Sociolinguistics books

Power and Politeness in the Workplace has become established as a seminal text for courses in language and professional...  Read More >>

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A study of a Neo-Aramaic variety by Lidia Napiorkowska in this volume is a contribution to the documentation of...  Read More >>

Focussing on nationalist discourse before, during and after the revolution of 2011, Reem Bassiouney explores the...  Read More >>

The Basque language, Euskara, is one of Europe’s most ancient tongues and a vital part of today’s lively Basque...  Read More >>

An initiative known as the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) strives to improve education by examining...  Read More >>

Our favorite movies and TV shows feature indelible characters who tell us about themselves not just in what they...  Read More >>

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Our favorite movies and TV shows feature indelible characters who tell us about themselves not just in what they...  Read More >>

This book presents the first large-scale usage-based investigation of the conventionalization process of English...  Read More >>

The book focuses on Russian-Hebrew bilingual speech. It identifies, describes and accounts for diverse types of...  Read More >>

This is the first book-length study of the linguistics of organizational styling, looking at the language and semiotic...  Read More >>

It is therefore a valuable introduction into the historical backgrounds and current linguistic, social and legal...  Read More >>

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Introducing Global Englishes provides comprehensive coverage of relevant research in the fields of World Englishes,...  Read More >>

A pioneering critic, educator, and poet, I. A. Richards (1893-1979) helped the English-speaking world decide not...  Read More >>

What theories and methods serve to model the relationship between language and shared knowledge? How can genericity...  Read More >>

Featuring data from five continents and languages with a large range of linguistic affiliations, this book contains...  Read More >>

Introducing Global Englishes provides comprehensive coverage of relevant research in the fields of World Englishes,...  Read More >>

Based on a selection of 30 election campaign speeches during Obama's first run for the American presidency in 2008,...  Read More >>

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This volume opens a timely discussion about the various theoretical and methodological models being developed to...  Read More >>

Using a multidisciplinary approach, this book explores how multilingualism is shaped by a variety of factors such...  Read More >>

Using a newly assembled dataset and drawing on fieldwork data from Malaysia and Singapore, Liu finds that how linguistic...  Read More >>

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