Sociolinguistics books

Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis explains why metaphors are persuasive, suggesting that they are...  Read More >>

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This innovative study of naturally-occurring English conversations between Hong Kong Chinese and their native English...  Read More >>

In this first-hand study of the relationship of gender, ethnicity and the participation of children within an English-language...  Read More >>

This book clarifies the role that conversational analysis can have within a Critical Discourse Analysis perspective....  Read More >>

A comprehensive advanced textbook covering not only language learning imposed by economic or political agendas but...  Read More >>

The volume brings together the papers read at the international conference on Romance Objects organized by the Linguistics...  Read More >>

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A comprehensive advanced textbook, covering not only language learning imposed by economic or political agendas...  Read More >>

Sommer asserts that many people normally live in more than one language. She claims that traditional scholarship...  Read More >>

The Handbook of Language Variation and Change,written by a distinguished international roster of contributors, reflects...  Read More >>

A study of the complaints of medical patients in rural Bangladesh, and how they are connected to and reveal the...  Read More >>

This text offers a contribution to the study of the Chinese language. It deals with phenomena which have a high...  Read More >>

This book provides the first systematic study of sociolinguistic variation in seventeenth-century France. Drawing...  Read More >>

The Language of Work: examines how language is used in business and the workplace, looking at a range of situations...  Read More >>

This Handbook stands as the premier scholarly resource for Language and Social Interaction (LSI) subject matter...  Read More >>

Any piece of primary research ought to be preceded by a systematic review. The key advantage of a systematic review...  Read More >>

Sommer asserts that many people normally live in more than one language. She claims that traditional scholarship...  Read More >>

Looks at the ways in which language functions, how it influences thought and how it varies according to age, ethnicity,...  Read More >>

This book illustrates the personal, social, cultural and political factors which contribute to the acquisition and...  Read More >>

This work explores the potential of the linguistic engineering employed in Mao's China by examining research on...  Read More >>

It explores how the struggle for power is reflected in attempts to control language use at different levels of discursive...  Read More >>

With a flurry of recent public controversy surrounding legislation on language in education and the workplace, observers...  Read More >>

Social and ethnic identity are nowhere more enmeshed with language than in Israel. Words and Stones explores the...  Read More >>

Women, Men and Language is an essential introduction to the key area of language and gender. It sketches the historical...  Read More >>