Sociolinguistics

This study focuses on the devices implemented in Classical Indian texts on ritual and language in order to develop a structure of rules in an econo...

This book is a pioneering work. It discusses special characteristics of the education of Sámi people, an indigenous people living in Northern Europ...

This study explores the argument that postcolonial Africa has been the setting for competing external language spread policies (LSPs) by ex-colonia...

This volume examines the use of French in European language communities outside France from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. The phenomeno...

This book takes an engaging look at the significance of traditional proverbs and their variation in the modern world. From sales pitch to propagand...

Idioms are universal to all languages, and figurative language is pervasive in everyday discourse. However, idiom studies rarely touch on the probl...

Have dictionaries of English indeed affected their users predisposition towards women to such an extent that we can posit a causal relation between...

This volume gathers a superbcollection of articles on current research topicsfocused on the Catalan language andculture of the Catalan-speaking lan...

Court interpreting understood as services provided for court stakeholders and courts private clients is a subdiscipline which has emerged as an are...

This book consists of scientific chapters devoted to innovative approaches to examination of anthropocentrism. It depicts human beings as physical,...

This book offers a range of empirically-based case studies in the field of cultural linguistics and neighbouring disciplines such as intercultural ...

This study analyses left dislocation, prepositions, and the progressive aspect in Ugandan English. It uses spoken data of English speakers with the...

Comme la noté le philosophe Jacques Derrida, lenregistrement des voix a été lun des évènements marquants du siècle passé. Le sociolinguiste William...

Universities are pressed to compete within the global scene of international higher education. What is the status of the national or local language...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offere...

This volume explores linguistic diversity and complexity in different urban contexts, many of which have never been subject to significant socioli...

This book tackles the linguistically unique and notoriously difficult BA construction in Chinese, covering its linguistic properties and acquisitio...

This book is a multidisciplinary analysis of the meaning and dynamics of multilingualism from the perspectives of multilingual societies and langua...

Why is it that some ways of using English are considered good and others are considered bad? Why are certain forms of language termed elegant, eloq...

Geordie Stylizations is a short-focused research work which builds on the renovated interest on the nexus between accent-identity-prestige-prejudic...