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  • Moscow To and Fro
    Glyn Williams
    In the fifth installment of his Travel Diaries series, musician, teacher and historian Glyn Williams draws on his long association with Moscow and some of the adventures living there facilitated.The Baltic States are explored in the first part of the book, Hamburg and Copenhagen in the second before the reader walks the streets of the Russian capital alongside a guide who knows...
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    11,49 €

  • French Revolution in Theory
    Sophie Wahnich / Owen Glyn-Williams
    It is time to re-examine the French Revolution as a political resource. The historiography has so far ignored the question of popular sovereignty and emancipation; instead the Revolution has been vilified as a matrix of totalitarianisms by the liberals and as an ethnocentric phenomenon by postcolonial studies. This book examines why.More so than historians, it is philosophers t...
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    51,30 €

  • Social Theory and Language
    Glyn Williams
    This volume offers a comprehensive treatment of the historical developments underpinning our present understandings of the relationship between language and the social by integrating the study of language with key strands of sociological theory. ...
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    82,32 €

  • French Revolution in Theory
    Sophie Wahnich / Owen Glyn-Williams
    It is time to re-examine the French Revolution as a political resource. The historiography has so far ignored the question of popular sovereignty and emancipation; instead the Revolution has been vilified as a matrix of totalitarianisms by the liberals and as an ethnocentric phenomenon by postcolonial studies. This book examines why. ...
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    162,30 €

  • Social Theory and Language
    Glyn Williams
    This volume offers a comprehensive treatment of the historical developments underpinning our present understandings of the relationship between language and the social by integrating the study of language with key strands of sociological theory. ...
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    267,63 €

  • Sociolinguistics
    Glyn Williams
    Originally published in 1992. This provocative and controversial book calls for a critical analysis of the philosophical assumptions underpinning sociolinguistics. Going back to the philosophical roots of the study of language in society, it argues that they lie in the consensual attitude to society derived from eighteenth and nineteenth-century social thought. The leading figu...
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    41,90 €

  • Sociolinguistics
    Glyn Williams
    Originally published in 1992. This provocative and controversial book calls for a critical analysis of the philosophical assumptions underpinning sociolinguistics. Going back to the philosophical roots of the study of language in society, it argues that they lie in the consensual attitude to society derived from eighteenth and nineteenth-century social thought. The leading figu...
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    132,52 €

  • Language, Hegemony and the European Union
    Glyn Williams / Gruffudd Williams
    This book critically examines the European Union’s 'Unity in Diversity' mantra with regard to language. It uses a theoretical framework based on hegemony both as a system and as a relationship. Operating within sociolinguistics, the book replaces the notion of ideology in poststructuralist thought with that of hegemony. The authors argue that forging unity across language commu...
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    66,03 €

  • Language, Hegemony and the European Union
    Glyn Williams / Gruffudd Williams
    This book critically examines the European Union’s 'Unity in Diversity' mantra with regard to language. It uses a theoretical framework based on hegemony both as a system and as a relationship. Operating within sociolinguistics, the book replaces the notion of ideology in poststructuralist thought with that of hegemony. The authors argue that forging unity across language commu...
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    64,33 €

  • French Discourse Analysis
    Glyn Williams
    In this book, Glyn Williams presents an account of the emergence and development of French Discourse Analysis and the contribution which both sociology and linguistics make to the social construction of meaning. ...
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    103,90 €

  • Geographies of Developing Areas
    Glyn Williams / Katie Willis / Paula Meth
    This is a textbook that introduces students to the geography of developing areas in a novel and challenging way. Rather than presenting the Global South to students as a set of problems (rapid urbanisation, population growth, poverty, etc.) this book focuses on the diversity of life in the South, and looks at the role the South plays in shaping and responding to current global ...
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    176,95 €

  • The Knowledge Economy, Language and Culture
    Glyn Williams
    Together with changes in the nature of modernity, globalisation is restructuring society. The sovereignty of the nation-state is undermined, the structuring of identity is realigned and a sense of individualism (which involves a freedom of choice re institutional alignments) prevails. English emerges as the global lingua franca. At the heart of these developments is the knowled...
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    51,80 €

  • Sustaining Language Diversity in Europe
    Glyn Williams
    Adopting a post-structuralist approach in analyzing the Euromosaic data about European minority language groups, Glyn Williams argues that different states construct minority language groups and speakers in different ways. This leads to an argument about the nature of democracy and how the current changes in governmental discourses accommodate linguistic and cultural diversity....
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    132,87 €

  • Seeing the State
    Glyn Williams / Manoj Srivastava / Stuart Corbridge
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    60,18 €

  • French Discourse Analysis
    Glyn Williams
    In this book, Glyn Williams presents an account of the emergence and development of French Discourse Analysis and the contribution which both sociology and linguistics make to the social construction of meaning. ...
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    267,57 €