Sociolinguistics

In a letter addressed to his two children who died from an incurable disease, Me. Bastarache recounts his constant fight for equality between franc...

I have run the gauntlet of many borders in my time, but the border I grew up with at home was far and away the most trying, writes Seamas OCathain,...

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

Written by translation practitioners, teachers and researchers, this edited volume is a much-needed contribution to the under-researched area of co...

Bringing together a team of renowned international scholars, this volume provides a wide-ranging collection of historical and state-of-the-art pers...

The processes of gemination, lenition, and vowel lengthening are central to the study of phonology, as they reveal much about the treatment of quan...

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

This concise collection features seven studies on agency in language policy and planning across five different national contexts. Building on theme...

The focus of this book is on the impact of politics on language and identity in Hong Kong. The book is the first study to track real time language ...

This is an extended case study on Tanzania highlighting the latest theoretical and methodological approaches in sociolinguistics. A study of the po...

This is an extended case study on Tanzania highlighting the latest theoretical and methodological approaches in sociolinguistics. A study of the po...

In this revised and updated 2nd edition of her pioneering textbook, Allyson Jule offers fresh insights into the study of language and gender for th...

In this revised and updated 2nd edition of her pioneering textbook, Allyson Jule offers fresh insights into the study of language and gender for th...

A treasure trove for sociolinguistic researchers and students alike. Edited by three leading sociolinguists, the 39 chapters cover a wealth of valu...

In the online world, people argue about anything and everything - religion is no exception. Stephen Pihlaja investigates how several prominent soci...

In this third, fully revised edition, the 10 volume Encyclopedia of Language and Education offers the newest developments, including an entirely ne...

How did Russian writers respond to linguistic debate in the post-Soviet period?Post-Soviet Russia was a period of linguistic liberalisation, instab...

In this third, fully revised edition, the 10 volume Encyclopedia of Language and Education offers the newest developments, including an entirely ne...