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Person Reference in Interaction : Linguistic, Cultural and Social Perspectives
N. J. Enfield
Hardcover - $199.95
How do we refer to people in everyday conversation? No matter the language or culture, we must choose from a range of options: full name ('Robert Smith'), reduced name ('Bob'), description ('tall guy'), kin term ('my son') etc. Our choices reflect ho ...
Language and Colonial Power : The Appropriation of Swahili in the Former Belgian Congo, 1880-1938
Johannes Fabian
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African Languages, Development and the State
Richard Fardon
Hardcover - $305.95
When compared to the European standard of one nation, one language, Africa's 2,000 indigenous languages--not to mention its languages of colonial provenance, Arabic and numerous locally developed pidgins and creoles--would seem to pose insuperable pr ...
Latino Language and Literacy in Ethnolinguistic Chicago
Marcia Farr
Paperback - $86.95
A set of studies of language use among Latinos in one of the most globalized, linguistically diverse cities in the US. Emphasizes language use as centrally related to ethnic, class, and gender identities.
Analyzing Variation in Language : Papers from the Second Colloquium on New Ways of Analyzing Variation
Ralph W. Fasold
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The Scandal of the Speaking Body : Don Juan with J.L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages
Shoshana Felman
Paperback - $33.95
Imagining an encounter between Molie re'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.
A History of English
Barbara A. Fennell
Paperback - $129.95
A History of English provides an intelligent and accessible synthesis of modern sociolinguistic approaches to the development of the English language.Beginning with the pre-history of English, each chapter provides sociohistorical context, an overvie ...
Sociolinguistic Perspectives : Papers on Language in Society, 1959-1994
Charles Albert Ferguson
Hardcover - $303.95