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  • Grammar of Loss

    A Study in Liminal Linguistics

    by Anne Storch ...
    Series series Contemporary Liminality
    This book explores how language and linguistic knowledge can be encountered through walks, shared meals, conversations, and daily life rather than being written about in the style and genre of western academic grammar.Through an innovative exploration of the multivocal forms of knowledge transmission about a disappearing language within a small, diverse community in Nigeria, the book reveals a ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Secret Manipulations

    Language and Context in Africa

    by Anne Storch ...
    Secret Manipulations is the first comprehensive study of African register variation, polylectality, and derived languages. Focusing on a specific form of language change-deliberate manipulations of a language by its speakers-it provides a new approach to local language ideologies and concepts of grammar and metalinguistic knowledge. Anne Storch concentrates on case studies from Nigeria, Uganda, ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Hospitable Linguistics

    Alternative, Indigenous and Critical Approaches to Language Research and Language Encounters

    Edited by Nicholas G. Faraclas, Anne Storch, Viveka Velupillai ...
    Series Book 4 - Global Forum on Southern Epistemologies
    Challenging the boundaries of linguistics as a field, and transgressing the limitations of genre in writing about language, this book explores the possibilities of what the authors call a ‘hospitable linguistics’. It offers a critical discussion of how linguistics endeavors to domesticate, subdue and integrate both people and languages into existing academic structures and theories, and how as a ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Impact of Tourism in East Africa

    A Ruinous System

    by Anne Storch, Angelika Mietzner ...
    Series Book 58 - Tourism and Cultural Change
    This book explores the relationship between imperial formations and individual encounters at African tourist sites – spaces of leisure, healing and work. It examines how encounters between tourists and hosts tend to be constructed along colonial thought lines and considers how players in the hospitality industry do not interact as coeval participants, but are racialised, scripted and positioned ... Read more

    $1.00 USD

  • Language and Tourism in Postcolonial Settings

    Edited by Angelika Mietzner, Anne Storch ...
    Series Book 54 - Tourism and Cultural Change
    This book focuses on perspectives from and on the global south, providing fresh data and analyses on languages in African, Caribbean, Middle-Eastern and Asian tourism contexts. It provides a critical perspective on tourism in postcolonial and neocolonial settings, explored through in-depth case studies. The volume offers a multifaceted view on how language commodifies, and is commodified in, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • Stuff

    by Daniel Miller ...
    Things make us just as much as we make things. And yet, unlike the study of languages or places, there is no discipline devoted to the study of material things. This book shows why it is time to acknowledge and confront this neglect and how much we can learn from focusing our attention on stuff.The book opens with a critique of the concept of superficiality as applied to clothing. It presents the ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Cosmic Connections

    Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment

    by Charles Taylor ...
    A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the YearA major new work by Charles Taylor: the long-awaited follow-up to The Language Animal, exploring the Romantic poetics central to his theory of language.The Language Animal, Charles Taylor’s 2016 account of human linguistic capacity, was a revelation, toppling scholarly conventions and illuminating our most fundamental selves. But, as Taylor noted in ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Becoming Places

    Urbanism / Architecture / Identity / Power

    by Kim Dovey ...
    About the practices and politics of place and identity formation – the slippery ways in which who we are becomes wrapped up with where we are – this book exposes the relations of place to power. It links everyday aspects of place experience to the social theories of Deleuze and Bourdieu in a very readable manner. This is a book that takes the social critique of built form another step through ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Interpretation

    Techniques and Exercises

    by James Nolan ...
    Series Book 4 - Professional Interpreting in the Real World
    In recent decades the explosive growth of globalization and regional integration has fuelled parallel growth in multilingual conferences. Although conference interpreting has come of age as a profession, interpreter training programs have had varied success, pointing to the need for an instructional manual which covers the subject comprehensively.This book seeks to fill that need by providing a ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Seductions of Place

    Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes

    Edited by Carolyn Cartier, Alan A Lew ...
    Series series Critical Geographies
    The seductiveness of touristed landscapes is simultaneously local and global, as travelled places are formed and reworked by the activities of diverse, mobile people, in their desires to experience situated, sensuous qualities of difference. Cartier and Lew’s interesting and informative book explores contemporary issues in travel and tourism and human geography, and the complex cultural, political ... Read more

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  • Interpretation

    by James NOLAN ...
    This book provides a structured syllabus and an overview of interpretation accompanied by exercises in the main aspects of the art.  It is meant as a practical guide for interpreters and as a complement to interpreter training programmes, particularly for students preparing for conference interpreting in international governmental and business settings. ... Read more

    $20.49 USD