Sociolinguistics
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Sociolinguistics
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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 343
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520208056
- ISBN
- 9780520208056
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€ 37.99€ 27.25
€ 37.99
€ 27.25
Paperback. Offers information on who holds power and how they use it, keep it, or lose it. This book offers an introduction to linguistic theories and the philosophy of language. It lays the groundwork for an exploration of news stories that meet the Undue Attention Test. Num Pages: 332 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFB; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 456.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520232075
- ISBN
- 9780520232075
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€ 32.99€ 23.94
€ 32.99
€ 23.94
Paperback. Documents the crucial role played by language in cultural conquest - how colonial Mayan emerged in the age of the cross, how it was taken up by native writers to become the language of indigenous literature, and how it ultimately became the language of rebellion against the system that produced it. Series: The Anthropology of Christianity. Num Pages: 484 pages, 16 b/w photographs, 2 line illustrations, 17 maps, 25 tables, 41 examples. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2JNM; 3JB; CBX; CFB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 678.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520257719
- ISBN
- 9780520257719
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.52
€ 38.99
€ 28.52
Paperback. Examines the transformation of Yiddish in the six decades since the Holocaust, tracing its shift from the language of daily life for millions of Jews to a postvernacular language of diverse and expanding symbolic value. Num Pages: 282 pages, 43 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 2ACY; CFB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 150 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520258112
- ISBN
- 9780520258112
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 25.62
€ 34.99
€ 25.62
Paperback. Social networks ---- those informal and formal social relationships of which any human society is composed ---- are distinguished by their own patters of language use. Series: Language in Society. Num Pages: 248 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 420.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631136231
- ISBN
- 9780631136231
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Condition: New
€ 52.66
€ 52.66
Paperback. A companion to the author's "Sociolinguistics of Society", this textbook examines the influence of social interaction on language use, and discusses a variety of facts about language from the commonplace to the exotic. Series: Language in Society. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631138259
- ISBN
- 9780631138259
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Condition: New
€ 59.90
€ 59.90
Paperback. Written by a linguist who is himself a journalist, this is a uniquely informed account of the language of the news media. Based in the frameworks of sociolinguistics and discourse analysis its concerns are with the notion of the news story, the importance of the processes which produce media language and the role of the audience. Series: Language in Society. Num Pages: 296 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFB; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 484.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631164357
- ISBN
- 9780631164357
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Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 49.03
€ 49.99
€ 49.03
Paperback. This investigation of how societies have understood and described themselves is concerned both with the history of language and the language of history. Chapters include studies of societies in Germany, China, USA and India, pre-revolutionary France and 19th-century Britain and America. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: CFB; HBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 526.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631167334
- ISBN
- 9780631167334
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Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 49.03
€ 49.99
€ 49.03
Paperback. Provides an overview of Irgaray's work, while each of the three sections in this work is prefaced by contextualising comments, enabling the reader to situate the extracts both within Iragara's thought and also within feminist theory. Editor(s): Whitford, Margaret. Series: Blackwell Readers. Num Pages: 240 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFB; CFD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 0. Weight in Grams: 388.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631170433
- ISBN
- 9780631170433
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Condition: New
€ 48.60
€ 48.60
Hardback. * written by one of the founders of modern sociolinguistics * presents the results of several decades of inquiry into the social origins and social motivation of linguistic change. Series: Language in Society. Num Pages: 596 pages, 149 illustrations. BIC Classification: CFB; CFFD; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 168 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1014.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Volume II
- Number of pages
- 596
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631179153
- ISBN
- 9780631179153
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Condition: New
€ 161.76
€ 161.76
Paperback. * written by one of the founders of modern sociolinguistics * presents the results of several decades of inquiry into the social origins and social motivation of linguistic change. Series: Language in Society. Num Pages: 596 pages, 149. BIC Classification: CFB; CFFD; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 32. Weight in Grams: 828.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 596
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631179160
- ISBN
- 9780631179160
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Condition: New
€ 50.25
€ 50.25
Paperback. Offering a detailed critique of the cognitive bias of existing studies of elderly people's language, this work proposes in its place a socially-based approach which explains how older people's life circumstances, concerns, goals and beliefs influence their styles of interaction. Num Pages: 232 pages, 7 figures, 10 tables, index. BIC Classification: CFB; JKSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631182795
- ISBN
- 9780631182795
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Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 51.45
€ 51.99
€ 51.45
Hardback. Based on two years of sociolinguistic and ethnographic fieldwork in one school, supplemented by shorter periods of fieldwork in three other schools, this study focuses on the polarized social categories, the 'jocks' and the 'burnouts', that dominate social organization in all of these schools. Series: Language in Society. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFB; CFD; JFSP1; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 512.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631186038
- ISBN
- 9780631186038
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Condition: New
€ 143.31
€ 143.31
Paperback. aeo Provides an ethnographically rich account of sociolinguistic variation in an adolescent population. aeo Shows how local processes coincide with the global patterning of variation with class, gender and age. aeo Uncovers the nature of social meaning and the dynamics of influence in variation. Series: Language in Society. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFB; CFD; JFSP1; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631186045
- ISBN
- 9780631186045
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Condition: New
€ 56.28
€ 56.28
Hardback. Combines theoretical interpretation with practical examples to show the significance of the concept of metaphor in the study and writing of material forms. This book presents three archaeological and ethnographic studies of metaphors chosen to demonstrate the richness of the concept for understanding texts, objects and artworks. Series: Social Archaeology. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFB; HD; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631192022
- ISBN
- 9780631192022
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Condition: New
€ 153.14
€ 153.14
Paperback. * An innovative contribution to recent debates about the use of a metaphora in the social sciences, from an archaeological perspective* Written by one of the foremost scholars working on archaeological theory, with an international reputation* Combines theoretical interpretation with practical examples a from the fielda . Series: Social Archaeology. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFB; HD; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631192039
- ISBN
- 9780631192039
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Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 52.66
€ 53.99
€ 52.66
Hardback. A comprehensive text on language and communication, written from a social psychological perspective. It shows how language and non-verbal activities are integrated in the process of communication and looks at what language is used for and how it works in context. Descriptions and explanations are accompanied by data and experimental findings. Num Pages: 392 pages, 8. BIC Classification: CFB; CFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 33. Weight in Grams: 678.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631193357
- ISBN
- 9780631193357
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Condition: New
€ 160.24
€ 160.24
Paperback. A comprehensive text on language and communication, written from a social psychological perspective. It shows how language and non-verbal activities are integrated in the process of communication and looks at what language is used for and how it works in context. Descriptions and explanations are accompanied by data and experimental findings. Num Pages: 392 pages, 8. BIC Classification: CFB; CFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631193364
- ISBN
- 9780631193364
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Condition: New
€ 57.49
€ 57.49
Paperback. This book provides detailed studies in one of the fastest growing areas of linguistics -- corpus analysis -- and shows how computers can be used to reveal culturally significant patterns of language use. Series: Language in Society. Num Pages: 288 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFB; CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 462.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631195122
- ISBN
- 9780631195122
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Condition: New
€ 50.25
€ 50.25
Paperback. Feminist linguistics has come of age. Yet, in more than two decades of research, male speaking patterns have largely been taken for granted. This is the first extensive account of mena s language -- of male ways of speaking and of language in the construction of masculinity. Editor(s): Johnson, Sally; Meinhof, Ulrike Hanna. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 231 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631197683
- ISBN
- 9780631197683
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.28
€ 56.28