Sociology

The Curriculum: Theory and Practice, Sixth Edition

By: A.V. Kelly This is the Sixth Edition of a book that has been regularly revised and updated since it was first published in 1977. A.V. Kelly′s now classic work focuses on the philosophical and political dimensions of curriculum, and especially on the implications for schools and societies...
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Robert Hartwell Fiske’s Dictionary of Unendurable English: A Compendium of Mistakes in Grammar, Usage, and Spelling with commentary on lexicographers and linguists

Robert Hartwell Fiske aims to eliminate laxity in language today by way of this witty and engaging reference. Fiske rails against “laxicographers and ding-a-linguists” who, with their misguided thinking, actually promote the dissolution of the English language. He also illustrates why dictionaries don’t always provide the correct meaning...
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Questions and Politeness: Strategies in social interaction

Edited by: Esther N. Goody These essays, by anthropologists and anthropological linguists, draw on material from speech communities in three continents to raise fundamental questions about the ways in which interrogative and politeness forms are used in day-to-day social interaction. The authors suggest that interrogative and politeness forms...
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The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics

Edited By: Kimberly Geeslin This state-of-the-art volume offers a comprehensive, accessible, and uniquely interdisciplinary examination of social factors’ role in second language acquisition (SLA) through different theoretical paradigms, methodological traditions, populations, contexts, and language groups. Top scholars from around the world synthesize current and past work, contextualize the...
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