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Bilingualism

An Advanced Resource Book

By Ng Bee Chin, Gillian Wigglesworth

Bilingualism:

  • introduces students to key issues and themes that include bilingual development and education; and the integration of social and cognitive perspectives
  • uses tasks and examples to&8230;

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2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34387-9 (Routledge)

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The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics

Edited by Carmen Llamas, Louise Mullany, Peter Stockwell

Have you ever noticed an accent or puzzled over a dialect phrase? Language can be a powerful tool with which one can create a persona;…

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-33850-9 (Routledge)

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Hiphop Literacies

By ELAINE RICHARDSON

Hiphop Literacies is an exploration of the rhetorical, language and literacy practices of African Americans, with a focus on the Hiphop generation. Richardson analyses the…

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32927-9 (Routledge)

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Introducing Sociolinguistics

By Miriam Meyerhoff

'Here is a welcome introduction to sociolinguistics by a leading researcher in the field. Users will be inspired by the breadth and sweep of Meyerhoff's

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39948-7 (Routledge)

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Language and Gender

An Advanced Resource Book

By Jane Sunderland

Language and Gender:

  • presents an up-to-date introduction to language and gender
  • includes diverse work from a range of cultural, including non-Western, contexts, and represents a range of&8230;

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31104-5 (Routledge)

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The Language and Sexuality Reader

Edited by Deborah Cameron, DON KULICK

The Language and Sexuality Reader is the first of its kind to bring together material from the fields of anthropology, communication studies, linguistics, medicine and…

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-36307-5 (Routledge)

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Language and Region

By Joan Beal

Language and Region:

  • provides an accessible guide to regional variation in English
  • covers topical issues including loss of regional diversity and attitudes to regional accents and dialects
  • examines&8230;

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-36601-4 (Routledge)

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World Englishes

Edited by Kingsley Bolton, Braj Kachru

The study of World Englishes has seen a revolutionary shift during the last twenty years. Before 1980, there was a general assumption within Britain,…

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-31505-0 (Routledge)

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The Irish Language in Ireland

From Goídel to Globalisation

By Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost

This book comprises the first complete treatment of the Irish language in social context throughout the whole of Ireland, with a particular focus on contemporary…

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32046-7 (Routledge)

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Introducing Social Semiotics

An Introductory Textbook

By Theo van Leeuwen

Introducing Social Semiotics uses a wide variety of texts including photographs, adverts, magazine pages and film stills to explain how meaning is created through complex…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-24944-7 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

Crosslinguistic Influence in Language and Cognition
By Scott Jarvis, Aneta Pavlenko
To be published March 2nd 2010

Language and Culture: Reflective Narratives and the Emergence of Identity
Edited by David Nunan, Julia Choi
To be published March 5th 2010

Variation in Linguistic Systems
By James A. Walker
To be published April 7th 2010

The Sociolinguistics Reader
Edited by Miriam Meyerhoff, Eric Schleef
To be published June 17th 2010

Multilingualism, Discourse, and Ethnography
Edited by Marilyn Martin-Jones, Sheena Gardner
To be published August 1st 2010

Ethnography and Language Policy
Edited by Teresa L. McCarty
To be published August 15th 2010

Becoming Biliterate: Identity, Ideology, and Learning to Read and Write in Multiple Languages
By Bobbie Kabuto
To be published August 18th 2010

Alternative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition
By DWIGHT ATKINSON
To be published September 15th 2010

Language, Gender and Feminism: Theory and Methodology
By Sara Mills, Louise Mullany
To be published October 1st 2010

Intelligibility in World Englishes
By Cecil L. Nelson
To be published October 15th 2010

Language Mixing and Code-Switching in Writing: Approaches to Mixed-Language Written Discourse
Edited by Mark Sebba, Shahrzad Mahootian, Carla Jonsson
To be published December 1st 2010

The Routledge Handbook of Multilingualism
Edited by Marilyn Martin-Jones, Adrian Blackledge, Angela Creese
To be published January 1st 2011

The Language , Society and Power Reader
Edited by Annabelle Mooney, Jean Stilwell Peccei, Suzanne LaBelle, Berit Henrikson, Eva Eppler, Satori Soden, Pia Pichler, Anthea Irwin
To be published January 1st 2011

Introducing Sociolinguistics
By Miriam Meyerhoff
To be published January 1st 2011

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