Sociolinguistics

This book demonstrates that everyday interactions and struggles over the right words to use are at the heart of the experience of those in same-sex...

In Narratives in East Asia and Beyond: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Using Narratives as a Research Method, contributors from diverse fields ...

This book provides a detailed and comprehensive design of a new second language literacy pedagogy and the results of implementing this pedagogy in ...

This book provides a detailed and comprehensive design of a new second language literacy pedagogy and the results of implementing this pedagogy in ...

Whether through speech, writing, or other methods, language and communication has been an essential tool for human cooperation and development. Acr...

Ten years since the eruption of the Arab Spring, El Mustapha Lahlali explores the dialectical relationship between discourse and social change duri...

Explores the role of language in the ongoing social, cultural and political changes of the Arab world Provides a detailed micro- and macro-analysi...

Colonial Voices explores the role of language in the greater 'civilising' project of the British Empire through the dissemination and reception of,...

This book provides a pioneering introduction to heritage languages and their speakers, written by one of the founders of this new field. Using exam...

The global spread of English has had widespread linguistic, social, and cultural implications, affecting the lives of millions of people around the...

I'm not a racist, but You look good, for your age She was asking for it You're crazy That's so gay Have you ever wondered why certain language has ...

Language contact occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence one another. Drawing on the author's own first...

This lively account of the making of Canadian English traces the variety's conceptual, social and linguistic developments from the twentieth centur...

Exploring creole studies from a linguistic, historical, and socio-cultural perspective, this study advances our knowledge of the subject by using a...

Responding to the need for a comprehensive treatment of Mexican American English and its varied influences across multiple generations, this volume...

Understanding the role of language within the formation of a sense of self has been revolutionised by developments in social theory, particularly p...

Drawing on vast amounts of new data from live, unscripted radio and TV broadcasts, and the internet, this is a brilliant and original analysis of c...

Over the last two decades, reading groups have become increasingly popular in the UK and the USA. More and more people seem to be interested in sha...

This book persuasively argues the case that ethnography must be viewed as a full theoretical system, rather than just as a research method. Blommae...

The Routledge Handbook of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) provides an accessible, authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the main theorie...

This volume shows the relevance of the concepts of place and belonging for understanding the dynamics of identification through language. It also o...

In 1989, Bernard Spolsky published Conditions for Second Language Learning (Oxford University Press). At the 2012 Annual Conference of Asia TEFL, a...

It is clearly illogical to search for one good, universal solution for multilingual education when educational contexts differ so widely due to dem...

The BBC's Advisory Committee on Spoken English was set up to provide an authoritative guide to pronunciation and the use of language for BBC announ...

Written by an international team of leading scholars, this engaging textbook on the study of English historical linguistics is uniquely organized i...

This book, which takes the form of a graphic novel, looks at political activism in the public landscape. It has a particular focus on the UK activi...

This book describes the astonishing achievements of John Angus Mackay a man whose intelligence, humanity, political nous, people skills, wit, stee...