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  • Madison Women Madison Women
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    Madison Women

    By uncovering how higher education and gender roles evolved in Appalachia over time, The Madison Women delivers a history that contradicts the stereotype of the region as hostile to education, highlighting colleges that proliferated the area in the 19th...
    $77.00

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  • Regional Nationalism in Spain Regional Nationalism in Spain
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    Regional Nationalism in Spain

    This book is about linguistic diversity and language revitalisation in Galicia, an autochthonous region of Spain. Taking historical and linguistic perspectives, it examines societal language use and institutional support to determine the role of the...
    $82.00

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  • Language and Aging in Multilingual Contexts Language and Aging in Multilingual Contexts
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    Language and Aging in Multilingual Contexts

    In this book different aspects of language and aging are discussed. While language spoken by and language spoken with elderly people have been treated as different areas of research, it is argued here that from a dynamical system perspective the two are...
    $59.00

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  • Audible Difference Audible Difference
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    Audible Difference

    This book is about the relationship between learning English as an additional language and the ways in which immigrant students are able to represent their identities at school. In high schools, how such students are heard by others may be just as...
    $210.00

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  • World English World English
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    World English

    This text traces the history of English language spread from the 18th to the beginning of the 21st century, combining that with a study of its language change. It links linguistic and sociolinguistic variables that have conditioned the evolution and...
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  • Hear Ye the Word of the Lord Hear Ye the Word of the Lord
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    Hear Ye the Word of the Lord

    In today's reading culture, it is easy to forget that we receive God's message far differently from how the original hearers would have heard it. D. Brent Sandy explores how oral communication shaped biblical writers and ancient hearers, and provides...
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  • Researching Language, Gender and Sexuality Researching Language, Gender and Sexuality
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    Researching Language, Gender and Sexuality

    Researching Language, Gender and Sexuality leads students through the process of undertaking research in order to explore how gender and sexuality are represented and constructed through language. Drawing on international research, Sauntson incorporates...
    $118.00

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  • Exploring ELF in Japanese Academic and Business Contexts Exploring ELF in Japanese Academic and Business Contexts
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    Exploring ELF in Japanese Academic and Business Contexts

    This book investigates the theoretical, empirical and pedagogical issues to help us better understand what is happening with English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) communication and to activate this knowledge in respective communicative contexts. It focuses...
    $128.00

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    Automation in Communication

    By drawing on multiple examples from healthcare, religion, service encounters and poetry, Lionel Wee presents rich insights into the use of automation in communication through a posthumanist lens.
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    Pseudology

    In an age where fake news, conspiracy theories, and outright lies by political and cultural leaders are commonplace, we may be becoming accustomed to lying, or worse, even immune to it. Pseudology unravels the reasons for this by describing a "science of...
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  • Diverse Voices in Chinese Translation and Interpreting Diverse Voices in Chinese Translation and Interpreting
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    Diverse Voices in Chinese Translation and Interpreting

    This book presents a thoughtful and thorough account of diverse studies on Chinese translation and interpreting (TI). It introduces readers to a plurality of scholarly voices focusing on different aspects of Chinese TI from an interdisciplinary and...
    $308.00

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  • Japanese Language and Soft Power in Asia Japanese Language and Soft Power in Asia
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    Japanese Language and Soft Power in Asia

    This cutting edge collection considers how the Japanese language functions as a key element of Japanese soft power in Asia. Within Japanese culture itself, the promotion of language has been an area of ambivalence. This interdisciplinary book looks...
    $216.00

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  • Intercultural Communication in Asia Intercultural Communication in Asia
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    Intercultural Communication in Asia

    This volume presents in-depth studies on leading themes in education policy and intercultural communication in contemporary Asia, covering empirical as well as theoretical approaches, and offering both an in-depth investigation of their implications, and...
    $285.00

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  • Language Development across the Life Span Language Development across the Life Span
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    Language Development across the Life Span

