Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land

    Hymnody in the History of North American Protestantism

    Series series Religion and American Culture
    The latest scholarship on the role of hymns in American evangelicalismMusic and song are important parts of worship, and hymns have long played a central role in Protestant cultural history. This book explores the ways in which Protestants have used and continue to use hymns to clarify their identity and define their relationship with America and to Christianity. Representing seven groups—Baptists ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Languages in Africa

    Multilingualism, Language Policy, and Education

    Series series Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series
    People in many African communities live within a series of concentric circles when it comes to language. In a small group, a speaker uses an often unwritten and endangered mother tongue that is rarely used in school. A national indigenous language—written, widespread, sometimes used in school—surrounds it. An international language like French or English, a vestige of colonialism, carries prestige ... Read more

    $53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition

    Cross-linguistic Perspectives -- Volume 1: Heads, Projections, and Learnability -- Volume 2: Binding, Dependencies, and Learnability

    Universal Grammar (UG) is a theory of both the fundamental principles for all possible languages and the language faculty in the "initial state" of the human organism. These two volumes approach the study of UG by joint, tightly linked studies of both linguistic theory and human competence for language acquisition. In particular, the volumes collect comparable studies across a number of different ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Your Brain's Politics

    How the Science of Mind Explains the Political Divide

    by George Lakoff ...
    Series Book 59 - Societas
    At first glance, issues like economic inequality, healthcare, climate change, and abortion seem unrelated. However, when thinking and talking about them, people reliably fall into two camps: conservative and liberal. What explains this divide? Why do conservatives and liberals hold the positions they do? And what is the conceptual nature of those who decide elections, commonly called the ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Arrow Impossibility Theorem

    Series series Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series
    Kenneth J. Arrow's pathbreaking "impossibility theorem" was a watershed innovation in the history of welfare economics, voting theory, and collective choice, demonstrating that there is no voting rule that satisfies the four desirable axioms of decisiveness, consensus, nondictatorship, and independence.In this book Eric Maskin and Amartya Sen explore the implications of Arrow's theorem. Sen ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Sociolinguistics

    The Study of Speakers' Choices

    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 ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • The Sociolinguistics of Globalization

    by Jan Blommaert ...
    Series series Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
    Human language has changed in the age of globalization: no longer tied to stable and resident communities, it moves across the globe, and it changes in the process. The world has become a complex 'web' of villages, towns, neighbourhoods and settlements connected by material and symbolic ties in often unpredictable ways. This phenomenon requires us to revise our understanding of linguistic ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • Conducting Interpretive Policy Analysis

    by Dvora Yanow ...
    Series series Qualitative Research Methods
    This book in the QRM series is designed for a wide variety of research methods courses taught in various departments. It will be of most interest to those in Public Policy, Political Science, and Public Administration departments, but will also be of interest to researchers in Sociology, Anthropology, Communication and Education departments, among others. The book fills a gap in the traditional ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Black Linguistics

    Language, Society and Politics in Africa and the Americas

    Enslavement, forced migration, war and colonization have led to the global dispersal of Black communities and to the fragmentation of common experiences. The majority of Black language researchers explore the social and linguistic phenomena of individual Black communities, without looking at Black experiences outside a given community. This groundbreaking collection re-orders the elitist and ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Non-native Educators in English Language Teaching

    Edited by George Braine ...
    The place of native and non-native speakers in the role of English teachers has probably been an issue ever since English was taught internationally. Although ESL and EFL literature is awash, in fact dependent upon, the scrutiny of non-native learners, interest in non-native academics and teachers is fairly new. Until recently, the voices of non-native speakers articulating their own concerns have ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • English for Diplomatic Purposes

    Edited by Patricia Friedrich ...
    English is used in diplomatic contexts worldwide, including in situations where none of the interlocutors are native-speakers. This ground-breaking volume brings together the perspectives of researchers and practitioners to discuss the needs of those using and learning English for Diplomatic Purposes. Chapter authors use concepts from sociolinguistics, World Englishes, Peace Linguistics and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Learning to be Literate

    by Viv EDWARDS ...
    This textbook brings together research on literacy and multilingualism from a variety of settings: the learning of English in migrant destinations, immersion and bilingual education, and the maintenance of heritage languages. Designed to be accessible to students from a wide range of disciplines, the book explores multilingualism as a global phenomenon at both the individual and societal level, ... Read more

    $12.79 USD