Sociolinguistics

This volume focuses on multimodality in various communicative settings, with special attention to how non-verbal elements reinforce and add meaning...

The particular words, whose use and meaning is examined in this study, are commonly used by people with strong convictions about moral issues and i...

Words matter. They wound, they inflate, they define, they demean. They have nuance and power. Effortless, Sassy, Ambitious, Aggressive: What subtl...

Bilingual language behaviour is driven by numerous factors that are usually studied in isolation, even though individual factors never operate alon...

Did you keep a list of the words coined by Covid? Wayne Grady did! They're deftly woven into a journal/timeline, taking us through two years of sur...

An insightful exploration of the impact of urban change on Black culture, identity, and language Across the United States, cities are changing. Ge...

This study analyzes the historical and sociolinguistic dynamics of dialect contact among Galloitalic dialects in Eastern Piedmont, which have been ...

A fascinating history of Chinas relations with the Westtold through the lives of two eighteenth-century translatorsThe 1793 British embassy to Chin...

The first and perhaps only book on the relative merits of American and British English that is dominated by facts and analysis rather than national...

Linguistic gender is a complex and amazing category that has puzzled and still puzzles theoretical linguists, typologists, philosophers, cognitive ...

The first in-depth investigation of Gaelic based on sociolinguistic analysis . Draws on the latest scholarship and expertise developed by the Soill...

Combining corpus linguistics and discourse analysis, this book draws on a range of spoken and written data collected from a variety of contexts. It...

Any history of English starts with the evidence its narrators select, the historical periods they focus on, and the guiding principles and framewor...

Russia increasingly emphasises the importance of 'soft power' for securing its foreign policy interests, but recent research has paid more attentio...

Strong women dominate these reminiscences: the grandmother taught the girl whose mother refused to let her go to school, and the life-changing even...

Explores the dynamic relationships between language, politics and society in the Middle EastPublished in honour of Professor Yasir Suleiman, this c...

This book offers a critical interpretation of how the meta-linguistic LPLP discourse of major Arabic language academies from the turn of the twenti...

Le volume reunit les diverses recherches presentees lors du XIeme Colloque International d''Argotologie de Leipzig 2017 par des specialistes de lit...

From slut-shaming to the allegedly shrill voices of female politicians, from vocal fry to online misogyny, the language women use (and the language...

From slut-shaming to the allegedly shrill voices of female politicians, from vocal fry to online misogyny, the language women use (and the language...

Electrifying A user manual for our polarized world Adam Grant, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Think Again Important, compelling...

This series covers the core topics taught in the field of sociolinguistics. Individual volumes offer both a critical overview and insights derived ...

This title deals with dialect death and the attrition of specifically local lexis in traditional dialects. Over the last half century many scholars...