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Bodies and language
Focusing on body conditions associated with breast cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, (type-1) diabetes, epilepsy, partial hearing and autism, this book draws on a range of critical theories to contest collectively assembled notions of ‘abnormality,’ ‘disability’ and ‘impairments’ and ways in which the...
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Language loyalty, continuity and change
This book provides a comprehensive and synoptic view of Joshua A. Fishman's contributions to sociolinguistics. Essays provide readers with the essential understandings of Fishmanian sociolinguistics and his contributions to Yiddish scholarship.It serves as a valuable summary of the sociology of l...
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Language diversity, policy and social justice
Honoring the work of Terrence G. Wiley, this book provides an overview of research on social justice in language diversity and policy. It explores formal and informal learning spaces and language policies from the national to the local levels, seeking to advance scholarship and advocacy for langu...
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Bilingual first language acquisition
This textbook explains how children learn to understand and speak two languages from birth. It brings together both established knowledge and the latest findings about different areas of bilingual language development in a perspective that emphasizes the role of children's language learning envir...
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Talk, text and technology
This is an ethnography of language, learning and literacy in remote Indigenous Australia. It traces one group from the introduction of alphabetic literacy to the arrival of digital literacies. It examines social, cultural and linguistic practices across the generations and addresses the implicati...
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Language decline and death in africa
The aim of this book is to examine the nature and extent of the problem of language decline and death in Africa. It resourcefully traces the main causes and circumstances of language endangerment, the processes and extent of language shift and death, and the consequences of language loss to the c...
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The sociolinguistics of development in africa
This book is an analysis of modernisation informed by the place of language in education, health, the economy and governance in the African context. It paints a wide canvas of Africa in its different facets, and shows how language is used as an instrument to deny access to socioeconomic and polit...
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Language rights and the law in the united states
This book is provides a review of the legal status of minority languages in the US and provides the historical and political context for the legal manoeuvring that culminated in landmark civil rights victories. All cases are discussed in an accessible manner to the non-legal audience. Topics rang...
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Why chimpanzees can't learn language and only humans can
Herbert S. Terrace revisits his 1970s experiment to teach a chimpanzee language, Project Nim, to offer a novel view of the origins of human language. In contrast to both Noam Chomsky and his critics, Terrace contends that words, as much as grammar, are the cornerstones of language.
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School-based interventions for struggling readers, k-8
The volume highlights best practices of literacy instruction for students who have difficulties in reading. From components of effective pedagogy to instruction for specific populations, this text offers an array of expert perspectives on how to engage, scaffold, and prepare students to meet the ...
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Using informative assessments towards effective literacy instruction
Using Informative Assessments towards Effective Literacy Practices offers research driven solutions to improve student literacy success through the exploration of advancements in literacy assessment and instruction. Recommendations are provided on selecting appropriate assessments and effectively...
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Best practices in teaching digital literacies
This edited volume provides a practical framework for teacher education programs to develop K-12 students’ digital literacies. It serves as a set of best practices in teaching digital literacies that promotes access to research-based pedagogies for immediate implementation in their classrooms.
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Transforming learning environments
With the influence and pressures of the globalized economy, education systems are at a crossroads and need to find a place and/or identity that reflect new or transformed realities for learning environments. Questions such as to what extent, in what way, and how are we doing will need to be raise...
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Views from inside
This text helps teachers understand the importance of students' culture, languages, and experiences in curriculum and assessment. It covers 28 countries/cultures, providing demographic data, education insights, language traditions, and practical advice for integrating diversity into classrooms.
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Reading and writing ourselves into being
This text studies literacy through the Osborne Family Papers (1812–1968) at Syracuse University. The collection includes correspondence, ledgers, account books, travelogues, verse, diaries, notes, and children's writing, offering insights into emergent literacy practices of the time.
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Unbecoming blackness
2014 Runner-Up, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural StudiesIn Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio López uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a space of over...
