Sociolinguistics

Language and Humour in the Media provides new insights into the interface between humour studies and media discourse analysis, connecting two areas...

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone inter...

This book breaks new ground in its representation of the voices of people in a superdiverse city as they go about their everyday lives. Poetic, pol...

An Anthropology of Puzzles argues that the human brain is a puzzling organ which allows humans to literally solve their own problems of existence t...

Through analysis of case studies of young children (ages 3 to 8 years), situated in different geographic, cultural, linguistic, political, and soci...

Language, Culture, Identity and Citizenship in College Classrooms and Communities examines what takes place in writing classrooms beyond academic a...

Presenting a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of theoretical and descriptive research in the field, The Handbook of Conversation Analysis ...

This innovative introduction outlines the structure and distribution of the worlds languages, charting their evolution over the past 200,000 years....

This single-volume guide equips students of sociolinguistics with a full set of methodological tools including data collection and analysis techniq...

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture presents the first comprehensive survey of research on the relationship between language and culture...

In this accessible book, Delia Chiaro provides a fresh overview of the language of jokes in a globalized and digitalized world. The book shows how,...

This book is the first detailed examination of George Abraham Griersons Linguistic Survey of India, one of the most complete sources on South Asian...

This volume represents a unique contribution to the area of language attitudes research with its focus on how languages, dialects and accents induc...

This book argues that Linguistics, in common with other disciplines such as Anthropology and Sociology, has been shaped by colonization. It outline...