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  • Ideologies of Communication in Japan

    Speakers, Interaction and the Creation of Difference

    Edited by Patrick Heinrich, Florian Grosser, Saana Santalahti ...
    Series Book 180 - Multilingual Matters
    This book presents case studies of ideologies of communication in Japan which respond to recent epistemological and methodological developments in the field and reflect the subject-wide shift from ideologies of language to ideologies of communication. Chapters explore a wide range of language contexts, from formal language learning settings to video games, smartphones and language use in couples ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics

    Edited by Patrick Heinrich, Yumiko Ohara ...
    Presenting new approaches and results previously inaccessible in English, the Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics provides an insight into the language and society of contemporary Japan from a fresh perspective.While it was once believed that Japan was a linguistically homogenous country, research over the past two decades has shown Japan to be a multilingual and sociolinguistically ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Being Young in Super-Aging Japan

    Formative Events and Cultural Reactions

    Edited by Patrick Heinrich, Christian Galan ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    Japan is not only the oldest society in the world today, but also the oldest society to have ever existed. This aging trend, however, presents many challenges to contemporary Japan, as it permeates all areas of life, from the economy and welfare to social cohesion and population decline. Nobody is more affected by these changes than the young generation.This book studies Japanese youth in the ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Urban Sociolinguistics

    The City as a Linguistic Process and Experience

    Edited by Dick Smakman, Patrick Heinrich ...
    From Los Angeles to Tokyo, Urban Sociolinguistics is a sociolinguistic study of twelve urban settings around the world. Building on William Labov’s famous New York Study, the authors demonstrate how language use in these areas is changing based on belief systems, behavioural norms, day-to-day rituals and linguistic practices.All chapters are written by key figures in sociolinguistics and presents ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Globalising Sociolinguistics

    Challenging and Expanding Theory

    Edited by Dick Smakman, Patrick Heinrich ...
    This book challenges the predominance of mainstream sociolinguistic theories by focusing on lesser known sociolinguistic systems, from regions of Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, South America, the European Mediterranean, and Slavic regions as well as specific speech communities such as those speaking Nivkh, Jamaican Creole, North Saami, and Central Yup’ik.In nineteen chapters, the specialist authors ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • The Making of Monolingual Japan

    by HEINRICH, Patrick ...
    Japan is regarded as a model case of successful language modernization. It is also often erroneously believed to be linguistically homogenous. This book explores the debates relating to language modernization from a language ideology perspective, and in doing so reveals the mechanisms by which language ideology undermines linguistic diversity. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Language Life in Japan

    Transformations and Prospects

    Edited by Patrick Heinrich, Christian Galan ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    Despite its monolingual self-image, Japan is multilingual and growing more so due to indigenous minority language revitalization and as an effect of migration. Besides Japan's autochthonous languages such as the Ainu and Ryukyuan languages, there are more than 75,000 immigrant children in the Japanese public education system alone who came to Japan in the 1980s and who speak more than a hundred ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

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    $1.99 CAD

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  • Sociolinguistics

    An Introduction to Language and Society

    by Peter Trudgill ...
    This is a classic book on a fascinating subject. Peter Trudgill examines the close link between language and society and the many factors that influence the way we speak. These range from gender, environment, age, race, class, region and politics. Trudgill's book surveys languages and societies from all over the world drawing on examples from Afrikaans to Yiddish. He has added a fascinating ... Read more

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  • Ethnos and Society

    Ethnosociology, #2

    by Alexander Dugin ...
    Series Book 2 - Ethnosociology
    In this monograph, Dugin provides an overview of the primary foreign and Russian sources and schools that influenced the establishment of ethnosociology as an independent and original scientific discipline. Dugin offers a profoundly philosophical approach to the categories of the "ethnos," "narod," "nation" and "society," providing clear definitions of these concepts, and expounding a broader ... Read more

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  • Technology and the Virtues

    A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting

    by Shannon Vallor ...
    The 21st century offers a dizzying array of new technological developments: robots smart enough to take white collar jobs, social media tools that manage our most important relationships, ordinary objects that track, record, analyze and share every detail of our daily lives, and biomedical techniques with the potential to transform and enhance human minds and bodies to an unprecedented degree. ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • What Is Sociolinguistics?

    by Gerard Van Herk ...
    Series Book 10 - Linguistics in the World
    What is Sociolinguistics? is a tour through the major issues that define the field, such as region, status, gender, time, language attitudes, interaction, and style, while also exploring the sociolinguistics of multilingualism, culture and ethnicity, language contact, and education, all introduced with excitement, humor, and deep knowledge.Explores the sociolinguistics of multilingualism, culture ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD