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Literacy and Literacies : Texts, Power, and Identity
James Collins
Paperback - $65.95
Literacy and Literacies is an engaging account of literacy and its relation to power.
The Social Construction of Literacy
Jenny Cook-Gumperz
Paperback - $76.95
Literacy - the ability to produce and interpret written text - has long been viewed as the basis of all school achievement; a measure of success that defines both an 'educated' person, and an educable one. In this volume, a team of leading experts ra ...
Language Planning and Social Change
Robert Leon Cooper
Hardcover - $184.95
This book describes the ways in which politicians, church officials, generals, and other leaders try to influence our use of language. Using many examples, Professor Cooper argues that language planning is never attempted for its own sake, but rather ...
Language Planning and Social Change
Robert Leon Cooper
Paperback - $68.95
This book describes the ways in which politicians, church officials, generals, and other leaders try to influence our use of language. Using many examples, Professor Cooper argues that language planning is never attempted for its own sake, but rather ...
Language Policy in Schools : A Resource for Teachers and Administrators
David Corson
Paperback - $86.95
"Language Policy in Schools" provides school administrators and teachers a practical approach for designing a language policy for their school and for dealing with the language issues that confront schools, particularly those operating in settings of ...
Sociolinguistics : The Study of Speakers' Choices
Florian Coulmas
Paperback - $65.95
This accessible new textbook provides a clear introduction to sociolinguistics, the study of why we speak the way we do, and the social factors that influence our linguistic decisions. Based on the notion of 'choice' - that as speakers we select from ...
Prosody in Conversation : Interactional Studies
Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
Paperback - $163.95
The essays in this volume are all original contributions dealing in one way or another with the analysis of prosody - primarily intonation and rhythm - and the role it plays in everyday conversation.
Prosody in Conversation : Interactional Studies
Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
Hardcover - $346.95
The essays in this volume are all original contributions dealing in one way or another with the analysis of prosody - primarily intonation and rhythm - and the role it plays in everyday conversation.