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  • One or Two Words
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    One or Two Words

    The expression "one or two words" is used by the Toraja highlanders of Indonesia to refer euphemistically to their highly elaborate form of political speechmaking. Moving from this understatement,...
    $120.00

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  • The Black Side of the River
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    The Black Side of the River

    An insightful exploration of the impact of urban change on Black culture, identity, and language Across the United States, cities are changing. Gentrification is transforming urban landscapes, often...
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  • Approaches to Discourse Analysis
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    Approaches to Discourse Analysis

    A groundbreaking collection by leading scholars that spans a broad range of social situations, cultural contexts, and analytic perspectives The contemporary landscape of discourse analysis-which...
    $116.00

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  • Speaking, Listening, Understanding
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    Speaking, Listening, Understanding

    All human activity, whatever the size of the community-whether in business, the family, schools, or politics-is group activity. Such group activity depends upon the ability of human beings to work...
    $39.99

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  • Bilingual Literacy Development at Home Bilingual Literacy Development at Home
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    Bilingual Literacy Development at Home

    This book explores pedagogical implications for how children read, write, respond to literature, and begin to learn an additional language in the home context. It explores a bilingual child's...
    $106.00

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  • The Event of Psychopoetics The Event of Psychopoetics
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    The Event of Psychopoetics

    The Event of Psychopoetics overviews and investigates the notion of psychopoetics, a sociopsychological event that involves re-creative slips and that emerges under certain cultural conditions and...
    $376.00

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  • Ideologies of Communication in Japan Ideologies of Communication in Japan
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    Ideologies of Communication in Japan

    This book presents case studies of ideologies of communication in Japan, responding to recent developments in the field and the subject-wide shift from ideologies of language to ideologies of...
    $269.00

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  • Relative Points of View Relative Points of View
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    Relative Points of View

    The relationship between language and various kinds of non-linguistic behavior has been of great fascination for many of those working in the fields of cultural anthropology, linguistics, and...
    $56.00

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  • Isolation and Language Change Isolation and Language Change
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    Isolation and Language Change

    Extremely isolated communities offer 'laboratory conditions' for examining the processes of language change and dialect formation. This book presents findings of the first-ever ethnographic fieldwork...
    $184.00

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    Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos

    Comprising 11 countries and hundreds of languages from one of the most culturally diverse regions in the world, the chapters in this collection explore a wide range of translation issues. The subject...
    $373.00

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    Literary Multilingualism in the Borderlands

    This book focuses on literary multilingualism and specifically on the challenging condition of writing in Trieste, a key European borderland located at the intersection between the Latin, Germanic...
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  • Indigenous Multilingualism at Warruwi
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    Indigenous Multilingualism at Warruwi

    This book is an exploration of the role of language at Warruwi Community, a remote Indigenous settlement in northern Australia. It explores how language use and people's ideas about language are...
    $333.00

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  • Queer, Latinx, and Bilingual Queer, Latinx, and Bilingual
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    Queer, Latinx, and Bilingual

    Shortlisted for the 2018 BAAL Book PrizeThis book is a sociolinguistic ethnography of LGBT Mexicans/Latinxs in Phoenix, Arizona, a major metropolitan area in the U.S. Southwest. The main focus of the...
    $113.00

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  • Language Contact and the Future of English Language Contact and the Future of English
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    Language Contact and the Future of English

    This book reflects on the future of the English language as used by native speakers, speakers of nativized New Englishes, and users of English as a lingua franca (ELF). The volume begins by outlining...
    $113.00

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  • Language and Classification Language and Classification
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    Language and Classification

    This volume adopts a practice-based approach to examine the different ways in which classification is communicated and negotiated in different environments within archaeology. The book looks...
    $128.00

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  • The Politics of English in Hong Kong The Politics of English in Hong Kong
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    The Politics of English in Hong Kong

    The focus of this book is on the impact of politics on language and identity in Hong Kong. The book is the first study to track real time language attitude changes against a divisive political...
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  • Language Education Policy Language Education Policy
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    Language Education Policy

