Approaches to Discourse Analysis demonstrates the importance of the diverse perspectives that various approaches to discourse bring to bear on human communication. Linguists and other readers interested in the interplay of language and culture will gain new insight and understanding from this rich compilation.
Foreign Languages and Foreign Language Education as Critical and Intercu
The purpose of the book is to highlight the critical and intercultural potential of foreign languages and foreign language education. The book addresses the complexity of the experience of (foreign) languages and offers both theoretical interdisciplinary suggestions and applie...
Colonization, Indigenous Identities, and Critical Discourse Theory
In Linguistic Landscaping and the Pacific Region, Diane Elizabeth Johnson explores the use of language in public spaces in four areas of the Pacific in which colonization has played a major role: Hawai'i, Aotearoa/ New Zealand, New Caledonia, and Tahiti. She does so in a way that is both scholarly and accessible.
Cross-referencing neurobiological knowledge with the invariance hypothesis, relevance theory, and frame semantics, Metaphor from the Ground Up: Understanding Figurative Language in Context unifies metaphor theory, fundamentally rethinks "context," and moves linguistics into the twenty-first century.
This book examines the role of complaining in conversation and online interaction in Korean, analyzing linguistic characteristics for complaining, organizational features of complaining including the responses, and socio-cultural norms and identities constructed in the course of complaining.
This book provides analysis of the expressive aspects of slur-words and their impact in practices of linguistic communication usually related to the discrimination or segregation of certain human groups.
This book considers the concept of linguistic creativity in relation to contact languages and language educational. The perspective proposed places semiotic creativity to the rank of first principle, by which languages are defined, function, and interact.
Language, Identity, and Social Change across Place
In this interdisciplinary volume, sociolinguists and sociologists explore the intersections of language, culture, and identity for rural populations around the world.
This book analyzes the promulgation of linguistic rights in the constitutions and statutes of the United States and its territories. It addresses the demands for linguistic rights by those who do not speak English as a first language or seek to maintain the use of an indigenous language.
French Immersion Ideologies in Canada looks at discourses that capture ideologies in the context of French immersion in Alberta, Canada, from a sociolinguistics for change lens.
Topics in Diglossia, Gender, Identity, and Politics
In this second edition of Arabic Sociolinguistics, Reem Bassiouney expands the discussion of major theoretical approaches since the publication of the book's first edition to account for new sociolinguistic theories in Arabic contexts with up-to-date examples, data, and approaches.
Topics in Diglossia, Gender, Identity, and Politics
In this second edition of Arabic Sociolinguistics, Reem Bassiouney expands the discussion of major theoretical approaches since the publication of the book's first edition to account for new sociolinguistic theories in Arabic contexts with up-to-date examples, data, and approaches.
Alhawary makes a new contribution to the field of Arabic second language acquisition by examining Arabic second language acquisition data from two novel typological language pairings, namely adult L1 Chinese- and Russian-speaking learners of Arabic.
Alhawary makes a new contribution to the field of Arabic second language acquisition by examining Arabic second language acquisition data from two novel typological language pairings, namely adult L1 Chinese- and Russian-speaking learners of Arabic.
Designing Higher Education Programs for Diverse Students
Brown and Thompson argue that Spanish language education needs to evolve to reflect changes in the U.S.'s sociocultural, socioeducational, and sociopolitical landscape. They provide coherent and compelling discussion of the most pressing issues facing Spanish post-secondary education and strategies for turning these challenges into opportunities.
Designing Higher Education Programs for Diverse Students
Brown and Thompson argue that Spanish language education needs to evolve to reflect changes in the U.S.'s sociocultural, socioeducational, and sociopolitical landscape. They provide coherent and compelling discussion of the most pressing issues facing Spanish post-secondary education and strategies for turning these challenges into opportunities.
The specific-and varied-ways in which assessment and evaluation can impact learning and teaching have become an important language education research concern. This tripartite work highlights contemporary research exploring innovative uses of assessment and evaluation in a variety of educational contexts.
This volume covers existing lacunae on Cuban Spanish dialectology by providing a state-of-the-art collection of articles from different theoretical perspectives and linguistic areas, including phonological and phonetic variation, morphosyntactic approaches, sociolinguistic perspectives, and the acquisition of Cuban Spanish as a heritage language.
This volume covers existing lacunae on Cuban Spanish dialectology by providing a state-of-the-art collection of articles from different theoretical perspectives and linguistic areas, including phonological and phonetic variation, morphosyntactic approaches, sociolinguistic perspectives, and the acquisition of Cuban Spanish as a heritage language.
Sociocultural linguistics has long conceived of languages as well-bounded,separate codes. But the increasing diversity of languages encountered by most people in their daily lives challenges this conception. This volume takes stock of the increasing diversity of linguistic phenomena and more.
Sociocultural linguistics has long conceived of languages as well-bounded,separate codes. But the increasing diversity of languages encountered by most people in their daily lives challenges this conception. This volume takes stock of the increasing diversity of linguistic phenomena and more.
Provides an overview of sociolinguistics and the pragmatics of oral communication in Spanish. While maintaining the same structure as the first edition, it includes revised Ejercicios de Reflexion along with new comprehension checks at the end of each chapter, enhancing its use as a classroom text.
Explore the layers of African multilingualism as they affect language policy and education. This book includes case studies ranging across the continent, the contributors consider multilingualism in the classroom as well as in domains ranging from music and film to politics. It also reveals how poor teacher training leads to failures in education.
This monograph offers a radical reconceptualization of the relationship between the poetics and practice of Robert Burns and reevaluates the nature of his role in the history of Scots. By drawing on ideas from twenty-first-century sociolinguistic theory, it seeks to transform the debate surrounding Burns's language. Through a series of readings ......
Professor Huehnergard's key to his extensive Akkadian Grammar will be welcomed by teacher and student alike. Please note that this third edition of the key is a revision that complements the third edition of the Grammar, incorporating a number of corrections.
Includes topics that explores: how Web 2.0 can be conceptualized and theorized; the role of English on the worldwide web; how use of social media such as Facebook and texting shape communication with family and friends; electronic discourse and assessment in educational and other settings; and more.
Suitable for teachers while proposing future directions for scholarship, this title offers an overview of research on Spanish as a heritage language in the United States. It addresses the central role of education within the field.
Narratives are fundamental to our lives: we dream, plan, complain, endorse, entertain, teach, learn, and reminisce through telling stories. This title illustrates how narratives build bridges among language, identity, interaction, society, and culture.
Language, Patriotism and Citizenship in Philadelphia's German Community,
In 1816, the state of Pennsylvania tried fifty-nine German-Americans on charges of conspiracy and rioting. They had conspired to prevent with physical force the introduction of English language into the largest German church in North America, Philadelphia's Lutheran congregation of St Michael's and Zion. This book deals with this topic.
Evinces author's deep concern that the world's linguistic diversity is diminishing at an alarming rate. This title demonstrates author's sense of the obligation that linguists have to educate the public about why linguistic diversity is valuable. It deals with a number of specific but related topics.
On the Flathead Reservation in northwestern Montana, the sixty remaining fluent speakers of Montana Salish, most of them elderly, speak their language only to each other, changing to English when outsiders or younger tribal members are present. This title documents the linguistic consequences of language contacts worldwide.
Plunging into the verbal quagmire of official language used by bureaucrats in both government and business, the author develops new techniques based on linguistic principles to improve their communication with the public. He presents nine case studies that reveal representative problems with bureaucratic language.
