Sociolinguistics

Written by an international team of leading scholars, this groundbreaking reference work explores the nature of language change and diffusion, and ...

Written by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modern sociolinguistics, this volume examines the cognitive and cultural factors responsible ...

Written by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modern sociolinguistics, this volume examines the cognitive and cultural factors responsible ...

Our favorite movies and TV shows feature indelible characters who tell us about themselves not just in what they say but in how they say it. The cr...

The Language of Queen Elizabeth I presents one of the first diachronic accounts of the language the idiolect of the Tudor monarch who ruled Engla...

Introducción a la Sociolingüística Hispánica es un libro de texto imprescindible para los estudiantes de pregrado que cursan sociolingüística hispá...

Investigates the language learning, multiple literacy development, and schooling and community experiences of the Somali population in Minnesota -...

The Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and Communication Intercultural discourse and communication is emerging as an important area of research in...

This book approaches cultural conceptualizations of our modern world from cultural, linguistic and cognitive perspectives. It explores broader topi...

In this book, Nydia Flores-Ferrán offers a comprehensive examination of linguistic intensification in Spanish and English communication. Flores-Fer...

Africas diversity is best illustrated linguistically. Thousands of endogenous and exogenous languages are linked to and central to the identity and...

Academic Discourse Socialization: Case Study on Multilingual Learners examines academic literacy development. Yutaka Fujieda draws on literacy auto...

The global spread of English, with over two billion users of the language, is now well-documented. English functions as a language of education, bu...

Introducción a la Sociolingüística Hispánica es un libro de texto imprescindible para los estudiantes de pregrado que cursan sociolingüística hispá...

In Amdo, a region of eastern Tibet incorporated into mainland China, young children are being raised in a time of social change. In the first decad...

In Amdo, a region of eastern Tibet incorporated into mainland China, young children are being raised in a time of social change. In the first decad...

This book examines how identities are constructed in digital, multimodal discourse, and how these identities (gender, age, race, ethnicity, profess...

The Language of Harassment: Pragmatic Perspectives on Language as Evidence addresses harassment head-on by conducting a thorough linguistic analysi...

Magical realism has deep roots across many African languages and regions. This book explores African magical realism from a transregional and inclu...

The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization is the first comprehensive overview of the language revitalization movement, from the Arctic to t...

In the 1870s, Wester Boswell was one of two sources to assist Smart and Crofton produce their 'Dialect of the English Gypsies'. Some of Wester's o...

This book is an original study of Cold Rush, an accelerated race for the extraction and protection of Arctic natural resources. The Northernmost re...

The (potential) use of gender-inclusive language is being discussed controversially in the public sphere. Opinions on it have increasingly been voi...

Applying Linguistics: Language and the Impact Agenda explores the challenges of demonstrating the socio-cultural and economic impact of research in...

This collection charts the evolution of grammatical variation in Englishes from Late Middle English to the present, using corpus linguistic tools t...

The contributions in this volume stem from different lines of research and represent both a continuation and an advancement of the European DYLAN p...

The book scrutinizes the language of Polish-origin Highlanders living in CarpathianBukovina. Krasowska has personal, direct knowledge of the life, ...

With the growing recognition of the need to broaden the definition of Interactional Competence (IC) for communication and learning, this monograph ...

Critical Sexuality Studies (CSS) and Lavender Languages/Linguistics (LLL) are leading modes of inquiry in two different fields of sexuality studies...

Bordering Tibetan Languages: Making and Marking Languages in Transnational High Asia examines the complex interactions between state, ethnic, and l...

This book examines language, nation and identity from a gendered perspective and investigates to what extent women use Catalan in their everyday so...

In order to better understand the political conditions of the Arabic language in Israel, a comparison with the political conditions of Arabic in th...

This book includes contributions to research in the area of language use and gender-based violence (GBV). It demonstrates how the mechanisms of gen...

Linguistic contact is a reality of everyday life, as speakers of different languages come into contact with one another, often causing language cha...

Linguistic contact is a reality of everyday life, as speakers of different languages come into contact with one another, often causing language cha...

In recent years, ethnic ways of speaking by young people with migrant background have become an important research object in sociolinguistics; work...

The appearance of Uriel Weinreich's Languages in Contact: Findings and Problems (1953) marked a milestone in the study of multilingualism and langu...

This book is an authoritative account of multilingualism in the present era, a phenomenon affecting a vast number of communities, thousands of lang...

Age is by far the most underdeveloped of the sociolinguistic variables in terms of research literature. To-date, research on age has been patchy an...

This volume provides the first-ever comprehensive analysis of a potential variety of English, spoken in the Greek part of the Mediterranean island ...

This book provides pioneering research on the Hebrew writings of Arab authors in Israel. It shows how authors in their Hebrew writings try to give ...