Sociolinguistics books

In this second, fully revised edition, the 10 volume Encyclopedia of Language and Education offers the newest developments...  Read More >>

Presents an analysis of issues related to linguistic pluralism. This book argues for a non-essentialist understanding...  Read More >>

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Is today's language at an all-time low? Edwin Battistella argues that it is wrong to think of slang, regional dialects...  Read More >>

Presents an history of the rise and fall of the English accent as a badge of cultural, social, and class identity....  Read More >>

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Studies in Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics offers valuable contributions to research in pragmatics...  Read More >>

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This volume covers the language situation in Algeria, Cote d'Ivoire, Nigeria and Tunisia, explaining the linguistic...  Read More >>

In addition to detailed analyses of medieval texts, The Syntax of Desire examines some aspects of the same relationship...  Read More >>

Using data from cultures and languages throughout the world to highlight both similarities and differences in human...  Read More >>

This volume offers insights into the rarely glimpsed micro political world of ordinary talk and explore the way...  Read More >>

Dominance, identity and resistance are key themes in this examination of language in global, virtual and local settings....  Read More >>

This book is focused on a highly topical theme which aims at investigating a remarkable phenomenon of identity-shaping...  Read More >>

Can discourse analysis techniques adequately deal with complex social phenomena? What does 'interdisciplinarity'...  Read More >>

The Pacific is historically an area of enormous linguistic diversity, where talk figures as a central component...  Read More >>

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Studies on the interaction of languages are gaining importance in today's world, which is characterized by accelerated...  Read More >>

Cameron debunks the myths about language and the sexes propagated in recent popular writing by drawing on more than...  Read More >>

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Africa has long been known as the oral continent, at once the home of oral literature, orature and orality, the...  Read More >>

Following two major waves of immigration after World War II, the Bangladeshi community in the East London borough...  Read More >>

In this second, fully revised edition, the 10 volume Encyclopedia of Language and Education offers the newest developments...  Read More >>

This volume explores dialect translation and the problems facing the translator in bridging cultural divides. The...  Read More >>

This volume explores dialect translation and the problems facing the translator in bridging cultural divides. The...  Read More >>