Sociolinguistics

This book addresses the question of agency in the revitalisation of minoritised languages in Europe, with each chapter presenting an ethnographic a...

This book addresses the question of agency in the revitalisation of minoritised languages in Europe, with each chapter presenting an ethnographic a...

In the wake of #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, #rhodesmustfall and the Covid-19 pandemic, this groundbreaking book echoes the growing demand for decolo...

What do we mean when we say the people? In a Nordic context, the word people was historically associated not with members of a sovereign nation but...

Illicit digital activity is a substantial and growing problem. Extremists' use of social media over the past decade or so has raised increasing con...

This volume examines the concept of 'word' in its many guises and across many languages. 'Word' is a cornerstone for the understanding of any langu...

This book contains chapters which are classified into three major themes, namely Dialectology Studies in Indonesia, Sociolinguistics Issues in Java...

Focusing on language contact involving Russian, and the linguistic varieties that emerged from that contact in different social settings, this book...

The specificand variedways in which assessment and evaluation can impact learning and teaching have become an important language education research...

Spanish remains a large and constant fixture in the foreign language learning landscape in the United States. As Spanish language study has grown, ...

Spanish remains a large and constant fixture in the foreign language learning landscape in the United States. As Spanish language study has grown, ...

In the United States today there is lively discussion, both among educators and employers, about the best way to prepare students with high-level l...

Sociocultural linguistics has long conceived of languages as well-bounded, separate codes. But the increasing diversity of languages encountered by...

Sociocultural linguistics has long conceived of languages as well-bounded, separate codes. But the increasing diversity of languages encountered by...

The study of language contact in the new English varieties is frequently influenced by sociolinguistic approaches and reference to substrate langua...

Comprehensive in scope and rich in detail, this book explores language planning, language education, and language policy for diverse Native America...

Utilising a wide range of theoretical traditions from philosophy, sociology and anthropology, this book aims to raise the reader's awareness of the...

This volume brings together two particularly dynamic areas of contemporary research on the French language. The chapters showcase the most innovati...

Online Communication in a Second Language examines the use of social computer mediated communication (CMC) with speakers of Japanese via longitudin...

Neighbors and Neighborhoods: Living Together in the German-Speaking World is a bilingual collection of nine essays on culture, film, language, lite...