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Sociolinguistics
Paperback. This book provides comprehensive coverage of language contact in classroom settings. Particularly highlighted are the range and implications of attitudes towards languages and dialects, as well as broad consideration of the assumptions and intentions underpinning bilingual and multicultural education. Series: Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: CFB; JNFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 209 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847692252
- ISBN
- 9781847692252
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€ 50.37
€ 50.37
Paperback. Presents an introduction to language, law and society for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students. This book focuses on the exploration of what sociolinguistic research can tell us about how language works and doesn't work in the legal process. Series: MM Textbooks. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CFB; LAQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 171 x 18. Weight in Grams: 554.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847692535
- ISBN
- 9781847692535
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€ 45.50
€ 45.50
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847693129
- ISBN
- 9781847693129
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Condition: New
€ 50.17
€ 50.17
Paperback. This book explores the spread of English and English education across Greater China through sociolinguistic studies of mainland China, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao. It offers in-depth analysis of English language use and education in economically booming areas of mainland China as well as underdeveloped regions like Xinjiang. Editor(s): Feng, Anwei (University of Bangor). Series: Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2AB; CFB; CFDM; JNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847693495
- ISBN
- 9781847693495
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Condition: New
€ 50.81
€ 50.81
Paperback. Migrant workers are crucial to China's fast growing economy, yet little is known about their identities. This ethnographic study of the language use and identity construction of the children of internal migrants is innovative both in the context it studies and the scalar structure of discursive identity construction used to present its data. Series: Encounters. Num Pages: 168 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; CFB; JFFN; JHBL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 151 x 10. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847694195
- ISBN
- 9781847694195
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Condition: New
€ 43.33
€ 43.33
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847694454
- ISBN
- 9781847694454
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€ 50.29
€ 50.29
Paperback. This book broaches the question of the social impact of age on language learners from a social constructionist perspective, thus filling a gap currently existing in the literature on age and second language acquisition. Series: Second Language Acquisition. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: CFB; CFDM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 159 x 234 x 11. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847696137
- ISBN
- 9781847696137
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Condition: New
€ 43.87
€ 43.87
Paperback. Japan is regarded as a model case of successful language modernization. It is also often erroneously believed to be linguistically homogenous. This book explores the debates relating to language modernization from a language ideology perspective, and in doing so reveals the mechanisms by which language ideology undermines linguistic diversity. Series: Multilingual Matters. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; CFB; CFDM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 209 x 148 x 12. Weight in Grams: 302.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847696564
- ISBN
- 9781847696564
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Condition: New
€ 49.38
€ 49.38
Paperback. This book argues that the English language industry has become a swirling, beguiling monster, unashamedly intent on challenging local lingua-diversity and threatening individual identities. It brings together linguists, literary figures and teaching professionals in a wide-ranging expose of this enormous Hydra in action on four continents. Editor(s): Rapatahana, Vaughan; Bunce, Pauline. Series: Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFB; EBA; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 474.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847697493
- ISBN
- 9781847697493
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Condition: New
€ 50.45
€ 50.45
Paperback. This is an ethnography of language, learning and literacy in remote Indigenous Australia. It traces one group from the introduction of alphabetic literacy to the arrival of digital literacies. It examines social, cultural and linguistic practices across the generations and addresses the implications for language and literacy socialisation. Series: Critical Language and Literacy Studies. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CFB; CFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 208 x 28. Weight in Grams: 450.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847697585
- ISBN
- 9781847697585
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Condition: New
€ 50.27
€ 50.27
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847697998
- ISBN
- 9781847697998
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Condition: New
€ 50.61
€ 50.61
Paperback. This book examines the use of social computer mediated communication with speakers of Japanese via longitudinal case studies of up to four years. Through the analysis of over 2,000 instances of online communication, in addition to extensive interviews, the book explores opportunities for language acquisition and use in authentic online interaction. Series: Second Language Acquisition. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CFB; CFDC; GTC; JNV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 208 x 151 x 15. Weight in Grams: 330.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847698247
- ISBN
- 9781847698247
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Condition: New
€ 49.50
€ 49.50
Paperback. This book explores Japanese women's desire for English as a means of identity transformation and as access to the West and its masculinity. Drawing on ethnographic data and critical discourse analysis, the book illuminates how such desire impacts upon the linguistic, social, and romantic choices made by young women in Japan and overseas. Series: Critical Language and Literacy Studies. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2AB; CFB; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 209 x 149 x 12. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847698537
- ISBN
- 9781847698537
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Condition: New
€ 43.63
€ 43.63
Paperback. This book examines the history of language policy by and for Native Americans, and contemporary language revitalization initiatives. The book explores innovative language regenesis projects, the role of Indigenous youth in language reclamation, and prospects for Native American language and culture continuance. Series: Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; 2J; CFB; JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847698629
- ISBN
- 9781847698629
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Condition: New
€ 50.45
€ 50.45
This book presents a detailed survey of language attitudes, conflicts and policies over the period from 1830, when the French occupied Algeria, up to 2012, the year this country celebrated its 50th anniversary of independence. It traces the evolution of language planning policies and reactions to them in both the colonial and post-colonial eras. Series: Multilingual Matters. Num Pages: 216 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBA; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; CFB; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 214 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847699640
- ISBN
- 9781847699640
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Condition: New
€ 152.46
€ 152.46
Language Loyalty, Language Planning, and Language Revitalization
. Ed(S): Hornberger, Nancy H.; Putz, Martin
Paperback. Joshua Fishman is perhaps best known and loved for his pioneering and enduring work in language loyalty and reversing language shift. This book brings together a selection of his work on these topics and some of his perspectives on the field of sociolinguistics, along with an interview dialogue in which Fishman reflects on his lifetime's work. Editor(s): Hornberger, Nancy H.; Putz, Martin. Series: Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: CFB; CFDM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 234 x 14. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853599002
- ISBN
- 9781853599002
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Condition: New
€ 44.57
€ 44.57
Hardcover. The volume explores how individuality is conceptualised in socially-oriented approaches to Applied Linguistics research, including Sociocultural Theory, Situated Learning, Imagined Communities, Complexity Theory, and Autonomy Theory. Editor(s): Benson, Phil; Cooker, Lucy. Series: Studies in Applied Linguistics. Num Pages: 226 pages, 3 figures. BIC Classification: CFB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908049384
- ISBN
- 9781908049384
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Condition: New
€ 50.55
€ 50.55
Hardback. Delving into Israel's multifaceted society, this title explores the many ethnic and religious communities that comprise modern Israel and the ways in which they interact and often misunderstand each other. It covers subjects such as Holocaust education, language rights, military service, and the balancing of religious with secular systems of law. Editor(s): Sagi, Avi; Nachtomy, Ohad. Series: Israel: Society, Culture, and History. Num Pages: 360 pages, map. BIC Classification: CFB; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 244 x 166 x 24. Weight in Grams: 654.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781934843499
- ISBN
- 9781934843499
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Condition: New
€ 150.38
€ 150.38
Paperback. BIC Classification: CFB; GTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748675746
- ISBN
- 9780748675746
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Condition: New
€ 161.89
€ 161.89
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
€ 42.59
€ 42.59