Talking Difference

Mary Crawford
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"Talking Difference is a refreshingly critical (and reliable) look at our current wisdom about men's and women's language. Mary Crawford's straight talk offers a powerful antidote to clichis and muddled thinking on this subject and will give future l ...

The Anti-Dictionary : A Selected List of Words Being Forced from the Modern Lexicon

Michael Cromwell
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Language in History

Tony Crowley
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Tony Crowley uses a radical re-reading of Saussure and Bahktin to demonstrate, in four case studies, the ways in which language has been used to construct social and cultural identity in Britain and Ireland.
By bringing together linguistic and c ...

Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader

Tony Crowley
Hardcover - $317.95

This reader features the most innovative and influential writings that have shaped and defined the relations between language, culture and cultural identity in the twentieth century. br The themed sections include: Language in History; Language and S ...

Growing Up with Two Languages : A Practical Guide

Una Cunningham-Andersson
Paperback - $64.95

spoken in the community at home are two of the most common systems.
There are, however, as many variations on these systems as there are families. There is no right or wrong way - here each family has to find its own system. "Growing up with Two ...

Color, Race, and English Language Teaching : Shades of Meaning

Andy Curtis
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This volume addresses the question, What does it mean to be a TESOL professional of color? Thirteen narratives by TESOL professionals of color are prefaced by an introduction and overview of critical race theory, narrative inquiry, and educational re ...

Korle Meets the Sea : A Sociolinguistic History of Accra

M. E. Kropp Dakubu
Hardcover - $248.95

Ghana has played a key role in African/Western relations since medieval times. For this reason and others, Ghana has evolved into a linguistic quilt that contains forty-four indigenous languages and several exotic ones, of which most Ghanians speak a ...

Vice Slang

Tom Dalzell
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Are you a bit of a chairwarmer? Do you use the wins from a country straight to get scudded on snakebite in a blind tiger? Do you ride the waves on puddle or death drop?

Vice Slang gently eases you into the language of gambling, drugs and alcohol, ...

Relatively Speaking : Language, Thought, and Kinship Among the Mopan Maya

Eve Danziger
Hardcover - $254.95

Based upon 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork among the Mopan Maya in Belize, Eve Danziger examines the semantic complexity of particular kinship terms used among Mopan women and children and shows that a culture-specific analysis of their terms is ...

Pragmatics : A Reader

Steven Davis
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Until recently, pragmatics--the study of language in relation to the users of language--has been the neglected member of the traditional three-part division of the study of signs; syntax, semantics, pragmatics. This volume--the first of its kind--bri ...