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  • English and Translation in the European Union

    Unity and Multiplicity in the Wake of Brexit

    by Alice Leal ...
    Series series
    This book explores the growing tension between multilingualism and monolingualism in the European Union in the wake of Brexit, underpinned by the interplay between the rise of English as a lingua franca and the effacement of translations in EU institutions, bodies and agencies.English and Translation in the European Union draws on an interdisciplinary approach, highlighting insights from applied ... Read more

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  • Language Policy and the Future of Europe

    A Conversation with Seán Ó Riain

    by Alice Leal, Seán Ó Riain ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Applied Linguistics
    This volume offers an insider perspective on language policy in the EU, bringing together two key figures well acquainted with its development to reflect critically on the future of language policy and practices in post-Brexit Europe.Born out of Alice Leal’s English and Translation in the European Union, this volume features annotated interviews with Seán Ó Riain, newly appointed Multilingualism ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Translator’s Visibility

    New Debates and Epistemologies

    Edited by Larisa Cercel, Alice Leal ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    This collection illuminates the epistemological and philosophical underpinnings of Lawrence Venuti’s seminal The Translator’s Invisibility, extending these conversations through a contemporary lens of epistemic justice while also exploring its manifestations and transposing it to different disciplines and contexts.The volume is divided into five parts. The opening chapters provide contemporary ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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  • Linguistic Imperialism Continued

    by Robert Phillipson ...
    This volume brings together key writings since the 1992 publication of Linguistic Imperialism – Robert Phillipson’s controversial benchmark volume, which triggered a major re-thinking of the English teaching profession by connecting the field to wider political and economic forces. Analyzing how the global dominance of English in all domains of power is maintained, legitimized and persists in the ... Read more

    $122.99 CAD

  • An Introduction to Multilingualism

    Language in a Changing World

    by Florian Coulmas ...
    Series series Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics
    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 such as 'mother tongue', 'native speaker', and 'speech community'. In the chapters that follow, ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy

    Edited by Bernard Spolsky ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    Over the last fifty years, language policy has developed into a major discipline, drawing on research and practice in many nations and at many levels. This is the first Handbook to deal with language policy as a whole and is a complete 'state-of-the-field' survey, covering language practices, beliefs about language varieties, and methods and agencies for language management. It provides a ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Language and Politics

    Edited by Ruth Wodak, Bernhard Forchtner ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics
    The Routledge Handbook of Language and Politics provides a comprehensive overview of this important and dynamic area of study and research. Language is indispensable to initiating, justifying, legitimatising and coordinating action as well as negotiating conflict and, as such, is intrinsically linked to the area of politics. With 45 chapters written by leading scholars from around the world, this ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Introducing Multilingualism

    A Social Approach

    by Kristine Horner, Jean Jacques Weber ...
    Introducing Multilingualism is a comprehensive and user-friendly introduction to the dynamic field of multilingualism. Adopting a compelling social and critical approach and covering important social and educational issues, the authors expertly guide readers through the established theories, leading them to question dominant discourses on subjects such as integration, heritage and language testing ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Minority Languages and Communities

    Edited by Gabrielle Hogan-Brun, Bernadette O’Rourke ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This Handbook is an in-depth appraisal of the field of minority languages and communities today. It presents a wide-ranging, coherent picture of the main topics, with key contributions from international specialists in sociolinguistics, policy studies, sociology, anthropology and law. Individual chapters are grouped together in themes, covering regional, non-territorial and migratory language ... Read more

    $281.99 CAD

  • Social Theory and Modern Sociology

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    In this book Anthony Giddens addresses a range of issues concerning current developments in social theory, relating them to the prospects for sociology in the closing decades of the twentieth century.Composed of closely integrated papers, all written over the past few years, the book includes seven essays not previously published, plus two have not appeared in English before.In assessing the ... Read more

    $46.50 CAD

  • How Many Languages Do We Need?

    The Economics of Linguistic Diversity

    by Victor Ginsburgh, Shlomo Weber ...
    In the global economy, linguistic diversity influences economic and political development as well as public policies in positive and negative ways. It leads to financial costs, communication barriers, divisions in national unity, and, in some extreme cases, conflicts and war--but it also produces benefits related to group and individual identity. What are the specific advantages and disadvantages ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor

    by Sandro Mezzadra, Brett Neilson ...
    Series series a Social Text book
    Far from creating a borderless world, contemporary globalization has generated a proliferation of borders. In Border as Method, Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson chart this proliferation, investigating its implications for migratory movements, capitalist transformations, and political life. They explore the atmospheric violence that surrounds borderlands and border struggles across various ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD