Sociolinguistics

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 ...

This book offers an introduction to the many facets of multilingualism in a changing world. It begins with an overview of the multiplicity of human...

The introduction of English as a medium of instruction (EMI) has changed higher education enormously in many European countries. This development i...

This book offers a deep dive into sex education pedagogy in the Australian context, taking a close look at the language used to teach the key topic...

Compelling and highly engaging, this text shows teachers at all levels how to do critical literacy in the classroom and provides models for practic...

This book offers an academic dialogue between news values construction and readers' evaluative response in Weibo news package from the interpersona...

This book examines Spanish English bilingual patterns in a small town and rural Northeast Georgia community of Hispanics recently immigrated from M...

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

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

This book brings together contributions from ten academics and a commentary from a Muslim community leader on how the British media represent some ...

This book delves into the realm of effective language education programs, examining them from both macro and micro-policy-making perspectives. It u...

How many words do we use in a day? How many of them are actually necessary to convey the flow of our thoughts? And how many could we do without, if...

Against the backdrop of uncritical promotions of English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education globally, this edited volume maps out the pol...

Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.Assuming no prior knowledge, bo...

As a founder and leading figure in multimodality and social semiotics, Theo van Leuween has made significant contributions to a variety of research...

This book brings together the work of leading theorist, Theo van Leeuwen, on typography, colour, texture, sound and movement, and shows how they ar...

In this book we wish to find a new way of talking about, connecting and operationalising the third space, narratives, positioning, and intercultura...

This book is the first detailed examination of George Abraham Griersons Linguistic Survey of India, one of the most complete sources on South Asian...

The second edition of Data Collection in Sociolinguistics: Methods and Applications continues to provide up-to-date, succinct, relevant, and inform...

Originally published in 1999, this book sets out to develop a distinctive, critical approach to the study of social consciousness through empirical...

Exploring the roles of students pluralistic linguistic and transnational identities at the university level, this book offers a novel approach to t...

Translingual Words is a detailed case study on lexical integration, or mediation, occurring between East Asian languages and English(es). In Part I...

This collection highlights the interplay between language and liminal places and spaces in building distinct narratives of selfhood. The book uses ...

This volume problematizes the concept and practice of translation in an interconnected world in which English, despite its hegemonic status, can no...

La prise en compte par léducation de la pluralité linguistique et culturelle est devenue lun des enjeux majeurs du XXIe siècle. De ce fait, la cont...