Sociolinguistics

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...

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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,...

This unique collection of essays, edited by and for students of linguistics, offers insights into the personal and professional journeys of some of...

This unique collection of essays, edited by and for students of linguistics, offers insights into the personal and professional journeys of some of...

This book represents the cutting-edge ideas on translation studies in recent years from Chinas pioneer translator Xu Jun. The book discusses the fo...

How do the social, material, and spatial processes underlying the making of early modern missionary grammars, vocabularies, and devotional translat...

This book examines the discourse of Muslim televangelism in the West, particularly looking at the emergence of 'home-grown' televangelists who grew...

Language standardization is problematic because it imposes the dominant groups linguistic variety as the only correct one and promotes the idea of ...

This book critically and reectively engages with the Language Problem in the contemporary multilingual university. It paints a complex picture of t...

This book brings together a range of hip hop scholars, artists and activists working on Hip Hop in the Global North and South with the goal of adva...

This book provides a wealth of insights into the use of technology to deliver university courses with English as the medium of instruction (EMI). I...