ilość książek w kategorii: 4436
Language and Education in Japan: Unequal Access to Bilingualism
ISBN: 9780230506947 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first critical ethnography of bilingual education in Japan. Based on fieldwork at five different schools, this examines the role of schools in the unequal distribution of bilingualism as cultural capital. It argues that schooling gives children unequal access to bilingualism thus socializing them into different futures.
The first critical ethnography of bilingual education in Japan. Based on fieldwork at five different schools, this examines the role of schools in the...
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382,84 zł |
Positioning Gender in Discourse: A Feminist Methodology
ISBN: 9780230554320 / Angielski / Miękka / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis helps analyse how speakers construct their gendered identities within a complex web of power relations. Demonstrated here through a study of teenagers' conversation in class and senior managers' discussions in business meetings, it challenges the view that females are disempowered in mixed-sex settings.
Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis helps analyse how speakers construct their gendered identities within a complex web of power relations. ...
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421,13 zł |
Multilingual Living: Explorations of Language and Subjectivity
ISBN: 9780230554337 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 their parenting, depending on which language they use.
Multilingual Living presents speakers' own accounts of the challenges and advantages of living in several languages at individual, family and societal...
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382,84 zł |
The Other Tongue: English Across Cultures
ISBN: 9780252062001 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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150,37 zł |
Speaking in Queer Tongues: Globalization and Gay Language
ISBN: 9780252071423 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Investigates the tensions that occur when processes of globalization bring one system of gay or lesbian language into contact with another. This book presents essays on topics that include old versus new sexual vocabularies, the rhetoric of gay-oriented magazines and news media, and verbal and nonverbalized sexual imagery in poetry.
Investigates the tensions that occur when processes of globalization bring one system of gay or lesbian language into contact with another. This book ...
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108,87 zł |
He-Said-She-Said: Talk as Social Organization Among Black Children
ISBN: 9780253206183 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ..". carefully researched and clearly written... Goodwin makes a major step in redefining the enterprise of studying language use in context and across contexts." --American Ethnologist "I recommend the book highly."--John Haviland, American Anthropologist "Goodwin's thoughtful interpretation of these examples of children's conversation] is replete with wise insights, challenging critical darts, and well-referenced links to a wide literature." --Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography "Intellectual breadth shines through this book." --Barrie Thorne ..". carefully researched and clearly written... Goodwin makes a major step in redefining the enterprise of studying language use in context and ac... |
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160,80 zł |
The Vulgar Tongue: Medieval and Postmedieval Vernacularity
ISBN: 9780271023106 / Angielski / Twarda / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Deeply embedded in the history of Latin Europe, the vernacular ("the language of slaves") still draws us towards urgent issues of affiliation, identity, and cultural struggle. Vernacular politics in medieval Latin Europe were richly complex and the structures of thought and feeling they left behind permanently affected Western culture. The Vulgar Tongue explores the history of European vernacularity through more than a dozen studies of language situations from twelfth-century England and France to twentieth-century India and North America, and from the building of nations,... Deeply embedded in the history of Latin Europe, the vernacular ("the language of slaves") still draws us towards urgent issues of affiliation, iden... |
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409,23 zł |
English-Only Question
ISBN: 9780300056600 / Angielski / Miękka / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Should the United States declare English its official language? The "English-only" question, which has plagued American citizens since the founding of the country, has once again become the focus of heated debate, with an English Language Amendment to the Constitution pending in Congress since 1981. In this lively and engrossing book, an often-quoted authority on the English language provides the first comprehensive, historically based discussion of this troubling issue. Dennis Baron dispassionately explores the philosophical, legal, political, educational, and sociological implications of...
Should the United States declare English its official language? The "English-only" question, which has plagued American citizens since the founding of...
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243,08 zł |
Law, Language, and Science: The Invention of the Native Mind in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1930
ISBN: 9780325071084 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the mentalities of various communities within a district of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Focusing in particular on white administrators and missionaries in the Melsetter District, it combines linguisitc/lexical analysis with historical interpretation, in an attempt to reconstruct what whites and Africans actually meant by the words and practices they used in interactions with each other. Jeater provides a detailed study of translation work in Mt Selinda, an evangelical mission; it also examines formal and informal court hearings, to contrast the perceptions and meanings... This book examines the mentalities of various communities within a district of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Focusing in particular on white admini... |
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583,05 zł |
Linguistic Conflict and Language Laws: Understanding the Quebec Question
ISBN: 9780333968994 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a multilingual society, the role of each language is parallel to the importance of the community that speaks it; change in power relations between groups is linked to modifications in the status of their language. The Quebec language laws provide a case in point of the relation between social change and language planning. This comprehensive analysis of the Quebec language issue exposes the material and symbolic causes of these legislative measures and assesses their effects. This detailed appraisal also provides answers to more general questions of the nature of language laws and the...
In a multilingual society, the role of each language is parallel to the importance of the community that speaks it; change in power relations between ...
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191,40 zł |
Positioning Gender in Discourse: A Feminist Methodology
ISBN: 9780333986356 / Angielski / Twarda / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis helps analyse how speakers construct their gendered identities within a complex web of power relations. Demonstrated here through a study of teenagers' conversation in class and senior managers' discussions in business meetings, it challenges the view that females are disempowered in mixed-sex settings.
Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis helps analyse how speakers construct their gendered identities within a complex web of power relations. ...
