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“professor loreto todd”

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  • Pidgins and Creoles

    by Professor Loreto Todd, Loreto Todd ...
    The focus of this study is upon those pidgins and creoles which are English based and which have arisen since the fifteenth century. The book examines the widespread nature of the pidgin/creole phenomenon and evaluates the current definitions of the terms and the theories which have been advanced to account for their existence. The author considers the potential of pidgins and creoles as literary ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

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    $26.99 CAD

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  • Speech Communities

    by Marcyliena H. Morgan ...
    Series series Key Topics in Linguistic Anthropology
    What makes a speech community? How do they evolve? How are speech communities identified? Speech communities are central to our understanding of how language and interactions occur in societies around the world and in this book readers will find an overview of the main concepts and critical arguments surrounding how language and communication styles distinguish and identify groups. Speech ... Read more

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  • Hiphop Literacies

    by Elaine Richardson ...
    Series series Literacies
    Hiphop Literacies is an exploration of the rhetorical, language and literacy practices of African Americans, with a focus on the Hiphop generation. Richardson analyses the lyrics and discourse of Hiphop, explodes myths and stereotypes about Black culture and language and shows how Hiphop language is a global ambassador of the English language and American culture.Richardson examines African ... Read more

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  • Music as Multimodal Discourse

    Semiotics, Power and Protest

    Edited by Dr Lyndon C. S. Way, Simon McKerrell ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
    We communicate multimodally. Everyday communication involves not only words, but gestures, images, videos, sounds and of course, music. Music has traditionally been viewed as a separate object that we can isolate, discuss, perform and listen to. However, much of music's power lies in its use as multimodal communication. It is not just lyrics which lend songs their meaning, but images and musical ... Read more

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  • The Multilingual Internet

    Language, Culture, and Communication Online

    Edited by Brenda Danet, Susan C. Herring ...
    Two thirds of global internet users are non-English speakers. Despite this, most scholarly literature on the internet and computer-mediated-communication (CMC) focuses exclusively on English. This is the first book devoted to analyzing internet related CMC in languages other than English. The volume collects 18 new articles on facets of language and internet use, all of which revolve around ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Conflict, Exclusion and Dissent in the Linguistic Landscape

    Edited by Rani Rubdy, Selim Ben Said ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the dynamics of the linguistic landscape as a site of conflict, exclusion, and dissent. It focuses on socio-historical, economic, political and ideological issues, such as reflected in mass protest demonstrations, to forge links between landscape, identity, social justice and power. ... Read more

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  • Promoting Heritage Language in Northwest Russia

    by Laura Siragusa ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Linguistic Anthropology
    This volume illustrates how language revival movements in Russia and elsewhere have often followed a specific pattern of literacy bias in the promotion of a minority’s heritage language, partly neglecting the social and relational aspects of orality. Using the Vepsian Renaissance as an example, this volume brings to the surface a literacy-orality dualism new to the discussion around revival ... Read more

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  • Consequences of Contact

    Language Ideologies and Sociocultural Transformations in Pacific Societies

    Edited by Miki Makihara, Bambi B. Schieffelin ...
    The Pacific is historically an area of enormous linguistic diversity, where talk figures as a central component of social life. Pacific communities also represent diverse contact zones, where between indigenous and introduced institutions and ideas; between local actors and outsiders; and involving different lingua franca, colonial, and local language varieties. Contact between colonial and post ... Read more

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  • Urban Diversities and Language Policies in Medium-Sized Linguistic Communities

    Edited by Emili Boix-Fuster ...
    Series Book 159 - Multilingual Matters
    This book examines medium-sized linguistic communities in urban contexts against the backdrop of the language policies which have been implemented in these respective areas. The authors provide new data and reflections on these linguistic communities which have languages somewhere in between the majority and minority, and re-evaluate the opposition between ‘majority’ and ‘minority’. The book ... Read more

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  • Narratives of Difference in an Age of Austerity

    by Irene Gedalof ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book traces the narrative strategies framing austerity policies through an illuminating analysis of policy documents and political discourses, exposing the political consequences for women, racialized minorities and disabled people. While many have critiqued the ways in which austerity has captured the contemporary political narrative, this is the first book to systematically examine how ... Read more

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  • Religious Language

    by M. Scott ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    An original and accessible discussion of the nature of religious language that draws on the latest research in the philosophy of language. The historical background to research on religious language is also explored and connections are made with both Continental Philosophy and Theology. ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD