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  • Language, Space and Identity in Migration

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book explores both theoretical and practical issues of language use in a migration context, using data from a German urban immigrant community in Canada. Through this transcontinental perspective, the book makes a new contribution to the literature on both language and identity and language and globalization. ... Leer más

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  • Language Death

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    Series series Canto Classics
    The rapid endangerment and death of many minority languages across the world is a matter of widespread concern, not only among linguists and anthropologists but among all concerned with issues of cultural identity in an increasingly globalized culture. By some counts, only 600 of the 6,000 or so languages in the world are 'safe' from the threat of extinction. A leading commentator and popular ... Leer más

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  • Slam Dunks and No-Brainers

    Language in Your Life, the Media, Business, Politics, and, Like, Whatever

    de Leslie Savan ...
    In this marvelously original book, three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Leslie Savan offers fascinating insights into why we’re all talking the talk—Duh; Bring it on!; Bling; Whatever!—and what this reveals about America today. Savan traces the paths that phrases like these travel from obscure slang to pop stardom, selling everything from cars (ads for VWs, Mitsubishis, and Mercurys all pitch them ... Leer más

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  • Language, Thought, and Reality, second edition

    Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf

    Writings by a pioneering linguist, including his famous work on the Hopi language, general reflections on language and meaning, and the "Yale Report."The pioneering linguist Benjamin Whorf (1897–1941) grasped the relationship between human language and human thinking: how language can shape our innermost thoughts. His basic thesis is that our perception of the world and our ways of thinking about ... Leer más

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  • Language Myths, Mysteries and Magic

    de K. Stollznow ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Can a bump on the head cause someone to speak with a different accent? Can animals, aliens, and objects talk? Can we communicate with gods, demons, and the dead? Language Myths, Mysteries and Magic is a curio shop full of colourful superstitions, folklore, and legends about language. ... Leer más

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  • Words at Work and Play

    Three Decades in Family and Community Life

    Childhood and family life have changed significantly in recent decades. What is the nature of these changes? How have they affected the use of time, space, work and play? In what ways have they influenced face-to-face talk and the uses of technology within families and communities? Eminent anthropologist Shirley Brice Heath sets out to find answers to these and similar questions, tracking the ... Leer más

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  • Ideology in Language Use

    Pragmatic Guidelines for Empirical Research

    The relationship between language and ideology has long been central to research in discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, and has also informed other fields such as sociology and literary criticism. This book, by one of the world's leading pragmatists, introduces a new framework for the study of ideology in written language, using the tools, methods and ... Leer más

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  • Political Economy and Sociolinguistics

    Neoliberalism, Inequality and Social Class

    de David Block ...
    Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2019This book explores how political economy intersects with sociolinguistics, specifically how neoliberalism, inequality and social class mediate language in society issues. After the preface, in which the author sets the scene for the content of the book, Chapter 1 is an extensive, though selective, review of sociolinguistics research which has been framed as ... Leer más

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  • Decoding Political Discourse

    Conceptual Metaphors and Argumentation

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book provides an in-depth look into the cognitive and argumentative nature of political discourse with a focus on the role and place of conceptual metaphors in practical argumentation. Neagu's empirical investigation centres on the corpus of the American Presidential debates in 2008 and speeches by Barack Obama from 2009-2011. ... Leer más

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  • The Ecology of Language in Multilingual India

    Voices of Women and Educators in the Himalayan Foothills

    de Cynthia Groff ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
    This book explores the linguistic ecology of the Kumaun region of Uttarakhand, India through the experiences and discourses of minority youth and their educators. Providing in-depth examples of Indian multilingualism, this volume analyses how each language is valued in its own context; how national-level policies are appropriated and contested in local discourses; and how language and culture ... Leer más

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  • Peer Interactions in New Content and Language Integrated Settings

    Series series Education (R0)
    Trade schools, universities, and programs for international students have begun to experiment with Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) as a viable pedagogy for instruction, as the pedagogy of CLIL increasingly gains recognition as a practical form of language and content education in Europe and beyond, and its application in instructional settings becomes more diverse. Corresponding ... Leer más

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  • Talk that Counts

    Age, Gender, and Social Class Differences in Discourse

    Talk That Counts is a sociolinguistic study of variation in discourse employing quantitative methods to explore age, gender, and social class differences in the use of features such as you know, I mean, adverbs, and pronouns. Unlike many studies of discourse variation that focus on a single social factor, Talk That Counts examines age, gender, and social class differences in a gender-balanced ... Leer más

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