Linguistics

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the ways in which digital communication facilitate and inform discourses of legitimization and del...

This book provides a comprehensive account of language management and planning at Confucius Institutes in the UK, implementing an ethnographic appr...

Metaphors help us understand abstract concepts, emotions, and social relations through the concrete experience of our own bodies. Conceptual Metaph...

The study of how linguistic variation is acquired is considered a nascent field in both psycho- and sociolinguistics. Within that research context,...

This unique volume brings together various academic voices and critical reflections on discursive manifestations of hate and radicalism in contempo...

Eighteenth-century English is often associated with normative grammar. But to what extent did prescriptivism impact ongoing processes of linguistic...

This volume offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of applied research efforts in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This region has ...

Research into cross-linguistic aspects and typology of word-formation has not been paid relevant and systematic attention by morphologists, and onl...

Methods of linguistic data collection are among the most central aspects in empirical linguistics. While written questionnaires have only played a ...

Methods of linguistic data collection are among the most central aspects in empirical linguistics. While written questionnaires have only played a ...

This volume provides a sample of the most recent studies on Spanish-English codeswitching both in the Caribbean and among bilinguals in the United ...

Sociophonetics - the interface of sociolinguistics and phonetics - is a field that has expanded rapidly in recent years. A subject that requires bo...

(Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions presents a timely response to the ''''moral turn'''' in (im)politeness studies. This volume, ...

This book contributes new perspectives from the Global South on the ways in which linguistic and discursive boundaries shape inequalities in educat...

From the twins Osugi and Peeco to longstanding icon Miwa Akihiro, Claire Maree traces the figure of the Japanese queerqueen, showing how a diversit...

Examines the social functions of attitude dative pronouns in four Arabic dialects Analysing data from a variety of sources, including soap operas, ...

While other books focus on special internet registers, like tweets or texting, no previous study describes the full range of everyday registers fou...

The Atlas presents full colour maps of the distribution among the pidgins and creoles of 120 structural linguistic features drawn from their phonol...