parus dans les deux principaux journaux publiés en Acadie pendant cette période - Le Moniteur acadien et L’Évangéline - et, d’autre part, des entretiens menés auprès de cinq cents francophones des provinces maritimes. L’objectif est de retracer les sourc...
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    24,25 €

  • Paroimia
    Daniela D’Eugenio
    Proverbs constitute a rich archive of historical, cultural, and linguistic significance that affect genres and linguistics codes. They circulate through writers, texts, and communities in a process that ultimately results in modifications in their structure and meanings. Hence, context plays a crucial role in defining proverbs as well as in determining their interpretation. Vin...
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    63,02 €

  • Paroimia
    Daniela D’Eugenio
    Proverbs constitute a rich archive of historical, cultural, and linguistic significance that affect genres and linguistics codes. They circulate through writers, texts, and communities in a process that ultimately results in modifications in their structure and meanings. Hence, context plays a crucial role in defining proverbs as well as in determining their interpretation. Vin...
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    141,98 €

  • Transcultural Voices
    Jaspal Naveel Singh
    This book presents the narratives and voices of young, mostly male practitioners of hip hop culture in Delhi, India. Through a combination of linguistic ethnography, sociolinguistics and discourse studies, the book addresses issues including gender and sexuality, identity construction and global culture. ...
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    193,47 €

  • Transcultural Voices
    Jaspal Naveel Singh
    This book presents the narratives and voices of young, mostly male practitioners of hip hop culture in Delhi, India. Through a combination of linguistic ethnography, sociolinguistics and discourse studies, the book addresses issues including gender and sexuality, identity construction and global culture. ...
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    72,21 €

  • Linguistic Practice in Changing Conditions
    Ben Rampton
    This book draws on 10 years of collaborative sociolinguistic work on the changing conditions of language use. It begins with guiding principles, shifts to empirically driven arguments in urban sociolinguistics, and concludes with studies of (in)securitised communication addressed to challenges ahead. ...
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    181,24 €

  • Linguistic Practice in Changing Conditions
    Ben Rampton
    This book draws on 10 years of collaborative sociolinguistic work on the changing conditions of language use. It begins with guiding principles, shifts to empirically driven arguments in urban sociolinguistics, and concludes with studies of (in)securitised communication addressed to challenges ahead. ...
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    59,98 €

  • From Fra Angelico to Frankie One Eye
    Alfonso Guerriero
    This work of geolinguistic ethnography was written by Alfonso Guerriero, a noted researcher in the field of Italian American identity studies and, more generally, in geolinguistics and geolinguistic ethnography. This book is noteworthy for its discussion of the role of nicknames in the formation of Italian identity from the earliest period of Italian language history and how th...
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    55,13 €

  • Vulnerabilities, Challenges and Risks in Applied Linguistics
    The chapters in this book call attention to vulnerabilities, challenges and risks for applied linguists and the communities they work with across a broad range of contexts from the Global North and South, and in both signed and spoken languages. Together they provide insights on both academic and professional practice across several areas. ...
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    47,94 €

  • Unpacking Discourses on Chineseness
    This book examines the complexity of Chineseness in China and the Chinese diaspora. Using critical sociolinguistic and discourse analytical approaches, the chapters uncover the power dynamics and ideologies underlying varied constructs of Chineseness. ...
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    169,42 €

  • Vulnerabilities, Challenges and Risks in Applied Linguistics
    The chapters in this book call attention to vulnerabilities, challenges and risks for applied linguists and the communities they work with across a broad range of contexts from the Global North and South, and in both signed and spoken languages. Together they provide insights on both academic and professional practice across several areas. ...
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    169,55 €

  • The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making
    David Parkin
    This book explores verbal and non-verbal communication from a social anthropological viewpoint, drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork in eastern Africa. It gives an overview of developments since the 1960s in the anthropology of language use and how these have influenced the author’s thinking. ...
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    62,80 €

  • The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making
    David Parkin
    This book explores verbal and non-verbal communication from a social anthropological viewpoint, drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork in eastern Africa. It gives an overview of developments since the 1960s in the anthropology of language use and how these have influenced the author’s thinking. ...
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    180,86 €

  • Lingüística del castellano chileno / Chilean Spanish Linguistics
    Ya desde el siglo XIX, el castellano chileno generó interés en lingüistas como Lenz (1891), quien lo aclamó como un geolecto dinámico y en constante evolución. Más recientemente, un grupo importante de lingüistas contemporáneos ha indicado que existe una gran cantidad de diferencias entre el castellano de Chile y otras variedades en varios frentes lingüísticos; tanto es así que...
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    69,78 €

