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Impoliteness In Language - Studies On Its Interplay With Power In Theory And Practice

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 Drawing on a wide range of empirical data, this volume presents a discussion of impoliteness and power in language. It addresses the imbalance that exists between academic interest in politeness phenomena when compared to impoliteness phenomena.
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Style And Social Identities - Alternative Approaches To Linguistic Heterogeneity

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 Why do languages allow us to say 'the same thing' in different ways? One of the answers is that in saying what we want to, we always position ourselves in social space as well, by speaking differently from relevant other social groups. This book explores how variability in language is exploited to perform this social identity work in interaction.
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Talk, Work And Institutional Order - Discourse In Medical, Mediation And Management Settings

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 Taking an interdisciplinary approach to talk and its role in certain workplace practice and relationships, this book consists of 14 contributions that address the thematic focus of how professional knowledge and identities are constituted in discourse, vis-a-vis a given institutional order.
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Ideologies Across Nations - The Construction Of Linguistic Minorities At The United Nations

by Alexandre Duchêne

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 Presents an interpretation of the ideological and discursive processes that emerged out of issues concerning the regulation of minorities within the United Nations. This book reveals the importance of the reproduction of the interests of nation-states within an international organization.
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Courtroom Talk And Neocolonial Control

by Diana Eades

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 Examines the social consequences of courtroom talk through detailed investigation of the cross-examination of three Australian Aboriginal boys in the case against six police officers charged with their abduction. This book also presents a critical sociolinguistic analysis.
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Immigration And Bureaucratic Control - Language Practices In Public Administration

by Eva Codó

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 Drawing on a unique corpus of data gathered in a multilingual immigration office in Spain, this book will be welcomed by students and researchers in the fields of sociolinguistics, language and immigration, institutional talk, and multilingualism.
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Immigration And Bureaucratic Control - Language Practices In Public Administration

by Eva Codó

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 Focuses on how bureaucrats exert multiple forms of control over migrants, and specifically, how they restrict their access to key bureaucratic information. Drawing on a corpus of data gathered in a multilingual immigration office in Spain, this book is also suitable for students in the fields of sociolinguistics, and language and immigration.
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Words, Worlds, And Material Girls - Language, Gender, Globalization

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 Focuses on changes in language and gender in ten different national sites as a result of globalization. This volume includes papers that draw on a variety of sociolinguistic methodologies to consider workplaces, schools, musical stars, and marriages in which 'modern' and 'traditional', 'local' and 'global' identities are constructed and contested.
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Style And Social Identities - Alternative Approaches To Linguistic Heterogeneity

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 One of the answers is that in saying what we want to say, we always position ourselves in social space as well, by speaking differently from relevant other social actors or groups. It shows that variable features cluster together in socially meaningful ways when considered as social (communicative) styles linked to social identities.
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Linguistic Authority, Language Ideology, And Metaphor - The Czech Orthography Wars

by Neil Bermel

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 Focuses on the linguistic history of a nation at the crossroads of Europe. This book explores the way various factors including linguistic theory, cultural authority, political ideology in communist and post-communist era contributed to the formation of two diametrically opposing mindsets about Czech spelling and orthographic reform in general.
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Linguistic Authority, Language Ideology, And Metaphor - The Czech Orthography Wars

by Neil Bermel

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 How does a country find itself 'at war' over spelling? This book focuses on the linguistic history of a nation at the crossroads of Europe. It explores the way various factors contributed in the late twentieth century to the formation of two diametrically opposing mindsets about Czech spelling and orthographic reform in general.
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Diagnosis As Cultural Practice

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 Talks about the doing and experiencing of diagnosis in everyday life. This book demonstrates, through discourse analyses, how the diagnostic process depends on power and accountability as expressed through the talk of those engaged in the diagnostic process. It demonstrates how diagnosis is a communication practice deeply rooted in our culture.
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Diagnosis As Cultural Practice

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 Demonstrates how diagnosis is a communication practice deeply rooted in our culture. The focus is not only on the here and now of the diagnostic interaction, but also on how diagnoses and diagnostic processes change over time. This book is useful as an undergraduate or graduate text for courses offered in various disciplines.
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Troubled Talk - Metaphorical Negotiation In Problem Discourse

by David Green e Irit Kupferberg

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 In this book, Irit Kupferberg and David Green â€" a discourse analyst and a clinical psychologistâ€" host 21 troubled human beings in an attempt to study how these sufferers negotiate their problems in the media, hotline, and cyber talk with professional and lay others.
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Language, Culture And The Dynamics Of Age

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 Explores the role of age in communication under consideration of various age groups (the elderly, middle-aged, teenagers, and children), genres, cultures and languages. This book shows particular importance of the discursive construction of age in the face of challenges of globalization, increased human mobility and intergenerational conflicts.
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The Native Speaker Concept - Ethnographic Investigations Of Native Speaker Effects

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 The volume forges a new look at the "native speaker" by situating him/her in wider sociopolitical contexts.
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Coerced Confessions - The Discourse Of Bilingual Police Interrogations

by Susan Berk-Seligson

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 Presents a discourse analysis of police interrogations involving US Hispanic suspects accused of crimes. This study focuses on interrogations involving suspects whose first language is not English and police officers who have a rudimentary knowledge of Spanish.
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Language Ideological Debates

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 This text presents analyses of historically-situated discursive events during which ideas about language are formed, articulated and authoritatively entextualized.
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Read The Cultural Other - Forms Of Otherness In The Discourses Of Hong Kong'S Decolonization

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 Argues that non-Western discourses cannot be contained in a 'general', 'universal', or 'integrated' model of linguistic communication, but must be understood from a culturally pluralist perspective. Proceeding from this standpoint, this book offers a variety of analyses of China and Hong Kong's discourses on the decolonization of the latter.
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Diglossia And Power - Language Policies And Practice In The 19th Century Habsburg Empire

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 It explores how the struggle for power is reflected in attempts to control language use at different levels of discursive interaction, and how, in a context of intricate and multiple language contact, language became a prominent site for interethnic controversies and conflict.
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Language, Politics, And Social Interaction In An Inuit Community

by Donna Patrick

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 Language, Politics, and Social Interaction in an Inuit Community is a study of indigenous language maintenance in an Arctic Quebec community where four languages - Inuktitut, Cree, French, and English - are spoken.
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At War With Words

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 As we enter a new era of global conflict involving non-state actors, At War with Words offers a provocative perspective on the role of language in the genesis, conduct and consequence of mass violence.
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Race And The Rise Of Standard American

by Thomas Paul Bonfiglio

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 This study examines the effect of race-consciousness upon the pronunciation of American English and upon the ideology of standardization in the 20th century. It shows how the image was constructed of the American West and Midwest as the locus of proper speech and ethnicity.
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Hebrew And Zionism - A Discourse Analytic Cultural Study

by Ron Kuzar

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 This book observes and critiques controversies on the genesis and the character of Israeli Hebrew. Is Hebrew a normal language now? The hegemonic ideology of the revival of Hebrew is shown to have been harmonious with various Zionist streams, as well as with its rival, Canaanism.
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