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Spoken Here : Travels Among Threatened Languages
Mark Abley
Paperback - $21.95
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 - $340.95
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 - $71.95
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 identi ...
Claiming Power in Doctor-Patient Talk
Nancy Ainsworth-Vaughn
Paperback - $109.95
Nancy Ainsworth-Vaughn studied stories, topic control, "true" questions, and rhetorical questions in 101 medical encounters in US private-practice settings. In exceptionally lucid and accessible style, Ainsworth-Vaughn explains how power was claimed ...
Roc the MIC Right : The Language of Hip Hop Culture
H. Samy Alim
Hardcover - $255.95
"Roc the Mic Right" is the first in-depth, book-length analysis of the most pervasive yet least examined aspect of Hip Hop Culture - its language. Hip Hop Culture has captured the minds of youth "all around the world, from Japan to Amsterdam" (like t ...
Forbidden Words : Taboo and the Censoring of Language
Keith Allan
Paperback - $58.95
Many words and expressions are viewed as ?taboo?, such as those used to describe sex, our bodies and their functions, and those used to insult other people. This book provides a fascinating insight into taboo language and its role in everyday life. I ...
Forbidden Words : Taboo and the Censoring of Language
Keith Allan
Hardcover - $174.95
Many words and expressions are viewed as ?taboo?, such as those used to describe sex, our bodies and their functions, and those used to insult other people. This book provides a fascinating insight into taboo language and its role in everyday life. I ...
The City in Slang : New York Life and Popular Speech
Irving Lewis Allen
Paperback - $78.95
The American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech. Hot dog, rush hour, butter-and-egg man, gold digger, shyster, buttinsky, smart aleck, sidewalk superi ...
Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning
William P. Alston
Hardcover - $125.95
What is it for a sentence to have a certain meaning? This is the question that William P. Alston, one of America's most distinguished and prolific analytic philosophers, addresses in this major contribution to the philosophy of language. His answer f ...
Basque Sociolinguistics : Language, Society, and Culture
Estibaliz Amorrortu
Paperback - $31.95
In this study of the Basque language and its influence in Basque politics and cultural practices, Amorrortu asks whether Basque will survive in the 21st century and explores its role in the definition of Basque identity. Distributed for the Center fo ...