Sociolinguistics

The new edition of this classic text chronicles recent breakthrough developments in the field of American English, covering regional, ethnic, and g...

Talking College shows that language is fundamental to Black and African American culture and that linguistic justice is crucial to advancing racial...

This collection critically examines the practical impacts of machine translation (MT) through the lens of an ethics of care. It addresses the ideol...

This book contains a selection of articles on new developments in translation and interpreting studies. It offers a wealth of new and innovative ap...

Taguchi and Roever present the latest developments in second language pragmatics research, combining acquisitional and sociolinguistic perspectives...

In this book, Aidan Doyle traces the history of the Irish language from the time of the Norman invasion at the end of the 12th century to independe...

The Routledge Handbook of Teaching English as an International Language provides a ground-breaking overview of the research on the global spread of...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of historical and postmodern developments in the Moroccan education system, in order to construct a dee...

This volume pushes forward research on (im)politeness by focusing on interpersonal interaction's cultural, digital and emotional aspects. With cont...

This volume brings together representative case studies and surveys that explore research into ritual language, covering theoretical and methodolog...

Food, Language, and Society: Communication in Japanese Foodways examines the language of food in Japanese through the lens of cognitive science and...

Why do some countries have one official language while others have two or more? Why do Indigenous languages have official status in some countries ...

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...