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Book Synopsis

To get the complete Idioms for Inclusivity experience, this book can be purchased alongside four others as a set, Idioms for Inclusivity: Fostering Belonging with Language, 978-1-032-28635-8.

Informed by sociolinguistic research, yet written accessibly, Keep Your Word challenges readers to investigate the act of promising as it relates to both language-use and inclusivity.

This engaging and delightfully illustrated book invites students to engage with concepts such as:

  • the cultural meaning of the idiom keep your word

  • Speech Acts and Felicity Conditions, two frameworks that linguists use to research and understand promises

  • why the expectation to keep your word can make someone feel excluded

  • and how understanding the way language works can help learn to be more inclusive

Featuring practical inclusivity tips related to promises, this enriching curriculum supple

Table of Contents

1. About This Book 2. How To Use This Book in Your Teaching Practice 3. Glossary 4. The Idiom 5. The Linguistic Theory 6. The Inclusive Solution 7. Practical Language Tips 8. Bibliography 9. Meet the Author and Illustrator

Keep Your Word

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    A Hardback by Samantha Beaver

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Published 28 February 2023
      ISBN-13 9781032293400
      978-1032293400
      ISBN-10 1032293403
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      To get the complete Idioms for Inclusivity experience, this book can be purchased alongside four others as a set, Idioms for Inclusivity: Fostering Belonging with Language, 978-1-032-28635-8.

      Informed by sociolinguistic research, yet written accessibly, Keep Your Word challenges readers to investigate the act of promising as it relates to both language-use and inclusivity.

      This engaging and delightfully illustrated book invites students to engage with concepts such as:

      • the cultural meaning of the idiom keep your word

      • Speech Acts and Felicity Conditions, two frameworks that linguists use to research and understand promises

      • why the expectation to keep your word can make someone feel excluded

      • and how understanding the way language works can help learn to be more inclusive

      Featuring practical inclusivity tips related to promises, this enriching curriculum supple

      Table of Contents

      1. About This Book 2. How To Use This Book in Your Teaching Practice 3. Glossary 4. The Idiom 5. The Linguistic Theory 6. The Inclusive Solution 7. Practical Language Tips 8. Bibliography 9. Meet the Author and Illustrator

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