Sociolinguistics books

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This book offers new insights into how English speakers talk about their own and others' emotions. Using statistical...  Read More >>

An Introduction to Language Policy: Theories and Method is a collection of newly-written chapters that cover the...  Read More >>

In The Extended Mind, Robert K. Logan examines the origin, emergence, and co-evolution of language, the human mind,...  Read More >>

This analysis of language policy on Corsica provides the first study of the three levels of language policy existing...  Read More >>

English has become the language of choice for global economic, political, and cultural exchange forcing developing...  Read More >>

From Scotland to Singapore, Canada to the Channel Islands, Namibia to New Zealand and beyond, International English...  Read More >>

Examines the various dangers that threaten our use of language in society. Using case studies that cover a range...  Read More >>

The volume examines the motives for lexical borrowing from English during the last century, the processes involved...  Read More >>

Proverbs in African Orature examines how preliterate Africans handle oral literacy criticism of their proverbs....  Read More >>

This volume covers the language situation in Japan, Nepal and Taiwan, as well as the modernisation of Chinese Characters...  Read More >>

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Brings together research from different traditions which maps the vast territory of language and communication in...  Read More >>

This book presents a vivid overview of linguistic, literary and educational issues in a multicultural context from...  Read More >>

In 1816, the state of Pennsylvania tried fifty-nine German-Americans on charges of conspiracy and rioting. They...  Read More >>

The first book to thoroughly address the issue of management and language from a rigorous academic perspective,...  Read More >>

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Looks at the problematic and controversial area of identity, re-examining the analytical tools employed in sociolinguistic...  Read More >>

The author sets out to examine migration movements to Australia and the role of successive immigration legislation:...  Read More >>

Contains the results of the Bayreuth SFB research program ""Effects of globalisation processes on the vitality of...  Read More >>

Examines the theoretical, methodological and practical issues in the analysis of talk across cultures. This book...  Read More >>

Examines the theoretical, methodological and practical issues in the analysis of talk across cultures. This book...  Read More >>

The Irish Travellers are one of Ireland's oldest minorities, a minority who have frequently lived on the margins...  Read More >>

Language Choice and Identity Politics in Taiwan brings new perspectives to—and invites comparative study within—the...  Read More >>