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The Creation of Israeli Arabic - Security and Politics in Arabic Studies in Israel (Hardcover): Y. Mendel The Creation of Israeli Arabic - Security and Politics in Arabic Studies in Israel (Hardcover)
Y. Mendel
R3,577 Discovery Miles 35 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book sheds light on the ways in which the on-going Israeli-Arab conflict has shaped Arabic language instruction. Due to its interdisciplinary nature it will be of great interest to academics and researchers in security and middle eastern studies as well as those focused on language and linguistics.

Minority Languages in the Linguistic Landscape (Hardcover): D Gorter, H. F. Marten, L. Van Mensel Minority Languages in the Linguistic Landscape (Hardcover)
D Gorter, H. F. Marten, L. Van Mensel
R3,646 Discovery Miles 36 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Minority Languages in the Linguistic Landscape provides an innovative approach to the written displays of minority languages in public space. It explores minority language situations through the lens of linguistic landscape research. Based on very tangible data it explores the 'same old issues' of language contact and language conflict in new ways. It deepens our understanding of language policies, power relations and ideologies. The chapters cover a wide geographic area, ranging from Sami in the far North, to Basque, Catalan and Corsican in the South. From the town of Dingle on the West coast of Ireland to the cities of Kiev and Chisinau in the East of Europe, including the contrasting cases of Israel and Brunei. Combining theoretical approaches from various disciplines to provide a framework which connects real bottom-up data with more abstract research on minority languages, this book will be useful for researchers and students in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics and policy sciences, as well as for policy makers.

The Sociolinguistics of Urbanization - The Case of the Nordic Countries (Hardcover, Reprint 2010): Bengt Nordberg The Sociolinguistics of Urbanization - The Case of the Nordic Countries (Hardcover, Reprint 2010)
Bengt Nordberg
R4,815 Discovery Miles 48 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Brexit, Language Policy and Linguistic Diversity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Diarmait Mac Giolla Chriost, Matteo Bonotti Brexit, Language Policy and Linguistic Diversity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Diarmait Mac Giolla Chriost, Matteo Bonotti
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book argues that Brexit will wholly re-shape the legal framework and public policy norms relating to linguistic diversity that have dominated public life in the UK and the EU since the Treaty on European Union in 1993. First, Brexit de-anchors the linguistic actors engaged with sub-state nationalisms in the UK (in Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland) from the ethno-linguistic imaginary of the so-called 'Europe of the regions'. This strengthens the case both for the de jure recognition of English as the official language of the UK and for embedding autochthonous minority language rights and freedoms in a transformed UK constitution. Second, Brexit strengthens the normative case for English as the lingua franca of the EU, by reducing the injustices associated with the rise of English as the EU and global lingua franca. The book will appeal to students and scholars across the fields of political science, political theory, law, language policy and planning, and sociolinguistics.

Discursive Processes of Intergenerational Transmission of Recent History - (Re)making Our Past (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): M.... Discursive Processes of Intergenerational Transmission of Recent History - (Re)making Our Past (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
M. Achugar
R2,629 R1,953 Discovery Miles 19 530 Save R676 (26%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Debates about how to remember politically contested or painful pasts exist throughout the world. As with the case of the Holocaust in Europe and Apartheid in South Africa, South American countries are struggling with the legacy of state terrorism left by the 1970s dictatorships. Coming to terms with the past entails understanding the role different social actors played in those events as well as what those event mean for us today. Young people in these situations have to learn about painful historical events over which there is no national consensus. This book explores discursive processes of intergenerational transmission of recent history through the case of the Uruguayan dictatorship. The main themes of the book are the discursive construction of social memory and intergenerational transmission of contested pasts through recontextualization, resemiotization and intertextuality.

