Sociolinguistics books

Appalachian English broadly covers the language of the Southern highlands in the American South. More than one variety...  Read More >>

Presents a series of geographically diverse case studies that examine various issues involved in the study of urban...  Read More >>

Stancetaking-or speaker positioning-is central to communication. This collected volume explores stancetaking as...  Read More >>

Sprachen(n), Identit�t, Gesellschaft ist eine Hommage an die passio-nierte Romanistin und Soziolinguistin Christine...  Read More >>

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Talking Young Femininities explores the spontaneous talk of adolescent British girls from different socio-cultural...  Read More >>

This volume explores the global spread of English or global Englishes, and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), focusing...  Read More >>

How teachers and students work together through discourse to construct their understanding of the context they live...  Read More >>

This volume explores the global spread of English or global Englishes, and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), focusing...  Read More >>

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This book argues that Second language teaching has not been well served by recent approaches to the description...  Read More >>

This book argues that Second language teaching has not been well served by recent approaches to the description...  Read More >>

Drawing on cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of a range of sociolinguistic variables in L2 French, this...  Read More >>

Examines the interlanguage pragmatic development of German learners of English at a British University. This book...  Read More >>

Drawing on cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of a range of sociolinguistic variables in L2 French, this...  Read More >>

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Research into the relationship between conversation analysis (CA) and different areas of applied linguistics is...  Read More >>

Many writers work in a language other than their mother tongue. In this collection, writers explore the role that...  Read More >>

An interdisciplinary overview of code-switching, whereby bilingual speakers switch between different languages or...  Read More >>

Nunberg decodes the changing syntax of Time Magazine, explains why grammar buffs are drawn to sarcasm, and deftly...  Read More >>

This book presents a review and synthesis of research on communication patterns between blacks and whites in the...  Read More >>

It is an enduring theme of humanity that people are concerned about what others think of them. This book offers...  Read More >>

The notion of face has become firmly established as a means of explaining various social phenomena in a range of...  Read More >>