Sociolinguistics
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Sociolinguistics
hardcover. Why do men and women talk so differently and how do these differences interfere with communication between the sexes? Num Pages: 252 pages, 6 b/w illus. BIC Classification: CFB; JFSJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780521887137
- ISBN
- 9780521887137
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.90
€ 35.90
Hardcover. This book reveals how 'double-voicing' is an inherent and routine part of spoken interactions within institutional contexts. Baxter's research shows that women use double-voicing more than men as a means of gaining acceptance and approval in the workplace. Double-voicing thus involves an interplay between power, gender and linguistic expertise. Num Pages: 128 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; KJP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137348524
- ISBN
- 9781137348524
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Condition: New
€ 63.43
€ 63.43
Paperback. The concept of "care" defines our humanity. Covering topics as diverse as familial care, medical care, artistic care, scientific care, and various other permutations of the term, this book examines the word and concept of "care" from a cultural perspective, tracing its use throughout literature and history. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; HBTB; JFC; JFSR; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349474691
- ISBN
- 9781349474691
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Condition: New
€ 63.71
€ 63.71
Paperback. Sociocultural linguistics has long conceived of languages as well-bounded,separate codes. But the increasing diversity of languages encountered by most people in their daily lives challenges this conception. This volume takes stock of the increasing diversity of linguistic phenomena and more. Editor(s): De Fina, Anna; Ikizoglu, Didem; Wegner, Jeremy. Series: Georgetown University Round Table on Languages & Linguistics Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 44 figures, 9 tables, 44 figures, 9 tables. BIC Classification: CFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781626164222
- ISBN
- 9781626164222
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.17
€ 71.17
Hardcover. Competence encompasses or overlaps with notions of efficiency, success, accountability, excellence and self-justification. This collection explores ways in which individuals, teams or groups in organizations discursively present themselves as competent to perform tasks or functions, possibly at a superior level. Editor(s): Pelsmaekers, Katja; Rollo, Craig; Van Hout, Tom; Heynderickx, Priscilla. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; KJP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230282636
- ISBN
- 9780230282636
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.06
€ 64.06
Paperback. Competence encompasses or overlaps with notions of efficiency, success, accountability, excellence and self-justification. This collection explores ways in which individuals, teams or groups in organizations discursively present themselves as competentto perform tasks or functions, possibly at a superior level." Editor(s): Van Hout, Tom; Pelsmaekers, Katja; Rollo, Craig; Heynderickx, Priscilla. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CB; CFB; CFGR; KJSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349328505
- ISBN
- 9781349328505
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Condition: New
€ 63.31
€ 63.31
Paperback. Looking at diverse contexts from sign languages in Indonesia to literacy practices in Brazil, the authors argue that unless we change and reconstitute the ways in which languages are taught and conceptualized, language studies will not be able to improve the social welfare of language users. Editor(s): Makoni, Sinfree; Pennycook, Alastair. Series: Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: CFB; CFDC; CFDM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853599231
- ISBN
- 9781853599231
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Condition: New
€ 44.79
€ 44.79
Hardback. This book explores discursive processes of intergenerational transmission of recent history through the case of the Uruguayan dictatorship. The circulation of meanings through time and space captures the dynamic processes of recontextualization, resemiotization and intertextuality. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; HBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137487322
- ISBN
- 9781137487322
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.26
€ 64.26
Hardcover. This volume brings together specialists from a range of disciplines to discuss the discursive construction of ethnic, national and regional identities and analyse how specific identity discourses condition and constrain knowledge and action with regard to various socio-political issues in Europe. Editor(s): Mole, Richard C. M. Series: Language and Globalization. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; CFB; JMS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230517066
- ISBN
- 9780230517066
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Condition: New
€ 64.26
€ 64.26
Paperback. This book examines the discursive construction of ethnic, national and regional identities and analyses how specific industry discourses condition and constrain knowledge and action with regard to various socio-political issues in Europe. Editor(s): Mole, Richard C. M. Series: Language and Globalization. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CB; CFB; JHB; JPA; YQS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 325.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349354887
- ISBN
- 9781349354887