Discourse and Practice - New Tools for Critical Analysis (Hardcover, New): Theo Van Leeuwen Discourse and Practice - New Tools for Critical Analysis (Hardcover, New)
Theo Van Leeuwen
R3,742 Discovery Miles 37 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Adding a new introduction and two previously unpublished papers, Discourse and Practice: New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis brings together van Leeuwen's methodological work on discourse analysis of the last 15 years. Discourse, van Leeuwen argues, is a resource for representation, a knowledge about some aspect of reality which can be drawn upon when that aspect of reality has to be represented, a framework for making sense of things. And they are plural. There can be different discourses, different ways of making sense of the same aspect of reality that serve different interests and will therefore be used in different social contexts.
However abstract some discourses are, discourses ultimately always represent doings, van Leeuwen argues. Doing is the foundation of knowing, and social practices are the foundation of discourses. Studying children's books, newspaper reports, brochures and other texts, as well as photographs and children's toys, van Leeuwen investigates what can happen when practices are transformed into discourses and provides analytical tools for reconstructing discourses from texts.
Throughout the book, van Leeuwen makes connections between sociological and linguistic or semiotic concepts and methods to ensure the social and critical relevance of his analytical categories. van Leeuwen's work has already been widely used by critical discourse analysts across the world. This volume will be a welcome guide for anyone looking for a form of discourse analysis that is both explicit and methodical, and critically incisive.

Language and Culture - Global Flows and Local Complexity (Paperback): Karen Risager Language and Culture - Global Flows and Local Complexity (Paperback)
Karen Risager
R823 Discovery Miles 8 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The book presents a new theory of the relationship between language and culture in a transnational and global perspective. The fundamental view is that languages spread across cultures, and cultures spread across languages, or in other words, that linguistic and cultural practices flow through social networks in the world along partially different paths and across national structures and communities.

Internationalising the University - The Chinese Context (Hardcover): T. Coverdale-Jones, P. Rastall Internationalising the University - The Chinese Context (Hardcover)
T. Coverdale-Jones, P. Rastall
R1,524 Discovery Miles 15 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The contributors to "Internationalising the University: the Chinese Context "offer an in-depth understanding of the rapidly changing developments in the fields of institutional, social, management, curriculum and student concerns and changes.

Analysing English as a Lingua Franca - A Corpus-driven Investigation (Hardcover, New): Alessia Cogo, Martin Dewey Analysing English as a Lingua Franca - A Corpus-driven Investigation (Hardcover, New)
Alessia Cogo, Martin Dewey
R5,951 Discovery Miles 59 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book details innovative developments in the pragmatics and lexicogrammar of speakers using English as a lingua franca. There have been considerable recent demographic shifts in the use of English worldwide. English is now undoubtedly(and particularly) an international lingua franca, a lingua mundi. The sociolinguistic reality of English language use worldwide, and its implications, continue to be hotly contested. Plenty of research has questioned, for example, the ownership of English, but less attention has been paid to the linguistic consequences of the escalating role English plays. This is one of the first books to provide a detailed and comprehensive account of recent empirical findings in the field of English as a lingua franca (ELF). Dewey and Cogo analyze and interpret their own large corpus of naturally occurring spoken interactions and focus on identifying innovative developments in the pragmatics and lexicogrammar of speakers engaged in ELF talk. Dewey and Cogo's work makes a substantial contribution to the emerging field of empirical ELF studies. As well as this practical focus, this book looks at both pragmatic and lexicogrammatical issues and highlights their interrelationship. In showcasing the underlying processes involved in the emergence of innovative patterns of language use, this book will be of great interest to advanced students and academics working in applied linguistics, ELF, sociolinguistics, and corpus linguistics.

Dangerous Multilingualism - Northern Perspectives on Order, Purity and Normality (Hardcover): J. Blommaert, S. Leppanen, P... Dangerous Multilingualism - Northern Perspectives on Order, Purity and Normality (Hardcover)
J. Blommaert, S. Leppanen, P Pahta, T. Virkkula, Tiina Raisanen
R2,891 Discovery Miles 28 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Focuses on the endangering effects of language-ideological processes. This book looks at the challenges imposed by globalization and super-diversity on the nation state and its language situations and ideologies, and demonstrates how many of its problems rise from the tension between late-modern diversity and the (pre-)modernist responses to it.