    This book offers insights from a seven-year study into the impact of English as an International Language at a national level, from the effect of rich English input on a previously monolingual people's linguistic repertoire to its effect on the situated...
    $259.00

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  • Language and Migration in a Multilingual Metropolis Language and Migration in a Multilingual Metropolis
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    Language and Migration in a Multilingual Metropolis

    This lively and engaging book, set in the historical context of centuries of migration and multilingualism in Berlin, explores the relationship between language and migration. Berlin is a multicultural city in the heart of Europe, but what do we know...
    $184.00

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  • Learning from Difference Learning from Difference
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    Learning from Difference

    This book analyses the experiences of multicultural education in nine very different international settings uncovering insights from a vast variety of educational contexts.   Taking a multi-critical approach in reporting and discussing problems...
    $227.00

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  • A Theory of Applied Linguistics A Theory of Applied Linguistics
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    A Theory of Applied Linguistics

    This book adopts as conceptual focus the technical mode of experience, exploring this characteristic mode of design as the angle from which the discipline of applied linguistics takes its cue. What makes applied linguistic concept formation possible? A...
    $294.00

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  • Language Education Programs Language Education Programs
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    Language Education Programs

    This book delves into the realm of effective language education programs, examining them from both macro and micro-policy-making perspectives. It unravels the distinguishing features of exemplary language programs and explores how these programs are...
    $249.00

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  • Segregation in Language Education Segregation in Language Education
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    Segregation in Language Education

    This book sets out to try to understand why segregated schooling still exists, especially in northern Italy in South Tyrol where they practice 'separate but equal' education. Supported by the UN, the Austrian and Italian governments, the province is...
    $216.00

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  • Internal and External Causes of Language Change Internal and External Causes of Language Change
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    Internal and External Causes of Language Change

    This volume collects ten studies that propose modern methodologies of analyzing and explaining language change in the case of various morpho-phonological and morpho-syntactic characteristics. The studies were first presented in the fourth, fifth and...
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    International Perspectives on English Private Tutoring

    This book focuses on private tutoring (sometimes also known as "shadow education"), an important but neglected topic in applied linguistics and language education research. Private tutoring has become a popular out-of-school learning activity...
    $238.00

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    Understanding Linguistic Prejudice

    This book discusses linguistic diversity, linguistic prejudice, and language variation and change from a Global South perspective by analyzing Brazilian Portuguese, Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS) and indigenous languages spoken in Brazil. It brings...
    $238.00

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  • STEM English in Japan STEM English in Japan
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    STEM English in Japan

    This book focuses on Japanese science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) students and their experiences of learning English. Students majoring in STEM face unique circumstances regarding their English language education. Despite the global...
    $238.00

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  • From Fritzl to #metoo From Fritzl to #metoo
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    From Fritzl to #metoo

    This is the first longitudinal study of the language used by the British press to talk about rape. Through a diachronic analysis informed by corpus linguistics and feminist theory, Tranchese examines how rape discourse has (or has not) changed over the...
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  • Reconceptualising Power in Language Policy Reconceptualising Power in Language Policy
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    Reconceptualising Power in Language Policy

    This book aims to expand the theoretical framework of and counter the Eurocentric narratives in language policy research, by comparing policies of EU and India and demonstrating the importance of taking a comparative perspective while studying language...
    $184.00

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  • Language and Spirit Language and Spirit
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    Language and Spirit

    ​This edited book explores stories of linguistic and spiritual identity in the urban and rural Australian landscape. It is an innovative mix of thirty six personal narratives and eleven research studies, which together offer accounts of the intersection...
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  • Language and Social Justice in Context Language and Social Justice in Context
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    Language and Social Justice in Context

    This book builds on recent research exploring the intersection between language and social justice, using the multilingual context of Hawai'i as a case study. The author offers a discourse-centered approach, providing analyses of actual...
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  • Algerian Languages in Education Algerian Languages in Education
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    Algerian Languages in Education