  • Extending Applied Linguistics for Social Impact
    Drawing on--but also extending--the theories and methods of applied linguistics, this book demonstrates how scholars of language might work together and with non-language specialists to address pressing concerns and issues of our time. Chapters explore efforts to recognize the legitimacy of stigmatized language varieties in public and institutional domains, museum-based science...
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    174,00 €

  • Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa
    This book challenges the view that digital communication in Africa is relatively unsophisticated and questions the assumption that digital communication has a damaging effect on indigenous African languages. It offers a paradigm of language merging that provides a blueprint for the decolonization of African languages through digital platforms. ...
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    48,15 €

  • Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa
    This book challenges the view that digital communication in Africa is relatively unsophisticated and questions the assumption that digital communication has a damaging effect on indigenous African languages. It offers a paradigm of language merging that provides a blueprint for the decolonization of African languages through digital platforms. ...
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    169,76 €

  • Metaphor from the Ground Up
    Daniel C. Strack / Daniel CStrack
    Metaphor from the Ground Up introduces Conceptual Filtering Theory, a theory of mental processing that describes figurative language communication in terms of conceptual domain projection and contextual disambiguation. In an attempt to match theoretical observations from cognitive semantics and pragmatics with related knowledge about mental processes from cognitive neuroscience...
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    54,44 €

  • Meeting Foreignness
    Paola Giorgis
    How is Foreignness defined by language? Who has the power to define the ’foreigner’ as such, on which grounds, from which positioning, for which purposes? And within such premises, which is the role of foreign languages in defining, or challenging, Foreignness? This book reflects on the concept of Foreignness from a special lens, that of foreign languages and Foreign Language E...
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    54,79 €

  • The Impact of Tourism in East Africa
    Angelika Mietzner / Anne Storch
    This book explores the relationship between imperial formations and individual encounters at African tourist sites. It examines how encounters between tourists and hosts tend to be constructed along colonial thought lines and shows that ruination is omnipresent in postcolonial tourist settings. This book is open access under a CC BY ND licence. ...
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    43,66 €

  • The Impact of Tourism in East Africa
    Angelika Mietzner / Anne Storch
    This book explores the relationship between imperial formations and individual encounters at African tourist sites. It examines how encounters between tourists and hosts tend to be constructed along colonial thought lines and shows that ruination is omnipresent in postcolonial tourist settings. This book is open access under a CC BY ND licence. ...
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    159,11 €

  • On the Genesis of Thought and Language
    Alexey Koshelev
    In On the Genesis of Thought and Language, linguist Alexey Koshelev explores fundamental questions of how human concepts arise in a child, why concepts appear in a child before words, the genesis of language, and why there are so many languages. ...
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    37,67 €

  • Understanding the Financial Industry Through Linguistics
    Richard C. Robinson / Richard CRobinson
    This book is an essential read for any professional dealing with data and information challenges.The author presents a new, unique approach to broad industry issues, leveraging applied linguistics and discusses how to break barriers that exist between language and data; the aim to make it easier for the financial industry (including regulators) to communicate - for the benefit ...
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    22,62 €

  • Language and State
    Xing Yu
    This book argues that while humans communicate using language, they create and use media. Media extend the distance of communication. Humans form themselves into a large community. This happens in a long historical process in which the state of the civilized society replaces the tribe of the primitive society. Language replaces kinship in playing a role in the formation of huma...
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    36,34 €

  • Work and Labor in World Languages, Literatures, and Film
    Yves-Antoine Clemmen
    The essays in this anthology represent a cross-section of current scholarship examining the complex interplay between work, in its broadest theoretical conceptualization, and the world cultures in and through which this labor is performed. Although aimed primarily at an academic audience, the included essays, written in English, Spanish, and French, are also accessible to the c...
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    44,30 €

  • Multilingual Memories
    Drawing on a range of disciplines from within the humanities and social sciences, Multilingual Memories addresses questions of remembering and forgetting from an explicitly multilingual perspective. From a museum at Victoria Falls in Zambia to a Japanese-American internment in Arkansas, this book probes how the medium of the communication of memories affirms social orders acros...
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    52,05 €

  • Dynamism in African Languages and Literature
    The book provides novel perspectives towards conceptualisation of African Potentials. It explores diverse and dynamic aspects of linguistic communications in Africa, ranging from convivial multilingual practices to literal and musical arts. The book reflects the diversity and ever-changing dynamism in the African sociolinguistic sphere, that is, metalinguistic discourse in East...
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    59,38 €

  • Rhetoric and Sociolinguistics in Times of Global Crisis
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    216,53 €

  • Transgressing Frontiers
    Kelvin Ngong Toh
    The focus of this book is to assess, through language and literary studies in interpretation, the epistemic representation of frontiers in its shifting and fixing categories. The contributing researchers stress on the fact that crisscrossing has taken its toll on communities and disciplines and that hegemonic positions are becoming increasingly redundant and provocative. Fronti...
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    49,45 €


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