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“robert chaudenson”

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  • Creolization of Language and Culture

    by Robert Chaudenson ...
    Creolization of Language and Culture is the first English edition of Robert Chaudenson's landmark text Des îles, des hommes, des langues, which has also been fully revised.. With reference to the main varieties of creole French, Chaudenson argues against the traditional account of creole genesis for a more sophisticated paradigm which takes full account of the peculiar linguistic and social ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

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  • For the Love of Language

    An Introduction to Linguistics

    by Kate Burridge, Tonya N. Stebbins ...
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  • The Social Origins of Language

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  • Real Talk: Reality Television and Discourse Analysis in Action

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  • Language and Woman's Place

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    by Robin Tolmach Lakoff ...
    Series series Studies in Language and Gender
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  • 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

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  • Languaging in and across Communities: New Voices, New Identities

    Studies in Honour of Giuseppina Cortese

    Edited by Sandra Campagna, Elana Ochse, Virginia Pulcini, Martin Solly ...
    Series Book 218 - Linguistic Insights
    The title of this volume intentionally echoes that of a landmark issue of Textus on «Languaging» in and across Human Groups, edited by Giuseppina Cortese and Dell Hymes in 2001, since the notion of ‘languaging’ seems to capture most effectively the essence and the continuity in the life and work of Giuseppina Cortese, to whom the book is dedicated. It brings together contributions by a number of ... Read more

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  • Language Practices of Migrant Youth

    From School to Home

    by Louisa Willoughby ...
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  • Language Planning and Microlinguistics

    From Policy to Interaction and Vice Versa

    Edited by W. Davies, E. Ziegler ...
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    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

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  • Discourse, Gender and Shifting Identities in Japan

    The Longitudinal Study of Kobe Women’s Ethnographic Interviews 1989-2019, Phase One

    Edited by Claire Maree, Kaori Okano ...
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  • Emergent Lingua Francas and World Orders

    The Politics and Place of English as a World Language

    by Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew ...
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    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

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