Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Language Problems & Language Planning
Author: The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics
Author: Rajend MesthriePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139500937
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
The most comprehensive overview available, this Handbook is an essential guide to sociolinguistics today. Reflecting the breadth of research in the field, it surveys a range of topics and approaches in the study of language variation and use in society. As well as linguistic perspectives, the handbook includes insights from anthropology, social psychology, the study of discourse and power, conversation analysis, theories of style and styling, language contact and applied sociolinguistics. Language practices seem to have reached new levels since the communications revolution of the late twentieth century. At the same time face-to-face communication is still the main force of language identity, even if social and peer networks of the traditional face-to-face nature are facing stiff competition of the Facebook-to-Facebook sort. The most authoritative guide to the state of the field, this handbook shows that sociolinguistics provides us with the best tools for understanding our unfolding evolution as social beings.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of ColumbiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1760
Book Description
Hereditas
Author: Raising Dough
Author: Elizabeth ÜPublisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603584285
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Increasingly, food-based businesses are seen as key solutions to solve our social and environmental problems, and yet entrepreneurs report a surprising lack of access to money to help them get started or grow. Raising Dough is an unprecedented guide that provides social entrepreneurs - as well as their potential supporters - the tools necessary to enable more of these businesses to launch and thrive. Through a mix of case studies and her own personal expertise, social-finance expert Elizabeth U explains what every budding entrepreneur should do even before they begin asking for money, including choosing an appropriate ownership model. She covers a wide range of possible funding sources, from traditional public and institutional grant and loan programs to cutting-edge, community crowdfunding models. Written primarily for people managing socially responsible food businesses, Raising Dough includes resources, strategies, and lessons that can benefit any socially minded entrepreneur and those who would support them, including investors.--COVER.
Language Policy and Language Planning
Author: Sue WrightPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137576472
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
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.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1864
Book Description
Privacy in Statistical Databases
Author: Josep Domingo-FerrerPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540874704
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Privacy in Statistical Databases, PSD 2008, held in September 2008 in Istanbul, Turkey, under the sponsorship of the UNESCO chair in Data Privacy. The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on tabular data protection; microdata protection; online databases and remote access; privacy-preserving data mining and private information retrieval; and legal issues.
Neotropical Ceratopogonidae (Diptera: Insecta)
Author: Art BorkentPublisher: Pensoft Publishers
ISBN: 9546423017
Category : Ceratopogonidae
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
A Unified Framework for Pro-poor Growth Analysis
Author: Boniface Essama-NssahPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
"Starting with a general impact indicator as an evaluation criterion, Essama-Nssah offers an integrative framework for a unified discussion of various concepts and measures of pro-poor growth emerging from the current literature. He shows that whether economic growth is considered pro-poor depends fundamentally on the choice of evaluative weights. In addition, the author's framework leads to a new indicator of the rate of pro-poor growth that can be interpreted as the equally distributed equivalent growth rate. This is a distribution-adjusted rate of growth that depends on the chosen level of inequality aversion. Illustrations based on data for Indonesia in the 1990s show a strong link between growth and poverty reduction in that country. A decomposition of the observed poverty outcomes reveals the extent to which changes in inequality have blunted the poverty impacts of both growth and contraction. Finally, the results also demonstrate that absolute and relative indicators of pro-poor growth can lead to conflicting conclusions from the same set of facts. This paper'-- a product of the Poverty Reduction Group, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network-- is part of a larger effort in the network to understand the distributional implications of economic growth"-- World Bank web site.