wyszukanych pozycji: 35
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Population Decline and Ageing in Japan: The Social Consequences
ISBN: 9780415480116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of one of the most pressing challenges facing Japan today: population decline and ageing. It argues that social ageing is a phenomenon that follows in the wake of industrialization, urbanization and social modernization, bringing about changes in values, institutions, social structures, economic activity, technology and culture, and posing many challenges for the countries affected. Focusing on the experience of Japan, the author explores:
This book presents a comprehensive analysis of one of the most pressing challenges facing Japan today: population decline and ageing. It ar... |
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277,36 zł |
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The Handbook of Sociolinguistics
ISBN: 9780631211938 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In 28 newly- commissioned chapters, distinguished contributors provide an up-to-date overview of sociolinguistics.
In 28 newly- commissioned chapters, distinguished contributors provide an up-to-date overview of sociolinguistics.
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302,55 zł |
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Guardians of Language: Twenty Voices Through History
ISBN: 9780198736523 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book provides an accessible account of the origins and conceptual foundations of language policy. Florian Coulmas discusses the influence of twenty intellectuals from medieval to modern times, and from a variety of cultures, who have taken issue with language, its use, development, and political potential. These 'guardians of language' range from renowned figures such as Dante, Noah Webster, and Gandhi, to less well-known individuals such as the Spanish grammarian Antonio de Nebrija and Senegalese politician and poet Leopold Sedar Senghor. Each chapter begins by providing background...
This book provides an accessible account of the origins and conceptual foundations of language policy. Florian Coulmas discusses the influence of twen...
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298,31 zł |
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Sociolinguistics: The Study of Speakers' Choices
ISBN: 9781107037649 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 317 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Why do we speak the way we do? What are the social factors that influence our choices of expression? This best-selling introduction to the study of language and society encourages students to think about these fundamental questions, asking how and why we select from the vast range of different words, accents, varieties and languages available to us. In this new and updated edition, students are taken step-by-step through the analysis of linguistic expressions, speech varieties and languages in complex settings. Enriched with recent findings from different languages and speech communities...
Why do we speak the way we do? What are the social factors that influence our choices of expression? This best-selling introduction to the study of la...
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681,45 zł |
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Conversational Routine: Explorations in Standardized Communication Situations and Prepatterned Speech
ISBN: 9789027930989 / Angielski / Twarda / 1980 / 343 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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478,18 zł |
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Population Decline and Ageing in Japan: The Social Consequences
ISBN: 9780415401258 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of one of the most pressing challenges facing Japan today: population decline and ageing. It argues that social ageing is a phenomenon that follows in the wake of industrialization, urbanization and social modernization, bringing about changes in values, institutions, social structures, economic activity, technology and culture, and posing many challenges for the countries affected. Focusing on the experience of Japan, the author explores:
This book presents a comprehensive analysis of one of the most pressing challenges facing Japan today: population decline and ageing. It ar... |
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744,88 zł |
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Die Wirtschaft mit der Sprache
ISBN: 9783518285770 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 1992 / 409 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Sprachen sind Werkzeuge. Jeder benutzt eine oder mehrere, jeden Tag. Ein solches Instrument zu erwerben, kostet Zeit, Kraft und oft Geld. Sein Besitz bringt Vorteile. Dies macht Sprache zu einem wertvollen Gut, auch im ökonomischen Sinne. Sein Erwerb, Besitz und Gebrauch sind wichtige Faktoren des Wirtschaftens.Aber Sprache ist nicht nur ein Element des Wirtschaftslebens, sie ist auch in ihrer Systematik von einem »haushälterischen Zug« geprägt. Sprache hat eine externe und eine interne Ökonomie. Dieses Buch untersucht die vielschichtigen Zusammenhänge zwischen der äußeren und der...
Sprachen sind Werkzeuge. Jeder benutzt eine oder mehrere, jeden Tag. Ein solches Instrument zu erwerben, kostet Zeit, Kraft und oft Geld. Sein Besitz ...
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105,29 zł |
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An Introduction to Multilingualism: Language in a Changing World
ISBN: 9780198791119 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book offers an introduction to the many facets of multilingualism in a changing world. It begins with an overview of the multiplicity of human languages and their geographic distribution, before moving on to the key question of what multilingualism actually is and what is understood by terms such as 'mother tongue', 'native speaker', and 'speech community'. In the chapters that follow, Florian Coulmas systematically explores multilingualism with respect to the individual, institutions, cities, nations, and cyberspace. In each of these domains, the dynamics of language choice are...
