Sociolinguistics

This book examines language and identity in modern Egypt using theories from discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. How is language used in Egypt...

Based on current data, the book provides a detailed sociolinguistic and structural description of Cameroon Creole English, with a special focus on ...

Social semiotics reveals languages social meaning – its structures, processes, conditions and effects – in all social contexts, across all media an...

Social semiotics reveals languages social meaning – its structures, processes, conditions and effects – in all social contexts, across all media an...

Pragmatic competence plays a key role in the era of globalization where communication across cultural boundaries is an everyday phenomenon. The abi...

Know someone with an antwacky stem-winder? Heard the Band of Hope Street? Ever been on a vinegar trip? Do you jangle? Ever met a Cunard yank in the...

English as a Lingua Franca, or ELF for short, is currently one of the most dynamic topics in the fields of applied and socio-linguistics and Englis...

This book explores the role of language academies in preserving and revitalizing minority or endangered languages. The author studies the controver...

Language is essential to human life, both as a basic social necessity and also as a powerful and complex social resource. For the Love of Language:...

This book is about categorization processes in native/non-native workplace interaction, within the context of internship interviews between Danish ...

This is the first ever volume to compile sociolinguistic and historical information on lesser-known, and relatively ignored, native varieties of En...

Imagine for a moment the only way to confirm a yes-no question was by saying Yeah. How different would this make our communication? Relying on a la...

This book looks at language in unexpected places. Drawing on a diversity of materials and contexts, including farewell addresses to British workers...

Language is a sensitive issue in the developing world, because language choice and behaviour are integral to the social, economic and political sta...

Negotiating Solidarity: A Social-Linguistic Approach to Job Interviews explores the linguistic co-construction of self-presentation in job intervie...

This study is a phonetic description of intonation in Cameroon English, a postcolonial variety of English. Its focus is on the usage of specific to...

Migration and the mobility of citizens around the globe pose important challenges to the linguistic and cultural homogeneity that nation-states rel...

This volume shows the formidable range of variation in youth language. Youth language is analyzed as a phenomenon in negotiations of identities and...

This unique critical sociolinguistic ethnography explores alternative migrant-regulated institutions of resistance and subversive communication tec...

Rapidly increasing migration flows contribute to the development of multiple forms of social and cultural differentiation in urban areas or to sup...

This volume opens a timely discussion about the various theoretical and methodological models being developed to describe the phenomenon of languag...

This volume is intended to be a contribution to the rapidly growing field of research into Cognitive Sociolinguistics which draws on the convergenc...

This book provides a fresh approach to Singapore English, by focusing on its cultural connotations. The author, a native Singaporean, explores a ra...

This book examines how young people at a martial arts club in an urban setting participate and interact in a recreational social community. The aut...

Name and Naming: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives aims to analyse names and the act of naming from an intercultural perspective, both synchro...

Universities are among the most dynamic contemporary arenas for intercultural contact, and one of the most interesting phenomena for social interac...

This reference work delivers an interdisciplinary, applied spatial and geographical approach to the study of languages and linguistics. This work i...

Insulting the president is an American tradition. From Washington to Trump, presidents have been called lazy, feeble, pusillanimous, and more. Our ...

A fully updated and expanded second edition of this flagship work, which introduces methodological techniques to carry out analyses of text varieti...

This book explores how different European education systems manage multilingualism. Each chapter focuses on one of ten diverse settings (Andorra, A...

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

Language acquisition research is challenging - the intricate behavioral and cognitive foundations of speech are difficult to measure objectively. T...