Embodied Rhetorics : Disability in Language and Culture

James C. Wilson
Paperback - $61.95

Presenting thirteen essays, editors James C. Wilson and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson unite the fields of disability studies and rhetoric to examine connections between disability, education, language, and cultural practices.

The contributors span a rang ...

Word Myths : Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends

David Wilton
Hardcover - $37.95

Wilton debunks the most persistently wrong word histories and gives the real stories behind perennial mis-etymologized words.

An Introduction to Contact Linguistics

Donald Winford
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This book is a comprehensive introduction to the study of language contact and its outcomes, as well as the social and linguistic factors involved.

Language Policy and Language Planning : From Nationalism to Globalisation

Sue Wright
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Language policy and planning is rarely just about language; it always has political, social and ethical dimensions. This is a comprehensive advanced textbook, covering not only language learning imposed by economic or political agendas, but also lang ...

A Cultural Approach to Discourse

Shi Xu
Hardcover - $163.95

Shi-xu critiques universalism in discourse studies in terms of the cultural consequences of its current white, western standpoint and advocates a culturally pluralist approach, a theory and research methodology from an innovative position between Eas ...