Sociolinguistics

Language politics in the new global era presents policymakers with significant ethical challenges. How should the reality of English as a global la...

Co-speech gestures are ubiquitous: when people speak, they almost always produce gestures. Gestures reflect content in the mind of the speaker, oft...

The main focus of this volume is test development and accreditation requirements and needs. One of the major objectives here is to show the key asp...

English in the World: History, Diversity, Change examines the English language as it has developed through history and is used across the globe tod...

The essays, research studies, and pedagogical examples in this book provide a window into the embodied dimensions of literacy and a toolbox for int...

This textbook introduces students to the ways in which techniques from corpus linguistics can be used to aid sociolinguistic research. Corpus lingu...

Slang, however one judges it, shows us at our most human. It is used widely and often, typically associated with the writers of noir fiction, teena...

Gestures are fundamental to the way we communicate, yet our understanding of this communicative impulse is clouded by a number of ingrained assumpt...

This book offers a comprehensive sociolinguistic overview of the linguistic situation in Japan. Contemporary Japan displays rich linguistic diversi...

Vestiges of monolingual bias are present in the portrayal of study abroad as an idealized monolingual immersion experience and the steps many progr...

This book contributes to the understanding of the transformative power of incorporating translanguaging, the dynamic language practices of bi/multi...

Warren Maguire examines Mid-Ulster English as a key case of new dialect formation, considering the roles of language shift and dialect contact in i...

Starting from the history of concepts, Victor Neumann shows how the variety of connotations associated with the ideas of 'nation' and 'people' have...

New Perspectives on (Im)Politeness and Interpersonal Communication gathers eleven studies by prominent scholars, which explore issues related to (i...

Dictionaries are mines whose word-gems encapsulate centuries of language history and cultural traditions; they are store-houses of meanings and use...

The relationship between language and culture has been the focus of attention in the fields of anthropology, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics ...

This book, by an international group of scholars, focuses on a number of sociolinguistic issues, some of them complex and controversial, linked to ...