Sociolinguistics books

Literacy and Gender provides a major contribution to general debates about literacy and gender in schools. It advances...  Read More >>

This book is an analysis of modernisation informed by the place of language in education, health, the economy and...  Read More >>

The first critical ethnography of bilingual education in Japan. Based on fieldwork at five different schools, this...  Read More >>

This book explores how high-stakes tests mandated by No Child Left Behind have become de facto language policy in...  Read More >>

Examines Japanese institutional discourse and attempts to clarify the relationship between politeness, facework...  Read More >>

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In this coherent historical development of the passive voice in English, the main argument deals not only with the...  Read More >>

This work marries qualitative ethnographic methods to quantitative acoustic methods. The analysis describes how...  Read More >>

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Identity Trouble assembles contributions from a variety of discourse fields to discuss the pressures on traditional...  Read More >>

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This volume covers the language situation in The Baltic States, Ireland and Italy explaining the linguistic diversity,...  Read More >>

One of the remarkable things about Chinese language policy over the millennia has been the power of the writing...  Read More >>

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The Handbook of Educational Linguistics is a dynamic, scientifically grounded overview revealing the complexity...  Read More >>

This book focuses on language, culture, and national identity in Africa. Leading specialists examine countries in...  Read More >>

This book is an edited collection that examines how urbanization is causing language change in major Arab cities....  Read More >>

The Language of Diversity is an orchestrated effort of twenty-eight contributing authors, an editor, and three co-editors...  Read More >>

Der Sammelband widmet sich dem Thema ""sprachliche Kürze"" in umfassender Weise. Thematisiert werden u.a. Aspekte...  Read More >>

The different traditions that have inspired the contributors to this volume can be divided along three different...  Read More >>

By revisiting globalization using an analysis of metaphors, such as 'global village' and 'network society', this...  Read More >>

Gendered Talk at Work examines how women and men negotiate their gender identities as well as their professional...  Read More >>

Covering a number of European languages from Portuguese to Hungarian, this volume includes many new studies of translation...  Read More >>