(Paperback)
By: Dr David Malinowski
ISBN: 9781350247116
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Susan Fiksdal
ISBN: 9780893915568
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1990
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This text presents a new model of conversation based on time, in this case referring both to the rhythmic organization of conversation, the tempo, and to the right time or timing. These two notions of time correspond to two major systems governing conversation: the turn taking system and the rapport system.
(Hardback)
By: Sheena Kalayil
ISBN: 9781498580021
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Second-Generation South Asian Britons: Multilingualism, Heritage Languages, and Diasporic Identity offers scholars in the field of sociolinguistics a valuable insight into the discourses of second-generation British South Asians, and their relationship with the heritage languages and cultures.
(Hardback)
By: Eliecer Crespo-Fernndez
ISBN: 9781472596529
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Eliecer Crespo-Fernndez
ISBN: 9781350024267
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Dr Bethan L. Davies
ISBN: 9781441159496
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Pragmatic and sociolinguistic analyses of im/politeness have usually been dependent on context and cultural frames of reference. This title presents a fresh approach to the pragmatic and sociolinguistic study of im/politeness, which explores the concept of 'situatedness'.
(Paperback)
By: Damian J. Rivers
ISBN: 9781474218870
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Anna Odrowaz-Coates
ISBN: 9781498576338
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book examines the soft power of language, its cultural influence, and its empowering and disempowering potential for social positioning. The author uses a critical lens to present original research findings from Poland and Portugal about English as a tool of social stratification and social reproduction.
(Paperback)
By: Kinga Kozminska
ISBN: 9781350331341
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Kinga Kozminska
ISBN: 9781350331303
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Dr Yancheng Yang
ISBN: 9781350509061
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Rob Penhallurick
ISBN: 9780230205819
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This clear and comprehensive guide provides a detailed critical overview of the study of regional dialect in the English language, giving a complete history of work on dialects from the sixteenth century to the present day, from early dialect dictionaries to modern research in geolinguistics, and looking at English dialects across the world.
(Paperback)
By: Rosalie Maggio
ISBN: 9781573560696
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This is an updated and expanded version of Maggio's earlier work. The Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage, also covers numerous words and phrases that were not part of our language five years ago.
(Hardback)
By: Ko-Yin Sung
ISBN: 9781498574792
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This edited collection, with a focus on Chinese as a second or foreign language acquisition, consists of research studies that address one of three emerging themes: information and communication technology (ICT), young learners, and Chinese-character teaching and learning.
(Hardback)
By: Richard M. Swiderski
ISBN: 9780897893268
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Whenever a new language is learned, a new culture is also learned. Swiderski provides instructive examples of language learning situations by describing multilingual events using more than twenty of the world's languages.
(Hardback)
By: Dr James Pfrehm
ISBN: 9781472578358
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Jasmine Spencer
ISBN: 9781793619730
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In Telling Animals, Jasmine Spencer offers a comparative yet personal approach to Dene/Athabaskan stories, both Northern and Southern. It examines the animating effects of animal stories, the transformative power of animacies in Dene stories, and the effects of narrative revitalization through animal grammar.
(Paperback, NIPPOD)
By: Professor David Barton
ISBN: 9781441128898
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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The studies included in the book examine quotidien acts of writing and their significance in a textually-mediated world.
(Hardback)
By: Professor David Barton
ISBN: 9781441108852
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2010
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Includes the studies that examine quotidien acts of writing and their significance in a textually-mediated world. This book discusses examples including writing in areas such as farming, photo-sharing, childcare work and health care. It also brings together two important traditions of this type of study: the Anglophone and Francophone.
(Hardback)
By: Dr Robert Blackwood
ISBN: 9781350272514
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Dr Maida Kosatica
ISBN: 9781350341708
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Gian Marco Farese
ISBN: 9781498579278
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book presents a contrastive analysis of various forms of address used in English and Italian from a cultural semantics perspective. The analysis investigates the different cultural values underlying address practices in English and Italian and emphasizes the risks of miscommunication caused by differences in intercultural interactions.
(Hardback)
By: George V. Zito
ISBN: 9780275946746
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Zito argues that although meanings change with time, at the end of the 20th century we are witnessing not a change in meanings, but the demise of meaning itself.
(Hardback)
By: Roberta Piazza
ISBN: 9781350053502
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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