Sociolinguistics books

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

This looks closely at the subject of ideophones, including such topics as: ideophones and compound verbs in Wolaitta,...  Read More >>

Joanna Thornborrow examines discourse, power and ideology by introducing new perspectives on the relationship between...  Read More >>

Evinces author's deep concern that the world's linguistic diversity is diminishing at an alarming rate. This title...  Read More >>

Explores assumptions in western theories of language and linguistics, highlighting the pivotal role of the language...  Read More >>

Situates the grammar of the 17th and 18th centuries in a broader context, demonstrating how it affected, and was...  Read More >>

Aimed at the general reader as well as language specialists and sociolinguists, this text presents a dicussion on...  Read More >>

A treasure trove of diplomatics and epistolary stylistics from late 16th- and early 17th-century Japan  Read More >>

The concluding part of Coral Gardens and Their Magic provides a linguistic commentary to the ethnography on agriculture....  Read More >>

Spanish is now the third most widely spoken language in the world after English and Chinese. This book traces how...  Read More >>

This bold and accessible study of human languages and communication explores issues which are at the forefront of...  Read More >>

This bold and accessible study of human languages and communication explores issues which are at the forefront of...  Read More >>

Thoughts and Utterances is the first sustained investigation of two distinctions that are fundamental to all theories...  Read More >>

Any study of communication must take into account the nature and role of speech acts in a broad context. This book...  Read More >>

This book addresses the literacy problems of African American students providing educators with an African American...  Read More >>

Offers a new way of doing ethnography, based on an analysis of interaction between immigrants from a small village...  Read More >>

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The essays in this collection examine the public construction of languages, the linguistic construction of publics,...  Read More >>

A selection of Peter Trudgill's major works since 1990 in the field of sociolinguistics. The book deals with a number...  Read More >>

This is an examination of the effect of cultural tradition on the Japanese language. It offers an insight into the...  Read More >>

This work considers the issues globalization raises for second language learning and teaching. Block and Cameron's...  Read More >>