Sociolinguistics

Language Attrition among Immigrant Teachers of Spanish is the first book devoted entirely to Spanish language attrition in all language areas and s...

Intentions in Comedy Discourse presents a systematic pragmatic analysis of stand-up comedy. Drawing on previous literature on humour, socio-cogniti...

Who is involved and why in the linguistic landscapes in educational contexts? How are agency and activism reflected in educationscapes? These quest...

This book offers both an empirical examination of language ideologies and language policies in post-Arab Spring Tunisia and a detailed critical and...

This book explores gendered language and gender identities negotiated by seven tertiary students of Japanese as an additional language (JAL) in Aus...

Inclusive Language: Educating for Sociolinguistics Agency within the Language Learning Classroom analyses standardised and non-standardized uses of...

Inclusive Language: Educating for Sociolinguistics Agency within the Language Learning Classroom analyses standardised and non-standardized uses of...

Italy is known for its history of emigration, with millions leaving its borders to find new beginnings elsewhere. They take with them their languag...

This open access book takes an innovative and critical look at the ways in which digital data and algorithms are changing the face of higher educat...

This book is a linguistic analysis of the British obesity media narrative, analysing a large corpus of published newspaper articles to demonstrate ...

Children spend a significant amount of time interacting online rather than face-to-face. Yet we know very little about the language they use during...

Children spend a significant amount of time interacting online rather than face-to-face. Yet we know very little about the language they use during...

This book brings together a collection of case studies that explore the relationship between health and masculinity. It covers various topics relat...

English Medium Instruction (EMI) is a burgeoning field of interest for researchers and practitioners; however, to date its sociocultural and politi...

People from different places use different words for things, even everyday things such as carbonated beverages (e.g. soda, coke, pop) or bread roll...

Languages do not exist beyond their speakers, but the history of individual languages has often been told as if they had a life of their own, emerg...

Languages do not exist beyond their speakers, but the history of individual languages has often been told as if they had a life of their own, emerg...