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Mexican Americans and Language : del Dicho Al Hecho
Glenn A. Martinez
Paperback - $35.95
When political activists rallied for the abolition of bilingual education and even called for the declaration of English as an official language, Mexican Americans and other immigrant groups saw this as an assault on their heritage and civil rights. ...
Law and the Language of Identity : Discourse in the William Kennedy Smith Rape Trial
Gregory M. Matoesian
Paperback - $145.95
In this volume, Gregory Matoesian uses the notorious 1991 rape trial of William Kennedy Smith to provide an in-depth analysis of language use and its role in that specific trial as well as in the law in general. He draws on the fields of conversation ...
Children's Voices : Talk, Knowledge and Identity
Janet Maybin
Hardcover - $170.95
Drawing on ethnographic research inside and outside the classroom, Janet Maybin investigates how 10-12 year-old children use talk and literacy to construct knowledge about their social worlds and about themselves, as they negotiate the transition fro ...
Prison Discourse : Language as a Means of Control and Resistance
Andrea Mayr
Hardcover - $170.95
With unique and powerful data from within a big city prison, this book clarifies the role that conversational analysis can have within a Critical Discourse Analysis perspective. In a detailed linguistic analysis of the language use of prison officers ...
Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching
Sandra L. McKay
Paperback - $78.95
This text provides an introduction to the field of sociolinguistics for second and foreign language teachers. The paperback edition provides an introduction to the field of sociolinguistics for second and foreign language teachers. Chapters cover the ...
Language Testing : The Social Dimension
Tim McNamara
Paperback - $78.95
This volume in the Language Learning Monograph series discusses social aspects of language testing, which the authors see as encompassing assessment of socially situated language use as well as the social consequences and societal impact of language ...
Word on the Street : Debunking the Myth of a Pure Standard English
John McWhorter
Paperback - $29.95
A barbed rebuttal to the conservative view that popular culture is destroying the English language.
The Language of Belonging
Ulrike Hanna Meinhof
Hardcover - $170.95
The authors combine a theoretical reassessment of how we understand, study and analyze processes of identification with detailed case studies of the discourses of three-generation families living in split-border communities along the former Iron Curt ...
Ku Waru : Language and Segmentary Politics in the Western Nebilyer Valley, Papua New Guinea
Francesca Merlan
Paperback - $138.95
The highlanders of New Guinea are renowned for their elaborate systems of ceremonial exchange. This book is the first to concentrate on exchange events and the elaborate oratory used at them. Focusing on a remarkable set of warfare compensation payme ...
