Sociolinguistics

This edited collection brings together new research on public service interpreting and translation (PSIT) with a focus on ideology, ethics and poli...

This book is a metaphorical journey through the English lexicon, viewed as a vehicle and a mirror of cultural identity.From the translatability of ...

This volume explores Indigenous measures of economic development in First Nations Atlantic Canadian communities that are of relevance for First Nat...

Politically correct pundits have been attempting to relegate Standard English to the status of a dialect, since they have succumbed to the idea tha...

A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A Globe & Mail Book of the Year A stimulating work on the politics of language. LA Review of Books As globalisa...

This is a book about languages and the people who love them. Sophie Hardach is here to guide us through the strange and wonderful ways that human...

The (dis)empowerment of languages through language policy in multilingual postcolonial communities often shapes speakers identification with these ...

Raciolinguistics reveals the central role that language plays in shaping our ideas about race. The book brings together a team of leading scholars-...

The multiplicity of parallel identities that make up our personalities is a phenomenon in which our individual identitary choices merge with divers...

Why do we speak the way we do, and what do our voices tell others about us? What is the truth behind the myths that surround how we speak? Jane Set...

The twenty-first century has seen a surge in cross-linguistic research on forms of address from increasingly diverse and complementary perspectives...

This volume explores a pivotal period in European history, the ''long'' nineteenth century. Politeness scholars have suggested that the nineteenth ...

The history of English news discourse is characterised by intriguing multilevel developments, and the present cannot be separated from them. For ex...

Focusing on the multi-faceted topic of Eurolects, this volume brings together knowledge and methodologies from various disciplines, including socio...

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the ways in which digital communication facilitate and inform discourses of legitimization and del...

This book provides a comprehensive account of language management and planning at Confucius Institutes in the UK, implementing an ethnographic appr...

The study of how linguistic variation is acquired is considered a nascent field in both psycho- and sociolinguistics. Within that research context,...

This unique volume brings together various academic voices and critical reflections on discursive manifestations of hate and radicalism in contempo...

Eighteenth-century English is often associated with normative grammar. But to what extent did prescriptivism impact ongoing processes of linguistic...

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This volume offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of applied research efforts in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This region has ...

Research into cross-linguistic aspects and typology of word-formation has not been paid relevant and systematic attention by morphologists, and onl...

Methods of linguistic data collection are among the most central aspects in empirical linguistics. While written questionnaires have only played a ...

Methods of linguistic data collection are among the most central aspects in empirical linguistics. While written questionnaires have only played a ...

This volume provides a sample of the most recent studies on Spanish-English codeswitching both in the Caribbean and among bilinguals in the United ...

Sociophonetics - the interface of sociolinguistics and phonetics - is a field that has expanded rapidly in recent years. A subject that requires bo...

From the twins Osugi and Peeco to longstanding icon Miwa Akihiro, Claire Maree traces the figure of the Japanese queerqueen, showing how a diversit...

In Tongues of Fire, Nancy Farriss investigates the role of language and translation in the creation of Mexican Christianity during the first centur...

While other books focus on special internet registers, like tweets or texting, no previous study describes the full range of everyday registers fou...

We all know that speech can be harmful. But what are the harms and how exactly does the speech in question brings those harms about? Mary Kate McGo...

Metaphors help us understand abstract concepts, emotions, and social relations through the concrete experience of our own bodies. Conceptual Metaph...

Since the publication of his groundbreaking books Writing Without Teachers and Writing with Power, Peter Elbow has revolutionized the way we think ...

This book details innovative developments in the pragmatics and lexicogrammar of speakers using English as a lingua franca. There have been conside...

This volume presents a collection of papers from the second Interfaces in Language conference, hosted from 5-7 May 2009 at the University of Kent a...

American English(es) focuses on the manifold nature of a macro-regional variety of English which is better described in the plural form, thus enhan...

The present volume includes a selection of twenty-nine papers by academics, and senior and junior researchers who came together within the framewor...