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Contextos
Curso Intermediario de Portugues
2019 || Paperback || Denise PhD Santos e.a. || Taylor & Francis
Contextos: Curso Intermediário de Português is an engaging and motivating course that takes learners from the intermediate to advanced level. The course takes learners from the intermediate-low to advanced-low according to the ACTFL proficiency guidelines and from A2 to B2 according to the CEFR.
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Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method
2021 || Paperback || Marianne W. Jorgensen e.a. || SAGE
Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method offers the first systematic introduction to discourse analysis as a body of theories and methods for social research.
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Disappearing Public Spheres
Paperback || Parvez Alam || Eva Tas Foundation
'State of Nature' and 'State of exception' have become the only two options for the people of Bangladesh recently, where writers, bloggers and publishers are getting killed by Al-Qaeda affiliates and persecuted by the Government. Empowerment of polarizations such as 'secular' verses 'Islamists' have also empowered the ruling regime and Islamist extremist groups. Severe censorship on all kind of media has suffocated freedom of expression. New public spheres that had emerged in the internet era...
Clear English Pronunciation
A Practical Guide
2019 || Paperback || Dick Smakman || Taylor & Francis
A concise and accessible introduction to key issues in pronunciation for students studying English pronunciation Incorporates a range of pedagogical features such as articulatory explanations and sample sentences as well as a companion website with recordings so students can practice their pronunciation which makes it an ideal textbook for students coming to this topic for the first time. The only book to not follow a pronunciation model and instead focuses on working with the accent of learn...
Language Planning and Social Change
1990 || Paperback || Robert L. Cooper || Cambridge University Press
This book describes the ways in which politicians, church leaders, generals, leaders of national movements and others try to influence our use of language. Professor Cooper argues that language planning is never attempted for its own sake. Rather it is carried out for the attainment of nonlinguistic ends such as national integration, political control, economic development, the pacification of minority groups, and mass mobilization.
Many examples are discussed, including the revival of Hebrew...
Little, Brown Handbook, The, Global Edition
2023 || Paperback || H. Fowler e.a. || Pearson
For courses in English Composition. The platinum standard of handbooks - unmatched in accuracy, currency, and reliability The Little, Brown Handbook is an essential reference tool designed to help readers find the answers they need quickly and easily. While keeping pace with rapid changes in writing and its teaching, this meticulous handbook combines comprehensive research and documentation with grammar coverage that is second to none.
Incorporating detailed discussions of critical reading, m...
Introducing Sociolinguistics / 3rd edition
2018 || Paperback || Miriam Meyerhoff || Taylor & Francis
This third edition of Miriam Meyerhoff's highly successful textbook provides a solid, up-to-date appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of the field and covers foundation issues, recent advances and current debates. It presents familiar or classic data in new ways, and supplements the familiar with fresh examples from a wide range of languages and social settings. It clearly explains the patterns and systems that underlie language variation in use, as well as the ways in which alternati...
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Representing Reality
Discourse, Rhetoric and Social Construction
Paperback || Jonathan Potter || SAGE
How is reality manufactured? The idea of social construction has become a commonplace of much social research, yet precisely what is constructed, and how, and even what constructionism means, is often unclear or taken for granted. This work offers a tour of the central themes raised by these questions.
Everyday English, 1500-1700
A Reader
1998 || Paperback || Bridget Cusack || Edinburgh University Press
This collection of text extracts provides an invaluable resource for working directly with non-literary informal English of the Early Modern period. The book is organised into eight thematic sections: private diaries; personal daybooks and accounts; autobiographical material; letters; personal documents (wills and contracts); official documents by naive writers; records of spoken evidence given in court; and records of speech forming the basis of Court cases. Texts are arranged by type and ea...
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Analysing Politics and Protest in Digital Popular Culture
A Multimodal Introduction
Paperback || Lyndon Way || SAGE
Supporting you with varied pedagogy throughout, this engaging new book provides a foundational understanding of politics and protest before focusing on step-by-step instructions for carrying out analysis on your own. It includes up to date cases, such as analysis of memes about Brexit, Trump and even coronavirus, that cater for this quickly moving field.