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Towards the Ecology of Human Communication

Towards the Ecology of Human Communication

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In Stance: Sociolinguistic Perspectives edited by Alexandra Jaffe, 53-71. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Jaffe, A. 2009. “Introduction: the Sociolinguistics of Stance”. In Stance: Sociolinguistic Perspectives edited by Alexandra Jaffe, 3-28.
Atheism for Christians: Are There Lessons for the Religious ...

Atheism for Christians: Are There Lessons for the Religious ...

Benjamin T. Jones

Eric Bradner and Alexandra Jaffe, “Ben Carson Apologizes for Comments on Gay People,” CNN, 5 March 2015. 31. See Dynes and Donaldson, Homosexuality and Government, Politics and Prisons. 32. Eric Bradner and Alexandra Jaffe, “ Ben ...
Spelling and Society: The Culture and Politics of ...

Spelling and Society: The Culture and Politics of ...

Mark Sebba

As Alexandra Jaffe puts it (Jaffe 2000: 506), As a linguistic boundary-marking device, orthography both differentiates a code from other codes, and displays the internal coherence and unity (sameness) of that code. In this respect, orthography ...
Ideologies in Action: Language Politics on Corsica

Ideologies in Action: Language Politics on Corsica

Alexandra Jaffe

This book contributes to a growing literature on language ideology, and will be of interest to anthropologists, political scientists and linguists interested in the practical and theoretical dimensions of language contact, minority language ...
Stance: Sociolinguistic Perspectives

Stance: Sociolinguistic Perspectives

Alexandra Jaffe

In The handbook of discourse analysis, ed. Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah Tannen, and Heidi Hamilton, 34–53. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Rauniomaa, Mirka. 2007. Stance markers in spoken Finnish: Minun mielestä and minusta in assessments.
English in Computer-Mediated Communication: Variation, ...

English in Computer-Mediated Communication: Variation, ...

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Gender and genre variation in weblogs. Journal of Sociolinguistics 10(4). 439– 459. Hinrichs, Lars. 2012. How to spell the vernacular: A multivariate study of Jamaican emails and blogs. In Alexandra Jaffe, Jannis Androutsopoulos, Mark Sebba ...
Language Ideological Debates

Language Ideological Debates

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Alexandra Jaffe 1. Introduction In 1989, a translation of a French novel, Knock, into Corsican by the Corsican writer and translator Jean-Joseph Franchi ignited a small but intense debate in Corsican cultural and literary circles. The debate was  ...
Researching Trust and Health

Researching Trust and Health

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Julie Brownlie, Alexandra Greene, Alexandra Howson. Researching Trust and Health Edited by JulieBrownlie, Alexandra Greene and Alexandra Howson New York London First published 2008 by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York,
The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the Gulags: Hope ...

The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the Gulags: Hope ...

Tim Tzouliadis

The victim was Harry Jaffe, the tenor who had once stood next to Thomas Sgovio singing solos in the AngloAmerican Chorus in Moscow. For the others, Jaffe's suicide strengthened their awareness that they had been abandoned to their fate,  ...
Why Bernie Sanders Matters

Why Bernie Sanders Matters

Harry Jaffe

With reporting from inside the campaign and Sanders' inner circle, as well as meticulous research, reporter Harry Jaffe offers an engaging portrait of this outsider candidate.
The King's Best Highway: The Lost History of the Boston Post ...

The King's Best Highway: The Lost History of the Boston Post ...

Eric Jaffe

The Lost History of the Boston Post Road, the Route That Made America Eric Jaffe ... “The name of it may be the Boston Post Road but in Eric Jaffe's hands it becomes more like the Rosetta Stone—away of decoding American history from  ...
Dream City: Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington,

Dream City: Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington,

Harry S. Jaffe

Jaffe and Sherwood have chillingly chronicled the descent of the District of Columbia—congressional hearings, gangland murders, the establishment of home rule and the inside story of Marion Barry’s enigmatic dynasty and disgrace.
Multilingual Classroom Ecologies: Inter-relationships, ...

Multilingual Classroom Ecologies: Inter-relationships, ...

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Talk Around Text: Literacy Practices, Cultural Identity and Authority in a Corsican Bilingual Classroom Alexandra Jaffe Department of Linguistics, California State, Long Beach, USA This paper examines literacy practices in a Corsican bilingual  ...
A Curious Madness: An American Combat Psychiatrist, a ...

A Curious Madness: An American Combat Psychiatrist, a ...

Eric Jaffe

He never thought of leaving her or finding another companion. As a young father Harry Jaffe had short dark hair combed neatly back from the crown. He wore spectacles slightly down on his nose, in front of an intense pair of hooded blue eyes.
The Years with Laura Diaz

The Years with Laura Diaz

Carlos Fuentes

“What did you tell them, Harry Jaffe?77 “Harry Jaffe, rest in peace.” They all went back to Cuernavaca. Laura Diaz—in consternation, agitated, perplexed—went to get her belongings from the little house in Tepoztlan. She also gathered up her ...
What Is the Impact of Tourism?

What Is the Impact of Tourism?

