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Sociolinguistic Patterns
William Labov
Paperback - $52.95
This classic volume, by a well-known linguist, constitutes a systematic introduction to sociolinguistics, unmatched in the clarity and forcefulness of its approach, and to the study of language in its social setting.
Language Repertoires and State Construction in Africa
David D. Laitin
Paperback - $88.95
The author of two previous books on African political culture, David Laitin turns in this book to the study of language planning in Africa and the role of language politics in the process of state formation. Written in an engaging style, the book tak ...
Language Repertoires and State Construction in Africa
David D. Laitin
Hardcover - $163.95
The author of two previous books on African political culture, David Laitin turns in this book to the study of language planning in Africa and the role of language politics in the process of state formation. Written in an engaging style, the book tak ...
Language War
Robin Tolmach Lakoff
Paperback - $37.95
"Robin Lakoff is a national treasure. She is one of the most astute and knowledgeable linguists in the country (indeed, in the world), and one of the few who turns her analytic eye to the role of language in popular and political culture. It was she ...
Words and Stones : The Politics of Language and Identity in Israel
Daniel Lefkowitz
Hardcover - $113.95
Social and ethnic identity are nowhere more enmeshed with language than in Israel. Words and Stones explores the politics of identity in Israel through an analysis of the social life of language. By examining the social choices Israelis make when the ...
Pronoun Envy : Literary Uses of Linguistic Gender
Anna Livia
Hardcover - $200.95
Controversy over gendered pronouns, for example using the generic "he", has been a staple of feminist arguments about patriarchal language over the last 30 years, and is certainly the most contested political issue in Western feminist linguistics. Mo ...