Sociolinguistics

This book demonstrates that everyday interactions and struggles over the right words to use are at the heart of the experience of those in same-sex...

In Narratives in East Asia and Beyond: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Using Narratives as a Research Method, contributors from diverse fields ...

This book provides a detailed and comprehensive design of a new second language literacy pedagogy and the results of implementing this pedagogy in ...

This book provides a detailed and comprehensive design of a new second language literacy pedagogy and the results of implementing this pedagogy in ...

Whether through speech, writing, or other methods, language and communication has been an essential tool for human cooperation and development. Acr...

Ten years since the eruption of the Arab Spring, El Mustapha Lahlali explores the dialectical relationship between discourse and social change duri...

Explores the role of language in the ongoing social, cultural and political changes of the Arab world Provides a detailed micro- and macro-analysi...

Colonial Voices explores the role of language in the greater 'civilising' project of the British Empire through the dissemination and reception of,...

This book provides a pioneering introduction to heritage languages and their speakers, written by one of the founders of this new field. Using exam...

The global spread of English has had widespread linguistic, social, and cultural implications, affecting the lives of millions of people around the...

I'm not a racist, but You look good, for your age She was asking for it You're crazy That's so gay Have you ever wondered why certain language has ...

Language contact occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence one another. Drawing on the author's own first...

This lively account of the making of Canadian English traces the variety's conceptual, social and linguistic developments from the twentieth centur...

Exploring creole studies from a linguistic, historical, and socio-cultural perspective, this study advances our knowledge of the subject by using a...

Responding to the need for a comprehensive treatment of Mexican American English and its varied influences across multiple generations, this volume...

Understanding the role of language within the formation of a sense of self has been revolutionised by developments in social theory, particularly p...

Drawing on vast amounts of new data from live, unscripted radio and TV broadcasts, and the internet, this is a brilliant and original analysis of c...

Over the last two decades, reading groups have become increasingly popular in the UK and the USA. More and more people seem to be interested in sha...