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  • The Effects of Personal Involvement in Narrative Discourse

    A Special Issue of Discourse Processes

    Edited by Max Louwerse, Don Kuiken ...
    Over the last several decades, the study of discourse processes has moved from the complementary efforts characteristic of multidisciplinary research, to the explicitly integrative focus of interdisciplinary research. Some organizations have supported the methodological and conceptual merger of areas like literary studies, psychology, linguistics, and education. As evident in this special issue, ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • The New Joys of Yiddish

    Completely Updated

    by Leo Rosten, Lawrence Bush ...
    More than a quarter of a century ago, Leo Rosten published the first comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of the colorful and deeply expressive language of Yiddish. Said “to give body and soul to the Yiddish language,” The Joys of Yiddish went on to become an indispensable tool for writers, journalists, politicians, and students, as well as a perennial bestseller for three decades ... Read more

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  • Shortcut

    How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark Innovation, and Sell Our Greatest Ideas

    by John Pollack ...
    A presidential speechwriter for Bill Clinton explores the hidden power of analogy to fuel thought, connect ideas, spark innovation, and shape outcomesFrom the meatpacking plants that inspired Henry Ford’s first moving assembly line to the "domino theory" that led America into Vietnam to the "bicycle for the mind" that Steve Jobs envisioned as the Macintosh computer, analogies have played a dynamic ... Read more

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  • Sociolinguistics

    The Study of Speakers' Choices

    by Florian Coulmas ...
    Why do we speak the way we do? What are the social factors that influence our choices of expression? This best-selling introduction to the study of language and society encourages students to think about these fundamental questions, asking how and why we select from the vast range of different words, accents, varieties and languages available to us. In this new and updated edition, students are ... Read more

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  • Sociolinguistics

    Theoretical Debates

    Edited by Nikolas Coupland ...
    Sociolinguistics is a dynamic field of research that explains the role and function of language in social life. This book offers the most substantial account available of the core contemporary ideas and arguments in sociolinguistics, with an emphasis on innovation and change. Bringing together original writing by more than twenty of the field's most influential international thinkers and ... 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

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  • Narrative in English Conversation

    A Corpus Analysis of Storytelling

    by Christoph Rühlemann ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    Storytelling is a fundamental mode of everyday interaction. This book is based upon the Narrative Corpus (NC), a specialized corpus of naturally occurring narratives, and provides new paths for its study. Christoph Rühlemann uses the NC's narrative-specific annotation and XPath and XQuery, query languages that allow the retrieval of complex data structures, to facilitate large-scale quantitative ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Awareness and Control in Sociolinguistic Research

    Edited by Anna M. Babel ...
    The topic of awareness and control is an elephant in the room in sociolinguistic research. To what extent are speakers aware of sociolinguistic variables? Are there different types or levels of awareness? Is 'control' of these variables a conscious or unconscious process, or is it some combination of the two? Are the variables we are aware of necessarily those we control, and vice versa? The ... Read more

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  • Language, Youth and Identity in the 21st Century

    Linguistic Practices across Urban Spaces

    Edited by Jacomine Nortier, Bente A. Svendsen ...
    The language of young people is central in sociolinguistic research, as it is seen to be innovative and a primary source of knowledge about linguistic change and the role of language. This volume brings together a team of leading scholars to explore and compare linguistic practices of young people in multilingual urban spaces, with analyses ranging from grammar to ideology. It includes fascinating ... Read more

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  • International English

    A Guide to Varieties of English Around the World

    by Peter Trudgill, Jean Hannah ...
    From Singapore to Scotland, Canada to the Channel Islands, Namibia to New Zealand and beyond, International English takes you on a fascinating journey through the varieties of English spoken around the world. Comparisons across the varieties provide a comprehensive guide to differences in phonetics, phonology, grammar and vocabulary, making this a useful resource for teachers of English as a ... Read more

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  • Leadership, Discourse, and Ethnicity

    by Janet Holmes, Meredith Marra, Bernadette Vine ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
    This is the first book in the field of workplace discourse to examine the relationships among leadership, ethnicity, and language use. Taking a social constructionist approach to the ways in which leadership is enacted through discourse, Leadership, Discourse, and Ethnicity problematizes the concept of ethnicity and demonstrates the importance of context-particularly the community of practice-in ... Read more

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  • Language Practices of Migrant Youth

    From School to Home

    by Louisa Willoughby ...
    This ground breaking research explores language maintenance and shift focusing on a school community. Following students’ language practice inside and outside of school, the author offers a full picture of students’ multilingual practices and their role in shaping identity. Using case studies of eight girls from Vietnamese and Cambodian backgrounds, the book draws on data from questionnaires, ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD