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  • Endangered Languages in the 21st Century

    Edited by Eda Derhemi, Christopher Moseley ...
    Endangered Languages in the 21st Century provides research on endangered languages in the contemporary world, the challenges still to be faced, the work still to be done, and the methods and practices that have come to characterize efforts to revive and maintain disadvantaged indigenous languages around the world.With contributions from scholars across the field, the book brings fresh data and ... Read more

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  • How to Think Like an Anthropologist

    by Matthew Engelke ...
    From an award-winning anthropologist, a lively accessible, and at times irreverent introduction to the subjectWhat is anthropology? What can it tell us about the world? Why, in short, does it matter? For well over a century, cultural anthropologists have circled the globe, from Papua New Guinea to suburban England and from China to California, uncovering surprising facts and insights about how ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • Violent Phenomena

    Essays Toward the Future of Literary Translation

    by Kavita Bhanot, Jeremy Tiang ...
    “These essays, deftly blending the political and the personal, offer fresh, galvanizing, and passionate perspectives on literary translation.”—Jhumpa LahiriA manifesto in 22 essays, Violent Phenomena breaks stale rules about who can and should translate, envisioning a future more reflective of the beautiful polyphony of literature in all languages.?What would it take to unlearn centuries of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Multilingualism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John C. Maher ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The languages of the world can be seen and heard in cities and towns, forests and isolated settlements, as well as on the internet and in international organizations like the UN or the EU. How did the world acquire so many languages? Why can't we all speak one language, like English or Esperanto? And what makes a person bilingual? Multilingualism, language diversity in society, is a perfect ... Read more

    $7.99 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

    $24.69 USD

  • An Introduction to Multilingualism

    Language in a Changing World

    by Florian Coulmas ...
    Series series Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics
    This book offers an introduction to the many facets of multilingualism in a changing world. It begins with an overview of the multiplicity of human languages and their geographic distribution, before moving on to the key question of what multilingualism actually is and what is understood by terms such as 'mother tongue', 'native speaker', and 'speech community'. In the chapters that follow, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives

    Edited by Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, Vinh Nguyen ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Handbooks
    This Handbook presents a transnational and interdisciplinary study of refugee narratives, broadly defined. Interrogating who can be considered a refugee and what constitutes a narrative, the thirty-eight chapters included in this collection encompass a range of forcibly displaced subjects, a mix of geographical and historical contexts, and a variety of storytelling modalities. Analyzing novels, ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages

    Edited by Peter K. Austin, Julia Sallabank ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    It is generally agreed that about 7,000 languages are spoken across the world today and at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of this century. This state-of-the-art Handbook examines the reasons behind this dramatic loss of linguistic diversity, why it matters, and what can be done to document and support endangered languages. The volume is relevant not only to researchers in language ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Anthropological Practice

    Fieldwork and the Ethnographic Method

    by Judith Okely ...
    Anthropologists are increasingly pressurised to formulate field methods for teaching. Unlike many hypothesis-driven ethnographic texts, this book is designed with the specific needs of the anthropology student and field researcher in mind, with particular emphasis on the core anthropological method: long term participant observation. Anthropological Practice explores fieldwork experiences unique ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Standardizing Minority Languages

    Competing Ideologies of Authority and Authenticity in the Global Periphery

    Edited by Pia Lane, James Costa, Haley De Korne ...
    The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781138125124**, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.**This volume addresses a crucial, yet largely unaddressed dimension of minority language standardization, namely how social actors engage with, support, negotiate, resist and even reject such ... Read more

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  • The Handbook of Language and Globalization

    Edited by Nikolas Coupland ...
    Series Book 64 - Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
    The Handbook of Language and Globalization brings together important new studies of language and discourse in the global era, consolidating a vibrant new field of sociolinguistic research.The first volume to assemble leading scholarship in this rapidly developing fieldFeatures new contributions from 36 internationally-known scholars, bringing together key research in the field and establishing a ... Read more

    $49.00 USD

  • Impulse to Act

    A New Anthropology of Resistance and Social Justice

    by Jessica Greenberg, Eirine Avramapoulou, Irene Peano, James D. Faubion, Neni Panourgia, Tania Ahmad, Cymene Howe, Petra Rethmann, John Postill, Marianne Maeckelbergh, Alex Khasnabish, Athanasiou Athena ...
    What drives people to take to the streets in protest? What is their connection to other activists and how does that change over time? How do seemingly spontaneous activist movements emerge, endure, and evolve, especially when they lack a leader and concrete agenda? How does one analyze a changing political movement immersed in contingency? Impulse to Act addresses these questions incisively, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD