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Code-Switching in Conversation
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 64.95Code Switching, the alternating use of two or more languages ation, has become an increasingly topical and important field of research. Now available in paperback, Code-Switching in Conversation brings together contributions from a wide variety of sociolinguistics settings in which the phenomenon is observed. It addresses not only the structure and... more...
Labour Market Policy for Socially Responsible Workforce Adjustment
ILO Publications 2001; US$ 5.00Focuses on the case when labour is displaced permanently as a consequence of structural change. Considers prevention, internal and external adjustment thereto, and urges to anticipate changes in technology and work organization. more...
Protected Mobility for Employment and Decent Work
ILO Publications 2005; US$ 5.00Discusses the implications of employment stability and flexibility for workers security and decent work. Shows the relationship between different industrial relation systems and labour market flexibility, stability and security. Finds that a cluster of OECD countries that might be called "numerically flexible" does in fact demonstrate... more...
Style and Social Identities
De Gruyter 2007; US$ 70.00Why do languages allow us to say 'the same thing' in so many different ways? 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. This volume explores how variability in language is exploited (and maintained) in order to perform... more...
Bilingual Conversation
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1984; US$ 102.00Code-switching and related phenomena have met with linguists? increasing interest over the last decade. However, much of the research has been restricted to the structural (grammatical) properties of the use of two languages in conversation; scholars who have tried to capture the interactive meaning of switching have often failed to go beyond more... more...
Phonologie der Alltagssprache
De Gruyter 1990; US$ 196.00Phonologie Der Alltagssprache: Eine Untersuchung Zur Standard/Dialekt-Variation Am Beispiel Der Konstanzer Stadtsprache more...
Sprachliche Interaktion
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 350.00Proceeding from 22 authors assigned 22 different concepts, the book provides an overview of the essential present-day knowledge on linguistic interaction analysis. The authors selected include not only linguists (Bühler, Benveniste, etc.) but also major sociologists (Weber, Sacks, etc.), cultural theoreticians (e.g. Volosinov), and language philosophers... more...
Handbook of Multilingualism and Multilingual Communication
De Gruyter 2007; US$ 293.00This volume is an up-to-date, concise introduction to bilingualism and multilingualism in schools, in the workplace, and in international institutions in a globalized world. The authors use a problem-solving approach and ask broad questions about bilingualism and multilingualism in society, including the question of language acquisition versus maintenance... more...
Theories and Methods
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 517.00The dimensions of time and space fundamentally cause and shape the variability of all human language. To reduce investigation of this insight to manageable proportions, researchers have traditionally concentrated on the ?deepest? dialects. But it is increasingly apparent that, although most people still speak with a distinct regional coloring, the... more...
The Contextualization of Language
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1992; US$ 188.00This volume suggests a novel treatment of context in the analysis of everyday interaction. On a theoretical level, it advocates a switch of focus from 'context' as a preestablished, monolithic category which constringes co-participants' verbal and nonverbal behaviour, to an active notion of 'contextualization': in order to make oneself understood,... more...