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Les unités prédicatives autonomes averbales
This book takes a fresh look at sentences known as averbal, nominal or verbless. It explains in detail the specific nature of these structures and the various patterns that emerge from them. It is based on quantified analyses of a literary corpus of novels and plays and, to a lesser extent, of co...
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Political activism in the linguistic landscape
This graphic novel looks at political activism in the public landscape with a particular focus on the UK activist group Led By Donkeys. The book is both an innovative approach to the presentation of academic research, and an exploration of how political activism can use the linguistic landscape a...
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Language learning, gender and desire
This book explores Japanese women's desire for English as a means of identity transformation and as access to the West and its masculinity. Drawing on ethnographic data and critical discourse analysis, the book illuminates how such desire impacts upon the linguistic, social, and romantic choices ...
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Hablar español en estados unidos
Este libro ofrece un acercamiento a la sociolingüística, centrándose en el español hablado en los Estados Unidos. Se examina la historia del español en dicho país, la relación de la lengua con las identidades latinxs, y las formas en que las ideologías y las políticas lingüísticas reflejan y cond...
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Directions in applied linguistics
This book explores current issues in Language Education, English for Academic Purposes, Contrastive Discourse Analysis, and Language Policy and Planning, and outline promising directions for theory and practice in applied linguistics. The collection also honours the life-long contribution of Robe...
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How different are we?
This book examines the influence of cultural values and communication styles on intercultural communication and demonstrates how training can develop intercultural communication competencies.
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World english
This text traces the history of English language spread from the 18th to the beginning of the 21st century, combining that with a study of its language change. It links linguistic and sociolinguistic variables that have conditioned the evolution and change of English, putting forward a new framew...
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Urban multilingualism in europe
This book focuses on the increase of urban multilingualism in Europe as a consequence of processes of migration and minorisation. It offers multidisciplinary, crossnational and crosslinguistic perspectives on immigrant minority languages at home and in school in six multicultural cities across Eu...
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Untold autoethnographic stories of (in)justice, teaching and scholarship
The voices in this book raise questions about the relationalities and entanglements of applied linguists in a troubled world. They are the personal stories that are sometimes hidden behind and within more conventional teaching, research and scholarship, however iconoclastic and unconventional the...
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Translating for the community
This book offers rich insights into the practice of community translation. Chapters outline the specific nature and challenges of community translation, quality standards, training and the relationship between community translation as a professional practice and volunteer or crowd-sourced transla...
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Regional nationalism in spain
This book is about linguistic diversity and language revitalisation in Galicia, an autochthonous region of Spain. Taking historical and linguistic perspectives, it examines societal language use and institutional support to determine the role of the Galician language and loyalty and prestige fact...
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Discourse, identity, and china's internal migration
Migrant workers are crucial to China's fast growing economy, yet little is known about their identities. This ethnographic study of the language use and identity construction of the children of internal migrants is innovative both in the context it studies and the scalar structure of discursive i...
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Fighters, girls and other identities
This book examines how youths at a martial arts club in an urban setting participate and interact in a recreational social community. The author relates analyses of their interactions to discussions of relevance to the sociology of sports, anthropology and education, ultimately providing an analy...
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Authenticity, language and interaction in second language contexts
This book addresses issues of authenticity and interaction in second language contexts from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. Contributions focus on authenticity as it relates to patterns of language and meaning, and to agency, identity and culture, and examines authenticity...
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Language teachers studying abroad
This book focuses on the study abroad experiences of pre-service and in-service language teachers and language teacher educators, discussing their psychological experiences in cognitive, affective and social terms.
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Agency in the peripheries of language revitalisation
This book addresses the question of agency in the revitalisation of minoritised languages in Europe. The chapters investigate how grassroots actors shape revitalisation, and how individuals and groups negotiate historical factors, motivations, and institutionalised initiatives and policies in a v...
