Sociolinguistics

Language Attrition among Immigrant Teachers of Spanish is the first book devoted entirely to Spanish language attrition in all language areas and s...

Intentions in Comedy Discourse presents a systematic pragmatic analysis of stand-up comedy. Drawing on previous literature on humour, socio-cogniti...

Who is involved and why in the linguistic landscapes in educational contexts? How are agency and activism reflected in educationscapes? These quest...

This book offers both an empirical examination of language ideologies and language policies in post-Arab Spring Tunisia and a detailed critical and...

This book explores gendered language and gender identities negotiated by seven tertiary students of Japanese as an additional language (JAL) in Aus...

Inclusive Language: Educating for Sociolinguistics Agency within the Language Learning Classroom analyses standardised and non-standardized uses of...

Inclusive Language: Educating for Sociolinguistics Agency within the Language Learning Classroom analyses standardised and non-standardized uses of...

Italy is known for its history of emigration, with millions leaving its borders to find new beginnings elsewhere. They take with them their languag...

This open access book takes an innovative and critical look at the ways in which digital data and algorithms are changing the face of higher educat...

This book is a linguistic analysis of the British obesity media narrative, analysing a large corpus of published newspaper articles to demonstrate ...

Children spend a significant amount of time interacting online rather than face-to-face. Yet we know very little about the language they use during...

Children spend a significant amount of time interacting online rather than face-to-face. Yet we know very little about the language they use during...

This book brings together a collection of case studies that explore the relationship between health and masculinity. It covers various topics relat...

English Medium Instruction (EMI) is a burgeoning field of interest for researchers and practitioners; however, to date its sociocultural and politi...

People from different places use different words for things, even everyday things such as carbonated beverages (e.g. soda, coke, pop) or bread roll...

Languages do not exist beyond their speakers, but the history of individual languages has often been told as if they had a life of their own, emerg...

Languages do not exist beyond their speakers, but the history of individual languages has often been told as if they had a life of their own, emerg...

This is a revised and updated edition of a seminal text in the field of Cognitive Linguistics, written in an engaging and accessible style for a ne...

This book is the first overview of Romanian political discourse, analysing samples of various political discourse genres (parliamentary and preside...

This book delves into the multifaceted concept of translanguaging, offering a comprehensive examination from its foundational theories to its pract...

This collection explores the critical decolonial practices of applied linguistics researchers from Latin America and the Latin American diaspora, s...

This book studies the intersection of language and social privilege in education in India. Drawing on rich ethnographic detail and primary data, it...

This volume shows that, by moving away from code models that foster restrictive perceptions of language as learned words and rules, and towards an ...

First published in 1992, Vocabularies of Public Life explores the revolution that has taken place in our understanding of contemporary culture and ...

Drawing on the underrepresentation of the Global South in global knowledge production with a focus on the existing inequalities, the book highlight...

This collection highlights new perspectives on the work of Erving Goffman, revisiting his place in contemporary social theory and interactional lin...

Typical and Atypical Language Development in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity brings together state-of-the-art studies in both typical and atypica...

Language, Health and Culture brings together contributions by linguistic scholars working in the area of health communication in Asiain particular,...

Drawing on a corpus of 113 narratives told by migrant workers who have returned to their home country, Ladegaard details Indonesian and Filipina (d...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Our ability to find meaning in things is one of the most important aspects of human life. Bu...

This book examines the validity of the notion of the vernacular and the position of the so-called vernaculars in colonial and postcolonial settings...

The Routledge Handbook of Descriptive Rhetorical Studies and World Languages offers a useful collection of papers that presents rhetorical analysis...

This volume offers an insider perspective on language policy in the EU, bringing together two key figures well acquainted with its development to r...

How do people talk about marriage? Who gets to do the talking? When, why, where and how do these things change? From the experiences of women force...

This book addresses contemporary issues in the assessment of plurilingual competence and plurilingual learners. Offering theoretical and practical ...

This book focuses on literary multilingualism and specifically on the challenging condition of writing in Trieste, a key European borderland locate...

Across many social and commercial domains, governments regulate the official names used to identify individuals, groups, places, companies & pr...

Often thought of as a solitary activity, the practice of reading can in fact encode the complex politics of community formation. Engagement with li...

This book sets out to try to understand why segregated schooling still exists, especially in northern Italy in South Tyrol where they practice sepa...

First published in 1984, Face Value confronts the pervasive power of beauty through art and literature, as well as interviews with men and women wi...

This book examines the language policies in the constitutions, legal statutes, and regulations of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, the Faroe Islan...