Sociolinguistics

This book offers a comprehensive sociolinguistic overview of the linguistic situation in Japan. Contemporary Japan displays rich linguistic diversi...

Vestiges of monolingual bias are present in the portrayal of study abroad as an idealized monolingual immersion experience and the steps many progr...

This book contributes to the understanding of the transformative power of incorporating translanguaging, the dynamic language practices of bi/multi...

Warren Maguire examines Mid-Ulster English as a key case of new dialect formation, considering the roles of language shift and dialect contact in i...

Starting from the history of concepts, Victor Neumann shows how the variety of connotations associated with the ideas of 'nation' and 'people' have...

New Perspectives on (Im)Politeness and Interpersonal Communication gathers eleven studies by prominent scholars, which explore issues related to (i...

Dictionaries are mines whose word-gems encapsulate centuries of language history and cultural traditions; they are store-houses of meanings and use...

The relationship between language and culture has been the focus of attention in the fields of anthropology, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics ...

This book, by an international group of scholars, focuses on a number of sociolinguistic issues, some of them complex and controversial, linked to ...

This edited collection brings together new research on public service interpreting and translation (PSIT) with a focus on ideology, ethics and poli...

This book is a metaphorical journey through the English lexicon, viewed as a vehicle and a mirror of cultural identity.From the translatability of ...

This volume explores Indigenous measures of economic development in First Nations Atlantic Canadian communities that are of relevance for First Nat...

Politically correct pundits have been attempting to relegate Standard English to the status of a dialect, since they have succumbed to the idea tha...

A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A Globe & Mail Book of the Year A stimulating work on the politics of language. LA Review of Books As globalisa...

This is a book about languages and the people who love them. Sophie Hardach is here to guide us through the strange and wonderful ways that human...

The (dis)empowerment of languages through language policy in multilingual postcolonial communities often shapes speakers identification with these ...

Raciolinguistics reveals the central role that language plays in shaping our ideas about race. The book brings together a team of leading scholars-...

The multiplicity of parallel identities that make up our personalities is a phenomenon in which our individual identitary choices merge with divers...

Why do we speak the way we do, and what do our voices tell others about us? What is the truth behind the myths that surround how we speak? Jane Set...

The twenty-first century has seen a surge in cross-linguistic research on forms of address from increasingly diverse and complementary perspectives...

This volume explores a pivotal period in European history, the ''long'' nineteenth century. Politeness scholars have suggested that the nineteenth ...

The history of English news discourse is characterised by intriguing multilevel developments, and the present cannot be separated from them. For ex...

Focusing on the multi-faceted topic of Eurolects, this volume brings together knowledge and methodologies from various disciplines, including socio...

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the ways in which digital communication facilitate and inform discourses of legitimization and del...

This book provides a comprehensive account of language management and planning at Confucius Institutes in the UK, implementing an ethnographic appr...

The study of how linguistic variation is acquired is considered a nascent field in both psycho- and sociolinguistics. Within that research context,...

This unique volume brings together various academic voices and critical reflections on discursive manifestations of hate and radicalism in contempo...

Eighteenth-century English is often associated with normative grammar. But to what extent did prescriptivism impact ongoing processes of linguistic...

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