Erik Palmer.
edited by Li Wei.
edited by Aneta Pavlenko and Adrian Blackledge.
This text is intended as an introduction to bilingual education. It describes the evolution of bilingual education in the United States with an emphasis on its relationship to educational and civil rights reform. Federal, state, and district policies affecting the implementation of bilingual programs are identified, along with related legal, political, demographic, and economic factors and…
The goal of Language, Space and Power is to richly describe the sociolinguistic and sociocultural life of a dual language classroom in which attention is given to not only the language learning processes at hand but also to how race, ethnicity and gender dynamics interact within the language acquisition process. Much attention has been given to the quantitative research supporting the acad…
Pragmatics is by its nature a cross-disciplinary subject, with its roots in philosophy and linguistics, but reaching out into cognitive science, psychology, sociology and even the study of non-human animal communication. I have done my best to make the book self-contained and self-explanatory, and to present the arguments in a non-technical way. I therefore hope that it will be of interes…