(Paperback)
By: Amanda Montell
ISBN: 9780063244689
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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(Hardback)
By: Amanda Montell
ISBN: 9780062993151
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2021
UK Publication Date: 22nd July 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power.
What makes cults so intriguing and frightening
(Hardback)
By: Arran Stibbe
ISBN: 9781350263123
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Arran Stibbe
ISBN: 9781350263116
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback, Main)
By: Ross Perlin
ISBN: 9781804710715
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2024
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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A captivating portrait of contemporary New York City, the most linguistically diverse place ever to have existed on the planet, told through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages.
(Hardback)
By: David Rose
ISBN: 9781350413894
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Dr Robert Blackwood
ISBN: 9781350254008
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Dr Robert Blackwood
ISBN: 9781350186637
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Dr Elizabeth Lanza
ISBN: 9781350045804
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Grove
ISBN: 9780864734624
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2015
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
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Contains more than 2,500 pepeha, or sayings of the ancestors, that were gathered and compiled from all over New Zealand over a 20-year period. More than just proverbs, pepeha include charms, witticisms, figures of speech, and boasts, and they are featured in the formal speeches heard every day on the marae and in oral literature.
(Hardback)
By: Dr Philip Seargeant
ISBN: 9781350278851
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Georgia Carr
ISBN: 9781350461079
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Viorica Marian
ISBN: 9780241626023
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Professor Theo van Leeuwen
ISBN: 9781350324893
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Simon Statham
ISBN: 9781350337633
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2026
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A critical linguistic analysis of the campaign for abortion and reproductive rights in Ireland from the imposition of the 8th Amendment in 1983 to the successful campaign to repeal it in 2018.
(Hardback)
By: Yutaka Fujieda
ISBN: 9781793639646
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In this book, Yutaka Fujieda illustrates how multilingual learners extend substantial efforts to tackle academic discourses and navigate their academic identities. This book provides profound insights into the processes and practices of academic literacy socialization in various learning contexts.
(Hardback)
By: Dr Lucia Thesen
ISBN: 9780826487759
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Offers an analysis of student literacy in an academic setting, and how this has changed due to political, economic and social factors. This book uses the theoretical tradition of New Literacy Studies, and applies this to a case study of one university in the changing context of South Africa.
(Paperback, NIPPOD)
By: Dr Lucia Thesen
ISBN: 9781441182609
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2010
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Offers an analysis of student literacy in an academic setting, and how this has changed due to political, economic and social factors. This book probes some of the limitations by looking at the complex interactions taking place between students' diverse language and educational histories, their literacy practices, and institutional discourses.
(Hardback)
By: Alex Baratta
ISBN: 9781350054929
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Explores how British trainee teachers modify their accents to construct an identity considered 'appropriate' for their profession and discusses the impact on their personal identity.
(Hardback)
By: Barbara H. Hudson
ISBN: 9780897895064
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Using the works of African American female writers, this folklinguistic study presents research on the use of language that counters social stereotypes. Topics include language and gender, and the relationship between language and ethnic group, region, and social class.
(Hardback)
By: Pierpaolo Di Carlo
ISBN: 9781498588959
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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African Multilingualisms is the first book dedicated to presenting case studies of small-scale multilingualism in rural Africa. Contributors present extensive new data on sociolinguistic patterns found in these contexts and consider new, more ethnographically sensitive methods for exploring multilingualism of this kind.
(Paperback)
By: Pierpaolo Di Carlo
ISBN: 9781498588973
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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African Multilingualisms is the first book dedicated to presenting case studies of small-scale multilingualism in rural Africa. Contributors present extensive new data on sociolinguistic patterns found in these contexts and consider new, more ethnographically sensitive methods for exploring multilingualism of this kind.
(Hardback)
By: Dr Susan Samata
ISBN: 9781350448636
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Professor Sharon K. Deckert
ISBN: 9781441150233
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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An introduction to key themes and topics in contemporary sociolinguistics. It looks at the study of language and society through the concept of identity. It is suitable for those who study contemporary sociolinguistics, suitable for undergraduates and postgraduates alike.
