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Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism
This book examines the ways in which our ideas about language and identity which used to be framed in national and political terms as a matter of rights and citizenship are increasingly recast in economic terms as a matter of added value. It argues that this discursive shift is connected to...
Published June 6th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistics
This book comprises the first complete treatment of the Irish language in social context throughout the whole of Ireland, with a particular focus on contemporary society. The possibilities and limitations of the craft of language planning for the revival of the Irish language are outlined and the...
Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
This book presents an alternative paradigm in understanding and appreciating World Englishes (WEs) in the wake of globalization and its accompanying shifting priorities in many dimensions of modern life, including the emergence of the English language as the dominant lingua franca (ELF). Chew...
Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
In this book, contributors have been brought together to discuss the role of two major factors shaping the grammars of different varieties of English (and of other languages) all over the world: so-called vernacular universals and contact-induced change. Rather than assuming a general typological...
Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
This book examines everyday stories of personal experience that are published online in contemporary forms of social media. Taking examples from discussion boards, blogs, social network sites, microblogging sites, wikis, collaborative and participatory storytelling projects, Ruth Page explores how...
Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Linguistics
This book examines the way in which a group of key Spanish and Latin American intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries discussed the concept of the Spanish language. The contributors analyse the ways in which these discussions related to the construction of national identities and...
Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in the Early History of Asia
The study of the prehistory of East Asia is developing very rapidly. In uncovering the story of the flows of human migration that constituted the peopling of East Asia there exists widespread debate about the nature of evidence and the tools for correlating results from different disciplines....
Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Studies in Philosophy
Plass argues that Adorno’s essays on literature are of prime importance for an understanding of his aesthetics because they challenge the conceptual limitations of philosophical discourse....
Published May 7th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare
This collection of essays examines the interrelations between illness, disability, health, society, and culture. The contributors examine how "narratives" have emerged and been utilized within these areas to help those who have experienced d injury, disability, dementia, pain, grief, or...
Published July 28th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
Until a century ago, a metaphor was just a mere figure of speech, but since the development of discourse analysis a metaphor has become more than merely incidental to the content of the arguments or findings. Students and scholars in political studies know the importance of metaphors in electoral...
Published February 1st 2011 by Routledge
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