Sociolinguistics books

Language policies are increasingly acknowledged as being a necessary component of many decisions taken in the areas...  Read More >>

An interdisciplinary collection that gathers the work of scholars and performance practitioners who together explore...  Read More >>

This book uses a corpus of manuscript letters from Bess of Hardwick to investigate how linguistic features characteristic...  Read More >>

The border between intimate memory and historical revelation is explored in this collection. Throughout runs the...  Read More >>

Der Band thematisiert die besonderen Bedingungen des deutsch-polnischen Sprachkontakts auf deutscher und polnischer...  Read More >>

This book presents in-depth investigation of the language used about women and ageing in public discourse, and compares...  Read More >>

This book offers insights from a seven-year study into the impact of English as an International Language at a national...  Read More >>

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The Oxford Handbook of Endangered Languages, in 39 chapters, is a comprehensive resource on endangered languages....  Read More >>

This book is a powerful narrative of how six women experienced their lives alongside their desire to overcome the...  Read More >>

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This book is about Positioning Theory (Davies & Harré, 1990) and its potential applications in bilingual and multilingual...  Read More >>

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In exploring the ways that Appalachian people speak and write, Amanda E. Hayes raises the importance of knowing...  Read More >>

The contributing authors in this book contest the original concept of a ""language-gap"" as well as the recent swell...  Read More >>

This book, by a group of leading international scholars, outlines the history of the spoken dialects of Arabic from...  Read More >>

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This book presents a description and analysis of sociolinguistics written from a demographer’s perspective.  It...  Read More >>

This book analyses the language practices of young adults in Mongolia and Bangladesh in online and offline environments....  Read More >>

This collection brings together innovative research from socially-oriented applied linguists working in sports....  Read More >>

By organizing these chapters based on their University of Chicago context, this book sheds new light on the beginnings...  Read More >>

The book combines empirical case studies drawn from Spain, the UK, Poland, France, Ireland and Canada with comparative,...  Read More >>

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