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Language Policy and Language Planning: From Nationalism to Globalisation

This revised second edition is a comprehensive overview of why we speak the languages that we do. It covers language learning imposed by political and economic agendas as well as language choices entered into willingly for reasons of social mobility, economic advantage and group identity.

By Sue Wright

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Hardcover:

9780230302600 | 2 new edition (Palgrave Macmillan, January 28, 2016), cover price $110.00

9780333986417 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 18, 2004, cover price $135.00

Paperback:

9780230302617 | 2 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, January 28, 2016), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: This revised second edition is a comprehensive overview of why we speak the languages that we do.

9780333986424 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 18, 2004, cover price $46.00

The Handbook of International Loan Documentation

By Sue Wright

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Paperback:

9781137467584 | 2 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, January 1, 2015), cover price $54.99

Letters from Nat

Product Description: In 1945, Nat Wright boarded a bus to Parris Island. He was perhaps the most miniscule inductee the Corps had ever seen. He had never been further west of his suburban D.C. home than Glen Echo Amusement Park. Like so many 18-year-olds in the 1940s, he wanted to be a U...read more

By Sue Wright (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781434986771 | Rosedog Pr, June 20, 2012, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: In 1945, Nat Wright boarded a bus to Parris Island.

Sprachwahl in Europaischen Unternehmen: Language Choice in European Companies = Choix Linguistiques Dans Les Entreprises En Europe

By Sue Wright (editor)

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Miscellaneous:

9783484605879 | 1 mul edition (De Gruyter, December 17, 2009), cover price $119.00

International Loan Documentation

Product Description: A detailed study of the terms of international loan documentation with comprehensive explanations of the purpose of the provisions and of areas which may require negotiation and with an emphasis on the wording of the Loan Market Association documents...read more

By Sue Wright

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Hardcover:

9781403942791 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 21, 2005, cover price $335.00 | About this edition: A detailed study of the terms of international loan documentation with comprehensive explanations of the purpose of the provisions and of areas which may require negotiation and with an emphasis on the wording of the Loan Market Association documents.

Blind Man's Bluff

Scottie must wear a bandage after he hurts his eye and becomes unexpected friends with Davey, a boy whom he had avoided earlier because he was of a different race.

By Sue Wright

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Paperback:

9780439758307 | Scholastic, July 1, 2005, cover price $3.50 | About this edition: Scottie must wear a bandage after he hurts his eye and becomes unexpected friends with Davey, a boy whom he had avoided earlier because he was of a different race.

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9780439698320 | Scholastic, February 1, 2005, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Scottie must wear a bandage after he hurts his eye and becomes unexpected friends with Davey, a boy whom he had avoided earlier because he was of a different race.

The Kite

Davey makes friends with the new boy at school, Teddy, who has a bad attitude towards Goliath after he accidentally ruins the boys' kite, but Teddy may learn to forgive after he himself messes up.

By Sue Wright

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9780439758291 | Scholastic, July 1, 2005, cover price $3.50 | About this edition: Davey makes friends with the new boy at school, Teddy, who has a bad attitude towards Goliath after he accidentally ruins the boys' kite, but Teddy may learn to forgive after he himself messes up.

School and Library:

9780439698313 | Scholastic, February 1, 2005, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Davey makes friends with the new boy at school, Teddy, who has a bad attitude towards Goliath after he accidentally ruins the boys' kite, but Teddy may learn to forgive after he himself messes up.

French-An Accomodating Language?: Le Francais-Langue D'Accueil?

Product Description: The noted linguist Henriette Walter is a well known media figure in France, who has used her extensive range of scholarly work to take a stance in the current debate on the French language and to debunk the idea that the language is under threat...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Sue Wright (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781853595042 | Multilingual Matters Ltd, December 1, 2000, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: The noted linguist Henriette Walter is a well known media figure in France, who has used her extensive range of scholarly work to take a stance in the current debate on the French language and to debunk the idea that the language is under threat.

Community and Communication: The Role of Language in Nation State Building and European Integration

Product Description: This book considers the issue of language in the European Union. Without a community of communication, the EU must remain a trading association run in an autocratic way by bilingual patrician technocrats; with a community of communication, the European Union could develop democratic structures and legitimacy and give meaning to its policies of free movement...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Sue Wright

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Hardcover:

9781853594854 | Multilingual Matters Ltd, March 1, 2000, cover price $109.95

Paperback:

9781853594847 | Multilingual Matters Ltd, July 1, 2000, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: This book considers the issue of language in the European Union.

