Sociolinguistics

Bringing together a renowned group of scholars from a range of disciplines sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, philosophy of language, and ...

This book presents a sociocultural linguistic analysis of discourses of conflict, as well as an examination of how linguistic identity is embodied,...

For more than three decades, the percentage of people who married someone of a different race, ethnicity, culture, or linguistic background has bee...

Drawing on extensive research over more than two decades, this book focuses on toys and games as resources for play. It analyses their functionalit...

Examining how diverse social identities are constructed in digital communication in China, this edited collection provides a multidimensional explo...

This volume investigates the policy and practice of medium of instruction at different levels of education in Asian polities including Bangladesh, ...

Regionalism is a term that has been used to describe many different kinds of phenomena, including political, geographical, architectural, and liter...

This collection brings together a range of perspectives on multimodal communication in intercultural interaction, bridging cognitive, social, and f...

Volume two of Electoral Politics in Zimbabwe: The 2023 Election and Beyond argues that research into Zimbabwes politics is multifaceted and topical...

Based on the commonly held assumption that we now live in a world that is on the move, with growing opportunities for both real and virtual travel ...

The archaeologist, philologist, and Linguistics theoretician Nikolai Marr (1865-1934) has attracted increasing scholarly attention as a pivotal fig...

Set on the Italian island of Sardinia, Sing Me Back Home explores language and culture through songwriting as an ethnographic method. Based on thir...

This inter-disciplinary book is the first in an Irish context to address issues connected with the super-diversifying of language and society engen...

While economic forces are often cited as being a key cause of language loss, there is very little research that explores this link in detail. This ...

This book delves into Benjamin Franklins English, illustrating the variable nature of 18th-century American English and his stylistic manipulation ...

This book is about the social condition of Deaf people, told through a Deaf womans autobiography and a series of essays investigating how hearing s...

This book provides a detailed overview of research on mutual intelligibility between closely related languages. The book is organized around three...

While top-down policies and declarations have yet to establish equal status and opportunities for speakers of all languages in practice, activists ...

A groundbreaking new work that sheds light on case studies of linguistic human rights around the world, raising much-needed awareness of the strugg...

Set on the Italian island of Sardinia, Sing Me Back Home explores language and culture through songwriting as an ethnographic method. Based on thir...

As the first text to present, in one place, a comprehensive and systematic overview of Spanish language acquisition research, The Acquisition of Sp...

As the first text to present, in one place, a comprehensive and systematic overview of Spanish language acquisition research, The Acquisition of Sp...

Eating disorders remain little understood by the public, and sensationalist stories in the media have done little to dispel simplistic and reductio...

The book is dedicated to the linguistic, psycholinguistic, and ethnolinguistic dimensions of Italian as a heritage language spoken by minorities in...

This book focuses on the structure and sociolinguistics of Nigerian Pidgin English. Its major aim is to serve as a compendium which touches differe...

Discourse and ideology are quintessential, albeit contested concepts in many functionally oriented branches of linguistics, such as linguistic anth...

This publication examines the complex phenomenon of language contact in its various facets, both for its subject matter and for the variety of inte...

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...

This book reinvents aspects of the rhetorical tradition as part of a philosophical pluralism oriented to All-in-Allness. Its chapters unfold some o...

Documenting how in the course of acquiring language children become speakers and members of communities, The Handbook of Language Socialization is ...

This ethnographic work examines both the colonial language governmentality imposed by the Turkish state and the Kurdish language activism as a resp...

Using top Chinese and American airlines as examples, this book approaches the construction of corporate identities on social media, a critical issu...

This book offers a cutting-edge compilation of studies on (re)conceptualized traditions in a wide variety of discourses such as the language of emo...