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Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Recent developments in contact linguistics suggest considerable overlap of branches such as historical linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics, pidgin/creole linguistics, language acquisition, etc. This book highlights the complexity of contact-induced language change throughout the history of...
Varieties of Modern English
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
The 'story' of English is continually re-told and re-written, as more and more people use the language and have a part in shaping the way it develops.
Varieties of Modern English provides a critical introduction to the study of regional, social, gendered, context- and medium-related varieties...
by Ronald Carter
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2008
Just what is Standard English? Is it correct English? Should grammar be taught?
The answers to such questions invariably provoke controversy. In this handy A to Z guide to language and literacy, Ronald Carter unpicks the meaning of key terms like `proper English', `real books', `text', and `discourse',...
by Valerie Shepard
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
In Literature About Language Valerie Shepherd brings together linguistic theory and literary criticism and examines languages as a theme in a range of literary texts. By looking at the work of writers such as Swift, Joyce and Sontag she discusses the power of story-telling and metaphor to shape our...
Technology Implementation in Second Language Teaching and Translation Studies
New Tools, New Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
This monograph mainly focuses on the idea that language teaching in higher education involves making use of new approaches and technology. It identifies the key determinants of the materials needed to improve language teaching on the basis of the actual experimental research included in the respective...
by Jemina Napier
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
This ground-breaking work, originally published 15 years ago, continues to serve as the primary reference on the theories of omission potential and translational contact in sign language interpreting. In the book, noted scholar Jemina Napier explores the linguistic coping strategies of interpreters...
Identity and Language Learning
Extending the Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Identity and Language Learning draws on a longitudinal case study of immigrant women in Canada to develop new ideas about identity, investment, and imagined communities in the field of language learning and teaching. Bonny Norton demonstrates that a poststructuralist conception of identity as multiple,...
by Robin Aizlewood
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
This intensive foundation course in Russian is designed for students with no previous knowledge of the language. Developed primarily for classroom use, the course offers an original and distinctive approach to language learning, presenting Russian in context offering access to Russian life, culture,...
The Talking Ape
How Language Evolved
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2007
In this mind-opening book, Robbins Burling presents the most convincing - and the most readable - account of the origins of language yet published. He sheds new light on how language affects the way we think, behave, and relate to each other, and he gives us a deeper understanding of the nature of...
How the English Language Controls the World
Part One: Social Control Through Social Order/Part Two: Angular
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2009
"CAN ONE BOOK CHANGE THE WORLD? The answer is a resounding 'Yes!' In his first book, Jack Tafoya unveiled How NUMBERS CONTROL OUR LIVES. This book goes a step further to challenge the two all-time best sellers in a way never seen before. Jack explains the covert connection between the bible -...
Articulate While Black
Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S.
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Barack Obama is widely considered one of the most powerful and charismatic speakers of our age. Without missing a beat, he often moves between Washington insider talk and culturally Black ways of speaking--as shown in a famous YouTube clip, where Obama declined the change offered to him by a Black...
Global Linguistic Flows
Hip Hop Cultures, Youth Identities, and the Politics of Language
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Located at the intersection of sociolinguistics and Hip Hop Studies, this cutting-edge book moves around the world – spanning Africa, Asia, Australia, the Americas and the European Union – to explore Hip Hop cultures, youth identities, the politics of language, and the simultaneous processes of...
The Digital Transformation of the Public Sphere
Conflict, Migration, Crisis and Culture in Digital Networks
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2016
Bringing together contributions from the fields of sociology, media and cultural studies, arts, politics, science and technology studies, political communication theory and popular culture studies, this volume engages both with theoretical debates and detailed empirical studies, showcasing how the...
Critical Qualitative Research in Second Language Studies
Agency and Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
This volume begins by locating critical inquiry within the epistemological and methodological history of second language study. Subsequent chapters portray researcherparticipant exploration of identity and agency while challenging inequitable policies and practices. Research on internationalization,...