Sociolinguistics

This volume offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of applied research efforts in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This region has ...

Research into cross-linguistic aspects and typology of word-formation has not been paid relevant and systematic attention by morphologists, and onl...

Methods of linguistic data collection are among the most central aspects in empirical linguistics. While written questionnaires have only played a ...

Methods of linguistic data collection are among the most central aspects in empirical linguistics. While written questionnaires have only played a ...

This volume provides a sample of the most recent studies on Spanish-English codeswitching both in the Caribbean and among bilinguals in the United ...

Sociophonetics - the interface of sociolinguistics and phonetics - is a field that has expanded rapidly in recent years. A subject that requires bo...

From the twins Osugi and Peeco to longstanding icon Miwa Akihiro, Claire Maree traces the figure of the Japanese queerqueen, showing how a diversit...

In Tongues of Fire, Nancy Farriss investigates the role of language and translation in the creation of Mexican Christianity during the first centur...

While other books focus on special internet registers, like tweets or texting, no previous study describes the full range of everyday registers fou...

We all know that speech can be harmful. But what are the harms and how exactly does the speech in question brings those harms about? Mary Kate McGo...

Metaphors help us understand abstract concepts, emotions, and social relations through the concrete experience of our own bodies. Conceptual Metaph...

Since the publication of his groundbreaking books Writing Without Teachers and Writing with Power, Peter Elbow has revolutionized the way we think ...

This book details innovative developments in the pragmatics and lexicogrammar of speakers using English as a lingua franca. There have been conside...

This volume presents a collection of papers from the second Interfaces in Language conference, hosted from 5-7 May 2009 at the University of Kent a...

American English(es) focuses on the manifold nature of a macro-regional variety of English which is better described in the plural form, thus enhan...

The present volume includes a selection of twenty-nine papers by academics, and senior and junior researchers who came together within the framewor...