Sociolinguistics books

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics has been a cornerstone of courses in the field for over two decades, with its...  Read More >>

Cynthia Gordon uses tape-recorded conversations about everday, mundane topics among three dual-income families to...  Read More >>

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Ritual Communication examines how people create and express meaning through verbal and non-verbal ritual. Ritual...  Read More >>

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Chronicles 5th and 6th grade writers in a poor, culturally diverse, rural school in the southwest US coming into...  Read More >>

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A Better Pencil puts our complex, still-evolving hate-love relationship with computers and the internet into perspective,...  Read More >>

The frequent comments about gossip in the Pastoral Epistles are noteworthy, and it often has gender implications....  Read More >>

A study of linkages between the global and local, demonstrating opportunities and challenges for contemporary sociolinguistics....  Read More >>

Positioned within the field of linguistics and multisemiotic discourse analysis, the theme of this book is the multifaceted...  Read More >>

Investigates how speakers of English, Polish and Russian deal with offensive situations in communication. This book...  Read More >>

In What We Say, Who We Are, Parker English explores the commonality between Leopold Senghor's concept of ""negritude""...  Read More >>

This is a comprehensive reference volume that will give the reader an insight into all the concepts, theories, issues...  Read More >>

An analysis of the linguistic issues surrounding civic integration and citizenship in nation states across the world....  Read More >>

This volume contains a selection of papers from the 4th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe...  Read More >>

Offers an introduction to major topics in the field of Arabic sociolinguistics examines key issues in diglossia,...  Read More >>

Through an interdisciplinary approach that combines critical sociolinguistic ethnography, multi-modality, reflexivity,...  Read More >>

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As one philosopher said, languages are the Houses of Being. After doing graduate work in linguistics, Glenn Dixon...  Read More >>

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