Sociolinguistics

The main question of this book, which focuses on the role of the Old Testament in the South African context, is: If reread from an African liberati...

This unique collection, The Transatlantic Culture Trade: Caribbean Creole Proverbs from Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean, celebrates indigenous Ca...

The teaching of English in multilingual contexts such as Zimbabwe, where English is often not the primary language of the Black majority public sch...

The present volume is a monographic study devoted to selected aspects of English historical phonology, orthography, syntax, morphology and semantic...

Taboo in Discourse: Studies on Attenuation and Offence in Communication combines cognitive, multimodal, translation and (critical) discourse-relat...

The book provides a significant insight into the complex process of English loanword adaptation in Russian. It is based on an in-depth analysis and...

The work is intended as an aid for those who aspire to create multilingual LSP collocational dictionaries. Apart from an extensive theoretical back...

The contributors to the volume, coming from different areas of the Humanities and Social Sciences, address several timely and important issues that...

This book focuses on the representation of the Gaeltacht in the Irish press. It examines texts from a key moment in the history of Irish journalism...

This book focuses on the representation of the Gaeltacht in the Irish press. It examines texts from a key moment in the history of Irish journalism...

Recent decades of studies have been human-centred while zooming in on cognition, verbal choices and performance. () [and] have provided interesting...

The volume Urban Voices presents studies, analysing how speakers of Russian convey social meanings across a variety of speech situations. Rooted in...

This book takes the reader through a journey into the practical and theoretical aspects of partner-based learning in bilingual early childhood envi...

This book takes the reader through a journey into the practical and theoretical aspects of partner-based learning in bilingual early childhood envi...

What is identity and how do we construct identity? Why do we have to deconstruct identities again? And what is the role that language policy measur...

The Polish language was brought to Brazil by Polish-speaking peasants who came to the New World in the late 19th and early 20th century. Since the...

This volume was inspired by the 9th edition of the Phonetik & Phonologie conference, held in Zurich in October 2013. It includes state of the a...

Theres No Word for Saudade contains twenty-one essays aimed at a readership interested in cultural and historical materials, including those relate...

This book offers an overview of issues related to the regulated, formal organization of sound and speech in verse intended for singing. Particularl...