Unexpected

Constance Russello

• E-book | Engels | Encounters
• Brian Dalton is a confirmed bachelor and a former Olympian in downhill skiing. Tall with short dark hair, blue eyes, and a solid, strong build, he's a... Lees meer

Fighters, Girls and Other Identities

Lian Malai Madsen

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters | nr. 5
• This book examines how young people at a martial arts club in an urban setting participate and interact in a recreational social community. The author... Lees meer

Language, Globalization and the Making of a Tanzanian Beauty Queen

Sabrina Billings

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters | nr. 2
• Through micro-analysis of language use, this book chronicles young women's pathways to becoming a Tanzanian beauty queen, offering an original perspec... Lees meer

Exploring (Im)Mobilities

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters | nr. 23
• The chapters in this volume use ethnographically-based methodologies to address the interconnectedness between forms of mobility and immobility in int... Lees meer

Becoming Diasporically Moroccan

Lauren Wagner

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters | nr. 8
• Questions persist about post-migrant generations and their sense of belonging in one homeland or another. In the setting of Morocco, where trajectorie... Lees meer

Transcultural Voices

Jaspal Naveel Singh

• Paperback | Engels | Encounters | nr. 22
• This book presents the narratives and voices of young, mostly male practitioners of hip hop culture in Delhi, India. Through a combination of linguist... Lees meer

Gender, Neoliberalism and Distinction Through Linguistic Capital

Mark Fifer Seilhamer

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters | nr. 15
• This book presents the narratives of four Taiwanese young women, all proficient in English, set against the background of the dynamics of multilingual... Lees meer

Language Learning, Power, Race and Identity

Liz Johanson Botha

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters | nr. 4
• This book investigates the strategies and identities of colonials who have learned the languages of colonised people, using the context of isiXhosa in... Lees meer

Discourse, Identity, and China's Internal Migration

Dong Jie

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters | nr. 1
• Rural-urban migration has been going on in China since the early 1980s, resulting in complicated sociolinguistic environments. Migrant workers are the... Lees meer

Chronotopic Identity Work

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters | nr. 18
• The concept of chronotopicity is increasingly used in sociolinguistic theorizing as a new way of looking at context and scale in studies of language, ... Lees meer

Texas Heat

Debbi Rawlins

• E-book | Engels | Encounters
• The Wild, Wild West Irrepressible tomboy Dory Richards can change a tire faster than any man, yet when it comes to her love life, she's a lost cause. ... Lees meer

Dislocations/ Relocations

Mike Baynham, Anna de Fina

• Paperback | Engels | Encounters
• The centrality of narrative analysis in the investigation of social processes and practices has become an established fact in the human sciences. The ... Lees meer

The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making

David Parkin

• Paperback | Engels | Encounters | nr. 19
• This book explores verbal and non-verbal communication from a social anthropological viewpoint, drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork in eastern... Lees meer

Making Signs, Translanguaging Ethnographies

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters | nr. 12
• This book is the start of a conversation across Social Semiotics, Translanguaging, Complexity Theory and Sociolinguistics. In its explorations of mean... Lees meer

Aspiring to Be Global

Shuang Gao

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters | nr. 13
• This book makes a novel contribution to the sociolinguistics of globalization by examining language and social change in the tourism destination of We... Lees meer

Ubïq, a Mental Odyssey

Mathieu Briand, Daniel Foucard

• Paperback | Engels | Encounters
• The work of French multimedia artist Mathieu Briand confounds our preconceptions of visual language by drawing on sources outside traditional art prac... Lees meer

Undone

Paula Wiseman

• E-book | Engels | Encounters
• Idols are rarely ever the little statues we imagine. Sometimes they pass themselves off as a genuine, legitimate need—a need to be seen, to be valued,... Lees meer

Multilingualism, (Im)Mobilities and Spaces of Belonging

• Paperback | Engels | Encounters | nr. 17
• The chapters in this volume investigate how diverse forms of (im)mobility and multilingualism are (re-)negotiated in relationship to space, identity a... Lees meer

The Multilingual Citizen

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters | nr. 11
• In this ground-breaking collection of essays, the authors develop a notion of Linguistic Citizenship, highlighting practices whereby vulnerable speake... Lees meer

Linguistic Practice in Changing Conditions

Ben Rampton

• Paperback | Engels | Encounters | nr. 21
• This book draws on 10 years of collaborative sociolinguistic work on the changing conditions of language use. It begins with guiding principles, shift... Lees meer

Discourse, Identity, and China's Internal Migration

Dong Jie

• Paperback | Engels | Encounters | nr. 1
• Migrant workers are crucial to China's fast growing economy, yet little is known about their identities. This ethnographic study of the language use a... Lees meer

Multilingualism, (Im)Mobilities and Spaces of Belonging

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters | nr. 17
• The chapters in this volume investigate how diverse forms of (im)mobility and multilingualism are (re-)negotiated in relationship to space, identity a... Lees meer

The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making

David Parkin

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters | nr. 19
• This book explores verbal and non-verbal communication from a social anthropological viewpoint, drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork in eastern... Lees meer

Embraced

Paula Wiseman

• E-book | Engels | Encounters
• People don't set out to fail. Sometimes failure happens spectacularly with plenty of notorious attention. Other times, it comes quietly, almost with a... Lees meer