Sociolinguistics

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...

This edited collection provides a comprehensive and locally situated understanding of English language teaching from the perspective of dedicated a...

This monograph offers a novel investigation of the Edwardian picture postcard as an innovative form of multimodal communication, revealing much abo...

The Peer Effect: Non-Traditional Models of Instruction in Spanish as a Heritage Language guides an important pedagogical conversation on the releva...

Comprising 11 countries and hundreds of languages from one of the most culturally diverse regions in the world, the chapters in this collection exp...

Uncovering the complexity of linguistic diversity and semiotic creativity, this book examines the issues of power, affect, and identity in both phy...

Plain Language: A Psycholinguistic Approach employs principles from the field of psycholinguistics to explore factors that make a sentence or text ...

This book examines antagonistic fan communication on Chinese social media, focusing on the sociolinguistic dimensions and digital strategies in fan...

Plain Language: A Psycholinguistic Approach employs principles from the field of psycholinguistics to explore factors that make a sentence or text ...

This collection showcases the diversity and disciplinary breadth of small stories research, highlighting the growing critical mass of scholarship o...

Written by distinguished legal and linguistic scholars and practitioners from the EU institutions, the contributions in this volume provide multidi...

Language constitutes a very sensitive nexus between the concepts of territory and community. Though a fundamental issue in contemporary societies, ...

Originally published in 1964, this book examines where and how the pattern and texture of speech emerged and whether language is logical. It looks ...

This book presents a history of English and development of language education in modern India. It explores the role of language in colonial attempt...

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

This collection highlights diverse epistemological perspectives in original research on the important role of multimodality in second language cont...

This book aims to bridge the gap in investigations into the acquisition of phonology from a multilingual perspective. In order to fully understand ...

Study abroad (SA) as a domain of inquiry in the field of Applied Linguistics has been approached from a variety of different perspectives. Although...

This book comprehensively introduces Cognitive Linguistics and applies its tools to religious language. Drawing on authentic samples from a range o...

The Feminist Perspectives Series seeks to provide concise, accessible and engaging introductions to key feminist topics and debates. The texts in t...

Maintaining English as the sole language of knowledge production and dissemination in universities that enrol students who speak multiple languages...

This volume focuses on early modern Italy and some of its key multilingual zones: Venice, Florence, and Rome. It offers a novel insight into the in...

This book deploys and develops the notion of voice in an investigation of Chinas rapidly reshuffling society. The book is structured around two asp...

Against the backdrop of overwhelming discourse scholarship emanating from the Western cosmopolitan centres, this volume offers a development-centre...

This book is the first in a unique series drawn from an interdisciplinary, longitudinal project entitled Thirty Years of Talk. For 30 years, Okano ...

Doing Research within Communities provides real-life examples of field research projects in language and education, offering an overview of researc...

Rhetoric and Communication scholars have recently made notable advances in discovering and/or recovering rhetorical practices of various under-repr...

The Language of Branding: Theory, Strategies and Tactics shows marketers how to use language successfully to improve brand value and influence cons...

From an international, research-led perspective, this book explores how languages are foregrounded in education in different countries and educatio...

This book demonstrates how the multi-faceted nature of the concept of identity makes its relationship with French language both complex and unpredi...

In this monograph, Felicity Rash examines German colonialist texts through the lens of linguistics, using multiple analytic approaches in order to ...

Offering insight into linguistic practices resulting from different kinds of Palestinian-Israeli contact, this book examines a specific conceptuali...

This groundbreaking collection showcases Jenny Cheshires influential work in bringing greater attention to quantitative analysis of socio-grammatic...

This book explores the topics of English accents and pronunciation. It highlights their connections with several important issues in the study of E...

What do different concepts like true lie, bad luck, honest thief, old news, spacetime, glocalization, symplexity, sustainable development, constant...

Elite Discourse examines how language and communication or just discourse define, mediate and legitimize class privilege. It does so from the per...

This book focuses on mediated intercultural communication in the context of globalization. Analyzing social and traditional media using qualitative...