Linguistics: Language and Gender

By Brian W. King

Communities of Practice in Applied Language Research provides an up-to-date and critical introduction to the community of practice framework and how this can be applied to language research. Critiquing and offering alternative suggestions for the ways in which researchers frame research…

Paperback – 2019-06-17 
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By Scott F. Kiesling

Language, Gender, and Sexuality offers a panoramic and accessible introduction to the ways in which linguistic patterns are sensitive to social categories of gender and sexuality, as well as an overview of how speakers use language to create and display gender and sexuality. This book includes…

Paperback – 2019-03-21 
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Routledge Guides to Linguistics

Edited by Roberto A. Valdeón

Delving into the uneasy relationship between English and Spanish in the United States of America, this book approaches specific topics from a variety of perspectives, ranging from the more cultural to the more linguistic. The contributions explore the problems arising in Puerto Rico as a…

Paperback – 2019-01-10
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Edited by Barbara J. Guzzetti, Thomas W. Bean, Judith Dunkerly-Bean

Offering diverse and wide-ranging perspectives on gender, sexualities, and literacies, this volume examines the intersection of these topics from preschool to adulthood. With a focus on current events, race, and the complex role of identity, this text starts with an overview of the current research…

Paperback – 2018-11-19
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Edited by Lawrence Venuti

Originally published in 1992 Rethinking Translation makes the translator’s activity more visible by using critical theory. It examines the selection of the foreign text and the implementation of translation strategies; the reception of the translated text, and the theories of translation offered by…

Hardback – 2018-10-22
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Routledge Library Editions: Translation

By Lance Hewson, Jacky Martin

Originally published in 1991 Redefining Translation looks at the practical results and theory of translation as a key area for all those investigating language and culture. The book addresses the need to consolidate advances in the field of translation and critically evaluate the variety of…

Hardback – 2018-10-22
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Routledge Library Editions: Translation

By Various

The volumes in this set, originally published between 1991 and 1993, draw together research by leading academics in the area of translation, and provide a rigorous examination of related key issues. The volume examines the concepts of translation as social action, socio-cultural translation,…

Hardback – 2018-10-22
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Routledge Library Editions: Translation

By Deborah Cameron, Elizabeth Frazer, Penelope Harvey, M. B. H. Rampton, Kay Richardson

Originally published in 1992. This book discusses the possibilities of developing the research process in social science so that it benefits the subjects as well as the researcher. The authors distinguish between ‘ethical’, ‘advocate’ and ‘empowering’ approaches to the relationship between…

Hardback – 2018-10-03
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Routledge Library Editions: Sociolinguistics

By Andrew Brindle

In this book, Andrew Brindle analyzes a corpus of texts taken from a white supremacist web forum which refer to the subject of homosexuality, drawing conclusions about the discourses of extremism and the dissemination of far-right hate speech online. The website from which Brindle’s corpus is drawn…

Paperback – 2018-08-23
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Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

By Jai Mackenzie

Language, Gender and Parenthood Online explores the digital interactions of parents on the UK-based internet discussion forum Mumsnet Talk, a space dominated by users sharing a common identification as women, parents and mothers. Using a qualitative approach grounded in feminist poststructuralist…

Hardback – 2018-08-07
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Routledge Focus on Language and Social Media

By Bruce M. Rowe, Diane P. Levine

Now in its fifth edition, A Concise Introduction to Linguistics provides students with a detailed introduction to the core concepts of language as it relates to culture. The textbook includes a focus on linguistic anthropology, unpacking the main contributions of linguistics to the study of human…

Paperback – 2018-07-13
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Edited by Carolyn Steedman, Cathy Urwin, Valerie Walkerdine

First published in 1985, this book brings together recent work on women and children from the nineteenth-century to the present. The contributors explore in different ways, and from different points of view, the way in which issues of language have been — and are still — central to the history of…

Paperback – 2018-04-13
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