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Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect
Lorenzo Dow Turner
Paperback - $46.95
A unique creole language spoken on the coastal islands and adjacent mainland of South Carolina and Georgia, Gullah existed as an isolated and largely ignored linguistic phenomenon until the publication of Lorenzo Dow Turner's landmark volume Africani ...
A Discourse-Centered Approach to Culture : Native South American Myths and Rituals
Greg Urban
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The Ecology and Semiotics of Language Learning : A Sociocultural Perspective
Leo Van Lier
Hardcover - $225.95
The ecological perspective on language and language education has in recent years become a major focus of interest in the fields of second language teaching and learning, and linguistics and education in general. This is the first book-length atte ...
Pushing Boundaries : Language and Culture in a Mexicano Community
Olga A. Vasquez
Paperback - $88.95
Pushing Boundaries : Language and Culture in a Mexicano Community
Olga A. Vasquez
Hardcover - $202.95
Pushing Boundaries offers a unique perspective on the ways bilingual children and their families use and learn language in Eastside, a Mexicano immigrant community in Northern California. The authors track how children use language in a variety of se ...
Your Own Words
Barbara Wallraff
Paperback - $25.95
As the author of the Word Court columns that appear in The Atlantic Monthly, Barbara Wallraff is one of America's most widely read and beloved writers on language. Now, in Your Own Words, Wallraff guides the reader through a variety of intriguing que ...
An Introduction to Sociolinguistics
Ronald Wardhaugh
Paperback - $116.95
In 1986 Ronald Wardhaugh provided the world of sociolinguistics with a popular and accessible textbook for introductory students. Keeping in step with this ever-changing field, the fifth edition has been thoroughly revised with 130 new and updated re ...
Language, Discourse and Social Psychology
Ann Weatherall
Hardcover - $184.95
Language and communication are central features of social behaviour. So, it is somewhat surprising that the social psychological study of language, communication and discourse has a relatively short history. In this book a leading group of language, ...