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  • Safe in a Midwife's Hands

    Birthing Traditions from Africa to the American South

    de Linda Janet Holmes ...
    A Ms. Magazine “Most Anticipated Feminist Book of 2023” After a less-than-positive experience giving birth as a Black woman in the 1970s, Linda Janet Holmes launched a lifetime of work as an activist dedicated to learning about and honoring alternative birth traditions and the Black women behind them. Safe in a Midwife’s Hands brings together what Holmes has gleaned from the countless midwives who ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

    de Janet Holmes, Nick Wilson ...
    Series series Learning about Language
    Sociolinguistics is the study of the interaction between language and society. In this classic introductory work, Janet Holmes and Nick Wilson examine the role of language in a variety of social contexts, considering both how language works and how it can be used to signal and interpret various aspects of social identity. Divided into three parts, this book explains basic sociolinguistic concepts ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

  • Listen to Me Good

    The Story of an Alabama Midwife

    de MARGARET CHARLES SMITH, Linda Janet Holmes ...
    Series series WOMEN & HEALTH C&S PERSPECTIVE
    Margaret Charles Smith, a ninety-one-year-old Alabama midwife, has thousands of birthing stories to tell. Sifting through nearly five decades of providing care for women in rural Greene County, she relates the tales that capture the life-and-death struggle of the birthing experience and the traditions, pharmacopeia, and spiritual attitudes that influenced her practice. She debunks images of the ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The Hidden Path of the Ancient Warriors

    de Janet Holmes ...
    A young woman (Christine) travels back to her home town, after being away for ten years, to bury her mother. The funeral is also a few days before Christine's birthday. She also had strange supernatural and paranormal occurrences leading up to her travel back home and on the way there.After her mother was buried the supernatural occurrences intensified as the day of her 30th birthday neared. A ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Research Methods in Sociolinguistics

    A Practical Guide

    Edición de Kirk Hazen, Janet Holmes ...
    Series series Guides to Research Methods in Language and Linguistics
    This single-volume guide equips students of sociolinguistics with a full set of methodological tools including data collection and analysis techniques, explained in clear and accessible terms by leading experts. It features project suggestions, troubleshooting tips, and data assessment across diverse languages.Explores an array of anthropological and scientific methods that cover the full spectrum ... Leer más

    $46.00 USD

  • The Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality

    Edición de Susan Ehrlich, Miriam Meyerhoff, Janet Holmes ...
    Series series Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
    Significantly expanded and updated, the second edition of The Handbook of Language, Gender and Sexuality brings together a team of the leading specialists in the field to create a comprehensive overview of key historical themes and issues, along with methodologies and cutting-edge research topics.Examines the dynamic ways that women and men develop and manage gendered identities through their talk ... Leer más

    $54.00 USD

  • Q & Eh

    Questions and Answers On Language With a Kiwi Twist

    de Dianne Bardsley, Janet Holmes, Laurie Bauer, Paul Warren ...
    Fascinating answers to quirky questions about language Why is it not wrong to be doubly negative? Where do you place the stress in such words as 'dissect'? Where do 'wowser', 'craw thumper' and the 'f-word' come from? Do New Zealanders mangle the English language? Should we say different 'from' or 'to' or 'than'? We use it every day, but what is this thing called language, and are there rights ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • A Joyous Revolt

    Toni Cade Bambara, Writer and Activist

    de Linda Janet Holmes ...
    Series series Women Writers of Color
    At long last—a book-length biography celebrates Toni Cade Bambara, a seminal literary, cultural, and political figure who was among the most widely read and frequently reviewed of the well-regarded black women writers to emerge in the 1970s.A Joyous Revolt: Toni Cade Bambara, Writer and Activist is the first-ever, full-length biography of a trailblazing artist who championed black women in her ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Leadership, Discourse, and Ethnicity

    de Janet Holmes, Meredith Marra, Bernadette Vine ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
    This is the first book in the field of workplace discourse to examine the relationships among leadership, ethnicity, and language use. Taking a social constructionist approach to the ways in which leadership is enacted through discourse, Leadership, Discourse, and Ethnicity problematizes the concept of ethnicity and demonstrates the importance of context-particularly the community of practice-in ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Power and Politeness in the Workplace

    A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Talk at Work

    de Janet Holmes, Maria Stubbe ...
    Series series Routledge Linguistics Classics
    Power and Politeness in the Workplace has become established as a seminal text for courses in language and professional communication.Co-authored by bestselling author Janet Holmes, this text provides insights into the way we all talk at work, including a wealth of material illustrating the way people communicate with each other in their ordinary everyday encounters in their workplaces. The ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • Women, Men and Politeness

    de Janet Holmes ...
    Series series Real Language Series
    Women, Men and Politeness focuses on the specific issue of the ways in which women and men express politeness verbally.Using a range of evidence and a corpus of data collected largely from New Zealand, Janet Holmes examines the distribution and functions of a range of specific verbal politeness strategies in women's and men's speech and discusses the possible reasons for gender differences in this ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

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    The Study of Speakers' Choices

    de 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 ... Leer más

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