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  • Language Endangerment

    by David Bradley, Maya Bradley ...
    Series series Key Topics in Linguistic Anthropology
    Up to ninety percent of humanity's traditional languages and cultures are at risk and may disappear this century. While language endangerment has not achieved the publicity surrounding environmental change and biodiversity loss, it is just as serious, disastrously reducing the variety of human knowledge and thought. This book shows why it matters, why and how it happens, and what communities and ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance

    An Active Approach

    Edited by David Bradley, Maya Bradley ...
    Language endangerment is a fundamental issue for humanity. What rights do minority communities have concerning their languages? How does each language conceptualize the world differently? How much knowledge about the world and a local ecosystem is lost when a language disappears? What is the process involved and how can insights about this process contribute to linguistic theory? What typological ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Primer to The Immune Response

    by Tak W. Mak, Mary E. Saunders, Bradley D. Jett ...
    Primer to The Immune Response is an invaluable resource for college students, university undergraduates and students in medicine and other health professions who need a concise but complete and understandable introduction to immunology. This book is written in the same engaging conversational style as the published reference book The Immune Response: Basic and Clinical Principles and conveys the ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

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  • Think Like an Anthropologist

    by Matthew Engelke ...
    Series series Pelican Books
    What is anthropology? What can it tell us about culture and the world around us? And why do we need it?For well over one hundred years, social and cultural anthropologists have traversed the world from Melanesia to suburban England, Taipei to Wall Street, uncovering surprising facts, patterns, predilections and, sometimes, the inexplicable, in terms of how humans organize their lives and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Sociolinguistics

    An Introduction to Language and Society

    by Peter Trudgill ...
    This is a classic book on a fascinating subject. Peter Trudgill examines the close link between language and society and the many factors that influence the way we speak. These range from gender, environment, age, race, class, region and politics. Trudgill's book surveys languages and societies from all over the world drawing on examples from Afrikaans to Yiddish. He has added a fascinating ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

    by Ronald Wardhaugh ...
    Series Book 28 - Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics
    This comprehensive new edition of Wardhaugh’s textbook incorporates additional study features and numerous new and updated references to bring the book completely up-to-date, whilst maintaining the features that made the book so popular with lecturers and students: accessible coverage of a wide range of issues, clearly written, and with useful student study features.A fully revised new edition of ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Learning Chinese, Turning Chinese

    Challenges to Becoming Sinophone in a Globalised World

    by Edward McDonald ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations
    In this book Edward McDonald takes a fresh look at issues of language in Chinese studies. He takes the viewpoint of the university student of Chinese with the ultimate goal of becoming 'sinophone': that is, developing a fluency and facility at operating in Chinese-language contexts comparable to their own mother tongue. While the entry point for most potential sinophones is the Chinese language ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Multilingualism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John C. Maher ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The languages of the world can be seen and heard in cities and towns, forests and isolated settlements, as well as on the internet and in international organizations like the UN or the EU. How did the world acquire so many languages? Why can't we all speak one language, like English or Esperanto? And what makes a person bilingual? Multilingualism, language diversity in society, is a perfect ... Read more

    $7.99 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

  • Language in Society

    An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

    by Suzanne Romaine ...
    Why have 1500 separate languages developed in the Pacific region? Why do Danes understand Norwegians better than Norwegians understand Danish? Is Ebonics a language or a dialect? Linguistics tends to ignore the relationship between languages and the societies in which they are spoken, while sociology generally overlooks the role of language in the constitution of society. In this book Suzanne ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Small Places, Large Issues

    An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology

    by Thomas Hylland Eriksen ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    ‘Remains among the most brilliant summaries of key ideas animating anthropology. In his famously accessible writing style, Eriksen introduces fundamental questions that shape human life, and provides an overview of the discipline’s contribution to the pressing issues of our times. A must-read’ Ursula Rao, Director, Anthropology of Politics and Governance, Max Planck Institute for Social ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • English as a Lingua Franca in ASEAN

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    The lingua franca role of English, coupled with its status as the official language of ASEAN, has important implications for language policy and language education. These include the relationship between English, the respective national languages of ASEAN and thousands of local languages. How can the demand for English be balanced against the need for people to acquire their national language and ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD