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  • Spanish of the U.S. Southwest: A Language in Transition

    Edited by Susana Rivera-Mills, Daniel Villa ...
    Series Book 38 - Lingüística Iberoamericana
    Spanish in the Southwest region of the United States predates the appearance of English in this country. The language has had an uninterrupted presence in the Río Grande corridor since 1598, and has spread geographically and demographically over the last four centuries. Despite that growth, it is being lost among younger generations that trend toward English monolingualism; thus, Spanish exists in ... Read more

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  • What Is Sociolinguistics?

    by Gerard Van Herk ...
    Series series Linguistics in the World
    How is our language affected by our ethnicity, gender, and region? How are our conversations and other interactions structured? How does society view and regulate language? How do we use language to present ourselves to others? In this revised and updated second edition of the popular What Is Sociolinguistics? Gerard Van Herk explores these and other intriguing questions about language, how we use ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Language and Gender

    by Penelope_Eckert, Sally_McConnell-Ginet ...
    Language and Gender is an introduction to the study of the relation between gender and language use, written by two leading experts in the field. This new edition, thoroughly updated and restructured, brings out more strongly an emphasis on practice and change, while retaining the broad scope of its predecessor and its accessible introductions which explain the key concepts in a non-technical way. ... Read more

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  • Language and Woman's Place

    Text and Commentaries

    by Robin Tolmach Lakoff ...
    Series series Studies in Language and Gender
    The 1975 publication of Robin Tolmach Lakoff's Language and Woman's Place, is widely recognized as having inaugurated feminist research on the relationship between language and gender, touching off a remarkable response among language scholars, feminists, and general readers. For the past thirty years, scholars of language and gender have been debating and developing Lakoff's initial observations. ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Contact Languages

    Ecology and Evolution in Asia

    by Umberto Ansaldo ...
    Series series Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
    Why do groups of speakers in certain times and places come up with new varieties of languages? What are the social settings that determine whether a mixed language, a pidgin or a Creole will develop, and how can we understand the ways in which different languages contribute to the new grammar? Through the study of Malay contact varieties such as Baba Malay, Cocos Malay and Sri Lanka Malay, as well ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Language, Space and Identity in Migration

    by G. Liebscher, J. Dailey-O'Cain ...
    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. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Narratives of Place, Belonging and Language

    An Intercultural Perspective

    by Palgrave Macmillan ...
    Examining identity in relation to globalization and migration, this book uses narratives and memoirs from contemporary authors who have lived 'in-between' two or more languages. It explores the human desire to find one's 'own place' in new cultural contexts, and looks at the role of language in shaping a sense of belonging in society. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • English as a Contact Language

    Edited by Daniel Schreier, Marianne Hundt ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    Recent developments in contact linguistics suggest considerable overlap of branches such as historical linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics, pidgin/creole linguistics, language acquisition, etc. This book highlights the complexity of contact-induced language change throughout the history of English by bringing together cutting-edge research from these fields. Special focus is on recent ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Address Practice As Social Action

    European Perspectives

    Edited by C. Norrby, C. Wide ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    How we address one another says a great deal about our social relationships and which groups in society we belong to. This edited volume examines address choices in a range of everyday interactions taking place in Dutch, Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Italian and the two national varieties of Swedish, Finland Swedish and Sweden Swedish.The chapter 'Introduction: Address as Social Action Across ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Language Planning and Microlinguistics

    From Policy to Interaction and Vice Versa

    Edited by W. Davies, E. Ziegler ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Whilst earlier studies of language planning and of standardisation have tended to study macro processes, this volume is in line with more recent work aimed at bridging the macro and the micro levels by examining how the two interact and influence each other. It covers seven countries and deals with a range of sociolinguistic constellations. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • 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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  • Captioned Media in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

    Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing as Tools for Language Learning

    by Robert Vanderplank ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book brings together current thinking on informal language learning and the findings of over 30 years of research on captions (same language subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing) to present a new model of language learning from captioned viewing and a future roadmap for research and practice in this field. Language learners may have normal hearing but they are ‘hard-of-listening’ and ... Read more

    $32.09 CAD