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  • «Ane end of an auld song?»

    Macro and Micro Perspectives on Written Scots in Correspondence during the Union of the Parliaments Debates

    by Sarah van Eyndhoven, Nils Langer, Wim Vandenbussche, Stephan Elspaß, Joseph Salmons ...
    Series Book 8 - Historical Sociolinguistics
    This book examines the relationship between political identity and variation from a diachronic perspective, and how vernacular features could index political and ideological affiliations. Specifically, it explores the use of written Scots in the correspondence of Scottish politicians active during the Union of the Parliaments debates at the turn of the eighteenth century. Drawing from the ... Read more

    $82.29 CAD

  • The German-Speaking World

    A Practical Introduction to Sociolinguistic Issues

    by Patrick Stevenson, Kristine Horner, Nils Langer, Gertrud Reershemius ...
    Series series Routledge Language in Society
    The German-Speaking World is an accessible textbook that offers students the opportunity to explore for themselves a wide range of sociolinguistic issues relating to the German language and its role in the world.This new, second edition has been fully revised to reflect the many political and social changes of the last 20 years including the impact of technology on language change. It continues to ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Language Ideology, Policy, and Practice

    Focus on Minoritized Languages Past and Present

    Edited by Samantha M. Litty, Nils Langer ...
    Series Book 7 - Historical Sociolinguistics
    This book combines studies of a broad range of minority and minoritized languages from the past and present to examine the dynamics of changes in the status of language use and language perception. They address two fundamental questions of sociolinguistics, namely,A. How is linguistic variation at speaker and/or community level structured so that certain variants and varieties have a particular ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

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  • The houses of history

    A critical reader in history and theory, second edition

    by Anna Green, Kathleen Troup ...
    The houses of history is a clear, jargon-free introduction to the major theoretical approaches employed by historians. This innovative critical reader provides accessible introductions to fourteen schools of thought, from the empiricist to the postcolonial, including chapters on Marxist history, Freud and psychohistory, the Annales, historical sociology, narrative, gender, public history and the ... Read more

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  • Anthropology

    A Continental Perspective

    by Christoph Wulf ...
    Originally published in German, Christoph Wulf's Anthropology sets its sights on a topic as ambitious as its title suggests: anthropology itself. Arguing for an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to anthropology that incorporates science, philosophy, history, and many other disciplines, Wulf examines—with breathtaking scope—all the ways that anthropology has been understood and practiced ... Read more

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  • Speaking in Tongues

    by J. M. Coetzee, Mariana Dimópulos ...
    **Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025In this provocative dialogue, a Nobel laureate novelist and a leading translator investigate the nature of language and the challenges of translation.“An intelligent, moving, and supremely humane act of criticism that reveals just how difficult and wondrous it can be to inhabit a language that is not your own.” — Merve Emre**Language, historically speaking ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Cultures of Mediatization

    by Andreas Hepp ...
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  • Doing Discourse Research

    An Introduction for Social Scientists

    by Reiner Keller ...
    This book provides an introduction to the basic principles of discourse research, offering practical research strategies for doing discourse analyses in the social sciences. The book includes guidance on developing a research question, selecting data and analyzing it, and presenting the results. The author has extensive practical experience in the field of discourse research and shows, throughout, ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Translation Studies

    by Piotr KUHIWCZAK and Karin Littau ...
    A Companion to Translation Studies is the first work of its kind. It provides an authoritative guide to key approaches in translation studies. All of the essays are specially commissioned for this collection, and written by leading international experts in the field. The book is divided into nine specialist areas: culture, philosophy, linguistics, history, literary, gender, theatre and opera, ... Read more

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  • Children's Literature in Translation

    Challenges and Strategies

    by Jan Van Coillie, Walter P. Verschueren ...
    Children's classics from Alice in Wonderland to the works of Astrid Lindgren, Roald Dahl, J.K. Rowling and Philip Pullman are now generally recognized as literary achievements that from a translator's point of view are no less demanding than 'serious' (adult) literature. This volume attempts to explore the various challenges posed by the translation of children's literature and at the same time ... Read more

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  • Design Ethnography

    Epistemology and Methodology

    by Francis Müller ...
    Translated by Anna Brailovsky ...
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    This open access book describes methods for research on and research through design. It posits that ethnography is an appropriate method for design research because it constantly orients itself, like design projects, towards social realities. In research processes, designers acquire project-specific knowledge, which happens mostly intuitively in practice. When this knowledge becomes the subject of ... Read more

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