Sociolinguistics

This book offers a self-reflective, critical approach to the study of what is popularly known as polyglossia, charting the gradual but marked proce...

From one of the most brilliant young psychologists of her generation (Paul Bloom), a groundbreaking examination of how speech causes some of our de...

Arguably the first book-length exploration of decolonizing EFL writing education, this novel volume uses poetic autoethnography to provide a situat...

This book provides an in-depth examination of minority language maintenance and loss within a group of first-generation Spanish-speaking families i...

Language and Identities offers a broad survey of our current state of knowledge on the connections between variability in language use and the cons...

Designed for beginning undergraduates studying for degrees in English, this textbook provides an introduction to a range of sociolinguistic theorie...

This book is a practice-based exploration of the politics and poetics of replacing colonial placenames with Indigenous ones. From a horizon of case...

Language Attitudes and the Pursuit of Social Justice explores the relationship between language attitudes and forms of inequality and oppression, f...

Die empirische Studie untersucht die gesellschaftliche Bedeutung von Dialekt und Dialektgebrauch in der Schweiz. Über interdisziplinäre Zugänge arb...

In dem vorliegenden Band Sprache und Religion Tendenzen und Perspektiven werden aktuelle Forschungsprojekte, empirische und methodologische Weiter...

The political shocks of the 2014 Ukrainian crisis have been felt in many former Soviet countries, not least Latvia, where over 35 per cent of the p...

This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English with around 1.5 million speakers...

Sociolinguistics provides a powerful instrument by which we can interpret the contemporary and near-contemporary use of language in relation to the...

Systeme zur Referenz auf Personen sind in den meisten deutschen Dialekten komplexer als im Standard. So werden in gut vernetzten dörflichen Sprechg...

This book brings together eleven peer-reviewed chapters of cutting-edge research produced by both established and rising scholars in the field. Giv...

Language, Gender and Parenthood Online explores the digital interactions of parents on the UK-based internet discussion forum Mumsnet Talk, a space...

Morality is pervasive, touching all aspects of social life. The contributors to this volume provide an introduction to research on how morality is ...

Morality is pervasive, touching all aspects of social life. The contributors to this volume provide an introduction to research on how morality is ...

Methods for the Ethnography of Communication is a guide to conducting ethnographic research in classroom and community settings that introduces stu...

This edited book calls for a rethink of the current Asian language learning paradigm that frames Asian languages as strategic and economic tools, r...

This book provides a critical examination of the English-only policy of ASEAN, the Association of the ten Southeast Asian nations. It presents the ...