Roman Espejo

Ecotourism Can Harm the Environment Eric Jaffe Eric Jaffe is a science writer. Although it is designed to be an ecologically responsible model of travel, studies show that ecotourism may actually harm the wildlife and natural environments it ...
Annual Editions: Psychology 08/09 (2009 Update)

Annual Editions: Psychology 08/09 (2009 Update)

Karen Duffy

What Was I Thinking?, Eric Jaffe, APS Observer, May 2004 Nobel Laureate and psychologist Daniel Kahneman's remarks at the National Institute of Health are reviewed by Eric Jaffe. Kahneman purposely flawed his talk to demonstrate that ...
Demography: Analysis and Synthesis : a Treatise in ...

Demography: Analysis and Synthesis : a Treatise in ...

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EKERT-JAFFE Olivia, JOSHI Heather, LYNCH Kevin, MOUGIN Remi, and RENDALL Michael, 2002. ... Politica, politiche e demografia, in: Antonio Golini, Alain Monnier, Olivia Ekert-Jaffe, Rudolf Andorka, Jacqueline Hecht, Elisabet Nasman, ...
The Pattern of a Gentleman: A Critical Biography of Arthur ...

The Pattern of a Gentleman: A Critical Biography of Arthur ...

Jacqueline A. Jaffe

A Critical Biography of Arthur Conan Doyle Jacqueline A. Jaffe. THE PATTERN OF A GENTLEMAN: A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Jacqueline Jaffe Submitted to the faculty of the Graduate School in partial fulfillment ...
The Parrots

The Parrots

Alexandra Shulman

Alexandra Shulman. Alexandra Shulman THE PARROTS Acknowledgements Follow Penguin By the same author Can We Still.
A entrega: mensagens de Jesus recebidas por Alexandra Solnado

A entrega: mensagens de Jesus recebidas por Alexandra Solnado

Alexandra Solnado

O primeiro momento deste contacto deu-se quando Alexandra Solnado passou por um momento de grande desespero - a filha estava à beira da morte e não havia nada a fazer, por isso não teve outra alternativa senão confiar ao céu a ...
Engineering Nature: Water, Development, and the Global ...

Engineering Nature: Water, Development, and the Global ...

Jessica B. Teisch

Jacqueline Jaffe, “John Hays Hammond,” in Carruthers, Jameson Raid, 211–26. J. H. Hammond, Autobiography, 1:334, 343; N. H. Hammond, Woman's Part, 11; Macnab, Gold, 58. Jaffe, “John Hays Hammond,” 214. Hall, “The South African ...
Alexandra David-Neel: Explorer at the Roof of the World

Alexandra David-Neel: Explorer at the Roof of the World

Facts On File, Incorporated

Alexandra David-Néel, My Journey to Lhasa. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993, p. 153 . 2. Ibid., p. 154. 3. Ibid. 4. Ibid. 5. Ibid., p. 156. 6. Ibid. 7. Ibid. 8. Ibid. 9. Ibid., p. 159. Chapter 2 10. Quoted in Ruth Middleton, Alexandra David-Néel: Portrait of an ...
Alexandra

Alexandra

Scott O''Dell

Tragedy forces Alexandra Papadimitrios, a member of a family of Florida sponge fishers, out of her traditional role into a new and dangerous course that leads her into all kinds of challenges, including the attentions of a handsome sea ...
Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter

Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter

Patricia Albers

... Yvonne Hagen, Anne Hailey, John Hailey, James Harithas, Robert Harms, Robert Hasterlik, Elga Heinzen, Evans Herman,John Holabird, Sara Holt, Jacqueline Hyde, Ernst Jaffe, Shirley Jaffe, Hollis Jeffcoat, Paul Jenkins, Consuelo Joerns, ...
Leaving Before the Rains Come

Leaving Before the Rains Come

Alexandra Fuller

The sequel to Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight. In her twenties Alexandra Fuller embarked on a new journey, into a long, tempestuous marriage to Charlie Ross, the love of her life.
The Women of Berkshire Hathaway: Lessons from Warren ...

The Women of Berkshire Hathaway: Lessons from Warren ...

Karen Linder

Richard Perez-Pena, “Washington Post Names Publisher.” New York Times, February 8, 2008. Harry Jaffe, “Katharine the Second.” The Washingtonian, August 1, 2008. Richard Perez-Pena, 2008. Harry Jaffe, 2008. David S. Broder, “ Farewell ...
Kissed By

Kissed By

Alexandra Chasin

Alexandra Chasin. Who. Writes. This. Shit?! You're in your first year of college in the North, where you've always lived, and the boy you're in love with tells a room full of people that the music to which he would commit suicide is Pachel- bel's ...
Suspicion

Suspicion

Alexandra Monir

"If Alfred Hitchcock had directed Downton Abbey, the result would have been this book. Alexandra Monir takes us on a gripping, nonstop thrill ride with just the right amount of supernatural and an ending that you definitely won't suspect.
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

Alexandra Fuller

This is her story - of a civil war, of a quixotic battle with nature and loss, and of a family's unbreakable bond with the continent that came to define, scar and heal them.Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award in 2002, Alexandra ...

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