Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books

Orthography as Social Action: Scripts, Spelling, Identity and Power

Alexandra Jaffe, Jannis Androutsopoulos, Mark Sebba, Sally Johnson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2012 - 402 pages
The chapters in this edited volume explore the sociolinguistic implications of orthographic and scriptural practices in a diverse range of communicative contexts, ranging from ...
Limited preview - About this book

The Syntax of Serial Verbs: An Investigation Into Serialisation in Sranan ...

Mark Sebba - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1987 - 242 pages
This monograph is about the chains of verbs commonly found in Creole Languages, West African languages, in particular the Kwa sub-group of Niger-Congo, Chinese and certain ...
Limited preview - About this book

London Jamaican: Language System in Interaction

Mark Sebba - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2014 - 176 pages
London Jamaican provides the reader with a new perspective on African descent in London. Based on research carried out in the early 1980s, the author examines the linguistic ...
Limited preview - About this book

Language Mixing and Code-Switching in Writing: Approaches to Mixed-Language ...

Mark Sebba, Shahrzad Mahootian, Carla Jonsson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2012 - 300 pages
"Code-switching," or the alternation of languages by bilinguals, has attracted an enormous amount of attention from researchers. However, most research has focused on spoken ...
Limited preview - About this book

Ways with Words: Language, Life and Work in Communities and Classrooms

Shirley Brice Heath - Education - 1983 - 458 pages
This book, first published in 1983, traces language patterns and cultural differences between 'Roadville' and 'Tracton'.
Limited preview - About this book

Responsibility and Evidence in Oral Discourse

Jane H. Hill - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 332 pages
In Responsibility and evidence in oral discourse twelve prominent linguists and linguistic anthropologists examine 'responsibility', 'authority', and 'knowledge': central, but ...
Limited preview - About this book

Language Socialization Across Cultures

Bambi B. Schieffelin, Elinor Ochs - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1986 - 292 pages
A new, alternative, integrated approach to the developmental study of language and culture.
Limited preview - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search