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"Approaches to Discourse Analysis lends insights into micro-linguistic strategies, multimodality, meaning making, relationship and identity negotiation, ideological constructions, cultural practices, and our social worlds. The approaches employed in the eleven chapters are qualitative and quantitative; involve categorizing tokens and turn-by-turn analysis; use a range of transcription conventions; analyze speech, embodied communication, and online texts and images; differently rely on ethnographic and participants' own interpretive insights; and differ in myriad other subtle and not-so-subtle ways. The chapters analyze discourse in multiple languages, across multiple contexts, and in multiple modes. Collectively, they highlight the diversity and complexity of the field in terms of methods of data collection, topical foci, and analytic procedures, while emphasizing a unified goal of understanding communication as fundamentally connected to human agency and creativity, as co-constructed, and as embedded in and constitutive of our social and cultural worlds. Approaches to Discourse Analysis demonstrates the importance of the diverse perspectives that various approaches to discourse bring to bear on human communication, while also providing readers a window to the branches of our discipline, and how they diverge, intertwine, and blossom"--

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People in many African communities live within a series of concentric circles when it comes to language. In a small group, a speaker uses an often unwritten and endangered mother tongue that is rarely used in school. A national indigenous language-written, widespread, sometimes used in school-surrounds it. An international language like French or English, a vestige of colonialism, carries prestige, is used in higher education, and promises mobility-and yet it will not be well known by its users. The essays in Languages in Africa explore the layers of African multilingualism as they affect lang

African languages --- Language policy --- Native language and education --- Multilingualism --- Glottopolitics --- Institutional linguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and state --- Languages, National --- Languages, Official --- National languages --- Official languages --- State and language --- Communication policy --- Language planning --- Native language --- Education --- Language and education --- Plurilingualism --- Polyglottism --- Social aspects --- Government policy --- Use in schools --- Language policy. --- Multilingualism. --- Native language and education. --- Social aspects. --- Africa.

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Didactics of languages --- Education, Bilingual --- Bilingualism --- Dialectology --- Language and languages --- Study and teaching --- -Bilingualism --- -Dialectology --- -Language and languages --- -Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Dialects --- Languages in contact --- Multilingualism --- Bilingual education --- Multilingual education --- Congresses --- -Congresses --- Education, Bilingual - Congresses --- Bilingualism - Congresses --- Dialectology - Congresses --- Language and languages - Study and teaching - Congresses

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Presenting cutting-edge research in syntax and semantics, this important volume furthers theoretical claims in generative linguistics and represents a significant addition to present scholarship in the field. Leading scholars present crosslinguistic studies dealing with clausal architecture, negation, and tense and aspect, and the issue of whether a statistical model can by itself capture the richness of human linguistic abilities. Taken together, these contributions elegantly show how theoretical tools can propel our understanding of language beyond pretheoretical descriptions, especially whe

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Semantics --- Clauses --- Negatives --- Tense --- Syntax --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Language and languages --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Clauses - Congresses. --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Negatives - Congresses. --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Tense - Congresses. --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax - Congresses. - Semantics - Congresses. --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Semantics