The Anti-Dictionary : A Selected List of Words Being Forced from the Modern Lexicon

Michael Cromwell
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Language in History

Tony Crowley
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Tony Crowley uses a radical re-reading of Saussure and Bahktin to demonstrate, in four case studies, the ways in which language has been used to construct social and cultural identity in Britain and Ireland.
By bringing together linguistic and c ...

Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader

Tony Crowley
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This reader features the most innovative and influential writings that have shaped and defined the relations between language, culture and cultural identity in the twentieth century. br The themed sections include: Language in History; Language and S ...

Language and the Internet

David Crystal
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In recent years, the Internet has come to dominate our lives. E-mail, instant messaging and chat are rapidly replacing conventional forms of correspondence, and the Web has become the first port of call for both information enquiry and leisure activi ...

Growing Up with Two Languages : A Practical Guide

Una Cunningham-Andersson
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spoken in the community at home are two of the most common systems.
There are, however, as many variations on these systems as there are families. There is no right or wrong way - here each family has to find its own system. "Growing up with Two ...

Color, Race, and English Language Teaching : Shades of Meaning

Andy Curtis
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This volume addresses the question, What does it mean to be a TESOL professional of color? Thirteen narratives by TESOL professionals of color are prefaced by an introduction and overview of critical race theory, narrative inquiry, and educational re ...

Korle Meets the Sea : A Sociolinguistic History of Accra

M. E. Kropp Dakubu
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Ghana has played a key role in African/Western relations since medieval times. For this reason and others, Ghana has evolved into a linguistic quilt that contains forty-four indigenous languages and several exotic ones, of which most Ghanians speak a ...

A Basic Course in Anthropological Linguistics

Marcel Danesi
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Language can be studied from several angles. The focus on the relation between language, thought and culture is known as anthropological linguistics (AL). This text constitutes a basic introduction to the subject matter and techniques of AL. Traditio ...

Relatively Speaking : Language, Thought, and Kinship Among the Mopan Maya

Eve Danziger
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Based upon 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork among the Mopan Maya in Belize, Eve Danziger examines the semantic complexity of particular kinship terms used among Mopan women and children and shows that a culture-specific analysis of their terms is ...

Pragmatics : A Reader

Steven Davis
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Until recently, pragmatics--the study of language in relation to the users of language--has been the neglected member of the traditional three-part division of the study of signs; syntax, semantics, pragmatics. This volume--the first of its kind--bri ...