African Amer Engl in Diaspora

Shana Poplack
Paperback - $111.95

This provocative volume investigates the origins of contemporary African American Vernacular English (AAVE), one of the oldest, yet unsolved, questions in sociolinguistics.Exploring the hypothesis that contemporary AAVE is a direct descendant of colo ...

A History of the Spanish Language Through Texts

Christopher Pountain
Hardcover - $265.95

A History of the Spanish Language through Texts examines the evolution of the Spanish language from the Middle Ages to the present day.

Including chapters on Latin American Spanish, US Spanish, Judeo-Spanish, and Creoles, the book looks at the spre ...

Concepts of Meaning : Framing an Integrated Theory of Linguistic Behavior

Gerhard Preyer
Hardcover - $292.95

Concepts of Meaning includes contributions from well-known philosophers of language and semanticists. It is a useful collection for students in philosophy of language, semantics and epistemology. This work discusses new research in semantics, theory ...

Languages Britain Ireland P

Price
Paperback - $119.95

This book builds on the success of Glanville Price's The Languages of Britain, published in 1984, which was widely acclaimed as the most lively, reliable, and comprehensive survey of the great number of languages that have at one time or another take ...

Conversation Analysis

George Psathas
Paperback - $41.95

"This book provides an introduction to conversation analysis as an approach and a method for studying social interaction usable not only for investigating the organization of naturally occurring talk, but for investigating the forms, the structures, ...

Education and Language Restoration

Jon Reyhner
Library Binding - $65.95

Trace the history of education from Indian boarding schools to present-day reservation schools, including the revitalization and teaching of Indian language and culture, policies, and educational goals.

Language and Politics in the United States and Canada : Myths and Realities

Ricento
Paperback - $96.95

Explores parallel and divergent developments in language policy and language rights in the U.S. and Canada, especially the past 4 decades, as a basis for reflection on what can be learned from one country's experience by the other.

Spoken Soul : The Story of Black English

John R. Rickford
Hardcover - $53.95

"Rich and powerful— and funky and bold— dissects black writing and speech, its grammar and history, its controversy, and the media coverage of it. . . . A book that’ s truly da bomb."— Geneva Smitherman

"The language, only the ...

Spoken Soul : The Story of Black English

John R. Rickford
Paperback - $26.95

In Praise of spoken soul

the story of black english

" Spoken Soul brilliantly fills a huge gap. . . . a delightfully readable introduction to the elegant interweave between the language and its culture." – Ralph W. Fasold, George ...

The Prism of Grammar : How Child Language Illuminates Humanism

Tom Roeper
Hardcover - $59.95

Every sentence we hear is instantly analyzed by an inner grammar; just as a prism refracts a beam of light, grammar divides a stream of sound, linking diverse strings of information to different domains of mind--memory, vision, emotions, intentions. ...