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Paul Baker Explores the complex role that language plays in the construction of sexuality and gender, two concepts that are often discussed separately, although in practice are closely intertwined. This book draws... Delivery: To home, business or free to our stores. Click for more info. | | | |  Available through Foyles Online Marketplace only | Currently out of stock | Click & Collect:Order now to collect from 2pm today. In stock items only. Click for more info. | | | | Currently out of stock in all stores. | Stores - out of stock | New & Used:Our marketplace sellers will deliver to your chosen address. Click for more info. | From | £8.52 | |  In stock at one or more sellers. | Buy - Select Seller |
| Aleksandra Nikcevic-Batricevic; ... Suggests the scope and spirit of our culture and times. This book includes essays which are divided under two headings: Translation and Language, five on each area. It examines some... |
Faingold, Eduardo D.; Faingold,... | Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth; Selting,... These essays study the role of prosody in everyday English, German, and Italian conversation. |
| Glenn Dixon A work about language, about the words that splash and chatter across our tongues. |
Robert McCrum Including information about English language, culture, history and power, this title traces the way that the English language as twisted and turned in response to the way the world has... | Steven Pinker Why do so many swear words involve topics like sex, bodily functions or the divine? Why do some children's names thrive while others fall out of favour? Why do we... |
| Daniel Everett Like other tools, language was invented, can be reinvented or lost, and shows significant variation across cultures. It's as essential to survival as fire - and, like fire, is found... |
Bruce Moore At last the real stories behind some of Australia's unique and best-loved words are now ready to be told. A companion volume to Bruce Moore's highly-successful Speaking Our Language... | |
| Janet Muller In a unique contribution to understanding the interaction of language policy and planning in modern conflict resolution, Janet Muller provides an insider account of the search for improved status for... |
Rosa Maria Jimenez Catalan A collection of empirical studies on gender and the acquisition, development, meaning and use of vocabulary by female and male adult, adolescent, and young learners of English and Spanish as... | Nancy H. Hornberger; Richard Hill;... This volume offers a close look at four cases of indigenous language revitalization: MA ori in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Sami in Scandinavia, Hnahno in Mexico and Quechua and other indigenous languages... |