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Portraits of the l2 user
This book treats second language users in their own right rather than as failed native speakers. It describes a range of psychological and linguistic approaches to diverse topics about L2 users. It thus provides an innovative overview of current second language acquisition theories, results and m...
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The global-local interface and hybridity
This book seeks to bring hybrid language practices to the center of discussions about English as a global language. It reveals how local linguistic resources and practices are involved in the refashioning of identities in a variety of cross-cultural and geographical contexts, and illustrates hybr...
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Language and tourism in postcolonial settings
This book focuses on perspectives from and on the global south, providing fresh data and analyses on languages in African, Caribbean, Middle-Eastern and Asian tourism contexts. It provides a critical perspective on tourism in postcolonial and neocolonial settings, explored through in-depth case s...
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Aspiring to be global
This book makes a novel contribution to the sociolinguistics of globalization by examining language and social change in the tourism destination of West Street, Yangshuo, China. It explores the contingencies and tensions in the creation of a ‘global village’ and reveals ambivalent struggles inher...
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Study abroad, second language acquisition and interculturality
This book unites studies on second language acquisition and interculturality in a study abroad context, providing timely perspectives on research in each area while also exploring the interface between them. Chapters highlight innovative themes such as social networks, input matters, learner iden...
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A beginner's guide to language and gender
In this revised and updated 2nd edition of her pioneering textbook, Allyson Jule offers fresh insight into the study of language and gender for those new to the subject. Students will gain a thorough grounding in theoretical and practical perspectives on gender and language in the workplace, medi...
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Can threatened languages be saved?
This book provides both practical case studies and theoretical directions from five continents and advances the collective pursuit of "reversing language shift" for the greater benefit of cultural democracy everywhere.
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Languages we live by
This book guides the reader through the use of powerful creative tools to explore personal language family trees, language self-portraits, and autobiographical narratives as a means to explore the connections of speaker repertoires, identities and sociolinguistic justice.
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Learning pragmatics from native and nonnative language teachers
This book focuses on how both nonnative and native teachers may enhance their handling of target language pragmatics in the classroom and provides ideas that both sets of teachers may draw on to compensate for gaps in their knowledge. Focus is also given to learner strategies and motivation, tech...
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Language teaching and the older adult
This book focuses on issues regarding the learning of a foreign language in older adults (aged 60 and over). It details a multidisciplinary study on Japanese older learners of Spanish and discusses the influence of learning experiences on vocabulary learning strategy use. It also proposes concret...
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Developing intercultural competence in practice
This book provides practical help for teachers who wish to help their learners acquire intercultural competence in the ordinary classroom. It contains descriptions of lessons and materials from a wide range of classrooms in several countries and for beginners to advanced learners.
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Languages in america
This book is a response to the debate centring on the languages which immigrants bring with them and presents an argument for language diversity in the US. It tackles common misconceptions about second-language learning, reveals the nativist roots of the official-English movement and describes ho...
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Rethinking second language learning
This book evaluates a project where formal classroom learning of a second language was supplemented with informal, natural interactions with older native speakers of the target language, delivering a number of pedagogical and societal benefits. It introduces a model of language learning for stude...
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The acquisition of sociolinguistic competence in a lingua franca context
This book provides the first examination of sociolinguistic competence and the acquisition of native-like variability in an English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) context and presents data from email exchanges between Swiss speakers (with German, French and Italian mother tongues).
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Foundational concepts of decolonial and southern epistemologies
This book brings together 11 prominent scholars and political activists to discuss and explore issues around postcolonialism, decoloniality, Theories of the South and Epistemologies of the South. These wide-ranging discussions touch upon issues from academic research methods and writing conventio...
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International students' challenges, strategies and future vision
This book is one of the few empirical studies to capture an in-depth understanding of the study abroad experiences of newly-arrived international students in higher education. It closely examines their changing learning goals, underlying motivations and strategy uses during both short and long ac...
