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Sociolinguistics

Hardcover. This book shows how participation of interpreters as mediators changes the dynamics of police interviews, particularly with regard to power struggles and competing versions of events. The analysis of interaction offers insights into language in the legal process. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFP; LAR; LNFX5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230355149
ISBN
9780230355149
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.83

Hardback. This revised second edition is a comprehensive overview of why we speak the languages that we do. It covers language learning imposed by political and economic agendas as well as language choices entered into willingly for reasons of social mobility, economic advantage and group identity. Num Pages: 385 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 625.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
385
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230302600
ISBN
9780230302600
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.67

Hardcover. Language and Politics in Post-Soviet Russia critically examines the uses of language in post-Soviet media and political texts between 1998 and 2007. It will be of interest to academics and researchers in the fields of media studies, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and scholars in Russian Studies. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; CFB; CFX; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230301016
ISBN
9780230301016
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.49

Hardcover. This book explores the role of photographs in newspapers and online news, analyzing how meanings are made in images and exploring text-image relations, illustrated with authentic news stories from both print and online news outlets. Num Pages: 260 pages, 46 black & white tables, 46 figures. BIC Classification: AJCR; CFB; JFD; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2013th Edition
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230301009
ISBN
9780230301009
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.12

Hardcover. This book explores both theoretical and practical issues of language use in a migration context, using data from a German urban immigrant community in Canada. Through this transcontinental perspective, the book makes a new contribution to the literature on both language and identity and language and globalization. Series: Language and Globalization. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFDM; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230291010
ISBN
9780230291010
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.39

Hardcover. Literacy and the Bilingual Learner explores the literacy development of bilingual learners in London (UK) schools and colleges through a series of vignettes and case studies of learners and their educational experiences. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFC; CFDM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230291003
ISBN
9780230291003
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.09

Hardcover. This book explores the Linguistic Landscapes of ten French and Italian Mediterranean coastal cities. The authors address the national languages, the regional languages and dialects, migrant languages, and the English language, as they collectively mark the public space. Series: Language and Globalization. Num Pages: 264 pages, 56 figures, 11 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1DST; CFB; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230290983
ISBN
9780230290983
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.68

Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2H; CFB; CFDM; KCP; PBUD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
257
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230251724
ISBN
9780230251724
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.85

Hardback. This analysis of the rhetoric of nine successfully persuasive politicians explains how their use of language created credible and consistent stories about themselves and the social world they inhabit. It explores their use of metaphors, their myths and how language analysis helps us to understand how politicians are able to persuade. Num Pages: 384 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 707.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230251649
ISBN
9780230251649
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.41

Hardback. This is the first edited collection to examine politeness in a wide range of diverse cultures. Most essays draw on empirical data from a wide variety of languages, including some key-languages in politeness research, such as English, and Japanese, as well as some lesser-studied languages, such as Georgian. Editor(s): Bargiela-Chiappini, Francesca; Kadar, Daniel Z. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2GJ; CFB; CFG; GTC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
287
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230236486
ISBN
9780230236486
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.69

Hardback. Much of everyday work is done through talk between practitioner and client. Conversation Analysis is the close inspection of people's use of language in interaction. The work reported in this collection shows how CA can be used to identify, and improve, communicative practices at work. Editor(s): Antaki, Charles. Series: Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics. Num Pages: 298 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; GTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 563.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230229952
ISBN
9780230229952
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.45

Hardback. This volume explores the global spread of English or global Englishes, and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), focusing specifically on Asian Englishes. It is unique in the range of diverse perspectives across the languages and cultures by its contributors. Editor(s): Murata, Kumiko; Jenkins, Jennifer. Num Pages: 244 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFB; CFF; EBA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230221024
ISBN
9780230221024
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.64

paperback. Presents an examination of the schizophrenic relationship that advertising has with multilingualism and the implications of market-driven language choices for notions of language and languages. This book has data on a range of real-life advertising wording that makes it a useful recommended reading for undergraduates. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; KJSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 291.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2005th Edition
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230217065
ISBN
9780230217065
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.86

Paperback. As part of a common cultural heritage minority languages in Europe need protection. The contributions to this book reflect urgent, stimulating and productive debates among researchers in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, politics and sociology, and among language activists and policy makers. Editor(s): Hogan-Brun, Gabrielle; Wolff, Stefan. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; CBX; CFB; JFS; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230217034
ISBN
9780230217034
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.46

Hardback. By examining market-driven practices in a range of individual contexts this interdisciplinary collection offers an in-depth examination of the relationship between languages and market processes. Series: Language and Globalization. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230210608
ISBN
9780230210608
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.60

Paperback. This book analyzes the rhetoric of speeches by major British or American politicians and shows how metaphor is used systematically to create political myths of monsters, villains and heroes. Metaphors are shown to interact with other figures of speech to communicate subliminal meanings by drawing on the unconscious emotional association of words. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFG; GTC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230019812
ISBN
9780230019812
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 115.89

Hardback. This volume offers a close look at four cases of indigenous language revitalization: Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Saami in Scandinavia, Hnahno in Mexico and Quechua and other indigenous languages in Latin America. Essays by experts from each case are in turn discussed in international perspective by four counterpart experts. Editor(s): Hornberger, Nancy H. Series: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFDM; JFSL9. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 405.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230013322
ISBN
9780230013322
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.64

Series: Library and Information Science Encyclopedia. Num Pages: 552 pages, 113 black & white tables, 11 black & white halftones, 46 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 2ADSL; CFB; CFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 246 x 174. .
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
552
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138209213
ISBN
9781138209213
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 187.92

Paperback. Editor(s): Jansen, Steen; Olsen, Jorgen; Prebensen, Henrik; Thrane, Torben. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACSD; CFB; CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 169 x 11. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772891811
ISBN
9788772891811
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 23.30

Paperback. Collects the essays that investigate a variety of linguistic aspects of texts from different genres: from punning riddles and other kinds of humorous text to fictional prose and poetry, and illustrate how work in stylistics may simultaneously contribute to our understanding of a given text and of a particular linguistic phenomenon. Editor(s): Norgaard, Nina. Num Pages: 278 pages, b/w illus & tables. BIC Classification: CFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 249 x 173 x 21. Weight in Grams: 634.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Press of Southern Denmark Denmark
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9788776744779
ISBN
9788776744779
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.06

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