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Voices of Authority : Education and Linguistic Difference
Monica Heller
Paperback - $96.95
This collection of case studies from around the world examines how struggles for equality unfold in policies, programs, and practices in educational settings in multilingual contexts. Using sociolinguistic, interactional and discourse analysis, Helle ...
Handbook of Language and Communication : Diversity and Change
Marlis Hellinger
Hardcover - $542.95
The concept of the Handbooks of Applied Linguistics is based on an understanding of applied linguistics as a field of academic enquiry that deals with the theoretical and empirical investigation of real-world problems in which language and communicat ...
Belfast English and Standard English : Dialect Variation and Parameter Setting
Alison Henry
Paperback - $145.95
A linguistics expert born in Belfast offers the first comparison of the syntax of Belfast English and Standard English, using Chomsky's "Principles and Parameters"/Minimalist framework. Alison Henry analyzes various Belfast English constructions and ...
Telling Our Selves : Ethnicity and Discourse in Southwestern Alaska
Chase Hensel
Paperback - $128.95
In this book, Chase Hensel examines how Yup'ik Eskimos and non-natives construct and maintain gender and ethnic identities through strategic talk about hunting, fishing, and processing. Although ethnicity is overtly constructed in terms of either/or ...
Responsibility and Evidence in Oral Discourse
Jane H. Hill
Paperback - $75.95
Twelve articles by leading linguists and linguistic anthropologists develop an important series of case studies that show how ideas such as "responsibility," "agency," "authority," and "evidence" are simultaneously aspects of social meaning and impli ...
Theater and Political Process : Staging Identities in Tokelau and New Zealand
Ingjerd Hoem
Hardcover - $128.95
Minority Languages in Europe : Frameworks, Status, Prospects
Gabrielle Hogan-Brun
Hardcover - $170.95
Minority languages in Europe, as part of a common cultural heritage, need protection. The contributions to this book reflect urgent, stimulating and productive debates among researchers in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, politics and socio ...
The Real McCoy : The True Stories Behind Our Everyday Phrases
Georgia Hole
Hardcover - $54.95
English is incredibly rich language, full of colorful and unusual phrases and expressions. This entertaining book illuminates the question of why we say the things we say. The Real McCoy gives the fascinating stories behind hundreds of the most inter ...
Gendered Talk at Work : Constructing Social Identity Through Workplace Discourse
Janet Holmes
Hardcover - $144.95
How do we talk at work? Are there distinctively 'feminine' or particularly 'masculine' ways of interacting in the workplace? If so, who uses them, and in what contexts? This book explores the ways in which gender contributes to the interpretation of ...