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Language and Literacy in Uganda. Towards a Sustainable Reading Culture
Kate Parry
Paperback - $48.95
Uganda's linguistic situation is complex. These papers from two conferences at Makerere University present a coherent and current picture. The book is divided into five parts: an overview of language and literacy issues in both Ugandan and internatio ...
On Literacy : The Politics of the Word from Homer to the Age of Rock
Robert Pattison
Paperback - $62.95
Sociolinguistics : The Essentials Readings
Christina Bratt Paulston
Paperback - $106.95
Sociolinguistics: The Essential Readings is a collection of classic articles that have helped define the field of sociolinguistics and provide the foundation for future research, paired with more recent articles that indicate the direction the field ...
Language, Gender, and Sex in Comparative Perspective
Susan U. Philips
Paperback - $76.95
The aim of this innovative volume is to analyze both the cultural and the biological sources of gender differences in language use. The first two parts of the volume focus on cultural variation in gender-differentiated language use, comparing Western ...
African Amer Engl in Diaspora
Shana Poplack
Paperback - $106.95
This provocative volume investigates the origins of contemporary African American Vernacular English (AAVE), one of the oldest, yet unsolved, questions in sociolinguistics.Exploring the hypothesis that contemporary AAVE is a direct descendant of colo ...
A History of the Spanish Language Through Texts
Christopher Pountain
Hardcover - $255.95
A History of the Spanish Language through Texts examines the evolution of the Spanish language from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Including chapters on Latin American Spanish, US Spanish, Judeo-Spanish, and Creoles, the book looks at the spre ...
Concepts of Meaning : Framing an Integrated Theory of Linguistic Behavior
Gerhard Preyer
Hardcover - $281.95
Concepts of Meaning includes contributions from well-known philosophers of language and semanticists. It is a useful collection for students in philosophy of language, semantics and epistemology. This work discusses new research in semantics, theory ...