Sociolinguistics

This book offers an introduction to the many facets of multilingualism in a changing world. It begins with an overview of the multiplicity of human...

The introduction of English as a medium of instruction (EMI) has changed higher education enormously in many European countries. This development i...

This book offers a deep dive into sex education pedagogy in the Australian context, taking a close look at the language used to teach the key topic...

Compelling and highly engaging, this text shows teachers at all levels how to do critical literacy in the classroom and provides models for practic...

This book offers an academic dialogue between news values construction and readers' evaluative response in Weibo news package from the interpersona...

This book examines Spanish English bilingual patterns in a small town and rural Northeast Georgia community of Hispanics recently immigrated from M...

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

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

This book brings together contributions from ten academics and a commentary from a Muslim community leader on how the British media represent some ...

This book delves into the realm of effective language education programs, examining them from both macro and micro-policy-making perspectives. It u...

How many words do we use in a day? How many of them are actually necessary to convey the flow of our thoughts? And how many could we do without, if...

Against the backdrop of uncritical promotions of English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education globally, this edited volume maps out the pol...

Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.Assuming no prior knowledge, bo...

As a founder and leading figure in multimodality and social semiotics, Theo van Leuween has made significant contributions to a variety of research...

This book brings together the work of leading theorist, Theo van Leeuwen, on typography, colour, texture, sound and movement, and shows how they ar...

In this book we wish to find a new way of talking about, connecting and operationalising the third space, narratives, positioning, and intercultura...

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

The second edition of Data Collection in Sociolinguistics: Methods and Applications continues to provide up-to-date, succinct, relevant, and inform...

Originally published in 1999, this book sets out to develop a distinctive, critical approach to the study of social consciousness through empirical...

Exploring the roles of students pluralistic linguistic and transnational identities at the university level, this book offers a novel approach to t...

Translingual Words is a detailed case study on lexical integration, or mediation, occurring between East Asian languages and English(es). In Part I...

This collection highlights the interplay between language and liminal places and spaces in building distinct narratives of selfhood. The book uses ...

This volume problematizes the concept and practice of translation in an interconnected world in which English, despite its hegemonic status, can no...

La prise en compte par léducation de la pluralité linguistique et culturelle est devenue lun des enjeux majeurs du XXIe siècle. De ce fait, la cont...

Coal mining, a prominent industry once situated at the heart of communities across the East Midlands, has now completely ceased in the UK. Although...

Published in honour of Professor Yasir Suleiman, this collection acknowledges his contribution to the field of language and society in general, and...

This two-volume Campus Talk set delivers a wide range of skills and strategies which students can actively apply in everyday social communication i...

This two-volume Campus Talk set delivers a wide range of skills and strategies which students can actively apply in everyday social communication i...

Edinburgh (now the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics), such as eLALME (the electronic version A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval En...

Riots, strikes and protests are heavily mediatised events. Media representations thus play a crucial role in narrating instances of civil disorder ...

Moving between linguistic, professional and national boundaries is part of the daily reality of modern workplaces, where the concept of a 'job for ...

This book brings together two types of varieties of English that have so far been treated separately: postcolonial and non-postcolonial Englishes. ...

Membering the Rhodesian Linguistic Agenda in Zimbabwe reports on a study carried out in Zimbabwe to ascertain the degree and effect of honouring th...

Have you ever looked at a word and thought: I wonder where that came from? You might well find the answer in this book, which considers the origin ...

This book explores language maintenance and development in the linguistic lives of second-, third-, and fourth-generation immigrants as they naviga...