Sociolinguistics books

This comprehensive introduction discusses detailed methods of analyzing consonants, vowels, prosody and voice quality....  Read More >>

Seeking to expand policy discourses in ways that lead to social justice for all, this volume uses a critical sociocultural...  Read More >>

Seeking to expand policy discourses in ways that lead to social justice for all, this volume uses a critical sociocultural...  Read More >>

Key practitioners and researchers explore how people routinely and at particular sites are discursively constructed...  Read More >>

Examines the ways in which language functions, how it influences thought and how it varies according to age, ethnicity,...  Read More >>

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This outstanding new resource traces the significant historical developments in intercultural communication, helps...  Read More >>

Mapping Africa in the English Speaking World addresses issues of representations of Africa in the English speaking...  Read More >>

This is the first edited collection to examine politeness in a wide range of diverse cultures. Most essays draw...  Read More >>

In this book we will explore in more detail some aspects of the Arab-Jewish divide, which raise fundamental questions...  Read More >>

The book Identity Issues: Literary and Linguistic Landscapes is a collection of essays, set out to explore the notion...  Read More >>

This is an eclectic collection of essays which successfully demonstrate how the Sociology of Language and Religion...  Read More >>

An exploration of the role of language attitudes and ideologies in predicting the survival prospects of a minority...  Read More >>

Topics discussed include: language shift and code mixing speaker attitudes the role of schools and media...  Read More >>

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Soviet language policy provides rich material for the study of the impact of policy on language use. While linguists...  Read More >>

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A state-of-the-art collection of works on institutional discourse across the Spanish-speaking world. This volume focuses...  Read More >>

In the Presence of English: Media and European Youth is the realization of a project first conceived in 1991 in...  Read More >>

This study provides a definition and a typology of swearing and compares its manifestations in English and 24 other...  Read More >>

A state-of-the-art collection of works on institutional discourse across the Spanish-speaking world. This volume focuses...  Read More >>

Offers an autobiographical reflexive approach to foreign language education. This title offers ways of developing...  Read More >>