Sociolinguistics

This book argues that Linguistics, in common with other disciplines such as Anthropology and Sociology, has been shaped by colonization. It outline...

In todays globalised world, large-scale migration is the norm. A contributing factor to the successful settlement of migrants is the ability to acc...

Most introductions to English phonetics and phonology focus primarily on British or American English, which fails to account for the rich diversity...

This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English with around 1.5 million speakers...

This book explores the life and experiences of one of the world's most renowned and well-respected experts in bilingualism. François Grosjean takes...

When talk circulates through technological media - through television or radio and through the activities they support, like the dissemination of n...

Remade in France: Anglicisms in the Lexicon and Morphology of French chronicles the current status of French Anglicisms, a popular topic in the his...

A surging movement for Catalan political independence from Spain has brought renewed urgency to questions about what it means, personally and polit...

The Atlas presents full colour maps of the distribution among the pidgins and creoles of 120 structural linguistic features drawn from their phonol...

In the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin has re-emerged as a global city in large part thanks to its reputation as a literary city ...

The grammatical category of voice covers a wide range of phenomena, including causatives, applicatives, passives, antipassives, middles, and others...

In the context of Black Lives Matter, decolonizing initiatives, #MeToo, climate emergency protests and other movements for social and environmental...

Telling and compelling Susie Dent, author of Word Perfect Rob Drummond has achieved something very special in this book David Crystal, author of Ho...

This book argues for an approach to linguistic ethnography which departs from the singular gaze of the academic researcher, to amplify instead the ...

Exploring the roles of students pluralistic linguistic and transnational identities at the university level, this book offers a novel approach to t...

In the last decade, the availability of corpora and the technological advancements of corpus tools have increased dramatically. Applied linguists h...

Is there a special niche reserved for women's language? This is the theory tested empirically by the authors of Women's language, by means of an ex...

Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrainedWe use words and phrases creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, ...

How we communicate with each other matters greatly. Our identity, our friendships and marriages, our families, and our culture are the product of h...

This groundbreaking book in theoretical and empirical phraseology research looks at Europes linguistic situation as a whole, including 74 European ...