Sociolinguistics books

In the last decade, the availability of corpora and the technological advancements of corpus tools have increased...  Read More >>

This book provides a conceptual framework and empirical examples for thinking about how time and space operate as...  Read More >>

Over several generations villagers of Dominica have been shifting from Patwa, an Afro-French creole, to English,...  Read More >>

Human language is viewed and studied by some authors as a natural object and by other scholars as a social and cultural...  Read More >>

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

The book will appeal to anyone interested in language contact, the Arabic language, and North Africa. It uses sociohistorical...  Read More >>

In Small-Language Fates and Prospects Nancy C. Dorian gathers findings from decades of documenting a Scottish Gaelic...  Read More >>

The 1890s, the Naughty Nineties, was an exciting and flamboyant time in British life and literature. First published...  Read More >>

The essays in this book explore the many facets of language rights and language protection from a variety of theoretical,...  Read More >>

Michael S. Gorham presents a cultural history of the politics of Russian language from Gorbachev and glasnost to...  Read More >>

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LANGSCAPE is a plurilingual international research network on language acquisition and language education. This...  Read More >>

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Michael S. Gorham presents a cultural history of the politics of Russian language from Gorbachev and glasnost to...  Read More >>

Aims to investigate and attain new insights on how and to what extent the wider sociolinguistic context of language...  Read More >>

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Language and Imaginability pursues the hypothesis that natural language is fundamentally heterosemiotic, combining...  Read More >>

This unique work challenges the assumption that dictionaries act as objective records of our language, and instead...  Read More >>

This book makes accessible the major structural features of the dialects of Italy and emphasises the importance...  Read More >>

This collection introduces comparative rhetoric as an art of traversing rhetorical times, places, and spaces, providing...  Read More >>

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This book is an insightful account of the academic politics of the Nazi era. Hutton situates Nazi linguistics within...  Read More >>

Language and Politics in Post-Soviet Russia critically examines the uses of language in post-Soviet media and political...  Read More >>