Sociolinguistics books

The goal of The Oxford Handbook of African American Language is to provide readers with a wide range of analyses...  Read More >>

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First published in 1989, this collection of essays brings into focus the history of a specific form of violence...  Read More >>

In The Ideology of Conduct, first published in 1987, scholars from various fields, from the medieval period to the...  Read More >>

This book proposes, examines and unpacks the notion of unequal Englishes as a way to understand English today. Unlike...  Read More >>

Internationalisation has had a forceful impact on universities across the Anglophone world. This book reviews what...  Read More >>

Doing Sociolinguistics: A practical guide to data collection and analysis provides an accessible introduction and...  Read More >>

This book explains why many governments in Africa are including African languages alongside European languages as...  Read More >>

This book investigates the strategies and identities of colonials who have learned the languages of colonised people....  Read More >>

This book examines language and communication as an inherent part of on-going organizational processes. It explores...  Read More >>

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The use of English as a lingua franca on a global scale forces a reassessment of our understanding of the relationships...  Read More >>

Combines in-depth reviews of models of spoken word production and cognitive neuropsychological disorders of spoken...  Read More >>

Provides a focused account of English Medium Instruction in European higher education, considering issues of ideologies,...  Read More >>

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This textbook is the only one of its kind to introduce the study of Canadian English in the context of basic concepts...  Read More >>

Doing Sociolinguistics: A practical guide to data collection and analysis provides an accessible introduction and...  Read More >>

Surveys the breadth of corpus-based linguistic research on English, including chapters on collocations, phraseology,...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1933, examines the dialect of the people of Byers Green in County Durham. Orton explores...  Read More >>

The maps presented in this volume, first published in 1987, are based on the material of the Survey of English Dialects...  Read More >>

First published in 1980, this book questions many of the assumptions that have accumulated around the subject of...  Read More >>

From the middle of the twentieth century, dozens of medievalists and other performers have recorded early English....  Read More >>

First published in 1987, this atlas identifies structural patterns which exist in the sound systems of the dialects...  Read More >>