Men's Discourses of Depression (Hardcover): D Galasinski Men's Discourses of Depression (Hardcover)
D Galasinski
R2,864 Discovery Miles 28 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An original and timely study of men's experiences of depression in which the author tackles the discursively constructed relationship between the self and depression showing its linguistic and social complexity and analyses the relationship between depression and masculinity.

Language, Literacy, and Health - Discourse in Brazil's National Health System (Hardcover): Izabel Magalhaes, Kenia Lara Da... Language, Literacy, and Health - Discourse in Brazil's National Health System (Hardcover)
Izabel Magalhaes, Kenia Lara Da Silva; As told to Julia Argenta, Rebeca Pereira
R2,651 Discovery Miles 26 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Language, Literacy, and Health: Discourse in Brazils National Health System analyzes language, literacy, and health as social practices, with a focus on Brazils national health system, the Unified Health System (SUS). The SUS was established in the 1990s, offering free consultations, health promotion activities, and home visits by a professional team to the Brazilian population, and of particular interest is the Family Health Strategy program. This book is based on research conducted in two different Brazilian regions, the Northeast and the Southeast. Izabel Magalhaes and Kenia Lara da Silva discuss language and literacy as discourse-a very important dimension of health practice-and different uses of texts, including multimodal texts. The research and analysis, and the authors' ethnographic approach, bring to light some issues with SUS practices, and the authors suggest improvements. The book contributes to the debate about language and literacy in health practices, in which patients are partly responsible for keeping well.

Linguistic Areas - Convergence in Historical and Typological Perspective (Hardcover, 2006 ed.): Y. Matras Linguistic Areas - Convergence in Historical and Typological Perspective (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)
Y. Matras; April McMahon; Edited by N. Vincent
R3,213 Discovery Miles 32 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The contributors to this collection address issues of definition and theory of linguistic areas, analyze the process of convergence, and introduce methods to assess the impact of language contact across geographical zones. New cases studies are introduced which extend the corpus of areas described so far. They are accompanied by discussions that revisit some of the more well-established linguistic areas.

Teenage Talk - From General Characteristics to the Use of Pragmatic Markers in a Contrastive Perspective (Hardcover, New): A.... Teenage Talk - From General Characteristics to the Use of Pragmatic Markers in a Contrastive Perspective (Hardcover, New)
A. Stenstroem
R1,854 Discovery Miles 18 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This in-depth study of the use of pragmatic markers by Spanish and English teenagers offers insight into the currently under-investigated area of teenage talk through the analysis of the Corpus Oral de Lenguaje Adolescente de Madrid and The Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Talk.

Medical and Scientific Writing in Late Medieval English (Hardcover): Irma Taavitsainen, Paivi Pahta Medical and Scientific Writing in Late Medieval English (Hardcover)
Irma Taavitsainen, Paivi Pahta
R3,117 Discovery Miles 31 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The late Middle Ages in England saw a flowering of scientific writing in the vernacular that moved English discourse in new directions and established new textual genres. This book examines the sociolinguistic causes and effects of that process, based on the empirical evidence from manuscripts and computerized files. Topics covered include scriptorial "house-styles", code-switching, translation strategies, and transmission processes. The book offers important new insights into vernacularization phenomena, and will be welcomed by historical linguists and medievalists alike.

Language and Migration (Hardcover): Ingrid Piller Language and Migration (Hardcover)
Ingrid Piller
R37,856 Discovery Miles 378 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Language and Migration is timely for two main reasons: one is social - international migration is at an all-time high - and the other is theoretical - theorizing language as a mobile resource is currently the most exiting frontier in sociolinguistics. Including the very best contemporary scholarship as well as key foundational research, this four volume collection will strike a balance between the socially-relevant and topical issues of wider concern raised by migration on the one hand, and disciplinary conceptual and methodological concerns on the other. In doing so, Language and Migration is intended both as a showcase of the most important work in the field as well as an intervention into contemporary debates.

