Sociolinguistics

Coal mining, a prominent industry once situated at the heart of communities across the East Midlands, has now completely ceased in the UK. Although...

Published in honour of Professor Yasir Suleiman, this collection acknowledges his contribution to the field of language and society in general, and...

This two-volume Campus Talk set delivers a wide range of skills and strategies which students can actively apply in everyday social communication i...

This two-volume Campus Talk set delivers a wide range of skills and strategies which students can actively apply in everyday social communication i...

Edinburgh (now the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics), such as eLALME (the electronic version A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval En...

Riots, strikes and protests are heavily mediatised events. Media representations thus play a crucial role in narrating instances of civil disorder ...

Moving between linguistic, professional and national boundaries is part of the daily reality of modern workplaces, where the concept of a 'job for ...

This book brings together two types of varieties of English that have so far been treated separately: postcolonial and non-postcolonial Englishes. ...

Membering the Rhodesian Linguistic Agenda in Zimbabwe reports on a study carried out in Zimbabwe to ascertain the degree and effect of honouring th...

Have you ever looked at a word and thought: I wonder where that came from? You might well find the answer in this book, which considers the origin ...

This book explores language maintenance and development in the linguistic lives of second-, third-, and fourth-generation immigrants as they naviga...

This edited collection provides a comprehensive and locally situated understanding of English language teaching from the perspective of dedicated a...

This monograph offers a novel investigation of the Edwardian picture postcard as an innovative form of multimodal communication, revealing much abo...

The Peer Effect: Non-Traditional Models of Instruction in Spanish as a Heritage Language guides an important pedagogical conversation on the releva...

Comprising 11 countries and hundreds of languages from one of the most culturally diverse regions in the world, the chapters in this collection exp...

Uncovering the complexity of linguistic diversity and semiotic creativity, this book examines the issues of power, affect, and identity in both phy...

Plain Language: A Psycholinguistic Approach employs principles from the field of psycholinguistics to explore factors that make a sentence or text ...

This book examines antagonistic fan communication on Chinese social media, focusing on the sociolinguistic dimensions and digital strategies in fan...

Plain Language: A Psycholinguistic Approach employs principles from the field of psycholinguistics to explore factors that make a sentence or text ...

This collection showcases the diversity and disciplinary breadth of small stories research, highlighting the growing critical mass of scholarship o...

Written by distinguished legal and linguistic scholars and practitioners from the EU institutions, the contributions in this volume provide multidi...

Language constitutes a very sensitive nexus between the concepts of territory and community. Though a fundamental issue in contemporary societies, ...

Originally published in 1964, this book examines where and how the pattern and texture of speech emerged and whether language is logical. It looks ...