Sociolinguistics

(Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions presents a timely response to the ''''moral turn'''' in (im)politeness studies. This volume, ...

This book contributes new perspectives from the Global South on the ways in which linguistic and discursive boundaries shape inequalities in educat...

Linguistics has had a significant and evident impact on economics, and vice versa. However, this mutually beneficial relationship has so far remain...

South Africa is a country characterised by great linguistic diversity. Large indigenous languages, such as isiZulu and isiXhosa, are spoken by many...

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

Written by a wide range of highly regarded scholars and exciting junior ones, this book critiques and operationalizes contemporary thinking in the ...

In this impactful addition to the field of ethnolinguistics, Willian W. Megenney dissects the influence of African languages and cultures on contem...

Examines the social functions of attitude dative pronouns in four Arabic dialects Analysing data from a variety of sources, including soap operas, ...

By the award-winning former president of the Linguistic Society of America, this collection of some of John Russell Rickford's pioneering works sho...

The Atlas presents full colour maps of the distribution among the pidgins and creoles of 120 structural linguistic features drawn from their phonol...

This posthumous work by Jacques Arends offers new insights into the emergence of the creole languages of Suriname including Sranantongo or Suriname...

The Politics of English: Conflict, Competition, Co-existence explores policies and practices that affect the use and position of English. The b...

The loss of Negative Concord (NC) has long been attributed to external factors. This study readdresses this issue and provides evidence of the fail...

This book contributes new perspectives from the Global South on the ways in which linguistic and discursive boundaries shape inequalities in educat...

This volume provides new insights into the diverse and complex contexts of legal discourse and activity performed across a variety of socially and ...

Post-Soviet Russia was a period of linguistic liberalisation, instability and change with varied attempts to regulate and legislate language usage,...

The Italian diaspora throughout the world navigate and negotiate various complex and multidirectional language dynamics. In order to account for th...

This book is a selection of the papers presented at the International Symposium on the History of the Hebrew Language on 1617 October 2012. The sel...

The papers collected in this volume discuss applied, pedagogical and ideological issues related to language use in selected countries in post-colon...

Political changes since the fall of the Suharto regime in 1998 have had a significant impact on linguistic and discursive practices in Indonesia. T...

If you have you ever overheard a conversation between two people who share more than one language you'll have noticed that they do not always stick...

This volume presents specific topics in diachronic Hispanic linguistics. These topics include: lexical survivals in Ibero-Romance, Arabisms, lexica...

This is a wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary discussion of the connections between language, borders and identities. Looking at a broad, geographi...

Translating Across Cultures is a collection of nine papers given at the 21st BAS/British and American Studies conference, held in Timioara in May 2...

Stylistics in Use is composed of a series of studies about various trends in stylistics. More specifically, its seven chapters analyse, from variou...

The spread and globalisation of English has proved to be of interest in the study of diverse linguistic phenomena. From a methodological perspectiv...