Sociolinguistics books

Since its initial publication, English with an Accent has provoked debate and controversy within classrooms through...  Read More >>

An encyclopaedia of pragmatics, one of the major fields of language studies. It gives an overview of the subfields,...  Read More >>

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Un fascinante itinerario por las palabras de nuestro idioma, sus significados, su evolución, sus secretos y sus...  Read More >>

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George Bush's 1988 campaign pledge, ""Read my lips: no new taxes"", has become a mantra for those who distrust politicians...  Read More >>

<p> Code-switching, or the alternation of languages by bilinguals, has attracted an enormous amount of attention...  Read More >>

The Language of Gaming examines the complex language of videogames and gaming from a discourse analytical perspective.Astrid...  Read More >>

** Contents available at http: //ijh.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.26/prod.2045 **The International Journal of the...  Read More >>

Gender is a hotly debated topic in the field of education. The role that language plays in educational contexts...  Read More >>

Current Issues in Bilingualism focuses on the language situation in Israel -- a country where Hebrew and Arabic...  Read More >>

This book examines how language ideologies are manifested in newspaper media. Using the Spanish press as a case...  Read More >>

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This book, focused on corpus planning in language policy, provides a broad, integrative framework and also discusses...  Read More >>

Based on approaches from discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, this study proposes an analytical model focusing...  Read More >>

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This book explores some of the ways in which standardization, ideology and linguistics are connected, by examining...  Read More >>

This volume presents studies that provide detailed and actual descriptions of 'endangering' situations of multilingualism....  Read More >>

William Labov (b. 1927) has been a driving force in linguistics for over four decades. Throughout North America,...  Read More >>

For many communities around the world, the revitalization or at least the preservation of an indigenous language...  Read More >>

A bold and provocative study that presents language not as an innate component of the brain--as most linguists do--but...  Read More >>

Si, de nos jours, la dimension culturelle est devenue pour tout theoricien ou praticien une composante evidente...  Read More >>

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In this important book, Surma combines threads from ethical, political, communications, sociological, feminist and...  Read More >>