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  • The Cosmopolitan Dream

    Transnational Chinese Masculinities in a Global Age

    Edited by Derek Hird, Geng Song ...
    Series Book 1 - Transnational Asian Masculinities
    The Cosmopolitan Dream presents the broad patterns in the transformations of mainland Chinese masculinity over recent years, covering both representations (in film, fiction, and on television) and the lived experiences of Chinese men on four continents. Exposure to transnational influences has made Chinese notions of masculinity more cosmopolitan than ever before, yet the configurations of these ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Critical Pedagogies for Modern Languages Education

    Criticality, Decolonization, and Social Justice

    Edited by Dr Derek Hird ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Guidebooks for Language Teachers
    In the context of Black Lives Matter, decolonizing initiatives, #MeToo, climate emergency protests and other movements for social and environmental justice, this volume posits a simple question: how can modern languages be taught so that they challenge rather than reinforce social inequalities?Informed by interdisciplinary theories, Critical Pedagogies for Modern Language Education focuses on ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    by Ronald Wardhaugh, Janet M. Fuller ...
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    AN INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLINGUISTICSThe new eighth edition of An Introduction to Sociolinguistics brings this valuable, bestselling textbook up to date with the latest in sociolinguistic research and pedagogy, providing a broad overview of the study of language in social context with accessible coverage of major concepts, theories, methods, issues, and debates within the field. This leading text ... Read more

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  • Revisualising Intersectionality

    by Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Magdalena Nowicka, Tiara Roxanne ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Revisualising Intersectionality offers transdisciplinary interrogations of the supposed visual evidentiality of categories of human similarity and difference. This open-access book incorporates insights from social and cognitive science as well as psychology and philosophy to explain how we visually perceive physical differences and how cognition is fallible, processual, and dependent on who is ... Read more

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  • Exploring Intercultural Communication

    Language in Action

    by Zhu Hua ...
    Series series Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics
    Exploring Intercultural Communication investigates the role of language in intercultural communication, paying particular attention to the interplay between cultural diversity and language practice. This second edition increases and updates the coverage on emerging key topics, including symbolic power, communicative turbulence, conversational inequality, stereotypes, racism, Nationality and ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • Alternative Narratives in Early Childhood

    An Introduction for Students and Practitioners

    by Peter Moss ...
    Series series Contesting Early Childhood
    Challenging dominant discourses in the field of early childhood education, this book provides an accessible introduction to some of the alternative narratives and diverse perspectives that are increasingly to be heard in this field, as well as discussing the importance of paradigm, politics and ethics.Peter Moss draws on material published in the groundbreaking Contesting Early Childhood series to ... Read more

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  • Multilingualism, Discourse, and Ethnography

    Edited by Sheena Gardner, Marilyn Martin-Jones ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism
    Over the last twenty years, sociolinguistic research on multilingualism has been transformed. Two processes have been at work: first, an epistemological shift to a critical ethnographic approach, which has contributed to a larger turn toward post-structuralist perspectives on social life. Second, the effects of globalization—transnational population flows, new communication technologies, ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Social and Political Dimensions of Mathematics Education

    Current Thinking

    by Murad Jurdak, Renuka Vithal, Elizabeth de Freitas, Peter Gates, David Kollosche ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines the current thinking on five critical social and political areas in mathematics education. It focuses on material conditions in teaching and learning, and details features of social life and their influence on mathematics teaching, learning and achievement. Following an introduction, the first section addresses equitable access and participation in quality mathematics education. ... Read more

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  • Pierre Bourdieu and Literacy Education

    Edited by James Albright, Allan Luke ...
    In this volume scholars from around the world focus on how a Bourdieusian stance can enable a powerful socicultural and cultural analysis of literacy education theory and practice and serve as an effective tool in analyzing relations of hierarchy and domination. Although there has been a growing body of Bourdieusian-inspired research in various sectors of education, this book is the first to ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society

    Edited by Ofelia Garcia, Nelson Flores, Massimiliano Spotti ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This Oxford Handbook challenges basic concepts that have informed the study of sociolinguistics since its inception in the 1960s. In 27 chapters, the book challenges the modernist positivist perspective of the field that has treated languages and speech communities as bounded and the idealized native speaker as the ultimate authority. Instead, it offers a critical poststructuralist perspective ... Read more

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  • Diversity and Super-Diversity

    Sociocultural Linguistic Perspectives

    by Jan Blommaert, Ruth Wodak, Markus Rheindorf, Elana Shohamy, Suresh Canagarajah, Fatma Said, Zhu Hua, Angela Creese, Adrian Blackledge0, Rachel Hu1, Elizabeth Miller2, Anastasia Nylund3, Betsy Rymes4, Geeta Aneja5, Andrea Leone-Pizzighella6, Mark Lewis7, Robert Moore8, Luisa Martin Rojo9, Christine Anthonissen0, Inmaculada García-Sánchez1, Virginia Unamuno2, Anna De Fina4 ...
    Series series Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series
    Sociocultural linguistics has long conceived of languages as well-bounded, separate codes. But the increasing diversity of languages encountered by most people in their daily lives challenges this conception. Because globalization has accelerated population flows, cities are now sites of encounter for groups that are highly diverse in terms of origins, cultural practices, and languages. Further, ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology

    Edited by Nancy Bonvillain ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics
    The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology is a broad survey of linguistic anthropology, featuring contributions from prominent scholars in the field. Each chapter presents a brief historical summary of research in the field and discusses topics and issues of current concern to people doing research in linguistic anthropology. The handbook is organized into four parts – Language and ... Read more

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