This book offers an introduction to the many facets of multilingualism in a changing world. It begins with an overview of the multiplicity of human la...
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118,19 zł |
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Sociolinguistics: The Study of Speakers' Choices
ISBN: 9781107675568 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Why do we speak the way we do? What are the social factors that influence our choices of expression? This best-selling introduction to the study of language and society encourages students to think about these fundamental questions, asking how and why we select from the vast range of different words, accents, varieties and languages available to us. In this new and updated edition, students are taken step-by-step through the analysis of linguistic expressions, speech varieties and languages in complex settings. Enriched with recent findings from different languages and speech communities...
Why do we speak the way we do? What are the social factors that influence our choices of expression? This best-selling introduction to the study of la...
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274,56 zł |
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Linguistic Minorities and Literacy: Language Policy Issues in Developing Countries
ISBN: 9783110098679 / Angielski / Twarda / 1984 / 143 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as... TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work ... |
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478,18 zł |
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A Language Policy for the European Community
ISBN: 9783110128697 / Twarda / 1991 / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists,... CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences car... |
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478,18 zł |
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Writing Systems: An Introduction to Their Linguistic Analysis
ISBN: 9780521782173 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The problem of reducing language to writing and conversely that of interpreting written signs as language has been resolved through the development of different writing systems. This illustrated textbook introduces the major writing systems of the world (from cuneiform to English spelling) and analyzes their structure and function. It includes a review of the history of writing and a discussion of the literate mind and society.
The problem of reducing language to writing and conversely that of interpreting written signs as language has been resolved through the development of...
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747,57 zł |
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The Writing Systems of the World
ISBN: 9780631180289 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. This book is an account of the writing systems of the world from earliest times to the present. Its aim is to explore the complex ways in which writing systems relate to the language they depict. Writing, Coulmas contends, is not only the guide or garment of spoken language, but has a deep and lasting effect on the development of language itself.
His study takes in Egyptian hieroglyphics and the cuneiform system of the ancient Near East; he describes Chinese writing, discussing why an apparently cumbersome system has been used continuously for more than 3,000 years; he ranges... This book is an account of the writing systems of the world from earliest times to the present. Its aim is to explore the complex ways in which writin...
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270,10 zł |
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Identity: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780198828549 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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46,32 zł |
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Die Kultur Japans : Tradition und Moderne
ISBN: 9783406670978 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2014 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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77,60 zł |
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Imploding Populations in Japan and Germany: A Comparison
ISBN: 9789004187788 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 752 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the impact of low birth-rates and population decline on Japan and Germany. Experts from both countries examine a broad range of issues, from demographic change, social ageing, family policies, family formation, work-life balance, domestic and international migration to business perspectives and labour market issues. Focussed on Japan and Germany, two highly developed countries with extremely low fertility, the chapters of this volume also refer to several other countries for comparison. In the absence of war, famine and pandemics, rapid...
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the impact of low birth-rates and population decline on Japan and Germany. Experts from both countries ...
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748,04 zł |
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Language Adaptation
ISBN: 9780521107471 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Language Adaptation examines the process by which a speech community is forced to adopt an active role in making its language suitable for changing functional requirements. This wide-ranging collection of essays looks at this phenomenon from a variety of historical and synchronic perspectives, and brings together the work of a number of leading scholars in the field. Several different languages are examined at different stages of their history, including Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Kiswahili, German and Hindi. This well-informed book is a significant contribution to the existing...
Language Adaptation examines the process by which a speech community is forced to adopt an active role in making its language suitable for changing fu...
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228,80 zł |
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The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems
ISBN: 9780631214816 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. This is an encyclopedia of writing systems, scripts and orthographies of all the world's major languages, past and present. It provides both a fully illustrated description of over 400 writing systems and an account of the study of writing in many different disciplines, from anthropology to psychology.
This is an encyclopedia of writing systems, scripts and orthographies of all the world's major languages, past and present. It provides both a fully i...
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286,32 zł |
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Language, Writing, and Mobility: A Sociological Perspective
ISBN: 9780192897435 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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351,84 zł |
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Über Schrift
ISBN: 9783518279786 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 1982 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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68,67 zł |