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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “kathryn woolard”
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  • Singular and Plural

    Ideologies of Linguistic Authority in 21st Century Catalonia

    by Kathryn A. Woolard ...
    Series series Oxf Studies in Anthropology of Language
    Winner of the Ramon Llull International Prize Winner of the 2017 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Edward Sapir Book Prize A vibrant and surprisingly powerful civic and political movement for an independent Catalonia has brought renewed urgency to questions about what it means, personally and politically, to speak or not to speak Catalan and to claim Catalan identity. In this book, Kathryn ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • Languages and Publics

    The Making of Authority

    by Susan Gal, Kathryn Woolard ...
    The essays in this collection examine the public construction of languages, the linguistic construction of publics, and the relationship between these two processes. Cultural categories such as named languages, linguistic standards and genres are the products of expert knowledge as well as of linguistic ideologies more widely shared among speakers. Translation, grammars and dictionaries, the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Language Ideologies

    Practice and Theory

    Edited by Bambi B. Schieffelin, Kathryn A. Woolard, Paul V. Kroskrity ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics
    "Language ideologies" are cultural representations, whether explicit or implicit, of the intersection of language and human beings in a social world. Mediating between social structures and forms of talk, such ideologies are not only about language. Rather, they link language to identity, power, aesthetics, morality and epistemology. Through such linkages, language ideologies underpin not only ... Read more

    $71.09 USD

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  • The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics

    Edited by Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre, Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy ...
    Series Book 94 - Wiley Handbooks in Linguistics
    Written by an international team of leading scholars, this groundbreaking reference work explores the nature of language change and diffusion, and paves the way for future research in this rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field.Features 35 newly-written essays from internationally acclaimed experts that reflect the growth and vitality of the burgeoning area of historical sociolinguisticsExamines ... Read more

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  • Articulate While Black

    Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S.

    by H. Samy Alim, Geneva Smitherman ...
    Barack Obama is widely considered one of the most powerful and charismatic speakers of our age. Without missing a beat, he often moves between Washington insider talk and culturally Black ways of speaking--as shown in a famous YouTube clip, where Obama declined the change offered to him by a Black cashier in a Washington, D.C. restaurant with the phrase, "Nah, we straight." In Articulate While ... Read more

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  • The Map

    A Beginner's Guide to Doing Research in Translation Studies

    by Jenny Williams, Andrew Chesterman ...
    The Map is a practical guidebook introducing the basics of research in translation studies for students doing their first major research project in the field. Depending on where they are studying, this may be at advanced undergraduate (BA) or at postgraduate (MA/PHD) level.The book consists of ten chapters. Chapter 1 offers an overview of 12 research areas in translation studies in order to help ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Slam Dunks and No-Brainers

    Language in Your Life, the Media, Business, Politics, and, Like, Whatever

    by Leslie Savan ...
    In this marvelously original book, three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Leslie Savan offers fascinating insights into why we’re all talking the talk—Duh; Bring it on!; Bling; Whatever!—and what this reveals about America today. Savan traces the paths that phrases like these travel from obscure slang to pop stardom, selling everything from cars (ads for VWs, Mitsubishis, and Mercurys all pitch them ... Read more

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  • I am Spain

    The Spanish Civil War and the Men and Women who went to Fight Fascism

    by David Boyd Haycock ...
    George Orwell, Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, John Dos Passos, Felicia Browne, John Cornford, Stephen Spender... These were just some of the talented, committed and adventure-hungry men and women who travelled to Spain to join the struggle against General Franco's fascist rebellion. Through their personal letters, diaries and memoirs, David Boyd Haycock brings the ... Read more

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  • The Fate of Bonté III

    by Alain Poissant ...
    Translated by Rob Twiss ...
    Series series Literary Translation
    Bonté III was five years old. A cow at that age is at her prime. Prime is an accounting term. A dairy farm is a business and must be managed as such. From this perspective, Bonté III’s days were numbered. Numbered is not an empty word. She had been a good representative of her breed. A cow, after all, has no need to try to be a cow. Her life is that of a cow: a predetermined cycle that is easily ... Read more

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  • Modality and the English Modals

    by F.R. Palmer ...
    Series series Longman Linguistics Library
    A detailed account of the many uses and functions of these verbs. The nature of modality, and some controversial issues, are also discussed. ... Read more

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    by Allan Bell ...
    The Guidebook to Sociolinguistics presents a comprehensive introduction to the main concepts and terms of sociolinguistics, and of the goals, methods, and findings of sociolinguistic research.Introduces readers to the methodology and skills of doing hands-on research in this fieldFeatures chapter-by-chapter classic and contemporary case studies, exercises, and examples to enhance ... Read more

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