Sociolinguistics

This collection provides a broad account of variationist sociolinguistic research on varieties of German, with the goals to encourage greater geoli...

Bilingualism provides a concise and lively introduction to bilingualism as a social and linguistic phenomenon and explains its impact on individual...

This book examines the relationship between media and medicine. Drawing on insights from anthropology, linguistics, and media studies, it considers...

This book provides beginners with a sense of the questions and methods that make up the philosophy of language. The first four chapters develop the...

This book provides beginners with a sense of the questions and methods that make up the philosophy of language. The first four chapters develop the...

Raciolinguistics reveals the central role that language plays in shaping our ideas about race and vice versa. The book brings together a team of le...

Were we talked into Brexit? And who is 'we'? It's impossible to do politics without words and a context to use them in. And it's impossible to make...

Were we talked into Brexit? And who is 'we'? It's impossible to do politics without words and a context to use them in. And it's impossible to make...

Dieses Buch bietet einen kritischen Überblick über zeitgenössische Weltfragen in der Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft. Es präsentiert spezifische ...

This book presents the findings from original research about court interpreting in the disciplines of humanities and social sciences from a linguis...

Verbal and nonverbal communicative acts mark the links within our discourse, help us to exchange turns and give backchannel in conversation. This b...

Verbal and nonverbal communicative acts mark the links within our discourse, help us to exchange turns and give backchannel in conversation. This b...

Corpus Linguistics for Virtual Workplace Discourse provides a thorough and practical step-by-step guide to constructing and analysing a multi-modal...

Corpus Linguistics for Virtual Workplace Discourse provides a thorough and practical step-by-step guide to constructing and analysing a multi-modal...

How can teachers ensure a pedagogy of possibility underpinned by social justice, and what has literacy got to do with this? This book explores the ...

Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation presents a comprehensive, intermediate level examination of Language Variation a...

Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation presents a comprehensive, intermediate level examination of Language Variation a...

Language is associated with social relations and is a channel for people to participate in various social activities. This captivating volume explo...

The emergence of new English dialects in postcolonial regions has transformed the politics of English in the world and language ecologies in many r...

The definitive reference work on the dynamic and evolving field of world Englishes The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes is the first...

The capacity to concentrate and comprehend spoken language of multiple expressions (i.e., listening comprehension) is one of the essential aspect t...

Why should we study language? How do the ways in which we communicate define our identities? And how is this all changing in the digital world? Sin...

Arabic became a minority language overnight in Israel in 1948, as a result of the Palestinian exodus from their land that year. Although it remains...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offere...

A new, fully revised edition of this bestselling textbook in linguistic anthropology, updated to address the impacts of globalization, pandemics, a...

This edited book focuses on the ways in which contemporary societal challenges are constructed, mediated and lived through language and other semio...

An exhilarating new account of the English language, from British colonialism to the age of social media, emphasizing dynamism and democratization ...

This book focuses on abstract entity anaphora in argumentative texts with Ashers (1993) Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) as the the...

This book examines how people around the world have articulated and shaped their experiences of COVID-19 through a sociolinguistic phenomenon known...

This book examines how people around the world have articulated and shaped their experiences of COVID-19 through a sociolinguistic phenomenon known...

This book examines how people around the world have articulated and shaped their experiences of COVID-19 through a sociolinguistic phenomenon known...

This book examines how people around the world have articulated and shaped their experiences of COVID-19 through a sociolinguistic phenomenon known...

This book examines how people around the world have articulated and shaped their experiences of COVID-19 through a sociolinguistic phenomenon known...

This book examines how people around the world have articulated and shaped their experiences of COVID-19 through a sociolinguistic phenomenon known...

This book encourages further conversation on the expanding circle in World Englishes, offering a detailed look at China English through the academi...

This handbook brings together contributions from the main experts in the field of multilingualism and language varieties (including dialects, accen...

This book argues that future generations of modernity as a whole will shape participatory modernization whether Chinese modernization or Western mo...

This book explores how studies of language and aging can be applied to build an aging-friendly society, drawing on the socio-pragmatic turn in lang...

This illuminating book critically examines multicultural language politics and policymaking in the Andean-Amazonian countries of Ecuador, Peru, and...

Conventional wisdom dictates that individuals who learn American Sign Language (ASL) at a young age possess a higher level of proficiency than thos...

This edited volume critiques the hegemonic values and practices that have shaped the contemporary condition of English language education in Chile,...