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  • The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine

    Exposing the crisis of credibility in clinical research

    by Jon Jureidini, Leemon B. McHenry ...
    An expose of the corruption of medicine by the pharmaceutical industry at every level, from exploiting the vulnerable destitute for drug testing, through manipulation of research data, to disease mongering and promoting drugs that do more harm than good. Authors, Professor Jon Jureidini and Dr Leemon McHenry, made critical contributions to exposing the scientific misconduct in two infamous trials ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Evaluative Language in Sports

    Crowds, Coaches and Commentators

    by John Walsh, David Caldwell, Jon Jureidini ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
    Walsh, Caldwell and Jureidini offer an expansive linguistic perspective on the evaluative language prevalent in the world of professional sports.This book presents a close linguistic analysis of evaluative language in sport. Drawing on appraisal theory and data from three distinct sporting contexts – songs and chants in football stadiums, television commentary and coach discourse – it examines the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Discourse of Sport

    Analyses from Social Linguistics

    Edited by David Caldwell, John Walsh, Elaine W. Vine, Jon Jureidini ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
    This collection brings together innovative research from socially-oriented applied linguists working in sports. Drawing on contemporary approaches to applied linguistics, this book provides readers with in-depth analyses of examples of language-in-use in the context of sport, and interprets them through the lens of larger issues within sport culture and practice. With contributions from an ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

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    by Gerard Van Herk ...
    Series series Linguistics in the World
    How is our language affected by our ethnicity, gender, and region? How are our conversations and other interactions structured? How does society view and regulate language? How do we use language to present ourselves to others? In this revised and updated second edition of the popular What Is Sociolinguistics? Gerard Van Herk explores these and other intriguing questions about language, how we use ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • Narrative in English Conversation

    A Corpus Analysis of Storytelling

    by Christoph Rühlemann ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    Storytelling is a fundamental mode of everyday interaction. This book is based upon the Narrative Corpus (NC), a specialized corpus of naturally occurring narratives, and provides new paths for its study. Christoph Rühlemann uses the NC's narrative-specific annotation and XPath and XQuery, query languages that allow the retrieval of complex data structures, to facilitate large-scale quantitative ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Working the Past

    Narrative and Institutional Memory

    by Charlotte Linde ...
    Stories told within institutions play a powerful role, helping to define not only the institution itself, but also its individual members. How do institutions use stories? How do those stories both preserve the past and shape the future? To what extent does narrative construct both collective and individual identity? Charlotte Linde's unique and far-reaching study addresses these questions by ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Theories of Translation

    by J. Williams ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Presents the most important theories in Translation Studies that have emerged over the last 50 years. Particularly innovative is the inclusion of theories from outside North America and Europe, theoretical perspectives on recent technological developments and a consideration of the nature of theory in the field. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Some Ethnolinguistic Notes on Polar Eskimo

    by Stephen Pax Leonard ...
    Series Book 37 - Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics
    This book serves as an insightful ethnographic introduction to the language and oral traditions of the Inugguit, a sub-group of the Inuit who live in north-west Greenland. A unique work, it encompasses an overview of the grammar of Polar Eskimo – a language spoken by about 770 people – as well as a description of their oral traditions (drum-dancing and story-telling) and the most extensive ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Multilingual Brazil

    Language Resources, Identities and Ideologies in a Globalized World

    Edited by Marilda C. Cavalcanti, Terezinha M. Maher ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism
    This book brings together cutting edge work by Brazilian researchers on multilingualism in Brazil for an English-speaking readership in one comprehensive volume. Divided into five sections, each with its own introduction, tying together the themes of the book, the volume charts a course for a new sociolinguistics of multilingualism, challenging long-held perceptions about a monolingual Brazil by ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Governmentality of Black Beauty Shame

    Discourse, Iconicity and Resistance

    by Shirley Anne Tate ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book uses the experiences and conversations of Black British women as a lens to examine the impact of discourses surrounding Black beauty shame. Black beauty shame exists within racialized societies which situate white beauty as iconic, and as a result produce Black ‘ugliness’ as a counterpoint. At the same time, Black Nationalist discourses present Black-white ‘mixed race’ women as bodies ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Narratives of Place, Belonging and Language

    An Intercultural Perspective

    by Palgrave Macmillan ...
    Examining identity in relation to globalization and migration, this book uses narratives and memoirs from contemporary authors who have lived 'in-between' two or more languages. It explores the human desire to find one's 'own place' in new cultural contexts, and looks at the role of language in shaping a sense of belonging in society. ... Read more

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  • Language Planning and Microlinguistics

    From Policy to Interaction and Vice Versa

    Edited by W. Davies, E. Ziegler ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Whilst earlier studies of language planning and of standardisation have tended to study macro processes, this volume is in line with more recent work aimed at bridging the macro and the micro levels by examining how the two interact and influence each other. It covers seven countries and deals with a range of sociolinguistic constellations. ... Read more

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