Linguistics

Since the publication of his groundbreaking books Writing Without Teachers and Writing with Power, Peter Elbow has revolutionized the way we think ...

This book details innovative developments in the pragmatics and lexicogrammar of speakers using English as a lingua franca. There have been conside...

American English(es) focuses on the manifold nature of a macro-regional variety of English which is better described in the plural form, thus enhan...

The present volume includes a selection of twenty-nine papers by academics, and senior and junior researchers who came together within the framewor...

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

Linguistics has had a significant and evident impact on economics, and vice versa. However, this mutually beneficial relationship has so far remain...

South Africa is a country characterised by great linguistic diversity. Large indigenous languages, such as isiZulu and isiXhosa, are spoken by many...

Post-Soviet Russia was a period of linguistic liberalisation, instability and change with varied attempts to regulate and legislate language usage,...

Bilingual language behaviour is driven by numerous factors that are usually studied in isolation, even though individual factors never operate alon...

In this impactful addition to the field of ethnolinguistics, Willian W. Megenney dissects the influence of African languages and cultures on contem...

By the award-winning former president of the Linguistic Society of America, this collection of some of John Russell Rickford's pioneering works sho...

This posthumous work by Jacques Arends offers new insights into the emergence of the creole languages of Suriname including Sranantongo or Suriname...

Political changes since the fall of the Suharto regime in 1998 have had a significant impact on linguistic and discursive practices in Indonesia. T...

If you have you ever overheard a conversation between two people who share more than one language you'll have noticed that they do not always stick...

The Politics of English: Conflict, Competition, Co-existence explores policies and practices that affect the use and position of English. The b...

This is a wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary discussion of the connections between language, borders and identities. Looking at a broad, geographi...

The loss of Negative Concord (NC) has long been attributed to external factors. This study readdresses this issue and provides evidence of the fail...