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  • Language Investment and Employability

    The Uneven Distribution of Resources in the Public Employment Service

    by Mi-Cha Flubacher, Alexandre Duchêne, Renata Coray ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a unique insight into negotiations around language investment for employability in the context of public employment services. Drawing on extensive ethnographical research carried out in Regional Employment Offices in Switzerland, the authors follow the stories of various job seekers. In doing so, they challenge the currently dominant assumption that investment in language ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

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  • Politicians and Rhetoric

    The Persuasive Power of Metaphor

    by J. Charteris-Black ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This analysis of the rhetoric of nine successfully persuasive politicians explains how their use of language created credible and consistent stories about themselves and the social world they inhabit. It explores their use of metaphors, their myths and how language analysis helps us to understand how politicians are able to persuade. ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Interactional Competences in Institutional Settings

    From School to the Workplace

    Edited by Simona Pekarek Doehler, Adrian Bangerter, Geneviève de Weck, Laurent Filliettaz, Esther González-Martínez, Cécile Petitjean ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This interdisciplinary volume brings together leading scholars from several disciplines to uncover the key to young people’s socialization within institutional settings, from school to the workplace. Among the questions they consider are: what aspects of interactional competence are relevant for participation in practical activities within those settings? What are the interactional procedures ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Cognitive Explorations into Metaphor and Metonymy

    Edited by Frank Polzenhagen, Zoltan Kövecses, Stefanie Vogelbacher, Sonja Kleinke ...
    This volume presents selected contributions to an annual symposium on metaphor and metonymy held at the English Department of Heidelberg University. It brings together papers by lecturers, PhD students and graduates from three universities – Heidelberg University, Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, and the University of East Anglia in Norwich. The contributions illustrate the plurality of ... Read more

    $110.99 CAD

  • Taking Offence on Social Media

    Conviviality and Communication on Facebook

    by Caroline Tagg, Philip Seargeant, Amy Aisha Brown ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores communication on Facebook, developing the new theoretical concept of context design as a way of understanding the dynamics of online interaction. Against a backdrop of fake news and other controversies surrounding online political debate, the authors focus on inadvertent acts of offence on Facebook; that is, when users of the site unwittingly offend or are offended by the airing ... Read more

    $70.49 CAD

  • The Semiperiphery of Academic Writing

    Discourses, Communities and Practices

    Edited by K. Bennett ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    With researchers around the world are under increasing pressure to publish in high-profile international journals, this book explores some of the issues affecting authors on the semiperiphery, who often find themselves torn between conflicting academic cultures and discourses. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Structural and Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Indigenisation

    On Multilingualism and Language Evolution

    Edited by Eric A. Anchimbe ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Descriptions of new varieties of European languages in postcolonial contexts have focused exceedingly on system-based indigenisation and variation. This volume–while further illustrating processes and instantiations of indigenisation at this level–incorporates investigations of sociolinguistic and pragmatic phenomena in daily social interaction–e.g. politeness, respect, compliment response, naming ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Native and Non-Native English Speaking Teachers in China

    Perceptions and Practices

    by Zheng Huang ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores the responses of Chinese English teachers (CETs) and learners to the Native English-Speaking Teacher/Non-Native English-Speaking Teacher (NEST/NNEST) issue by examining the self-perceptions of Chinese English teachers, the perceptions of Chinese learners, and the real practices of the two groups of teachers in the classroom. It reveals how Chinese students’ and teachers’ ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Trilingual Talk in Sicilian-Australian Migrant Families

    Playing Out Identities Through Language Alternation

    by A. Rubino ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores the linguistic and cultural identities of Sicilians in Australia, through conversations gathered within the family, survey data and interviews. The study is placed in the context of the family migrant experience and the shifting attitudes towards immigrant languages in Australia. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • 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

  • Korean Englishes in Transnational Contexts

    Edited by Christopher J. Jenks, Jerry Won Lee ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book challenges the dominant tendency in world Englishes scholarship to rely on the ‘nation’ as a static spatial entity and reliable analytic category. Using the transnational Korean context as a case in point, the authors analyse how the practices and ideologies of the English language reflect the complex and unexpected flows of globalisation. Examining topics such as the spoken English of ... Read more

    $128.09 CAD

  • Constructing Identities at Work

    Edited by J. Angouri, M. Marra ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This edited collection presents cutting edge research on the process of identity construction in professional and institutional contexts, from corporate workplaces, to courtrooms, classrooms, and academia. The chapters consider how interactants do identity work and how identity is indexed (often in subtle ways) in workplace discourse. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD