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  • Higher Education, Language and New Nationalism in Finland

    Recycled Histories

    by Taina Saarinen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The book discusses recycled discourses of language and nationalism in Finnish higher education, demonstrating the need to look beyond language in the study of language policies of higher education. It analyses the historical and political layeredness of language policies as well as the intertwined nature of national and international developments in understanding new nationalism. Finnish higher ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Language Policies in Finland and Sweden

    Interdisciplinary and Multi-sited Comparisons

    Edited by Mia Halonen, Pasi Ihalainen, Taina Saarinen ...
    Series Book 157 - Multilingual Matters
    In this volume, authors from four disciplines join forces to develop an analysis of political discourse on a comparative and multidisciplinary basis. Language policy is often based on the political use of history, where the remembrance of past experiences by communities, individuals and historical bodies play a fundamental role. These authors see politics and policies as multi-sited by nature, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • New Materialist Explorations into Language Education

    Edited by Johanna Ennser-Kananen, Taina Saarinen ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book analyzes language education through a socio-material framework. The authors revisit their position as researchers by decentering themselves and humans in general from the main focus of research activities and giving way to the materialities that are agentive but often overlooked parts of our research contexts and processes. Through this critical posthumanist realism, they are ... Read more

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  • Interpretive Research Design

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    by Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, Dvora Yanow ...
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  • Discovery of Grounded Theory

    Strategies for Qualitative Research

    by Barney Glaser, Anselm Strauss ...
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  • Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence

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    by Prof. Michael Byram ...
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  • Discourse in Action

    Introducing Mediated Discourse Analysis

    by Rodney H Jones, Sigrid Norris ...
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  • Transcultural Communication Through Global Englishes

    An Advanced Textbook for Students

    by Will Baker, Tomokazu Ishikawa ...
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  • Reframing Visual Social Science

    Towards a More Visual Sociology and Anthropology

    by Luc Pauwels ...
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  • The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics

    Edited by James Simpson ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics
    The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics serves as an introduction and reference point to key areas in the field of applied linguistics.The five sections of the volume encompass a wide range of topics from a variety of perspectives:applied linguistics in actionlanguage learning, language educationlanguage, culture and identityperspectives on language in usedescriptions of language for applied ... Read more

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  • Research Methodologies in Translation Studies

    by Gabriela Saldanha, Sharon O'Brien ...
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