Vol. 4 Issue 46 – Book Review – Coulmas, F. Sociolinguistics: The study of speakers’ choices. Cambridge: USA, 2005

This book was written essentially to handle the concept of ‘choice’ and its effect on speakers’ linguistic determination. It elaborates upon the perception that language adoption is related to human society and its members and is influenced by space, time variation, age, gender and culture. The author has exhibited the interconnection of the choice of language with how, what, and when people would speak. In addition, it aims to shed light on how, within the environments and communities in which people are living, ‘societal factors’ integrate unconsciously, sometimes compulsorily, with their original language, as they are living in a single unified circle and each factor can affect the other.

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Vol. 4 Issue 46 – Conference: '7th International Technology, Education and Development Conference', Valencia (Spain), March, 4-6, 2013

The 7th annual edition of INTED2013 (7th International Technology, Education and Development Conference) that will be held in Valencia (Spain) on the 4th, 5th and 6th of March, 2013.

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ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue 45

ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue#45 | November 5, 2012 | ISSN 0975-3036 Video: Teaching Action Words with Charades – ESL, EFL, TEFL Conference: International Conference on Empowering the English Language Classroom, January…

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