Linguistics category: 5616 books
An Introduction to Multilingualism
Language in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
This book offers an introduction to the many facets of multilingualism in a changing world. It begins with an overview of the multiplicity of human languages and their geographic distribution, before moving on to the key question of what multilingualism actually is and what is understood by terms...
by Dominika Baran
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Exploring the complex relationship between language and immigration in the United States, this timely book challenges mainstream, historically established assumptions about American citizenship and identity. Set within both a historical and a current political context, this book covers hotly debated...
Translation and Ideology
Encounters and Clashes
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Ideology has become increasingly central to work in translation studies. To date, however, most studies have focused on literary and religious texts, thus limiting wider understanding of how ideological clashes and encounters pervade any context where power inequalities are present. This special...
Fighting over Words
Language and Civil Law Cases
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
Most people fight over something or other and language is usually at the very center of the conflict. Often the way we use language is the cause of the battle. There are many areas in which fighting about language can be observed but civil law cases offer the most fertile examples of this warfare...
George Sword's Warrior Narratives
Compositional Processes in Lakota Oral Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The general focus in Lakota oral literary research has been on content rather than process within oral traditions. In this groundbreaking study of the characteristics...
Language Policy and Education in India
Documents, contexts and debates
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This book presents a history of English and development of language education in modern India. It explores the role of language in colonial attempts to establish hegemony, the play of power, and the anxieties in the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century India. The essays in the volume discuss language...
by John Haiman
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Ideophones have been recognized in modern linguistics at least since 1935, but they still lie far outside the concerns of mainstream (Western) linguistic debate, in part because they are most richly attested in relatively unstudied (often unwritten) languages. The evolution of language, on the other...
Regionalizing Oman
Political, Economic and Social Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
This volume addresses the historical structures and current dynamics of Oman’s regionalization processes and their political, economic and social dimensions. It is based on an interdisciplinary and trans-regional dialogue between scholars from different social sciences and area studies such as political...
Colonial Encounter
Telugu–English Literary and Cultural Interface
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
This book focuses on transactions between English and Telugu through a study of translations and related works published from about the early-nineteenth century to mid-twentieth century. Moving beyond Edward Said’s theoretical paradigms which suggest that these interfaces were driven by imperial...
News Talk
Investigating the Language of Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
Written by a former news reporter and editor, News Talk gives us an insider's view of the media, showing how journalists select and construct their news stories. Colleen Cotter goes behind the scenes, revealing how language is chosen and shaped by news staff into the stories we read and hear. Tracing...
by Rebecca L. Oxford
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Over the past thirty years, the field of language learning strategies has generated a massive amount of interest and research in applied linguistics. Teaching and Researching Language Learning Strategies redraws the landscape of language learning strategies at just the right time. In this book Rebecca...
Critical Discourse Analysis
The Critical Study of Language
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Bringing together papers written by Norman Fairclough over a 25 year period, Critical Discourse Analysis represents a comprehensive and important contribution to the development of this popular field.
The book is divided into seven sections covering the following themes:
language...
Normative Language Policy
Ethics, Politics, Principles
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language politics in the new global era presents policymakers with significant ethical challenges. How should the reality of English as a global language influence the normative considerations underpinning national language policies? What moral arguments justify the imposition of national languages...
by Lisa Lim, Umberto Ansaldo
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Introducing new findings from popular culture, the globalised new economy and computer-mediated communication, this is a fascinating study of contact between languages in modern societies. Ansaldo and Lim bring together research on multilingualism, code-switching, language endangerment, and globalisation,...