Sociolinguistics

In a letter addressed to his two children who died from an incurable disease, Me. Bastarache recounts his constant fight for equality between franc...

I have run the gauntlet of many borders in my time, but the border I grew up with at home was far and away the most trying, writes Seamas OCathain,...

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

Written by translation practitioners, teachers and researchers, this edited volume is a much-needed contribution to the under-researched area of co...

Bringing together a team of renowned international scholars, this volume provides a wide-ranging collection of historical and state-of-the-art pers...

The processes of gemination, lenition, and vowel lengthening are central to the study of phonology, as they reveal much about the treatment of quan...

This book is a multidisciplinary analysis of the meaning and dynamics of multilingualism from the perspectives of multilingual societies and langua...

This concise collection features seven studies on agency in language policy and planning across five different national contexts. Building on theme...

The focus of this book is on the impact of politics on language and identity in Hong Kong. The book is the first study to track real time language ...

This is an extended case study on Tanzania highlighting the latest theoretical and methodological approaches in sociolinguistics. A study of the po...

This is an extended case study on Tanzania highlighting the latest theoretical and methodological approaches in sociolinguistics. A study of the po...

In this revised and updated 2nd edition of her pioneering textbook, Allyson Jule offers fresh insights into the study of language and gender for th...

In this revised and updated 2nd edition of her pioneering textbook, Allyson Jule offers fresh insights into the study of language and gender for th...

A treasure trove for sociolinguistic researchers and students alike. Edited by three leading sociolinguists, the 39 chapters cover a wealth of valu...

In the online world, people argue about anything and everything - religion is no exception. Stephen Pihlaja investigates how several prominent soci...

In this third, fully revised edition, the 10 volume Encyclopedia of Language and Education offers the newest developments, including an entirely ne...

How did Russian writers respond to linguistic debate in the post-Soviet period?Post-Soviet Russia was a period of linguistic liberalisation, instab...

In this third, fully revised edition, the 10 volume Encyclopedia of Language and Education offers the newest developments, including an entirely ne...

Language politics in the new global era presents policymakers with significant ethical challenges. How should the reality of English as a global la...

Co-speech gestures are ubiquitous: when people speak, they almost always produce gestures. Gestures reflect content in the mind of the speaker, oft...

The main focus of this volume is test development and accreditation requirements and needs. One of the major objectives here is to show the key asp...

English in the World: History, Diversity, Change examines the English language as it has developed through history and is used across the globe tod...

The essays, research studies, and pedagogical examples in this book provide a window into the embodied dimensions of literacy and a toolbox for int...

This textbook introduces students to the ways in which techniques from corpus linguistics can be used to aid sociolinguistic research. Corpus lingu...

Slang, however one judges it, shows us at our most human. It is used widely and often, typically associated with the writers of noir fiction, teena...

Gestures are fundamental to the way we communicate, yet our understanding of this communicative impulse is clouded by a number of ingrained assumpt...

This book offers a comprehensive sociolinguistic overview of the linguistic situation in Japan. Contemporary Japan displays rich linguistic diversi...

Vestiges of monolingual bias are present in the portrayal of study abroad as an idealized monolingual immersion experience and the steps many progr...

This book contributes to the understanding of the transformative power of incorporating translanguaging, the dynamic language practices of bi/multi...

Warren Maguire examines Mid-Ulster English as a key case of new dialect formation, considering the roles of language shift and dialect contact in i...

Starting from the history of concepts, Victor Neumann shows how the variety of connotations associated with the ideas of 'nation' and 'people' have...

New Perspectives on (Im)Politeness and Interpersonal Communication gathers eleven studies by prominent scholars, which explore issues related to (i...

Dictionaries are mines whose word-gems encapsulate centuries of language history and cultural traditions; they are store-houses of meanings and use...

The relationship between language and culture has been the focus of attention in the fields of anthropology, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics ...

This book, by an international group of scholars, focuses on a number of sociolinguistic issues, some of them complex and controversial, linked to ...