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“vaidehi ramanathan”

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  • Language, Memory and Remembering

    Explorations in Historical Sociolinguistics

    by Vaidehi Ramanathan ...
    This volume explores issues of memory, remembering and language in late colonial India. It is the first systematic historical sociolinguistic study of English private and public citizens who lived in and/or worked for India and the Indian cause from the 1920s to the 1940s. While some of the English have lived as common citizens and were committed to India, their voices and contributions have ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Bodies and Language

    by RAMANATHAN, Vaidehi ...
    Focusing on body conditions associated with breast cancer, Alzheimers disease, (type-1) diabetes, epilepsy, partial hearing and autism, this book draws on a range of critical theories to contest collectively assembled notions of abnormality, disability and impairments and ways in which they emerge through language. It also addresses the need for applied sociolinguists to take account of how our ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Refugee Resettlement in the United States

    Language, Policy, Pedagogy

    Edited by Emily M. Feuerherm, Prof. Vaidehi Ramanathan ...
    This edited volume brings together scholars from various disciplines to discuss how language is used by, for, and about refugees in the United States in order to deepen our understanding of what ‘refugee’ and ‘resettlement’ mean. The main themes of the chapters highlight:the intersections of language education and refugee resettlement from community-based adult programs to elementary school ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Bodies and Language

    Health, Ailments, Disabilities

    by Prof. Vaidehi Ramanathan ...
    This book critically addresses the role of language in our collective construction of ‘normal’ bodies. Addressing a range of concerns linked with visible and invisible, chronic and terminal conditions, the volume probes issues in and around patient and caregiver accounts. Focussing on body conditions associated with breast cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, (type-1) diabetes, epilepsy, partial hearing ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Language Policies and (Dis)Citizenship

    Rights, Access, Pedagogies

    Edited by Prof. Vaidehi Ramanathan ...
    This volume explores the concept of 'citizenship', and argues that it should be understood both as a process of becoming and the ability to participate fully, rather than as a status that can be inherited, acquired, or achieved. From a courtroom in Bulawayo to a nursery in Birmingham, the authors use local contexts to foreground how the vulnerable, particularly those from minority language ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Language, Immigration and Naturalization

    Legal and Linguistic Issues

    Edited by Ariel Loring, Prof. Vaidehi Ramanathan ...
    This volume focuses on the everyday legalities and practicalities of naturalization including governmental processes, the language of citizenship tests and classes, the labelling and lived experiences of immigrants/outsiders and the media’s interpretation of this process. The book brings together scholars from a wide range of specialities who accentuate language and raise issues that often remain ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • The Acquisition of Heritage Languages

    by Silvina Montrul ...
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  • The Ecology and Semiotics of Language Learning

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    by Leo van Lier ...
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  • Glocal English

    The Changing Face and Forms of Nigerian English in a Global World

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  • Sociocultural Theory and L2 Instructional Pragmatics

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  • How to start, carry on and end conversations

    Scripts for social situations for people on the autism spectrum

    by Paul Jordan ...
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