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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “roberta piazza”
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  • The Language of Marginality and Subjectivity in a Global Context

    Edited by Roberta Piazza, Dr Helen Ringrow, Sergio Maruenda-Bataller, Carmen Gregori-Signes ...
    Series series Advances in Sociolinguistics
    This book expands and deepens the investigation of the language associated with or produced by groups that are socially, culturally, racially and economically outliers and whose marginalisation results in a different engagement with and participation in mainstream society's activities.It features case studies from across the globe, including Ghana, Norway, Poland, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • The Discursive Construction of Identity and Space Among Mobile People

    by Roberta Piazza ...
    Series series Advances in Sociolinguistics
    This book offers a close look at the discourse of and around three socially marginalised and vulnerable groups – Irish Travellers, Squatters and Homeless people – in order to understand more about how individuals within them position themselves vis-à-vis mainstream society. It investigates the groups' diverse and provisional relationship with space that challenges mainstream society's spatial ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Values and Choices in Television Discourse

    A View from Both Sides of the Screen

    Edited by Roberta Piazza, Louann Haarman, Anne Caborn ...
    The high-pressured, fast-paced environment of television production leaves little time for producers to reflect on how the potentialities of texts and images will be interpreted outside of the immediate broadcast imperatives. This volume brings together the producers and analysts of television in a formal and productive way. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Discourses of Identity in Liminal Places and Spaces

    Edited by Roberta Piazza ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
    This collection highlights the interplay between language and liminal places and spaces in building distinct narratives of selfhood. The book uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine linguistic and social phenomena in places shaped by displacement and social inequality. The book also looks at chronotopes, the Bakhtinian-inspired concept of the interconnectedness of time and space in identity. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • 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

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  • Raciolinguistics

    How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race

    Edited by H. Samy Alim, John R. Rickford, Arnetha F. Ball ...
    Raciolinguistics reveals the central role that language plays in shaping our ideas about race and vice versa. The book brings together a team of leading scholars-working both within and beyond the United States-to share powerful, much-needed research that helps us understand the increasingly vexed relationships between race, ethnicity, and language in our rapidly changing world. Combining the ... Read more

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  • Urban Assemblages

    How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies

    Edited by Ignacio Farías, Thomas Bender ...
    Series series Questioning Cities
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  • Online Hate Speech in the European Union

    A Discourse-Analytic Perspective

    by Stavros Assimakopoulos, Fabienne H. Baider, Sharon Millar, Natalie Alkiviadou, César Arroyo López, Pablo Bernardino Tempesta, Tatsiana Chulitskaya, Anna Constantinou, Klaus Geyer, Łukasz Grabowski, Uladzislau Ivanou, Monika Kopytowska, Roberto Moreno López, Rasmus Nielsen, Valentina Oliviero, Anastasia Petrou, Ernesto Russo, Rebecca Vella Muskat, Anna Vibeke Lindø, Georgia Whitaker, Julita Woźniak ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book reports on research carried out as part of the European Union co-funded C.O.N.T.A.C.T. project which targeted hate speech and hate crime across a number of EU member states. It showcases the bearing that discourse analytic research can have on our understanding of this phenomenon that is a growing global cause for concern.Although ‘hate speech’ is often incorporated in legal ... Read more

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  • Translation in Global News

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  • Anthropological Practice

    Fieldwork and the Ethnographic Method

    by Judith Okely ...
    Anthropologists are increasingly pressurised to formulate field methods for teaching. Unlike many hypothesis-driven ethnographic texts, this book is designed with the specific needs of the anthropology student and field researcher in mind, with particular emphasis on the core anthropological method: long term participant observation. Anthropological Practice explores fieldwork experiences unique ... Read more

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  • Standardizing Minority Languages

    Competing Ideologies of Authority and Authenticity in the Global Periphery

    Edited by Pia Lane, James Costa, Haley De Korne ...
    The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781138125124**, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.**This volume addresses a crucial, yet largely unaddressed dimension of minority language standardization, namely how social actors engage with, support, negotiate, resist and even reject such ... Read more

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