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Critical conversation analysis
This book presents the first collection of conversation analytic studies addressed exclusively to issues of inequality and injustice. The chapters produce a forensic analysis of how participants enact discriminatory ideologies, negotiate systemic power imbalances, and pursue social change in and ...
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Global issues in language, education and development
This book examines the role that language-in-education policy, historically, has played in shaping possibilities for development, within countries in the Sub-Saharan and South Asian regions. This discussion takes account also of the complex ways in which language, education and development, are l...
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Focus on french as a foreign language
This book offers sharp new insights into the acquisition and use of French as a foreign language. The authors are specialists in their particular theoretical paradigms and focus on morphology, morpho-syntax, syntax, discourse, as well as fluency in the French interlanguage from beginners to advan...
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The sociopolitics of english language teaching
This book explores the issues of the sociopolitical dimensions of English language teaching and how they are central to the English language professional. It presents these issues to practicing and aspiring teachers in order to raise awareness of the sociopolitical nature of English language teac...
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Language planning and policy in asia, vol.1
This volume covers the language situation in Japan, Nepal and Taiwan explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation – including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion, and the roles of non-indigeno...
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Audible difference
This book is about the relationship between learning English as an additional language and the ways in which immigrant students are able to represent their identities at school. In high schools, how such students are heard by others may be just as important as how they speak.
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Globally speaking
The volume examines the motives for lexical borrowing from English during the last century, the processes involved in the penetration of English vocabulary into new environments, and the extent of its integration into twelve languages representing several language families. Many of these absorbin...
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Language ideology, policy and planning in peru
This book explores the role that the High Academy of the Quechua Language plays in language policy and planning, and revitalization efforts for Quechua in the Andean region. This book would appeal to researchers of the Quechua language, and those studying Indigenous language policy and planning, ...
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Gender, neoliberalism and distinction through linguistic capital
This book presents the narratives of four Taiwanese young women, all proficient in English, set against the background of the dynamics of multilingualism in Taiwan. It chronicles their strategies and struggles when utilizing cultural goods – in this case their linguistic resources – to differenti...
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Essays in linguistic ethnography
This book argues for an approach to linguistic ethnography which departs from the perspective of the academic researcher, to amplify instead the voices of participants, researchers and collaborators. It reflects on ways of reporting research which add multiple perspectives and represent ambiguity...
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Language and ethnicity in minority sociolinguistic perspective
This book brings together a selection of Professor Fishman's writings on language and ethnicity in minority perspective. Joshua Fishman's well-known dedication to worldwide cultural democracy and cultural pluralism shines through all of these selections and unifies them philosophically as well as...
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Second language literacy pedagogy
This book provides a detailed design of a new second language literacy pedagogy and the results of implementing it in different contexts so as to address literacy development challenges. The author explains the theory behind Vygotskian Sociocultural Theory of Mind and Systemic Functional Linguist...
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The public pedagogy of the master narrative
Through a wide range of interviews with experts in areas ranging from US states generally perceived as being progressive to countries including Finland, Algeria and Japan, the author explores how a centuries-long battle for control of the narrative around race and language continues to be fought ...
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Language in jewish society
This book argues that language in Jewish societies can be understood as following from certain specific principles. It discusses the revival of Hebrew, Hebrew in the Diaspora, the survival and ‘sanctification’ of Yiddish, the idea of ‘Jewish languages’, and the role of sociolinguistic phenomena i...
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Rethinking the education of multilingual learners
Over the past 40 years, Jim Cummins has originated theories which have had a profound effect on the education of multilingual learners across the world. In this book he traces the development of these theories, and addresses the critiques they have received and their subsequent impact on his thin...
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Redoing linguistic worlds
This book explores the undoing of gender binaries in non-Anglophone communities and contexts, through their connected linguistic and social unscripting. This is an important step in scholarship in language and gender, one that will inform a public increasingly aware of these remakings, both withi...
