The Discourse of Classified Advertising : Exploring the Nature of Linguistic Simplicity

Paul Bruthiaux
Hardcover - $208.95

Linguists who have studied simplified varieties of a given language, such as pidgins or the language of caregivers, have tended to explain similarities in their structure by arguing that they use the same mechanisms of simplification. Bruthiaux tests ...

Multilingual Living : Explorations of Language and Subjectivity

Charlotte Burck
Paperback - $75.95

Multilingual Livingpresents speakers' own accounts of the challenges and advantages of living in several languages at individual, family and societal levels. Individuals note profound differences in their sense of themselves, their relationships and ...

Multilingual Living : Explorations of Language and Subjectivity

Charlotte Burck
Hardcover - $170.95

Multilingual Living presents speakers' own accounts of the challenges and advantages of living in several languages at individual, family and societal levels. Individuals note profound differences in their sense of themselves, their relationships and ...

Analysing English in a Global Context : A Reader

Anne Burns
Paperback - $99.95

Analysing English in a Global Context offers a global perspective on the changing uses and forms of English and develops the skills needed to analyse these forms. It presents English language teaching in a variety of specific institutional, geographi ...

The Language and Sexuality Reader

Deborah Cameron
Paperback - $92.95

The Language and Sexuality Reader is the first collection to bring together historical and contemporary writings from a range of academic disciplines to explore the connections between sex as a domain of human experience and the language we use to sp ...

The Language and Sexuality Reader

Deborah Cameron
Hardcover - $255.95

The Language and Sexuality Reader is the first collection to bring together historical and contemporary writings from a range of academic disciplines to explore the connections between sex as a domain of human experience and the language we use to sp ...

The Myth of Mars and Venus : Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages?

Deborah Cameron
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American Indian Languages : The Historical Linguistics of Native America

Lyle Campbell
Paperback - $145.95

Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland, and from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego; they include the southernmost language of the world (Yaghan) and some of the northernmost (Eskimoan). Campbell's project is to take stock of what ...

Reclaiming the Local in Language Policy and Practice

A. Suresh Canagarajah
Paperback - $84.95

This volume inserts the place of the local in theorizing about language policies and practices in applied linguistics. It is unique in focusing specifically on the outcomes of globalization in and among the communities affected by these changes. The ...

The Multilingual Lexicon

Jasone Cenoz
Hardcover - $273.95

This volume is a response both to the increasing interest in multilingual phenomena and lexical issues in language learning. It is of interest to scholars and graduate students interested in bi- and multilingualism, second and multiple language acqui ...