Sociolinguistics

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Our ability to find meaning in things is one of the most important aspects of human life. Bu...

This book examines the validity of the notion of the vernacular and the position of the so-called vernaculars in colonial and postcolonial settings...

The Routledge Handbook of Descriptive Rhetorical Studies and World Languages offers a useful collection of papers that presents rhetorical analysis...

This volume offers an insider perspective on language policy in the EU, bringing together two key figures well acquainted with its development to r...

How do people talk about marriage? Who gets to do the talking? When, why, where and how do these things change? From the experiences of women force...

This book addresses contemporary issues in the assessment of plurilingual competence and plurilingual learners. Offering theoretical and practical ...

This book focuses on literary multilingualism and specifically on the challenging condition of writing in Trieste, a key European borderland locate...

Across many social and commercial domains, governments regulate the official names used to identify individuals, groups, places, companies & pr...

Often thought of as a solitary activity, the practice of reading can in fact encode the complex politics of community formation. Engagement with li...

This book sets out to try to understand why segregated schooling still exists, especially in northern Italy in South Tyrol where they practice sepa...

First published in 1984, Face Value confronts the pervasive power of beauty through art and literature, as well as interviews with men and women wi...

This book examines the language policies in the constitutions, legal statutes, and regulations of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, the Faroe Islan...

This book offers a self-reflective, critical approach to the study of what is popularly known as polyglossia, charting the gradual but marked proce...

From one of the most brilliant young psychologists of her generation (Paul Bloom), a groundbreaking examination of how speech causes some of our de...

Arguably the first book-length exploration of decolonizing EFL writing education, this novel volume uses poetic autoethnography to provide a situat...

This book provides an in-depth examination of minority language maintenance and loss within a group of first-generation Spanish-speaking families i...

Language and Identities offers a broad survey of our current state of knowledge on the connections between variability in language use and the cons...

Designed for beginning undergraduates studying for degrees in English, this textbook provides an introduction to a range of sociolinguistic theorie...

This book is a practice-based exploration of the politics and poetics of replacing colonial placenames with Indigenous ones. From a horizon of case...

Language Attitudes and the Pursuit of Social Justice explores the relationship between language attitudes and forms of inequality and oppression, f...

Die empirische Studie untersucht die gesellschaftliche Bedeutung von Dialekt und Dialektgebrauch in der Schweiz. Über interdisziplinäre Zugänge arb...

In dem vorliegenden Band Sprache und Religion Tendenzen und Perspektiven werden aktuelle Forschungsprojekte, empirische und methodologische Weiter...

The political shocks of the 2014 Ukrainian crisis have been felt in many former Soviet countries, not least Latvia, where over 35 per cent of the p...

This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English with around 1.5 million speakers...

Sociolinguistics provides a powerful instrument by which we can interpret the contemporary and near-contemporary use of language in relation to the...

Systeme zur Referenz auf Personen sind in den meisten deutschen Dialekten komplexer als im Standard. So werden in gut vernetzten dörflichen Sprechg...

This book brings together eleven peer-reviewed chapters of cutting-edge research produced by both established and rising scholars in the field. Giv...

Language, Gender and Parenthood Online explores the digital interactions of parents on the UK-based internet discussion forum Mumsnet Talk, a space...

Morality is pervasive, touching all aspects of social life. The contributors to this volume provide an introduction to research on how morality is ...

Morality is pervasive, touching all aspects of social life. The contributors to this volume provide an introduction to research on how morality is ...

Methods for the Ethnography of Communication is a guide to conducting ethnographic research in classroom and community settings that introduces stu...

This edited book calls for a rethink of the current Asian language learning paradigm that frames Asian languages as strategic and economic tools, r...

This book provides a critical examination of the English-only policy of ASEAN, the Association of the ten Southeast Asian nations. It presents the ...