Whose Europe?: The Turns Towards Democracy

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By Dennis Smith (editor) and Sue Wright (editor)

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Paperback:

9780631219187 | Blackwell Pub, February 28, 2000, cover price $51.95

Language, Politics, and Society: The New Languages Department : Festschrift in Honour of Professor D.E. Ager

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By Linda Hantrais (editor), Jolyon Howorth (editor) and Sue Wright (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781853594878 | Multilingual Matters Ltd, March 1, 2000, cover price $79.95

Language Policy and Language Issues in the Successor States of the Former USSR

Product Description: This book looks at the question of language rights: the rights of minorities to remain monolingual if they so wish and the rights of governments to promote the language of the majority as the language of the state. The central question is once again the thorny problem of whether linguistic rights are fundamental human rights, and therefore inalienable and individual, or whether they are group rights, since communication necessarily involves more than one individual...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Sue Wright (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781853594632 | Multilingual Matters Ltd, October 1, 1999, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: This book looks at the question of language rights: the rights of minorities to remain monolingual if they so wish and the rights of governments to promote the language of the majority as the language of the state.

Language, Democracy, and Devolution in Catalonia

By Sue Wright (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781853594458 | Multilingual Matters Ltd, February 1, 1999, cover price $69.95

The Christmas Path: A Legend of the Luminarias

Explains the tradition of luminarias, small lanterns placed along sidewalks during the Christmas season, by imagining that the first luminarias lit the way to the baby Jesus, in a story accompanied by a twinkling creche scene.

By David Wenzel (illustrator) and Sue Wright

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Hardcover:

9780590047098 | Cartwheel Books, November 1, 1998, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: After the birth of Jesus, the innkeeper places lanterns along the path to the stable in order to light the way for all the visitors who come to pay homage

Language and Conflict: A Neglected Relationship

Product Description: In Dan Smith's analysis the idea of conflict brings us inexorably to nationalism, then to identity and thus to language. Language is unlikely to be a central cause of conflict, but it may contribute to the ways that nationalism and armed conflict unfold...read more

By Paul A. Chilton, Dan Smith and Sue Wright

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Hardcover:

9781853594229 | Multilingual Matters Ltd, June 1, 1998, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: In Dan Smith's analysis the idea of conflict brings us inexorably to nationalism, then to identity and thus to language.

Managing Language Diversity

Product Description: Michael Clyne is well placed to inform on linguistic and cultural diversity in Australia. Both he and his Language and Society Centre at Monash University have played a key role in the research which has kept track of developments in this area and helped policy formation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Michael G. Clyne (editor), Helen Kelly-Holmes (editor) and Sue Wright (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781853594151 | Multilingual Matters Ltd, April 1, 1998, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Michael Clyne is well placed to inform on linguistic and cultural diversity in Australia.

One Country, Two Systems, Three Languages: A Survey of Changing Language Use in Hong Kong

Product Description: In 1997, Hong Kong has the attention of the world as it moves from being one of the most liberal market economies to inclusion in one of the few remaining states which might be termed communist. The set of papers and debates in this volume derive from a conference that took place in Hong Kong one year before this changeover and in which the participants attempted to analyse the patterns of language use that prevailed in mid-1996 and to assess the linguistic changes that might accompany the political shift...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Helen Kelly-Holmes (editor) and Sue Wright (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781853593963 | Multilingual Matters Ltd, August 1, 1997, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: In 1997, Hong Kong has the attention of the world as it moves from being one of the most liberal market economies to inclusion in one of the few remaining states which might be termed communist.

Language and the State: Revitalization and Revival in Israel and Eire

Product Description: This book originates from a pair of expert seminars given by scholars from Israel and Ireland before an invited audience of British academics. The seminars focused on questions of language shift, language maintenance and language loyalty in these two countries and looked to find similarities and differences which might contribute to an understanding of the processes involved...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Sue Wright (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781853593901 | Multilingual Matters Ltd, February 1, 1997, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: This book originates from a pair of expert seminars given by scholars from Israel and Ireland before an invited audience of British academics.

Monolingualism and Bilingualism: Lessons from Canada and Spain

Product Description: There is an urgent need at the heart of linguistic theorising to take account of bi- and multilingual perspectives. In the field of language planning, issues of bilingualism are often perceived through monolingual filters and resolved by monolingual responses...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Sue Wright (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781853593543 | Multilingual Matters Ltd, April 1, 1996, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: There is an urgent need at the heart of linguistic theorising to take account of bi- and multilingual perspectives.

Languages in Contact and Conflict: Contrasting Experiences in the Netherlands and Belgium

Product Description: This book originates from a series of expert seminars given by scholars from the Netherlands and Belgium before an invited audiences of academics. The seminars covered a range of topics: recent developments in the Netherlands and the UK in the area of education and multiculturalism; the role of contact linguistics and the case of the European Union; the latest constitutional developments in Belgium together with their consequences in language terms...read more

By Sue Wright

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Hardcover:

9781853592782 | Multilingual Matters Ltd, April 1, 1995, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: This book originates from a series of expert seminars given by scholars from the Netherlands and Belgium before an invited audiences of academics.

Ethnicity in Eastern Europe: Questions of Migration, Language Rights, and Education

By Helen Kelly (editor) and Sue Wright

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Hardcover:

9781853592430 | Multilingual Matters Ltd, August 1, 1994, cover price $69.95

Fairy Tale Frolic: Interdisciplinary Units and Enrichment Activities