This collection of twelve essays, some of which have been written specifically for this volume by well-known European and North-American sociolinguists, reflects an increasing ...

'Lectures Against Sociolinguistics' exposes the very serious limitations of sociolinguistics as we know it. Its twelve lectures critically examine the standard sociolinguistic ...

This book is about the use of language in the science classroom. It discusses the evolution of scientific discourse for learning in secondary schools, and examines the form and ...

The core of this study is the contention that semiotics can assist in the search for a language through which our perceptions of a work of art can be shared. Examples include ...