Sociolinguistics

The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: A Comprehensive Guide surveys the indigenous languages of Asias North Pacific Rim, Siberia, and adj...

Names are very powerful and significant, especially in the African context. Across societies, there is a universal, albeit taken-for-granted fact t...

The fascinating story of America's oldest thriving heritage language.Winner of the Dale W. Brown Book Award by the Young Center for Anabaptists and...

Da zärtliche Sprechweisen bisher kaum in den Mittelpunkt sprachwissenschaftlichen Interesses gerückt worden sind, fehlt es bislang fast gänzlich an...

Der semantisch gebleichte Fokusmarker (FM) so wird zweifach als abweichend beschrieben: als nicht-standardsprachlich aus Sprachgebrauchsperspektive...

This book examines the roles played by narrative and culture in the construction of legal cases and their resolution. It is articulated in two part...

This volume presents the most wide-ranging treatment available today of the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia and their outliers, a gro...

This volume presents twelve in-depth case studies that critically examine the ways in which historical linguistics and language change interact wit...

Wie wird Propaganda im Medium Fernsehen im 21. Jahrhundert gemacht und welche Strategien werden dafür verwendet? Diesen Fragen geht die vorliegende...

The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages is a wide-ranging reference work that explores the more than 550 traditional and new Indigenous languages ...

The concept of linguistic justice, as applied to minoritized languages, sheds light upon the way in which minoritized communities conduct their li...

The story of how English became American -- and how it became Southern, Bostonian, Californian, African-American, Chicano, elite, working-class, ur...

The Last Language on Earth is an ethnographic history of the disputed Eskayan language, spoken today by an isolated upland community living on the ...

From Singapore to Scotland, Canada to the Channel Islands, Namibia to New Zealand and beyond, International English takes you on a fascinating jour...

Enduring Jewish Communities around the World: Models of Effective Communication employs an organizational communication perspective to examine how ...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the syntactic variation of the dialects of Spanish. More precisely, it covers Spanish theoretical synt...

Linguistic Diversity on the EMI Campus presents an in-depth ethnographic case study of the language policies and practices of universities in nine ...

A treasure trove for sociolinguistic researchers and students alike. Edited by three leading sociolinguists, the 39 chapters cover a wealth of valu...

The fourth volume in the series Language Competence and Language Awareness in Europe features contributions from various philologies in the young b...

This book presents cutting-edge research into the complex interrelationships between linguistic diversity and ideology. It provides insight into ho...

This volume commemorates the 20th anniversary of Michael Clynes seminal volume «Pluricentric languages. Differing norms in different countries» pub...