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A volume of critical and theoretical essays seeking to interpret the current philosophical, aesthetic and literary thinking about African American literature and language. It is designed to accompany debates over the canon of American literature and the issue of cultural diversity.

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Offers students with an overview of the field of institutional discourse, introducing the key theorists including Foucault, Habermas, Weber, Giddens, Althusser and Gramsci, among others. This book covers a range of institutional contexts including the workplace, the media, prison, courtroom and academia.

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Presents an examination and analysis of the relationship between language and society. Beginning with Professor Halliday's work on the users and uses of language, this tenth volume provides a framework for understanding the social meaning of language, and the relation of language to other social phenomena.

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Engages with language policies and positions in relation to the roles and functions these languages adopt. This book examines the 'value' of languages, defined in terms of the power they have in the global marketplace as much as within the complex matrices of the local socio-politics.

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Engages with language policies and positions in relation to the roles and functions these languages adopt. This volume examines the 'value' of languages, defined in terms of the power they have in the global marketplace as much as within the complex matrices of the local socio-politics.

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This book looks at the historic use of foreign language by the U.S. armed forces. A necessary skill in the acquisition of intelligence, language skill emerges from this study as being of concern as well for command, control, communications, and for civil military operations.

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This book looks at the historic use of foreign language by the U.S. armed forces. A necessary skill in the acquisition of intelligence, language skill emerges from this study as being of concern as well for command, control, communications, and for civil military operations.

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Examines the processes by which languages change, from the macroecological perspective of competition and natural selection. This work looks at such themes as: natural selection in language; the actuation question and the invisible hand that drives evolution; multilingualism and language contact; and, language birth and language death.

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Focusses on the relationship between language ideologies and media discourse, together with the methods and techniques required for the analysis of that relationship. This book also places emphasis on television and new-media texts, incorporating and expanding upon theoretical insights into visual communication and multimodal discourse analysis.

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Explores the relationship between language ideologies and media discourse, together with the methods and techniques required for the analysis of this relationship. This book also places emphasis on television and new-media texts, incorporating and expanding upon theoretical insights into visual communication and multimodal discourse analysis.

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Critically analyses press discourse in which the Real Academia Espaola promotes a global vision of the Spanish language.

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Originally published as the author's doctoral thesis (University of Southampton) under the title Language, discourse and ideology: Academia Espaanola and the standardisation of Spanish. 2008.

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Examines the ways in which the media represents language-related issues, but also how the media's use of language is central to the construction of what people think language is, could or ought to be like. This work is a multilingual survey of the construction of language in and by the media.

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Part of the "Advances in Sociolinguistics" series, this work examines the ways in which the media represents language related issues, and also looks at how the media's use of language is central to the construction of what people think language is, could or ought to be like.

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This text attempts to define what language policy is, to what it applies, and how various disciplines such as sociolinguistics and the analysis of the political process help in studying language policy and policy-making. It examines language policy in both Britain and France up to 1995.

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An analysis of the linguistic issues surrounding civic integration and citizenship in nation states across the world. It addresses the need to develop a conceptual and theoretical basis for language testing to enable widespread discussion of this theme and the concomitant linguistic and cultural requirements.

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Presents an analysis of linguistic issues surrounding civic integration and citizenship in nation states across the world. This book addresses the need to develop a fuller conceptual and theoretical basis for language testing to enable widespread discussion of this theme and the concomitant linguistic and cultural requirements.

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How language shapes and is shaped by identity is a key topic within sociolinguistics. An individual's identity is constituted through a variety of different factors, including the social, linguistic, cultural and ethnic contexts. This book looks at these issues against the theoretical background of the sociology of knowledge, and ethnolinguistics.