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The other languages of europe
The book offers demographic, sociolinguistic and educational perspectives on the status of both regional and immigrant languages in Europe and in a wider international context. From a cross-national point of view, empirical evidence on the status of these other languages of multicultural Europe i...
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Language, culture and identity in two chinese community schools
This book investigates the social, political and educational role of community language education in migratory contexts. It draws on an ethnographic study that investigates the significance of Mandarin-Chinese community schooling in Britain as an intercultural space for those involved.
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Names and naming
This book explores international trends in naming and contributes to the growing field of critical onomastic enquiry. The contributors to this publication examine why names are not only symbols of a person or place, but also manifestations of cultural, linguistic and social heritage in their own ...
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The linguistic landscape of post-apartheid south africa
This book analyses a range of discourses which signal how and by what processes the linguistic landscape and identities of South Africa’s inhabitants have changed since the African National Congress (ANC) came to power in 1994, and where the discourse practices of those born post-1994 may lead.
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Multilingualism in spain
This book deals with the sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic aspects of established and new migrant minority groups in Spain. It discusses the three guiding analytical research approaches which cut across minorities in Spain: language, migration and discrimination.
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Spelling trouble? language, ideology and the reform of german orthography
Spelling Trouble? explores the linguistic, cultural and political issues underpinning the public disputes surrounding the 1996 reform of German orthography. Sally Johnson’s book will be of interest to speakers and students of German as well as sociolinguists with an interest in language politics,...
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Voices in translation
This volume explores dialect translation and the problems facing the translator in bridging cultural divides. The book begins by discussing how to make a wide range of European voices “sing” in translation, then goes on to illustrate the different solutions employed in conveying the foreign conce...
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Medical discourse in professional, academic and popular settings
This volume investigates the features and challenges of medical discourse between medical professionals as well as with patients and in the media. By combining sociological and linguistic research, this book illustrates how linguists and translation specialists can build bridges between medical p...
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European vernacular literacy
In this major new text, Joshua Fishman charts the rise of vernacular literacy in Europe, and the major social and economic changes that attended it. The book looks at how European colonizers viewed vernacular literacy efforts in their current and former colonies, and how technology affects vernac...
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Language and culture
The book presents a new theory of the relationship between language and culture in a transnational and global perspective. The view is that languages spread across cultures, and cultures spread across languages, or in other words, that linguistic and cultural practices flow through social network...
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Becoming diasporically moroccan
Questions persist about post-migrant generations and their sense of belonging in one homeland or another. In the setting of Morocco, where trajectories to and from Europe have colored several centuries of history, this book provides a framework to explore how migration and return become incorpora...
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Decolonial voices, language and race
This groundbreaking book echoes the growing demand for decolonization of the production and dissemination of academic knowledge. Reflecting the dynamic nature of online discussion, this conversational book features interviews with scholars working on language and race and the interactive discussi...
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Shades of decolonial voices in linguistics
This book argues that Linguistics has been shaped by colonization. It outlines how linguistic practices may be decolonized and the challenges which this poses to linguists. It concludes that decolonization in Linguistics is a process with no definite end point and cannot be completely successful ...
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English language as hydra
This book argues that the English language industry has become a swirling, beguiling monster, unashamedly intent on challenging local lingua-diversity and threatening individual identities. It brings together linguists, literary figures and teaching professionals in a wide-ranging exposé of this ...
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Indigenous language education in critical times
This book builds a space in which a diversity of voices – Indigenous teachers, activists and committed academics – are foregrounded in the processes of Indigenous education and language reclamation. It decenters state systems of education, thereby emphasizing diverse processes of language reclama...
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Learning the arts of linguistic survival
This book examines what happens when tourists learn to speak other languages. From ordering a coffee to following directions the author argues for a new perception of the relationship between tourism and languages from one based on the acquisition of basic, functional skills to one which sustains...
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