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Sociolinguistics
hardcover. In a careful unraveling of the fabulous and the false, Eco shows us how serendipities----unanticipated truths----often spring from mistaken ideas. Eco uncovers layers of mistakes that have shaped human history, such as Columbus's assumption that the world was much smaller than it is, leading him to seek out a quick route to the East via the West and thus fortuitously "discovering" America. Translator(s): Weaver, William. Series: Italian Academy Lectures. Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CFA; CFB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2020
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231111348
- ISBN
- 9780231111348
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.07
€ 33.07
Paperback. Languages and Their Speakers provides an introduction both to languages themselves and to their social functions. Written especially for nonlinguistics majors, the book considers how speakers know their languages-know them as grammatical systems and know them as part of a cultural matrix. Editor(s): Shopen, Timothy. Num Pages: 312 pages, 17 illus. BIC Classification: CFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812212501
- ISBN
- 9780812212501
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.60
€ 46.60
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199363391
- ISBN
- 9780199363391
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.01
€ 120.01
Paperback. From high school cafeterias to the floor of Congress, from "The Daily Show" to every comments section on the internet, insult is a truly universal and ubiquitous cultural practice with a long and earthy history. This title deals with the subject of insult. Num Pages: 176 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: CFB; CFG; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 143 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226114781
- ISBN
- 9780226114781
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.66
€ 38.66
Paperback. Introduces an area that is growing in importance within sociolinguistics, illustrating and challenging the 'great divide' between speech and writing. This book brings the study of writing to the heart of sociolinguistic inquiry. Series Editor(s): Swann, Joan; Kerswill, Paul. Series: Edinburgh Sociolinguistics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: CFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 12. Weight in Grams: 352. Series: Edinburgh Sociolinguistics. 192 pages. Introduces an area that is growing in importance within sociolinguistics, illustrating and challenging the 'great divide' between speech and writing. This book brings the study of writing to the heart of sociolinguistic inquiry. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: CFB. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 12. Weight: 338. Series Editor(s) :Swann, Joan; Kerswill, Paul.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748637508
- ISBN
- 9780748637508
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.27
€ 37.99
€ 34.27
Hardcover. Drawing on sociolinguistics and cultural studies, this book examines transnational debates about teaching Yiddish over the years. It looks at the ways a contested pedagogical terrain comes to define a minority language's on-going resources of cultural and ideological resilience. Num Pages: 246 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACY; CFB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845194062
- ISBN
- 9781845194062
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.33
€ 161.33
Hardback. The second edition of the highly successful Handbook of Discourse Analysis has been expanded and thoroughly updated to reflect the very latest research to have developed since the original publication, including new theoretical paradigms and discourse-analytic models, in an authoritative two-volume set. Series: Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics. Num Pages: 992 pages. BIC Classification: CFB; CFGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 184 x 254 x 55. Weight in Grams: 1816.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 992
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470670743
- ISBN
- 9780470670743
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 410.90
€ 410.90
Paperback. Series: Asian American Experience. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFB; CJBR; DSA; JFC; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252081958
- ISBN
- 9780252081958
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.07
€ 35.07
Hardback. Series: Asian American Experience. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFB; DSA; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780252040481
- ISBN
- 9780252040481
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.79
€ 148.79
Paperback. Describes strategies employed by teachers and students in periphery communities to use the English language while resisting the linguistic imperialism as the consequence of the global ELT enterprise. This book outlines critical pedagogy suitable for ELT in formerly colonized communities. It is also useful for curriculum planners and policy makers. Series: Oxford Applied Linguistics. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: CFB; EBA. Category: (L) ELT / TEFL. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780194421546
- ISBN
- 9780194421546
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 75.01
€ 75.01
Paperback. Why would love for their language lead several men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? This title analyzes the discourses of love, labor, and life that transformed Tamil into an object of such passionate attachment, producing in the process one of modern India's most intense movements for linguistic revival and separatism. Series: Studies on the History of Society & Culture. Num Pages: 343 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2BRT; 3JH; 3JJ; CFB; CFG; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 343
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520208056
- ISBN
- 9780520208056
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.16
€ 48.16
Paperback. This study of American behavioural and thought patterns analyzes Americans' perceptual processes and how they contrast with the ways of thinking of other cultures. It should help the reader examine the cultural dimensions of communication and their implications for cross-cultural interaction. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFB; GTC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Nicholas Brealey Publishing United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781877864018
- ISBN
- 9781877864018
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.66
€ 19.99
€ 14.66
Paperback. Num Pages: 173 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; CFB; CFGR; GTC; JFSJ; KJSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 173
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349300013
- ISBN
- 9781349300013
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.32
€ 53.32
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, 3 black & white tables, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: CFB; KJU. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 159 x 235 x 12. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138688490
- ISBN
- 9781138688490
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.29
€ 61.29
Paperback. "Native Studies Keywords "is a genealogical project that looks at the history of words that claim to have no history. The end goal is not to determine which words are appropriate but to critically examine words that are crucial to Native studies, in hopes of promoting debate and critical interrogation. Editor(s): Teves, Stephanie Nohelani; Smith, Andrea; Raheja, Michelle. Series: Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816531509
- ISBN
- 9780816531509
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.16
€ 43.16
Paperback. Analyzes writers and gurus, literary texts and religious movements, and the political uses of religion alongside the literary expressions of religious teachers, showing the cosmopolitan interconnections between the Indian subcontinent, the British Empire, and the American New Age. Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1KBB; 1QDB; CFB; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691118284
- ISBN
- 9780691118284
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.07
€ 57.07
Paperback. Linguistic Rivalries weaves together anthropological accounts of diaspora, nation, and empire to explore and analyze the multi-faceted processes of globalization. Series: Oxford Studies in Anthropology of Language. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: CFB; JFFN; JFFS; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190461782
- ISBN
- 9780190461782
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Condition: New
€ 80.60
€ 80.60
Paperback. Indonesia is the fourth most populous nation in the world, and one of the most linguistically complex. Its ethnic groups speak more than 500 languages and of these Malay, renamed Indonesian, was chosen to be the sole national and official language. This title provides a historical, social, cultural and linguistic study of Indonesian. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FMN; 2PGNA; CFB; CFF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- UNSW Press Australia
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780868405988
- ISBN
- 9780868405988
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.47
€ 41.47
Paperback. Imagining an encounter between Moliere's Don Juan and Austin, this bold yet subtle meditation contemplates the seductive promises of speech and of love, in a telling exchange among philosophy, linguistics, literature, and Lacanian theory. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; CFB; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804744539
- ISBN
- 9780804744539
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.89
€ 33.89
Paperback. Uses English language education for women in India between 1850 and 1940 as a way to explore how and why the English language became a powerful tool in struggles over caste hierarchy. This book shows how elite men linked ideas of matrimony, chastity, and heteronormativity with modernity in order to claim power on a national level. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1QDB; 2AB; CFB; JFS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822352273
- ISBN
- 9780822352273
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.06
€ 46.06