English Translations of Shuihu Zhuan - A Narratological Perspective (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Yunhong Wang English Translations of Shuihu Zhuan - A Narratological Perspective (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Yunhong Wang
R2,889 Discovery Miles 28 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers a novel perspective on the intersection of translation and narration in literary translation by investigating how three translations of Shuihu Zhuan present the original narrative mode to the target readership in terms of four narrative elements-voice, commentary, point of view and motif-in different periods of history. It not only validates but also quantifies the differences in strategy-making patterns between translators, as well as between different narratological categories. The established theoretical frameworks (including a narrative-descriptive model and a sociological explanatory framework) and the data collected may provide methodological and empirical support for further studies on shifts of narrative features in translation. The tendencies manifested by different translators and identified by the study may also shed new light on the teaching and learning of translation skills. The book offers a valuable reference guide for scholars, practitioners, translators and graduate students in the fields of e.g. language, translation, literature and cultural studies, and for anyone with an interest in Chinese classical literature, Chinese-English translation, narrative studies or cross-cultural studies.

Linguistic Human Rights - Overcoming Linguistic Discrimination (Paperback, New edition): Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Robert Phillipson Linguistic Human Rights - Overcoming Linguistic Discrimination (Paperback, New edition)
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Robert Phillipson; Contributions by Mart Rannut
R2,006 R1,627 Discovery Miles 16 270 Save R379 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Only a few hundred of the world's 6,000-7,000 languages have any kind of official status, and it is only speakers of official languages (speakers of dominant majority languages) who enjoy all linguistic human rights. As many of the collected papers in this book document, most linguistic minorities are deprived of these rights. This book describes what linguistic human rights are, who has and who does not have them and why, and suggests which linguistic rights should be regarded as basic human rights. Linguistic Human Rights introduces a new area, combining sociolinguistics, educational, and minority concerns with human rights. Discrimination against language minorities is widespread, despite national and international law prohibiting this. The book analyzes language rights in many countries worldwide, including North and Latin America, several European states, the former USSR, India, Kurdistan, Australia and New Zealand.

Basic Aspects of Language in Human Relations - Toward a General Theoretical Framework (Hardcover, Reprint 2019): Harald Haarmann Basic Aspects of Language in Human Relations - Toward a General Theoretical Framework (Hardcover, Reprint 2019)
Harald Haarmann
R3,560 Discovery Miles 35 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

Pragmatics of Society (Hardcover): Gisle Andersen, Karin Aijmer Pragmatics of Society (Hardcover)
Gisle Andersen, Karin Aijmer
R9,499 Discovery Miles 94 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Pragmatics of society takes a socio-cultural perspective on pragmatics and gives a broad view of how social and cultural factors influence language use. The volume covers a wide range of topics within the field of sociopragmatics. This subfield of pragmatics encompasses sociolinguistic studies that focus on how pragmatic and discourse features vary according to macro-sociological variables such as age, gender, class and region (variational pragmatics), and discourse/conversation analytical studies investigating variation according to the activity engaged in by the participants and the identities displayed as relevant in interaction. The volume also covers studies in linguistic pragmatics with a more general socio-cultural focus, including global and intercultural communication, politeness, critical discourse analysis and linguistic anthropology. Each article presents the state-of-the-art of the topic at hand, as well as new research.

Languages and the First World War: Communicating in a Transnational War (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Julian Walker, Christophe... Languages and the First World War: Communicating in a Transnational War (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Julian Walker, Christophe Declercq
R4,218 Discovery Miles 42 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines language change and documentation during the First World War. With contributions from international academics, the chapters cover all aspects of communicating in a transnational war including languages at the front; interpretation, translation and parallels between languages; communication with the home front; propaganda and language manipulation; and recording language during the war. This book will appeal to a wide readership, including linguists and historians and is complemented by the sister volume Languages and the First World War: Representation and Memory which examines issues around the representation and memory of the war such as portrayals in letters and diaries, documentation of language change, and the language of remembering the war.

