Main description: The volume offers a number of representative papers on cognitive models that are invoked when people deal with questions of social identity, political and economic manipulation, and more general issues such as the genomic discourse. It demonstrates that the tec…
Good Humor, Bad Taste: A Sociology of the Joke
Review text: " ... Good Humor, Bad Tast is an important book"Elliott Oring in: Journal of American Folklore 2009 "This is an insightful and very clearly espressed study of an important social phenomenon?humor. Besides, it contains, if I may say so without losing cast in Batavia,…
Review text: "This is in many ways a very praiseworthy attempt to redress a gap in descriptions of Irish English."Goodith White in: Multilingua 1/2007.
In her groundbreaking and innovative study, the author takes us on a fascinating journey through some of Madrid's multilingual and multicultural schools and reveals the role played by linguistic practices in the construction of inequality through such processes as what she calls…
Main description: The cipher "1968" evokes a remembrance that has a strong impact on the collective memory, especially through its language. After forty years the time has come for an interim status report, which this collective volume undertakes. It mainly contains linguistic c…
Review text: " ... the collection is a good tool (well organized and printed) to understand the present academic research on this matter, mainly in Europe and especially in the metropolitan areas."Lorenzo Zanasi in: Linguist List 20.1934.
Review text: " ... an outstanding volume addressing an important and timely issue. Along the routes to Power is cogent, thoughtfully constucted, and not only meets high academic standards and levels, but also provides a compelling case for why issues of language and power are im…