Sociolinguistics

This volume offers a critical perspective on current views on linguistic fixity and fluidity in sociolinguistics and highlights empirical accounts ...

This volume serves as an in-depth investigation of the diversity of means and practices that constitute (dis)identification and identity constructi...

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

This volume provides a new perspective on prevailing discourses on translanguaging and multilingualism by looking at glocal languages, local langua...

The relationship between the individual and the community is at the core of sociolinguistic theorizing. To date, most longitudinal research has bee...

This book is about moral talk in contemporary British political discourse, drawing on speeches, debates and radio phone-ins. Using a critical socio...

This book proposes a broad-based multiliteracies theory and praxis for college writing curriculum. Khadka expands on the work of the New London Gro...

Variedades de la lengua española ofrece un panorama general de la variación dialectal y sociolingüística en el espacio hispanohablante, presentado ...

Social processes and the nature of language variation have driven sibilant variation across the Spanish-speaking world. This book explores the curr...

Biculturalism and Spanish in Contact: Sociolinguistic Case Studies provides an original and modern analysis of the development of Spanish and its c...

The study of the prehistory of East Asia is developing very rapidly. In uncovering the story of the flows of human migration that constituted the p...

This book is an essential resource for those new to, developing and established in the field of trans voice. Presented in a workbook style and pack...

In this book, leading scholars in the field of World Englishes (WE) offer fresh perspectives in re-thinking issues on the use of English as a globa...

Based on data from beauty vlogs published by well-known YouTubers, Bhatia explores how they discursively negotiate multiple identities in a creativ...

This volume studies the ways in which modernity has been conceived, practiced, and performed in Indian literatures from the eighteenth to the twent...

Multilingual Digital Humanities explores the impact of monolingualismespecially Anglocentrismon digital practices in the humanities and social scie...

New research expands the linguistic understanding of dialect contact in specific communities and individuals Dialect contact occurs whenever speak...

New research expands the linguistic understanding of dialect contact in specific communities and individuals Dialect contact occurs whenever speak...

This volume covers the field of linguistic (im)politeness in a particular mediated, customer-oriented setting. It is the first book to do so across...

People in the Nordic states Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland rank as among the most proficient speakers of English in the world. In ...

In French Immersion Ideologies in Canada , Sylvie Roy gives voices to people on their experiences related to French immersion programs in Alberta, ...

In French Immersion Ideologies in Canada, Sylvie Roy gives voice to people who have experiences with French immersion programs in Alberta, Canada. ...

Tracing the development of new technological skills and digital cultures, this book looks at the rise of new digital divides and reveals how these ...

The new edition of this classic text chronicles recent breakthrough developments in the field of American English, covering regional, ethnic, and g...

Talking College shows that language is fundamental to Black and African American culture and that linguistic justice is crucial to advancing racial...

This collection critically examines the practical impacts of machine translation (MT) through the lens of an ethics of care. It addresses the ideol...

This book contains a selection of articles on new developments in translation and interpreting studies. It offers a wealth of new and innovative ap...

Taguchi and Roever present the latest developments in second language pragmatics research, combining acquisitional and sociolinguistic perspectives...

In this book, Aidan Doyle traces the history of the Irish language from the time of the Norman invasion at the end of the 12th century to independe...

The Routledge Handbook of Teaching English as an International Language provides a ground-breaking overview of the research on the global spread of...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of historical and postmodern developments in the Moroccan education system, in order to construct a dee...

This volume pushes forward research on (im)politeness by focusing on interpersonal interaction's cultural, digital and emotional aspects. With cont...

This volume brings together representative case studies and surveys that explore research into ritual language, covering theoretical and methodolog...

Food, Language, and Society: Communication in Japanese Foodways examines the language of food in Japanese through the lens of cognitive science and...

Why do some countries have one official language while others have two or more? Why do Indigenous languages have official status in some countries ...

The relationship between diachronic change and synchronic variation at the articulatory, auditory, acoustic and social level is one of the greatest...

This book provides an overview of the current state of minority-language media, from policy formulation to practice, in various contexts around the...

Why are kin, in societies all over the world, divided into joking and avoidance relations? Foundational figures in the human sciences, from E.B. Ty...

This volume adopts a practice-based approach to examine the different ways in which classification is communicated and negotiated in different envi...

Understanding Formulaic Language: A Second Language Acquisition Perspective brings together leading scholars to provide a state-of-the-art, interdi...

Providing an in-depth discussion of emoji use in a global context, this volume presents the use of emoji as a hugely important facet of computer-me...