    In this book we will explore in more detail some aspects of the Arab-Jewish divide, which raise fundamental questions regarding the place of the Arabs and Arab language education in the Jewish State...
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  • Introduccion Al Diccionario Filologico-Comparado Introduccion Al Diccionario Filologico-Comparado
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    Introduccion Al Diccionario Filologico-Comparado

    Introducci������n al Diccionario Filol������gico-Comparado: De la Lengua Castellana de M. Calandrelli (1880) es un libro escrito por Mat������as Calandrelli que se enfoca en el estudio comparativo de...
    $63.00

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  • Ein Wort Zur Gesangbuch-Frage (1884) Ein Wort Zur Gesangbuch-Frage (1884)
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    Ein Wort Zur Gesangbuch-Frage (1884)

    ""Ein Wort zur Gesangbuch-Frage"" ist ein Buch von Guido Maria Dreves, das im Jahr 1884 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Werk besch�����ftigt sich mit der Frage nach dem Gebrauch von Gesangb�����chern...
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  • Beyond Identities in Modernity Beyond Identities in Modernity
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    Beyond Identities in Modernity

    This book argues that future generations of modernity as a whole will shape participatory modernization whether Chinese modernization or Western modernization. The public discourse is inundated with...
    $131.00

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  • COVID Semiotics COVID Semiotics
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    COVID Semiotics

    This book examines how people around the world have articulated and shaped their experiences of COVID-19 through a sociolinguistic phenomenon known as magical thinking.
    $333.00

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  • All English Accents Matter All English Accents Matter
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    All English Accents Matter

    Orelus' valuable study draws on the scholarly work of sociocultural and postcolonial theorists, as well as testimonies collected from study participants, to explore accentism, the systemic form of...
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  • Beyond Borrowing Beyond Borrowing
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    Beyond Borrowing

    In their book, the authors describe the usage of and attitudes towards English in Asia since the 19th century, as well as the creative and dynamic ways in which Asians of the 21st century continually...
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  • Multilingual Sydney Multilingual Sydney
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    Multilingual Sydney

    The rise of global mobility has had a deep impact on the study of urban multilingualism. Once associated with research on minority speech communities and inner-city ethnolinguistic enclaves...
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  • Language, Society and Power Language, Society and Power
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    Language, Society and Power

    Language, Society and Power provides an accessible introduction to the study of language in a variety of social contexts. This book examines the ways language functions, how it influences the way we...
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  • Multilingualism in Education in Nepal Multilingualism in Education in Nepal
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    Multilingualism in Education in Nepal

    This book explores the development of multilingual policy in education in Nepal in sociopolitical and historical contexts and examines the frameworks of language use in schools. It investigates the...
    $373.00

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  • The Discourse of Sport The Discourse of Sport
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    The Discourse of Sport

    This collection brings together innovative research from socially-oriented applied linguists working in sports. Drawing on contemporary approaches to applied linguistics, this book provides readers...
    $123.00

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  • The Story of Yiddish The Story of Yiddish
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    The Story of Yiddish

    A delightfully unconventional tale of a people, their place in the world, and the fascinating language that held them together.Yiddish is an unlikely survivor of the ages, much like the Jews...
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  • Black Names Matter Black Names Matter
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    Black Names Matter

    “Antwaneisha”, “Brionshay” and “Tayvion”—for some, pronouncing these names are a daunting task, and for others, it’s a symbol of cultural identity. Black Names Matter: The Black Names Book defines...
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  • Spanish in Miami Spanish in Miami
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    Spanish in Miami

    Spanish in Miami reveals the multifaceted ways in which the language is ideologically rescaled and sociolinguistically reconfigured in this global city. Spanish in Miami will be of interest to...
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  • Discursive Approaches to Language Policy Discursive Approaches to Language Policy
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    Discursive Approaches to Language Policy

    This book brings together the fields of language policy and discourse studies from a multidisciplinary theoretical, methodological and empirical perspective. The chapters in this volume are written...
    $194.00

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  • Tourist Activities in Multimodal Texts Tourist Activities in Multimodal Texts
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    Tourist Activities in Multimodal Texts

    The book is devoted to the analysis of promotional material of tourist activities on tourism websites, including walking, dining, and visiting natural and cultural heritage sights, as instances of...
    $116.00

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