Includes such as "What Do You Think?" and "Try It Yourself" prompt students to consider language in daily life and to begin thinking about language analysis, while new "Language at the Bar" features show them the real-world applications of linguistic analysis to criminal and civil legal cases.
The Language, Society and Power Reader is the definitive reader for students studying introductory modules in sociolinguistics and language in its social contexts.
Originally published in 1983, the topic here although specialized, has importance within several disciplines. Contributions came from the fields of education and medicine as well as psychology and linguistics. In bringing these researchers together it gave the work in this area a broader and sounder theoretical basis.
Language and Creativity at Work: A Corpus-Assisted Model of Creative Workplace Discourse explores linguistic creativity at work as well as the role of language in creative processes in the workplace.
This Element explores the intersection of language and culture in undergraduate admissions interviews. Such encounters are understood through outcomes, with perceptions of interviewer bias and self-confidence in candidates. It challenges an understanding of admissions interviews. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
This Element explores the intersection of language and culture in undergraduate admissions interviews. Such encounters are understood through outcomes, with perceptions of interviewer bias and self-confidence in candidates. It challenges an understanding of admissions interviews. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
This book offers a bold reconceptualization of the relationship between language and decolonization, providing a critical and historical account of the limitations of decolonial agendas. By encompassing both decolonial moves and anti-colonial movements, the book stresses the importance of individuals' geopolitical location.
This book offers a bold reconceptualization of the relationship between language and decolonization, providing a critical and historical account of the limitations of decolonial agendas. By encompassing both decolonial moves and anti-colonial movements, the book stresses the importance of individuals' geopolitical location.
Language and Identity in the Arab World explores the inextricable link between language and identity, referring particularly to the Arab world. Spanning from Indonesia to the United States, the Arab world is here imagined as a continually changing one, with the Arab diaspora asserting its linguistic identity across the world.