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Prison Discourse : Language as a Means of Control and Resistance
Andrea Mayr
Hardcover - $163.95
With unique and powerful data from within a big city prison, this book clarifies the role that conversational analysis can have within a Critical Discourse Analysis perspective. In a detailed linguistic analysis of the language use of prison officers ...
Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching
Sandra L. McKay
Paperback - $71.95
This text provides an introduction to the field of sociolinguistics for second and foreign language teachers. The paperback edition provides an introduction to the field of sociolinguistics for second and foreign language teachers. Chapters cover the ...
Language Testing : The Social Dimension
Tim McNamara
Paperback - $74.95
This volume in the Language Learning Monograph series discusses social aspects of language testing, which the authors see as encompassing assessment of socially situated language use as well as the social consequences and societal impact of language ...
Word on the Street : Debunking the Myth of a Pure Standard English
John McWhorter
Paperback - $27.95
A barbed rebuttal to the conservative view that popular culture is destroying the English language.
Words and Minds : How We Use Language to Think Together
Neil Mercer
Paper Textbook - $65.95
There is widespread interest in the everyday use of language. People want to know how to communicate, and do it well. "Words and Minds takes a lively look at the evolution of language, and how we use language to get things done.
Examining everyda ...
Ku Waru : Language and Segmentary Politics in the Western Nebilyer Valley, Papua New Guinea
Francesca Merlan
Paperback - $133.95
The highlanders of New Guinea are renowned for their elaborate systems of ceremonial exchange. This book is the first to concentrate on exchange events and the elaborate oratory used at them. Focusing on a remarkable set of warfare compensation payme ...
Sociolinguistics
Lesley Milroy
Paperback - $90.95
Questions of how to access and analyze actual language use are central to the study of language in its social context. Sociolinguistics: Method and Interpretation presents a thorough and practical description of current sociolinguistic methodology wh ...
Linguistic Consequences of Language Contact and Restriction : The Case of French in Ontario, Canada
Raymond Mougeon
Hardcover - $366.95
This study of minority languages documents the linguistic consequences of contact and restriction. First providing sociohistorical and sociolinguistic backgrounds, the book analyzes the effect contact with English and language-use restriction has had ...
