 | 1. A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology
This title provides a series of in-depth explorations of key concepts and approaches by some of the scholars whose work constitutes the theoretical and methodological foundations of the contemporary study of language as culture.
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 | 2. African Identities
Kanneh locates Black identity in relation to Africa and discovers how histories connected with the domination, imagination, and interpretation of Africa are constructive of a range of political and theoretic parameters around race.
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 | 3. Archaeology and Language I
Archaeology and Language I is representative of groundbreaking work into two areas which have only recently been correlated: linguistics and archaeology.
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 | 4. Archaeology and Language III
Archaeology and Language III interprets results from archaeological data in terms of language distribution and change, providing the tools for a radical rewriting of the conventional discourse of prehistory.
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 | 5. Authority in Language
This influential and widely used book has been extensively revised and includes a new chapter on linguistic discrimination on the basis of class, race and ethnicity.
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 | 6. Ethnocentrism and the English Dictionary
This unique work challenges the assumption that dictionaries act as objective records of our language, and instead argues that the English dictionary is a fundamentally ethnocentric work.
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 | 7. From Writing To Computers
Warner takes as his central theme the issue of a unifying intellectual principle to connect books and computers. Throughout the approach is based on semiotics but also draws on linguistics, informat- ion science, philosophy and automata studies.
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 | 8. Helene Cixous Rootprints
This first English translation of Cixous' book, Photos de Racine, explores Cixous' development as a writer and intellectual. A must for students and scholars of French feminist theory, gender studies and literary theory.
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 | 9. Language Death
The endangerment and death of minority languages across the world is a matter of widespread concern. A leading commentator on language issues, David Crystal asks the question, 'Why is language death so important?', reviews the reasons for the current crisis, and investigates what is being done to reduce its impact.
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 | 10. Media of Diaspora
Examines how diasporic communities have used new communications media to maintain and develop community ties on a local and transnational level. A unique contribution to the field, taken from a wide range of contexts.
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 | 11. Metaphor and the Dynamics of Knowledge
This book opens up a new route to the study of knowledge dynamics and the sociology of knowledge. The focus is on the role of metaphors as powerful catalysts.
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 | 12. Missing Persons: The Impossibility of Auto/Biography
This book talks about the auto/biography as a flourishing literary genre, written to illuminate the study of the individual and his or her personal circumstances. Missing Persons suggests that the auto/biography is, in fact, based on fictions, both about the person and what is possible to know about any one individual. Featuring particular kinds of auto/biographical writing, such as work on the...
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 | 13. Naming and Reference
Nelson looks at how language relates to the world and more particularly at the referring power of names. The first half of the book details the history of the subject from Locke onwards and is followed by Nelson's own reference theory.
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 | 14. Playing With Time
With a background of a reported decline in literacy standards, the author investigates the relationship between gender and literacy, revealing how families, and women in particular, feel pressurized to be responsible for their children's literacy.
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 | 15. Starting English Teaching
Robert Jeffcoate provides many practical ideas for developing a repertoire of skills. He illustrates his suggestions with detailed examples of classroom practice and with many quotations from pupil's own work.
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 | 16. Talkin that Talk
A highly readable collection of key articles and essays by a leading scholar on African-American language and politics. Smitherman discusses the inter-relationship between African-American language, culture and education.
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 | 17. The Handbook of Language and Gender
A collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that examines the dynamic ways in which women and men develop and manage gendered identities through their talk.
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 | 18. The Newspapers Handbook
The Newspapers Handbook is the first comprehensive guide to the job of the newspaper reporter. It offers advice on a range of different types of newspaper writing, looks at how newspapers cover events and shows how reporting styles can differ in mainstream and non-mainstream newspapers. In this new edition, Richard Keeble explores the theoretical, moral and political dimensions of a journalist's...
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 | 19. Women Language and Linguistics
This book explores the vital part which women have played in preserving a linguistics based on the reality and experience of language; bringing to light a much neglected perspective for those working in linguistics.
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 | 20. Write for Children
This short guide to creative writing for children is based on the author's own successful writing course. Andrew Melrose provides guidance on every aspect of the process of writing for children.
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