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Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking
Richard Bauman
Paperback - $113.95
First published in 1974, this collection of classic case studies in the ethnography of speaking had a formative influence on the field. No other volume has so successfully provided a broad, cross-cultural survey of the use, role, and function of lang ...
Speaking Out : The Female Voice in Public Contexts
Judith Baxter
Hardcover - $204.95
Focusing on the female voice in public contexts, a stellar group of language and gender specialists consider both the barriers and opportunities encountered by women in gaining recognition in politics, law, the church, education, the business world a ...
The Development of Language
Jean Berko Gleason
Hardcover - $213.95
The sixth edition of "The Development of Language," written and contributed by leading researchers, covers language acquisition and development from infancy through adulthood. This authoritative text is ideal for courses that take a developmental app ...
Dimensions of Register Variation : A Cross-Linguistic Comparison
Douglas Biber
Paperback - $153.95
Douglas Biber's new book extends and refines the research and methodology reported in his ground-breaking Variation Across Speech and Writing (1988), and adds for the first time a diachronic dimension. In it he gives a linguistic analysis of register ...
Dimensions of Register Variation : A Cross-Linguistic Comparison
Douglas Biber
Hardcover - $245.95
Douglas Biber??'s new book gives a linguistic analysis of register in four widely differing languages: English, Nukulaelae Tuvaluan, Korean, and Somali.
Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Register
Douglas Biber
Hardcover - $275.95
This collection brings together several perspectives on language varieties defined according to their contexts of use--what are variously called registers, sublanguages, or genres. The volume highlights the importance of these central linguistic phen ...
Linguistic Conflict and Language Laws : Understanding the Quebec Question
Alice Bloch
Hardcover - $204.95
In a multilingual society, the role of each language is parallel to the importance of the community that speaks it; change in power relations between groups is linked to modifications in the status of their language. The Quebec language laws provide ...
