Sociolinguistics

(Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions presents a timely response to the ''''moral turn'''' in (im)politeness studies. This volume, ...

This book contributes new perspectives from the Global South on the ways in which linguistic and discursive boundaries shape inequalities in educat...

Linguistics has had a significant and evident impact on economics, and vice versa. However, this mutually beneficial relationship has so far remain...

South Africa is a country characterised by great linguistic diversity. Large indigenous languages, such as isiZulu and isiXhosa, are spoken by many...

Bilingual language behaviour is driven by numerous factors that are usually studied in isolation, even though individual factors never operate alon...

Written by a wide range of highly regarded scholars and exciting junior ones, this book critiques and operationalizes contemporary thinking in the ...

In this impactful addition to the field of ethnolinguistics, Willian W. Megenney dissects the influence of African languages and cultures on contem...

Examines the social functions of attitude dative pronouns in four Arabic dialects Analysing data from a variety of sources, including soap operas, ...

By the award-winning former president of the Linguistic Society of America, this collection of some of John Russell Rickford's pioneering works sho...

The Atlas presents full colour maps of the distribution among the pidgins and creoles of 120 structural linguistic features drawn from their phonol...

This posthumous work by Jacques Arends offers new insights into the emergence of the creole languages of Suriname including Sranantongo or Suriname...

The Politics of English: Conflict, Competition, Co-existence explores policies and practices that affect the use and position of English. The b...

The loss of Negative Concord (NC) has long been attributed to external factors. This study readdresses this issue and provides evidence of the fail...