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An Introduction to Human Communication : Understanding and Sharing with Testprep CDROM
Hardcover - $149.80
Written for the hybrid course, this text teaches skills in interpersonal communication, small group discussion, public speaking, and mass media evaluation. With its distinctive student friendly voice, "An Introduction to Human Communication: Understanding...
Spoken Here : Travels Among Threatened Languages
Mark Abley
Paperback - $23.30
In Spoken Here, Mark Abley takes us on a world tour from the Arctic Circle to Oklahoma to Australia in a fervent quest to document some of the world's most endangered languages. His mission is urgent: Of the six thousand languages spoken in the world...
Language Policy in Britain and France
Dennis Ernest Ager
Hardcover - $189.10
Examines the making of language policy, and language policy itself, in Britain and France, looking at how disciplines such as sociolinguistics and the analysis of the political process help in studying language policy and policymaking. Details stages,...
Language and Social Relations
Asif Agha
Paperback - $61.40
Language is closely linked to our social relationships and is the medium through which we participate in a variety of social activities. This original study explores the important role of language in various aspects of our social life, such as identity,...
Economic Benefits of Ethnolinguistic Diversity : Implications for International Political Economy
Agnieszka Aleksy-Szucsich
Hardcover - $148.60
Prevailing interpretation in international political economy following the work of such analysts as Easterly and Alesina, is that ethnic and linguistic diversity is harmful to economic development because it is a source of division and even destructive...
Framing Discourse on the Environment : A Critical Discourse Approach
Richard J. Alexander
Hardcover - $162.10
In this book, Alexander demonstrates the linguistic distractions, euphemisms and pitfalls of corporate-political discourse on the environment subjecting them to a trenchant analysis.
Global Linguistic Flows : Hip Hop Cultures, Youth Identities, and the Politics of Language
H. Samy Alim
Paperback - $62.60
Located at the intersection of sociolinguistics and Hip Hop Studies, this cutting-edge book moves around the world - spanning Africa, Asia, Australia, the Americas and the European Union - to explore Hip Hop Cultures, youth identities, the politics of...
Pads 89 You Know My Steez-CL
H. Samy Alim
Hardcover - $27.00
"You Know My Steez" is the culmination of nearly four years of direct study and hands-on experience by a teacher-researcher and active community member in the working-class suburb of Sunnyside, California. Focusing on the language and linguistic practices...