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“dave sayers”

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  • Language in the Human-Machine Era

    New Technologies and the Coming Transformation of Language

    Edited by Dave Sayers, Helen Kelly-Holmes, Robert Fuchs, Maggie Glass ...

    $64.99 USD

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  • Sociolinguistic Research

    Application and Impact

    Edited by Robert Lawson, Dave Sayers ...
    Shortlisted for the LSA Leonard Bloomfield Book Award 2017Sociolinguistic Research: Application and Impact provides a unique overview of international research projects, showcasing their positive outcomes and offering critical insights and constructive critiques into the meaning of ‘impact’ in contemporary research. The book includes:original findings from cutting-edge research from scholars such ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • The Language Hoax

    by John H. McWhorter ...
    Japanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark and light blue. Does this mean that Russians perceive these colors differently from Japanese people? Does language control and limit the way we think? This short, opinionated book addresses the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which argues that the language we speak shapes the way we perceive the world. Linguist John ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • German

    A Linguistic Introduction

    by Sarah M. B. Fagan ...
    Standard German is spoken by approximately 95 million people worldwide. This book provides an introduction to the linguistic structure of standard German that is rich in descriptive detail and grounded in modern linguistic theory. It describes the main linguistic features: the sounds, structure and formation of words, structure of sentences, and meaning of words and sentences. It surveys the ... Read more

    $51.69 USD

  • Raciolinguistics

    How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race

    Edited by H. Samy Alim, John R. Rickford, Arnetha F. Ball ...
    Raciolinguistics reveals the central role that language plays in shaping our ideas about race and vice versa. The book brings together a team of leading scholars-working both within and beyond the United States-to share powerful, much-needed research that helps us understand the increasingly vexed relationships between race, ethnicity, and language in our rapidly changing world. Combining the ... Read more

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  • Medical Discourse in Professional, Academic and Popular Settings

    Edited by Pilar Ordóñez-López, Nuria Edo-Marzá ...
    Series Book 1 - Language at Work
    This volume investigates the features and challenges of medical discourse between medical professionals as well as with patients and in the media. Based on corpus-driven studies, it includes a wide variety of approaches including cognitive, corpus and diachronic linguistics. Each chapter examines a different aspect of medical communication, including the use of metaphor referring to cancer, the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Understanding Politeness

    by Dániel Z. Kádár, Michael Haugh ...
    Politeness is key to all of our relationships and plays a fundamental part in the way we communicate with each other and the way we define ourselves. It is not limited only to conventional aspects of linguistic etiquette, but encompasses all types of interpersonal behaviour through which we explore and maintain our relationships. This groundbreaking exploration navigates the reader through this ... Read more

    $50.89 USD

  • When Words Lose Their Meaning

    Constitutions and Reconstitutions of Language, Character, and Community

    by James Boyd White ...
    Through fresh readings of texts ranging from Homer's Iliad, Swift's Tale of a Tub, and Austen's Emma through the United States Constitution and McCulloch v. Maryland, James Boyd White examines the relationship between an individual mind and its language and culture as well as the "textual community" established between writer and audience. These striking textual analyses develop a rhetoric—a "way ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Glocal English

    The Changing Face and Forms of Nigerian English in a Global World

    by Farooq A. Kperogi ...
    Series Book 96 - Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics
    Glocal English compares the usage patterns and stylistic conventions of the world’s two dominant native varieties of English (British and American English) with Nigerian English, which ranks as the English world’s fastest-growing non-native variety courtesy of the unrelenting ubiquity of the Nigerian (English-language) movie industry in Africa and the Black Atlantic Diaspora. Using contemporary ... Read more

    $101.39 USD

  • Jailtacht

    The Irish Language, Symbolic Power and Political Violence in Northern Ireland, 1972-2008

    by Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost ...
    This book tells the dramatic and often surprising story of the learning of the Irish language by Irish Republican prisoners held in the infamous H-block cells during the bloody political conflict in Northern Ireland. Using research methods and techniques, the author closely analyses the emergence of the Irish language amongst republican prisoners and ex prisoners in Northern Ireland from the 1970s ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sociolinguistic Fieldwork

    by Natalie Schilling ...
    Series series Key Topics in Sociolinguistics
    Looking for an easy-to-use, practical guide to conducting fieldwork in sociolinguistics? This invaluable textbook will give you the skills and knowledge required for carrying out research projects in 'the field', including: • How to select and enter a community • How to design a research sample • What recording equipment to choose and how to operate it • How to collect, store and manage data • How ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Discourse and Practice

    New Tools for Critical Analysis

    by Theo van Leeuwen ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
    Adding a new introduction and two previously unpublished papers, Discourse and Practice: New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis brings together van Leeuwen's methodological work on discourse analysis of the last 15 years. Discourse, van Leeuwen argues, is a resource for representation, a knowledge about some aspect of reality which can be drawn upon when that aspect of reality has to be ... Read more

    $44.09 USD