Sociolinguistics

This volume offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of applied research efforts in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This region has ...

Research into cross-linguistic aspects and typology of word-formation has not been paid relevant and systematic attention by morphologists, and onl...

Methods of linguistic data collection are among the most central aspects in empirical linguistics. While written questionnaires have only played a ...

Methods of linguistic data collection are among the most central aspects in empirical linguistics. While written questionnaires have only played a ...

This volume provides a sample of the most recent studies on Spanish-English codeswitching both in the Caribbean and among bilinguals in the United ...

Sociophonetics - the interface of sociolinguistics and phonetics - is a field that has expanded rapidly in recent years. A subject that requires bo...

From the twins Osugi and Peeco to longstanding icon Miwa Akihiro, Claire Maree traces the figure of the Japanese queerqueen, showing how a diversit...

In Tongues of Fire, Nancy Farriss investigates the role of language and translation in the creation of Mexican Christianity during the first centur...

While other books focus on special internet registers, like tweets or texting, no previous study describes the full range of everyday registers fou...

We all know that speech can be harmful. But what are the harms and how exactly does the speech in question brings those harms about? Mary Kate McGo...

Metaphors help us understand abstract concepts, emotions, and social relations through the concrete experience of our own bodies. Conceptual Metaph...

Since the publication of his groundbreaking books Writing Without Teachers and Writing with Power, Peter Elbow has revolutionized the way we think ...

This book details innovative developments in the pragmatics and lexicogrammar of speakers using English as a lingua franca. There have been conside...

This volume presents a collection of papers from the second Interfaces in Language conference, hosted from 5-7 May 2009 at the University of Kent a...

American English(es) focuses on the manifold nature of a macro-regional variety of English which is better described in the plural form, thus enhan...

The present volume includes a selection of twenty-nine papers by academics, and senior and junior researchers who came together within the framewor...

(Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions presents a timely response to the ''''moral turn'''' in (im)politeness studies. This volume, ...

This book contributes new perspectives from the Global South on the ways in which linguistic and discursive boundaries shape inequalities in educat...

Linguistics has had a significant and evident impact on economics, and vice versa. However, this mutually beneficial relationship has so far remain...

South Africa is a country characterised by great linguistic diversity. Large indigenous languages, such as isiZulu and isiXhosa, are spoken by many...

Bilingual language behaviour is driven by numerous factors that are usually studied in isolation, even though individual factors never operate alon...

Written by a wide range of highly regarded scholars and exciting junior ones, this book critiques and operationalizes contemporary thinking in the ...

In this impactful addition to the field of ethnolinguistics, Willian W. Megenney dissects the influence of African languages and cultures on contem...

Examines the social functions of attitude dative pronouns in four Arabic dialects Analysing data from a variety of sources, including soap operas, ...

By the award-winning former president of the Linguistic Society of America, this collection of some of John Russell Rickford's pioneering works sho...

The Atlas presents full colour maps of the distribution among the pidgins and creoles of 120 structural linguistic features drawn from their phonol...