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Encounters eBook Series

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  • The Linguistic Landscape of Chinatown

    A Sociolinguistic Ethnography

    by Jackie Jia Lou ...
    Series Book 6 - Encounters
    This book presents a sociolinguistic ethnography of the linguistic landscape of Chinatown in Washington, DC. The book sheds a unique light on the impact of urban development on traditionally ethnic neighbourhoods and discusses the various historical, social and cultural factors that contribute to this area’s shifting linguistic landscape. Based on fieldwork, interviews with residents and visitors ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do men and women really speak different languages?

    Do men and women really speak different languages?

    by Deborah Cameron ...
    Popular assumptions about gender and communication - famously summed up in the title of the massively influential 1992 bestseller Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus - can have unforeseen but far-reaching consequences in many spheres of life, from attitudes to the phenomenon of 'date-rape' to expectations of achievement at school, and potential discrimination in the work-place. In this wide ... Read more

    $11.59 CAD

  • 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

    $55.99 CAD

  • A Rationalist Critique of Deconstruction: Demystifying Poststructuralism and Derrida's Science of the "Non"

    by Morgan A. Brown ...
    This book endeavors to provide a thorough critique of Deconstruction and Structuralism from the standpoint of rationalist epistemology in the Misesian tradition of Austrian Economics. Deconstruction, the author contends, is best examined through the lens of microeconomic rationalism, since Derrida's theory is at its base a literary incarnation of Vilfredo Pareto's Indifference Theory. This book is ... Read more

    $5.32 CAD

  • Conversation Analysis

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Jack Sidnell ...
    Series Book 27 - Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics
    'Conversation analysis' is an approach to the study of social interaction that focuses on practices of speaking that recur across a range of contexts and settings. The early studies in this tradition were based on the analysis of English conversation. More recently, however, conversation analysts have begun to study talk in a broader range of communities around the world. Through detailed analyses ... Read more

    $53.99 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

    $43.99 CAD

  • Keeping Languages Alive

    Documentation, Pedagogy and Revitalization

    by Mari C. Jones, Sarah Ogilvie ...
    Many of the world's languages have diminishing numbers of speakers and are in danger of falling silent. Around the globe, a large body of linguists are collaborating with members of indigenous communities to keep these languages alive. Mindful that their work will be used by future speech communities to learn, teach and revitalise their languages, scholars face new challenges in the way they ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Language, Literacy and Diversity

    Moving Words

    Edited by Christopher Stroud, Mastin Prinsloo ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism
    Language, Literacy and Diversity brings together researchers who are leading the innovative and important re-theorization of language and literacy in relation to social mobility, multilingualism and globalization. The volume examines local and global flows of people, language and literacy in relation to social practice; the role (and nature) of boundary maintenance or disruption in global, ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Interviewing for Language Proficiency

    Interaction and Interpretation

    by Steven J. Ross ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book analyses oral proficiency interviews, a mainstay of second language speaking proficiency assessment for several decades. Adopting a mixed-method perspective involving micro-analytic approaches, discourse analysis and quantitative methods such as multi-level modeling and event history analysis, the author focuses on interaction and discourse processes common in language assessment ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • 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

  • Language, Technology, and Society

    by Richard Sproat ...
    This book traces the history of language technology from writing - the first technology specifically designed for language - to digital speech and other contemporary language systems. The book describes the social impact of technological developments over five millennia, and addresses topics such as the ways in which literacy has influenced cognitive and scientific development; the social impact ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Native Studies Keywords

    Edited by Stephanie Nohelani Teves, Andrea Smith, Michelle Raheja ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies
    Native Studies Keywords explores selected concepts in Native studies and the words commonly used to describe them, words whose meanings have been insufficiently examined. This edited volume focuses on the following eight concepts: sovereignty, land, indigeneity, nation, blood, tradition, colonialism, and indigenous knowledge. Each section includes three or four essays and provides definitions, ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD