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  • Multiscriptal English in Transliterated Linguistic Landscapes

    by Chonglong Gu ...
    Series series Elements in World Englishes
    In this monograph, 'multiscriptal English' is theorised. Unorthodox and unconventional this may sound, a salient sociolinguistic reality is emerging globally. That is, while standardised English (Roman script) is routinely taught and used, English in superdiverse, multilingual, and/or (post)colonial societies is often camouflaged in local scripts and 'passes off' as local languages in these places ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Translation as a Set of Frames

    Edited by Ali Almanna, Chonglong Gu ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Language and Identity
    Envisioned as a much needed celebration of the massive strides made in translation and interpreting studies, this eclectic volume takes stock of the latest cutting-edge research that exemplifies how translation and interpreting might interact with such topics as power, ideological discourse, representation, hegemony and identity.In this exciting volume, we have articles from different language ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

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    Essays Toward the Future of Literary Translation

    by Kavita Bhanot, Jeremy Tiang ...
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  • Linguistic Landscape

    Expanding the Scenery

    Edited by Elana Shohamy, Durk Gorter ...
    In this comprehensive and pioneering volume, language scholars from around the world examine the "linguistic landscape" from multiple perspectives – theoretical, methodological, and critical. Written by widely recognized experts, the articles in Linguistic Landscape analyze linguistic landscapes in a range of international contexts. Dozens of photographs illustrate the use of language in the ... Read more

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  • Globally Speaking

    Motives for Adopting English Vocabulary in Other Languages

    Edited by Prof. Judith Rosenhouse, Rotem Kowner ...
    Series Book 140 - Multilingual Matters
    This volume accounts for the motives for contemporary lexical borrowing from English, using a comparative approach and a broad cross-cultural perspective. It investigates the processes involved in the penetration of English vocabulary into new environments and the extent of their integration into twelve languages representing several language families, including Icelandic, Dutch, French, Russian, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Emergent Lingua Francas and World Orders

    The Politics and Place of English as a World Language

    by Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
    This book presents an alternative paradigm in understanding and appreciating World Englishes (WEs) in the wake of globalization and its accompanying shifting priorities in many dimensions of modern life, including the emergence of the English language as the dominant lingua franca (ELF). Chew argues that history is a theatre for the realization of lingua francas, offering a model that shows the ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Endangered Languages in the 21st Century

    Edited by Eda Derhemi, Christopher Moseley ...
    Endangered Languages in the 21st Century provides research on endangered languages in the contemporary world, the challenges still to be faced, the work still to be done, and the methods and practices that have come to characterize efforts to revive and maintain disadvantaged indigenous languages around the world.With contributions from scholars across the field, the book brings fresh data and ... Read more

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  • Language and Translation in Postcolonial Literatures

    Multilingual Contexts, Translational Texts

    Edited by Simona Bertacco ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    This collection gathers together a stellar group of contributors offering innovative perspectives on the issues of language and translation in postcolonial studies. In a world where bi- and multilingualism have become quite normal, this volume identifies a gap in the critical apparatus in postcolonial studies in order to read cultural texts emerging out of multilingual contexts. The role of ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Babel

    Around the World in Twenty Languages

    by Gaston Dorren ...
    " Babel is an endlessly interesting book, and you don't have to have any linguistic training to enjoy it . . . it's just so much fun to read." —NPREnglish is the world language, except that 80 percent of the world doesn't speak it. Linguist Gaston Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world's people in their mother tongues, you'd need to know no fewer than twenty languages. In ... Read more

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  • Identity

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Florian Coulmas ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Identity has become one of the most widely used terms today, appearing in many different contexts. Anything and everything has an identity, and identity crises have become almost equally pervasive. Yet 'identity' is extremely versatile, meaning different things to different people and in different scientific disciplines. To many its meaning seems self-evident, since its various uses share common ... Read more

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  • The Migrant Image

    The Art and Politics of Documentary during Global Crisis

    by T. J. Demos ...
    In The Migrant Image T. J. Demos examines the ways contemporary artists have reinvented documentary practices in their representations of mobile lives: refugees, migrants, the stateless, and the politically dispossessed. He presents a sophisticated analysis of how artists from the United States, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East depict the often ignored effects of globalization and the ... Read more

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  • Languages of the World

    An Introduction

    by Asya Pereltsvaig ...
    Are you curious to know what all human languages have in common and in what ways they differ? Do you want to find out how language can be used to trace different peoples and their past? Then this book is for you! Now in its third edition, it guides beginners through the rich diversity of the world's languages. It presupposes no background in linguistics, and introduces the reader to linguistic ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD