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Messages, Signs, and Meanings : A Basic Textbook in Semiotics and Communication
Marcel Danesi
Paperback - $66.95
This text is designed to provide a basic introduction to semiotics and communication theory, with plenty of examples from, and applications to, popular culture. It aims to make accessible the technical and often abstruse subject matter of sign theory ...
Relatively Speaking : Language, Thought, and Kinship Among the Mopan Maya
Eve Danziger
Hardcover - $245.95
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 ...
Discourse and Identity
Anna de Fina
Paperback - $78.95
The relationship between language, discourse and identity has always been a major area of sociolinguistic investigation. In recent times, the field has been revolutionized as previous models - which assumed our identities to be based on stable relati ...
Conversational Competence and Social Development
Ioanna Dimitracopoulou
Hardcover - $163.95
This book provides new insight into the development of the child's ability to become a competent participant in conversation. The author combines a pragmatic analysis of the functions language can perform with an innovative and extensive empirical in ...
Key Terms
Duranti
Paperback - $90.95
Key Terms in Language and Culture is an exciting new collection of 75 original short essays, written by leading scholars in linguistic anthropology and related fields, covering all the major issues in the contemporary study of language and culture. T ...
Language and Gender
Penelope Eckert
Paperback - $67.95
This is a new introduction to the study of the relation between gender and language use, written by two of the leading experts in the field. It covers the main topics, beginning with a clear discussion of gender and of the resources that the linguist ...
Language in Canada
John Edwards
Hardcover - $265.95
Canada is a country in which many languages intertwine. French and English are the original "charter" languages, but there is also a large number of aboriginal and immigrant varieties that contribute to the overall picture. This book provides a compr ...
Multilinguilism
John R. Edwards
Hardcover - $129.95
In this broad-ranging book John Edwards looks at the issues raised by language difference, and considers the effects of multilingualism on the individual speaker as well as on society. By examining the social life of language rather than theories of ...