Category: Sociolinguistics

Conversational Repair and Human Understanding (Studies in Interactional Soc iolinguistics, Series Number 30)

By: (Editor), Geoffrey Raymond

Price: ¥1,450

Publisher: US, Cambridge University Press : 2018

Seller ID: RWARE0000061420

ISBN-13: 9781108460156

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Humans are imperfect, and problems of speaking, hearing and understanding are pervasive in ordinary interaction. This book examines the way we 'repair' and correct such problems as they arise in conversation and other forms of human interaction. The first book-length study of this topic, it brings together a team of scholars from the fields of anthropology, communication, linguistics and sociology to explore how speakers address problems in their own ...
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Discourse as Social Interaction

By: Dijk, Teun A. van

Price: ¥1,150

Publisher: US, Sage Publications Ltd : 1997

Seller ID: RWARE0000052857

ISBN-13: 9780803978478

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. How do people engage in and competently manage discourse and interaction wi th others? Whether in informal, everyday conversations or professional dial ogues, people do things while they are speaking or writing. Focusing on the fundamental interactional, social, political and cultural functions of text and talk, this comprehensive volume shows that discourse is not merely form and meaning but also action. This social dimension of discourse is further ...
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Cross-Cultural Literacy: Global Perspectives on Reading and Writing

By: Dubin, Fraida

Price: ¥1,500

Publisher: US, Prentice Hall : 1992

Seller ID: RWARE0000053153

ISBN-13: 9780131944084

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence (African American Life S eries)

By: Gilyard, Keith

Price: ¥3,200

Publisher: Detroit, Mich, Wayne State University Press : 1991

Seller ID: RWARE0000010849

ISBN-13: 9780814322253

Condition: Near Fine

A tight clean copy, no markings throughout. An exploration of the key areas of language education for African Americans.
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Sociolinguistic Styles

By: Hernández-Campoy, Juan Manuel

Price: ¥2,500

Publisher: US, Wiley-Blackwell : 2016

Seller ID: RWARE0000053044

ISBN-13: 9781118737644

Binding: Hardback

Condition: Near Fine

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Sociolinguistic Styles presents a new and in-depth, historically rooted ove rview of the phenomenon of style-shifting in sociolinguistic variation. Wri tten by an internationally acclaimed expert in the field, the text explores why, where and when it occurs. Full examination of the complex phenomenon of style-shifting in sociolingui stics, focusing on its nature and social motivations, as well as on the mec hanisms for its usage and its effects In-dep...
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Doing Sociolinguistics

By: Meyerhoff, Miriam

Price: ¥2,600

Publisher: US, Routledge : 2015

Seller ID: RWARE0000053146

ISBN-13: 9780415698207

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Doing Sociolinguistics: A practical guide to data collection and analysis p rovides an accessible introduction and guide to the methods of data collect ion and analysis in the field of sociolinguistics. It offers students the o pportunity to engage directly with some of the foundational and more innova tive work being done in the quantitative or variationist paradigm. Divided into sixteen short chapters, Doing Sociolinguistics: can be used as a core t...
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Discourse Markers / Edition 1

By: Schiffrin, Deborah

Price: ¥3,720

Publisher: US, Cambridge University Press : 1988

Seller ID: RWARE0000056990

ISBN-13: 9780521357180

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Discourse markers - the particles oh, well, now, then, you know and I mean, and the connectives so, because, and, but and or - perform important functions in conversation. Dr Schiffrin's approach is firmly interdisciplinary, within linguistics and sociology, and her rigourous analysis clearly demonstrates that neither the markers, nor the discourse within which they function, can be understood from one point of view alone, but only as an integration o...
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Culturally Speaking Second Edition: Culture, Communication and Politeness T heory

By: Spencer-Oatey, Helen

Price: ¥3,250

Publisher: US, Continuum : 2008

Seller ID: RWARE0000052861

ISBN-13: 9780826493101

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

This comprehensive introduction to intercultural pragmatics examines the th eoretical, methodological and practical issues in the analysis of talk acro ss cultures. The book includes: * introduction to the key issues in culture and communication * examination of cross-cultural and intercultural communication * empirical case studies from a variety of languages, including German, Gre ek, Japanese and Chinese * practical chapters on pragmatics research, recording and analysing data, and projects in intercultural pragmatics * exercises at the end of each chapter * glossary of terms This second ed...
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Ethnolinguistics and Cultural Concepts: Truth, Love, Hate and War

By: Underhill, James W.

Price: ¥2,500

Publisher: US, Cambridge University Press : 2015

Seller ID: RWARE0000053042

ISBN-13: 9781107532847

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. 'Ethnolinguistics' is the study of how language relates to culture and ethnicity. This book offers an original approach to ethnolinguistics, discussing how abstract concepts such as truth, love, hate and war are expressed across cultures and ethnicities. James W. Underhill seeks to situate these key cultural concepts within four languages (English, French, Czech and German). Not only do these concepts differ from language to language, but they go on c...
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Adat and Dinas: Balinese Communities in the Indonesian State (South-East As ian Social Science Monographs)

By: Warren, Carol

Price: ¥8,500

Publisher: US, Oxford University Press : 1993

Seller ID: RWARE0000051188

ISBN-13: 9780195886092

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good/Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. This study focuses on the dynamics of community organization in contemporary Bali and of the ambivalent relationship between village institutions, adat, and those of the Indonesian state, dinas. Focusing on the banjar--the civic community in Bali--the book traces its role in serving the needs of the its members and the tensions implicit in its role as intermediary in the implementation of development policies.
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Jokes: Form, content, use, and function (European monographs in social psyc hology)

By: Wilson, Christopher P.

Price: ¥3,450

Publisher: US, Elsevier Science Publishing : 1979

Seller ID: RWARE0000053063

ISBN-13: 9780127581507

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good/Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Category: Sociolinguistics