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Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardback. Editor(s): Barakos, Elisabeth; Unger, Johann Wolfgang. Num Pages: 299 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 5 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFDM; CFGR; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 217 x 24. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137531339
- ISBN
- 9781137531339
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.10
€ 144.10
Hardcover. Freedom of speech is a tradition distinctive to American political culture, and this book focuses on major debates and discourses that shaped this tradition. It sheds fresh light on key Congressional debates in the early American Republic, developing and applying an approach to fallacy theory suitable to the study of political discourse. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFB; JPVH2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137030597
- ISBN
- 9781137030597
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.94
€ 63.94
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFGR; HBJK; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349440511
- ISBN
- 9781349440511
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Condition: New
€ 63.19
€ 63.19
Hardcover. Key practitioners and researchers explore how people routinely and at particular sites are discursively constructed as deficient in ways that may affect their life chances. The book offers examples of how adopting multiple perspectives on research can provide a rich explanatory analysis of the construct of 'deficit' in a range of domains. Editor(s): Candlin, Christopher N.; Crichton, Jonathan. Series: Communicating in Professions and Organizations. Num Pages: 362 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFG; KJP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 27. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 370
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230249721
- ISBN
- 9780230249721
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.15
€ 65.15
Paperback. Key practitioners and researchers explore how people routinely and at particular sites are discursively constructed as deficient in ways that may affect their life chances. The book offers examples of how adopting multiple perspectives on research can provide a rich explanatory analysis of the construct of 'deficit' in a range of domains. Editor(s): Crichton, J. Series: Communicating in Professions and Organizations. Num Pages: 362 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; CFB; CFG; CFGR; CJ; KJSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 362
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349320899
- ISBN
- 9781349320899
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Condition: New
€ 64.51
€ 64.51
Paperback. Migrant workers are crucial to China's fast growing economy, yet little is known about their identities. This ethnographic study of the language use and identity construction of the children of internal migrants is innovative both in the context it studies and the scalar structure of discursive identity construction used to present its data. Series: Encounters. Num Pages: 168 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; CFB; JFFN; JHBL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 151 x 10. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847694195
- ISBN
- 9781847694195
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.71
€ 43.71
Paperback. This is an original book about the connections between historical moment, social structure, technology, communication systems, and what is said and thought using these systems - notably literature. Translator(s): Cullens, Chris; Metteer, Michael. Num Pages: 496 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CFB; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 33. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804720991
- ISBN
- 9780804720991
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 40.01
€ 44.99
€ 40.01
Hardcover. This volume explores the discursive nature of post-1989 social change in Central and Eastern Europe. Through a set of national case studies, the construction of post-communist transformation is explored from the point of view of accelerating and unique dynamics of linguistic and discursive practices. Editor(s): Galasinska, Aleksandra; Krzyzanowski, Michal. Series: Language and Globalization. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DF; 1DV; CFB; CFG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230521025
- ISBN
- 9780230521025
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.29
€ 64.29
Discourse and Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe
. Ed(S): Galasinska, Aleksandra; Krzyzanowski...
Paperback. This volume explores the discursive nature of post-1989 social change in Central and Eastern Europe. Through a set of national case studies, the construction of post-communist transformation is explored from the point of view of accelerating and unique dynamics of linguistic and discursive practices. Editor(s): Galasinska, Aleksandra; Krzyzanowski, M.; Krzyzanowski, Michal. Series: Language and Globalization. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; CFB; DS; J; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2009
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349356003
- ISBN
- 9781349356003
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Hardcover. The author presents a new approach to the study of language policy, by focusing on language policy formation and implementation as a dynamic, conflict-laden process involving the interaction of various actors with different motivations and uneven bargaining powers, rather than as a product, examinable post hoc from existing language legislation. Editor(s): Hogan-Brun, Gabrielle. Series: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDFC; CFB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230537347
- ISBN
- 9780230537347
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.66
€ 64.66