Sociolinguistics books

Are contemporary art theorists and critics speaking a language that has lost its meaning? This book takes a linguistic...  Read More >>

The essays in this volume consider various literary and linguistic aspects of the Francophone Caribbean at the beginning...  Read More >>

This collection of essays treats medieval language use in its sociolinguistic context, drawing primarily on texts...  Read More >>

This volume offers a comprehensive survey of African-American rhetoric within a broad historical context, exploring...  Read More >>

Translating Cultures: Perspectives on Translation and Anthropology addresses translation in anthropology. It combines...  Read More >>

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This work challenges the approaches to human interaction based on supposedly universal principles, which fly in...  Read More >>

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Folk knowledge of language has not engaged linguists very often in the history of that field. This text argues that...  Read More >>

An exploration of the ways linguists can make use of social and demographic history, in order to analyze and interpret...  Read More >>

This book deals with individual bilingualism, societal and educational phenomena and addressing issues such as bilingual...  Read More >>

This book deals with individual bilingualism, societal and educational phenomena and addressing issues such as bilingual...  Read More >>

This special issue of the Research on Language and Social Interaction series addresses the social functions of...  Read More >>

For years Richard Hoggart has observed the oddity of a common speech habit: the fondness for employing ready-made...  Read More >>

The aim of this collection of papers is to highlight some aspects of John Gumperz's analysis of human interaction,...  Read More >>

How do people with brain damage communicate? This collection examines how aphasia and other neurological deficits...  Read More >>

Uses Norway to test the claim that elites are central to the politicization of linguistic conflict.  Read More >>

The book presents unique literature in a minority ethnolect – the Germanic dialect of Wilamowice in Southern Poland....  Read More >>

In this book, Niloofar Haeri looks at the interactions of these two dialects of Arabic in everyday life in Egypt,...  Read More >>

In this book, Niloofar Haeri looks at the complex interactions of these two dialects of Arabic in everyday life...  Read More >>

The papers in this volume show the origin and development of Bernstein's theoretical studies into the relationships...  Read More >>

This volume was originally printed in 1973 and represents a significant contribution not only to the study of the...  Read More >>

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

This text examines the history of language teaching and learning among South Asian Muslims. It looks at language...  Read More >>