Sociolinguistics

Linguistic Penalties and the Job Interview looks at a relatively untapped area of language and social life: the role of language and interaction in...

In Language Creativity: A Semiotic Perspective, Simone Casini aims to frame the concept of creativity within a linguistic dimension by developing a...

The landscape of broadcast news media is constantly changing, partly under the influence of changing technology but also due to changes in the soci...

This textbook provides an accessible overview of the field of sociolinguistics. Blending qualitative and quantitative approaches and including exam...

Translinguistics represents a powerful alternative to conventional paradigms of language such as bilingualism and code-switching, which assume the ...

This volume presents key results of the Estudo comparativo de variedades africanas, brasileiras e europeias do Português (ALFAL Project 21): (i) a...

In dieser Studie werden die traditionellen Methoden aus der Dialektgeographie (Variablenanalyse auf Basis des mhd. Bezugssystems) mit denen der Wah...

Das Einführungsbuch beschreibt die deutsche Sprache in allen Dimensionen und Rängen unter der Leitfrage, wie Sprache, Wissen, und Handeln zusammenh...

Describing Prescriptivism provides a topical and thought-provoking analysis of linguistic prescriptivism in British and American English, from a hi...

This volume is the first to offer a comprehensive and, at the same time, in-depth examination of the spread of English and English language educati...

The discipline of translation studies has gained increasing importance at the beginning of the 21st century as a result of rapid globalization and ...

This volume explores issues of memory, remembering and language in late colonial India. It is the first systematic historical sociolinguistic study...

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Superdiversity provides an accessible and authoritative overview of this growing area, the linguistic analys...

This volume outlines a model of language that can be characterized as functionalist, usage-based, dynamic, and complex-adaptive. The core idea is t...

This book is the first comprehensive and systematic introduction to the linguistics of humor. Salvatore Attardo takes a broad approach to the topic...

An illustrated analytical study, Words and the First World War considers the situation at home, at war, and under categories such as race, gender a...

WINNER of the 2021 British Association for Applied Linguistics Book prize It is well recognized that when people are living with a dementia, effec...

The book presents two fundamental theories that characterize the cultural-historical perspective in cognitive semantics: the Four-Level Theory of C...

Mandarin Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the world today. In China, a country with a vast array of regional and local vernaculars, ho...

Mandarin Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the world today. In China, a country with a vast array of regional and local vernaculars, ho...

Econarratives are all around us, describing and shaping human interactions with other species and the physical environment. This book provides a fo...