Romance Objects - Transitivity in Romance Languages (Hardcover, Reprint 2011): Giuliana Fiorentino Romance Objects - Transitivity in Romance Languages (Hardcover, Reprint 2011)
Giuliana Fiorentino
R4,709 R4,215 Discovery Miles 42 150 Save R494 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The volume brings together the papers read at the international conference on Romance Objects organized by the Linguistics Department of the Roma Tre University. It is characterized by a striking uniformity of approach, which is functional, and of methodology. The various case studies regarding the object focus on the syntax/semantics and syntax/pragmatics interfaces. The common denominator of the ten enquiries is the identification of the object category, the DO in particular, in Romance languages; at the same time some of the contributors relate the specific topic to more general questions of linguistic typology. Some of the essays are based on the analysis of data from a corpus and present a diachronic picture of the evolution of the specific topic investigated. Thus this volume is addressed not only to scholars interested in the Romance languages but also all those who study the object category in a cross-linguistic perspective. Michela Cennamo: (In)transitivity and object marking: some current issues.

Working the Past - Narrative and Institutional Memory (Hardcover, New): Charlotte Linde Working the Past - Narrative and Institutional Memory (Hardcover, New)
Charlotte Linde
R3,708 Discovery Miles 37 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Stories told within institutions play a powerful role, helping to define not only the institution itself, but also its individual members. How do institutions use stories? How do those stories both preserve the past and shape the future? To what extent does narrative construct both collective and individual identity?
Charlotte Linde's unique and far-reaching study addresses these questions by looking at the interplay of narratives, memory, and identity in a large insurance company. Her detailed ethnography looks at the role of stories within the institution and how they are employed by its members in both private and group settings. Analyzing the re-telling of certain key stories, she shows how the formation of "core" stories and their multiple re-tellings and modifications provide a means of formulating and promoting a cohesive group identity -- which in turn shapes the stories and identities of the individuals within the collective. Linde also looks at silences, and how stories not told also convey their version of the past.
Working the Past shows how stories that might otherwise be seen as part of mundane daily life are in fact utterly essential to the formation and maintenance of individual and group identity. Her original research will appeal to those interested in narrative studies, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, and institutional memory.

Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics (Hardcover): Dirk Geeraerts, Gitte Kristiansen, Yves Peirsman Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics (Hardcover)
Dirk Geeraerts, Gitte Kristiansen, Yves Peirsman
R4,983 Discovery Miles 49 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Cognitive Sociolinguistics is a novel and burgeoning field of research which seeks to foster investigation into the socio-cognitive dimensions of language at a usage-based level. Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics brings together ten studies into the social and conceptual aspects of language-internal variation. All ten contributions rely on a firm empirical basis in the form of advanced corpus-based techniques, experimental methods and survey-based research, or a combination of these. The search for methods that may adequately unravel the complex and multivariate dimensions intervening in the interplay between conceptual meaning and variationist factors is thus another characteristic of the volume. In terms of its descriptive scope, the volume covers three main areas: lexical and lexical-semantic variation, constructional variation, and research on lectal attitudes and acquisition. It thus illustrates how Cognitive Sociolinguistics studies both the variation of meaning, and the meaning of variation.

Language and Language-in-Education Planning in the Pacific Basin (Hardcover, 2003 ed.): R. B Kaplan, Richard B. Baldauf Jr Language and Language-in-Education Planning in the Pacific Basin (Hardcover, 2003 ed.)
R. B Kaplan, Richard B. Baldauf Jr
R2,915 Discovery Miles 29 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This work examines and reviews the ecological context of language planning in 14 countries in the Pacific basin: Japan, the two Koreas, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. It provides the only up-to-date overview and review of language policy in the region and challenges those interested in language policy and planning to think about how such goals might be achieved in the context of language ecology.

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