    This book examines the role of foreign languages and cultures in the Algerian educational system, highlighting how cultural imperialism and supremacy persist through damaging language ideologies and the privileging of colonial languages such as French...
    $184.00

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  • Language Policies and the Politics of Language Practices Language Policies and the Politics of Language Practices
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    Language Policies and the Politics of Language Practices

    This edited volume consists of chapters celebrating the career of scholar Sjaak Kroon, who has produced ground-breaking work in the field of ethnography of education, immigrant minority language teaching and language politics. The chapters cover the use...
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  • Language as a Social Determinant of Health Language as a Social Determinant of Health
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    Language as a Social Determinant of Health

    This edited volume demonstrates the fundamental role translation and interpreting play in multilingual crises. During the COVID-19 pandemic, limited language proficiency of the main language(s) in which information is disseminated exposed people to...
    $298.00

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  • Early Language Learning Policy in the 21st Century Early Language Learning Policy in the 21st Century
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    Early Language Learning Policy in the 21st Century

    This volume analyses the policymaking, expectations, implementation, progress, and outcomes of early language learning in various education policy contexts worldwide. The contributors to the volume are international researchers specialising in language...
    $335.00

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  • Perspectives on Academic Persian Perspectives on Academic Persian
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    Perspectives on Academic Persian

    This book focuses on the idea of Academic Persian in the growing competition of many Middle Eastern languages to produce and highlight their academic discourse. Similar to academic English, most West Asian languages including Persian, Turkish, and Arabic...
    $281.00

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  • Language, Gender and Videogames Language, Gender and Videogames
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    Language, Gender and Videogames

    This book explores how corpus linguistic techniques can be applied to close analysis of videogames as a text, particularly examining how language is used to construct representations of gender in fantasy videogames. The author demonstrates a wide array...
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  • Multilingualism and Politics Multilingualism and Politics
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    Multilingualism and Politics

    This edited book makes a significant contribution to the relatively under-explored field of multilingualism and politics, approaching the topic from two key perspectives: multilingualism in politics, and the politics of multilingualism. Through the lens...
    $307.00

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  • Minority Languages from Western Europe and Russia Minority Languages from Western Europe and Russia
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    Minority Languages from Western Europe and Russia

    This book offers a comparative approach within a general framework of studies on minority languages of Western Europe and Russia and former Soviet space, focusing on linguistic, legal and categorization aspects. It is connected to a comparative study of...
    $227.00

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  • Community Based Research in Language Policy and Planning Community Based Research in Language Policy and Planning
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    Community Based Research in Language Policy and Planning

    This volume focuses on a case where community organizing, academic research and governmental responsibility were successfully mobilized and synchronized to bring about change in educational policy and practice. The focus of this book is the methodology...
    $184.00

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  • Language, Discourse and Social Psychology Language, Discourse and Social Psychology
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    Language, Discourse and Social Psychology

    Language and communication are central features of social behaviour. So, it is somewhat surprising that the social psychological study of language, communication and discourse has a relatively short history. In this book a leading group of language,...
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  • Translanguaging for Equal Opportunities Translanguaging for Equal Opportunities
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    Translanguaging for Equal Opportunities

    This multi-authored monograph, located in the intersection of translanguaging research and Romani studies, offers a state-of-the-art analysis of the ways in which translanguaging supports bilingual Roma students' learning in monolingual school systems...
    $257.00

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  • Langue(s), territoire(s) et identité(s) Langue(s), territoire(s) et identité(s)
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    Langue(s), territoire(s) et identité(s)

    Langue(s), territoires et identité(s) : L'identité sociolinguistique des KabylesComment les locuteurs kabyles vivent-ils la diversité linguistique de leur région? Dans quelle mesure les discours épilinguistiques (discours tenus sur les langues) de nos...
    $64.00

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