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382,84 zł |
Standard English and the Politics of Language
ISBN: 9780333990353 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The status of 'Standard English' has featured in linguistic, educational and cultural debates over decades. This second edition of Tony Crowley's wide-ranging historical analysis and lucid account of the complex and sometimes polarised arguments driving the debate brings us up to date, and ranges from the 1830s to Conservative education policies in the 1990s and on to the implications of the National Curriculum for English language teaching in schools. Students and researchers in literacy, the history of English language, cultural theory, and English language education will find this...
The status of 'Standard English' has featured in linguistic, educational and cultural debates over decades. This second edition of Tony Crowley's wide...
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382,84 zł |
Prison Discourse: Language as a Means of Control and Resistance
ISBN: 9780333993354 / Angielski / Twarda / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With unique and powerful data from within a big city prison, this book clarifies the role that conversational analysis can have within a Critical Discourse Analysis perspective. In a detailed linguistic analysis of the language use of prison officers and prisoners involved in a prison based course, the author charts the shifting power relations of control and resistance and situates the findings in a broader sociological analysis of the prison as an institution. The study will interest sociolinguists, discourse analysts, and researchers in communication studies, criminology and counselling.
With unique and powerful data from within a big city prison, this book clarifies the role that conversational analysis can have within a Critical Disc...
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382,84 zł |
Language and Identity: National, Cultural, Religious
ISBN: 9780333997529 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offering a uniquely broad-based overview of the role of language choice in the construction of national, cultural, and personal identity, this textbook examines a wide range of specific cases from various parts of the world in order to arrive at some general principles concerning the links between language and identity. It will benefit students and researchers in a wide range of fields where identity is an important issue, and who currently lack a single source to turn to for an overview from sociolinguistics.
Offering a uniquely broad-based overview of the role of language choice in the construction of national, cultural, and personal identity, this textboo...
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382,84 zł |
The Language of Jokes: Analyzing Verbal Play
ISBN: 9780415030908 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using examples from personally recorded conversations, Delia Chiaro examines the structure of jokes, quips, riddles and asides. She explores degrees of conformity to and deviation from established conventions; the tellability of jokes, and the interpretative role of the listener; the creative use of puns, word play and discourse. The emphasis in her analysis is on sociocultural contexts for the production and reception of jokes, and she examines the extent to which jokes are both universal in their appeal, and specific to a particular culture.
Using examples from personally recorded conversations, Delia Chiaro examines the structure of jokes, quips, riddles and asides. She explores degrees o...
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197,05 zł |
Language in History: Theories and Texts
ISBN: 9780415072458 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Language in History, Tony Crowley provides the analytical tools for answering such questions. Using a radical re-reading of Saussure and Bahktin, he demonstrates, in four case studies, the ways in which language has been used to construct social and cultural identity in Britain and Ireland. For example, he examines the ways in which language was employed to construct a bourgeois public sphere in 18th Century England, and he reveals how language is still being used in contemporary Ireland to articulate national and political aspirations and why the Irish language died.
By... In Language in History, Tony Crowley provides the analytical tools for answering such questions. Using a radical re-reading of Saussure and B...
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248,92 zł |
African Languages, Development and the State
ISBN: 9780415094764 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This shows that multilingusim does not pose for Africans the problems of communication that Europeans imagine and that the mismatch between policy statements and their pragmatic outcomes is a far more serious problem for future development
This shows that multilingusim does not pose for Africans the problems of communication that Europeans imagine and that the mismatch between policy sta...
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700,25 zł |
Foundations of Speech Act Theory: Philosophical and Linguistic Perspectives
ISBN: 9780415095242 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Foundations of Speech Act Theory investigates the importance of speech act theory to the problem of meaning in linguistics and philosophy. The papers in this volume, written by respected philosophers and linguists, significantly advance standards of debate in this area.
Beginning with a detailed introduction to the individual contributors, this collection demonstrates the relevance of speech acts to semantic theory. It includes essays unified by the assumption that current pragmatic theories are not well equipped to analyse speech acts satisfactorily, and concludes with five... Foundations of Speech Act Theory investigates the importance of speech act theory to the problem of meaning in linguistics and philosophy. Th...
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1244,88 zł |
Pragmatics: Critical Concepts
ISBN: 9780415117340 / Angielski / Twarda / 2653 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection examines the development of pragmatics as a science of language enabling the reader to critically assess its theoretical development. Issues explored include: presupposition; implicature; discourse; grammar; communication; indexicals; psychology; sociology. This work also provides useful references and suggestions of additional papers to be consulted, and has a detailed subject and name index to enable immediate access for the reader.
This collection examines the development of pragmatics as a science of language enabling the reader to critically assess its theoretical development. ...
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5705,70 zł |
Language and Desire: Encoding Sex, Romance and Intimacy
ISBN: 9780415136921 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This original and intriguing collection explores the pressures exerted upon language in the expression of romantic and sexual desire. Simultaneously, it reveals the ways in which language itself exerts its own constraints on the subject's capacity to express desire.
The contributors, while using the approaches and methods of empirical linguistics, engage directly with issues of relevance in gender studies and cultural studies. They examine and probe: * language used to mediate romantic and sexual desire * language used by the media to represent intimacy and desire * attitudes and... This original and intriguing collection explores the pressures exerted upon language in the expression of romantic and sexual desire. Simultaneously, ...
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238,55 zł |