Sociolinguistics books

This title teaches step by step the insights that are required to perform the different tasks that have to be carried...  Read More >>

This volume provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the contribution of multiparty intergenerational talk...  Read More >>

The book presents an application of inductive and deductive research modes in an analysis of political discourse....  Read More >>

In Beyond Rigidity, Soames introduces a new conception of the relationship between linguistic meaning and assertion...  Read More >>

This is an account of the effects of the Compulsory Irish policy on the education system and on the status of the...  Read More >>

Is the English language neutral, global and open to everyone? By examining colonial language policies in India,...  Read More >>

This is an account of the effects of the Compulsory Irish policy on the education system and on the status of the...  Read More >>

Created and used as an instrument of coercion and indoctrination, the Nazi language, Nazi-Deutsch, reveals how the...  Read More >>

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In Praise of Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English Spoken Soul brilliantly fills a huge gap. . . . a delightfully...  Read More >>

This text explores the way in which English-speaking children acquire the meaning of sentences containing negation...  Read More >>

The phenomenon of language maintenance and shift (LMLS) discusses how one particular language pervades the domain...  Read More >>

Suitable for all those for whom the politics of subjectivity pose real problems of authority, identity, and belief,...  Read More >>

Suitable for all those for whom the politics of subjectivity pose real problems of authority, identity, and belief,...  Read More >>

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This book examines the role of language in the present and past creation of social, cultural, and national identities...  Read More >>

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An analysis of the extent to which culture plays a part in communication. This title explores topics such as context...  Read More >>

This work takes up issues of concern in composition studies, sociolinguistics, and ESL - issues concerning academic...  Read More >>

This comprehensive work provides numerous essays by specialists in the field on speech act theory. Topics include:...  Read More >>

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Part of a series that provides a one-stop resource for students of all areas of language and linguistic study, this...  Read More >>

In today's global business environment it is necessary to communicate across cultural boundaries of languages, styles,...  Read More >>

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Ninth in the acclaimed series of spinoff volumes based on the ""Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics"", this...  Read More >>