Sociolinguistics

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...

Heller and McElhinny reinterpret sociolinguistics for the twenty-first century with an original approach to the study of language that is situated ...

Presenting a detailed examination of the origins, evolutions, and state-of-the-art of linguistic landscape research, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Lin...

Drawing on thousands of naturalistic online interactions from Ready to Go, a popular football message board centred on North East England, North Ea...

This book brings together current research by leading international scholars on the often contentious nature of language policies and their practic...

This book provides a broad sociolinguistic perspective on major questions of political and cultural Europeanization. It is concerned with European ...

This book presents research that seeks to understand students' experiences of transnational mobility and transcultural interaction in the context o...

Internationalisation has had a forceful impact on universities across the Anglophone world. This book reviews what we know about interaction in the...

Literacy and the Bilingual Learner explores the literacy development of bilingual learners in London (UK) schools and colleges through a series of ...

Meaning Making in Text presents new insights into forms of communication in a range of contexts: cultural, linguistic, multimodal and educational. ...

The book is devoted to the analysis of promotional material of tourist activities on tourism websites, including walking, dining, and visiting natu...

With researchers around the world are under increasing pressure to publish in high-profile international journals, this book explores some of the i...

In EFL contexts, an absence of chances to develop fluency in the language classroom can lead to marked limitations in English proficiency. This vol...

Leading scholars in the field examine the role played by the English language in contemporary Japanese society. Their various chapters cover the na...

The new edition of Language and Gender: A Reader responds to the wealth of research that has shaped the field since its initial publication in 1998...

Language Conflict in Educational Settings: International Perspectives delves into the intriguing intersection of contact linguistics and education,...

This book is about complexity-driven, trandsisciplinary approach to language study. It illustrates how complexity science can be applied in the res...

This book discusses the empirical studies on how biological age influences foreign language learning in school. It provides a succinct overview of ...

This book proposes, examines and unpacks the notion of unequal Englishes as a way to understand English today. Unlike many studies on the pluraliza...

This volume tracks the complex relationships between language, education and nation-building in Southeast Asia, focusing on how language policies h...

The collection demonstrates the ways in which established traditions and scholars have come together under the umbrella of linguistic ethnography t...

Yiddish and Power surveys the social, linguistic and intellectual history of the Yiddish language within the traditional civilisation of Jewish Ash...

The collection demonstrates the ways in which established traditions and scholars have come together under the umbrella of linguistic ethnography t...

Featuring interviews, conversations and observations from a multi-sited ethnography of Ecuadorean musicians and their families, this book offers an...