Sociolinguistics

Can a bump on the head cause someone to speak with a different accent? Can animals, aliens, and objects talk? Can we communicate with gods, demons,...

By analysing the folk stories and personal narratives of a cross-section of Palestinians, Sirhan offers a detailed study of how content and socioli...

The concept of care defines our humanity. Covering topics as diverse as familial care, medical care, artistic care, scientific care, and various ot...

Metaphor and Entertainment presents the very first, large-scale exploration of metaphor in Chinese online entertainment news, one of the most vibra...

Welsh Writing, Political Action and Incarceration  examines the prison literature of certain iconic Welsh authors whose political lives and creativ...

This book synthesizes previous work on thanking, politeness and Japanese pragmatics and crystallises the theoretical underpinnings of thanking, how...

In the 2010s, leaders of the DeafBlind community in Seattle called into question the community's dependence on sighted interpreters and sought new ...

The Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and Communication Intercultural discourse and communication is emerging as an important area of research in...

Turkic is one of the world's major language families, comprising a high number of distinct languages and varieties that display remarkable similari...

Were Stone-Age languages really more complex than their modern counterparts? Was Basque actually once spoken over all of Western Europe? Were Welsh...

A new approach to sociolinguistics, introducing the study of the social meaning of English words over time, and offering an engaging and entertaini...

The studies in this collection seek to examine the notions of linguistic diversity and hybridity through the lenses of new critical theories and th...

The studies in this collection seek to examine the notions of linguistic diversity and hybridity through the lenses of new critical theories and th...

This book explores young children's language acquisition in multilingual households through an original longitudinal study of the author's own chil...

This book examines how language is a central resource in transforming migrant women into transnational domestic workers. Focusing on the migration ...

Telling Blackness begins with two simple premises: conventional models of the ways people make meaning of the world fail to account for the particu...

Telling Blackness begins with two simple premises: conventional models of the ways people make meaning of the world fail to account for the particu...

In Living Together Across Borders, author Lynnette Arnold tells the stories of extended families living stretched between a rural Salvadoran villag...

In Living Together Across Borders, author Lynnette Arnold tells the stories of extended families living stretched between a rural Salvadoran villag...

This book offers a unique understanding of how researchers linguistic resources, and the languages they use in the research process, are often poli...

This book examines translanguaging as a resource which can disrupt the privileging of particular voices, and a social practice which enables collab...

This book focuses on perspectives from and on the global south, providing fresh data and analyses on languages in African, Caribbean, Middle-Easter...