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Linguistic Policies and the Survival of Regional Languages in France and Britain
Anne Judge
Hardcover - $158.95
Governing the Tongue : The Politics of Speech in Early New England
Jane Kamensky
Hardcover - $235.95
Colonial New Englanders would have found our modern notions of free speech very strange indeed. Children today shrug off harsh words by chanting "sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me," but in the seventeenth century peopl ...
Interlanguage Pragmatics
Gabriele Kasper
Hardcover - $235.95
As a field of inquiry, interlanguage pragmatics reflects the growing interest in recent years in understanding the social and pragmatic aspects of second language acquisition. A collection of previously unpublished essays by sixteen distinguished lin ...
Gesture : Visible Action as Utterance
Adam Kendon
Hardcover - $233.95
Gesture, or visible bodily action intimately involved in the activity of speaking, has long fascinated scholars and laymen alike. Written by a leading authority on the subject, this book draws on the analysis of everyday conversations to demonstrate ...
Dialects Converging : Rural Speech in Urban Norway
Paul Kerswill
Hardcover - $436.95
How and why do adults modify their language when they move to a new area? In this detailed study of rural dialect users who have moved to the Norwegian city of Bergen, Kerswill throws light on this widespread phenomenon. The book is concerned with th ...
Sustaining Linguistic Diversity : Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties
Kendall A. King
Paperback - $96.95
A Union of Diversity : Language, Identity and Polity-Building in Europe
Peter A. Kraus
Paperback - $70.95
Communication, Technology and Cultural Change
Gary J. Krug
Paperback - $90.95
With a foreword by Norman Denzin
Communication and the history of technology have invariably been examined in terms of artefacts and people.
Gary Krug argues that communication technology must be studied as an integral part of culture a ...
Principles of Linguistic Change, Social Factors
William Labov
Hardcover - $228.95
This volume presents the results of several decades of inquiry into the social origins and social motivation of linguistic change. It includes the first complete report on the Philadelphia project designed to establish the social location of the lead ...