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"This innovative collection examines key questions on language diversity and multilingualism running through contemporary debates in psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. Reinforcing interdisciplinary conversations on these themes, each chapter is co-authored by two different researchers, often those who have not written together before. The combined effect is a volume showcasing unique and dynamic perspectives on such topics as multilingualism across the lifespan, bilingual acquisition, family language policy, language and aging, language shift, language and identity, and multilingualism and language impairment. The book builds on Elizabeth Lanza's pioneering work on multilingualism across the lifespan, bringing together cutting-edge research exploring multilingualism as an evolving phenomenon at landmarks in individuals', families' and communities' lives. Taken together, the book offers a rich portrait of the different facets of multilingualism as lived reality for individuals, families, and communities. This groundbreaking volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars in multilingualism, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics"-- Provided by publisher.

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From emails relating to adoption over the Internet to discussions in the airline cockpit, the spoken or written texts we produce can have significant social consequences. The area of Mediated Discourse Analysis considers texts in their social and cultural contexts to explore the actions individuals take with texts - and the consequences of those actions. Discourse in Action: brings together leading scholars from around the world in the area of Mediated Discourse Analysis reveals ways in which its theory and methodology can be used in research into contemporary social situations explores real situations and draws on real data in each chapter shows how analysis of texts in their social contexts broadens our understanding of the real world. Taken together, the chapters provide a comprehensive overview to the field and present a range of current studies that address some of the most important questions facing students and researchers in linguistics, education, communication studies and other fields.

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Jennifer Lynn Kelly explores the significance of contemporary solidarity tourism in Palestine/Israel, showing how such tourism functions both as political strategy and emergent industry.

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Aging --- Social aspects.

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With people living longer all over the world, ageing has beenframed as a socio-economic problem. In Brazil, older people areexpected to remain healthy and autonomous while activelyparticipating in society. Based on ethnographic research in SãoPaulo, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Brazil shows howolder people in a middle-class neighbourhood conciliate theseexpectations with the freedom and pleasures reserved for the ThirdAge. Work is what bonds this community together, providing a senseof dignity and citizenship. Smartphones have become of greatimportance to the residents as they search for and engage in newforms of work and hobbies. Connected by a digital network, theywork as content curators, sharing activities that fill theirschedule. Managing multiple WhatsApp groups is a job in itself, aswell as a source of solidarity and hope. Friendship groups helpeach to download new apps, search for medical information andguidance, and navigate the city. Together, they are reinventingthemselves as volunteers, entrepreneurs and influencers, or theyare finding a new interest that gives their later life a purpose.The smartphone, which enables the residents to share and discusstheir busy lives, is also helping them, and us, to rethink the veryrepresentation of ageing.

Aging --- Social aspects.