The issue of sexist language has been hotly debated within feminist circles since the 1960s. Previous books have tended to regard sexism in language as easy to identify and ...more

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How did women write in the colonial period? Is there a specifically female genre of travel writing?
"Discourses of Difference" unravels the complexities of writings by ...more

Written by leading experts in the field, The Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism and Multilingualism focuses on the methodology of research in this ...more

Presents a unique intergrated approach of discourse analysis. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics Gee presents both a theory of language in use and as a method of ...more

This volume brings together contributions from a wide variety of sociolinguistic settings in which this phenomenon of 'conversational code-switching' is observed...more

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This updated and revised edition of Hamers and Blanc's successful textbook presents state-of-the-art knowledge about languages in contact from individual bilingualism (or ...more

This book offers a new and in-depth analysis of english conditional sentences. In a wide-ranging discussion, Dancygier classifies conditional constructions according to time-...more

An Introduction to Language Policy: Theories and Method is a collection of newly-written chapters that cover the major theories and methods currently employed by ...more

This work examines the linguistic constructions which speakers use to talk about events that occurred in the past and states which held in the past. Laura Michaelis argues ...more