Sociolinguistics

The relationship between diachronic change and synchronic variation at the articulatory, auditory, acoustic and social level is one of the greatest...

This book provides an overview of the current state of minority-language media, from policy formulation to practice, in various contexts around the...

Why are kin, in societies all over the world, divided into joking and avoidance relations? Foundational figures in the human sciences, from E.B. Ty...

This volume adopts a practice-based approach to examine the different ways in which classification is communicated and negotiated in different envi...

Understanding Formulaic Language: A Second Language Acquisition Perspective brings together leading scholars to provide a state-of-the-art, interdi...

Providing an in-depth discussion of emoji use in a global context, this volume presents the use of emoji as a hugely important facet of computer-me...

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...