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Gender Voices
David Graddol
Paperback - $102.95
Does the language we speak create and sustain a sexist culture? This controversial and exciting proposal has fascinated feminists, psychologists and linguists alike for well over a decade. The authors of Gender Voices explore in a clear and comprehen ...
Communication in Personal Relationships Across Cultures
William B. Gudykunst
Paperback - $114.95
Filling the void in interpersonal and intercultural communication, Communication in Personal Relationships Across Cultures examines the communication practices of non-Western cultures. The international cast of contributors assembled here leaves behi ...
Directions in Sociolinguistics : The Ethnography of Communication
John J. Gumperz
Paperback - $52.95
Voices of Authority : Education and Linguistic Difference
Monica Heller
Paperback - $92.95
This collection of case studies from around the world examines how struggles for equality unfold in policies, programs, and practices in educational settings in multilingual contexts. Using sociolinguistic, interactional and discourse analysis, Helle ...
Handbook of Language and Communication : Diversity and Change
Marlis Hellinger
Hardcover - $596.95
The concept of the Handbooks of Applied Linguistics is based on an understanding of applied linguistics as a field of academic enquiry that deals with the theoretical and empirical investigation of real-world problems in which language and communicat ...
Belfast English and Standard English : Dialect Variation and Parameter Setting
Alison Henry
Paperback - $139.95
A linguistics expert born in Belfast offers the first comparison of the syntax of Belfast English and Standard English, using Chomsky's "Principles and Parameters"/Minimalist framework. Alison Henry analyzes various Belfast English constructions and ...
Telling Our Selves : Ethnicity and Discourse in Southwestern Alaska
Chase Hensel
Paperback - $123.95
In this book, Chase Hensel examines how Yup'ik Eskimos and non-natives construct and maintain gender and ethnic identities through strategic talk about hunting, fishing, and processing. Although ethnicity is overtly constructed in terms of either/or ...
Responsibility and Evidence in Oral Discourse
Jane H. Hill
Paperback - $72.95
Twelve articles by leading linguists and linguistic anthropologists develop an important series of case studies that show how ideas such as "responsibility," "agency," "authority," and "evidence" are simultaneously aspects of social meaning and impli ...