Sociolinguistics books

This collection critically examines tourism as a site of intercultural communication, drawing on the analytical...  Read More >>

This classic text by Geneva Smitherman, pioneering scholar of Black Talk, is a definitive statement on African American...  Read More >>

With contributions from world-renowned experts, this is a pioneering survey of heritage languages, focusing on issues...  Read More >>

How do newspapers use language to represent obesity, and how does this language potentially shame and stigmatise...  Read More >>

The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from...  Read More >>

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The chapters in this volume use ethnographically-based methodologies to address the interconnectedness between forms...  Read More >>

This book suggests that applied linguistics research is inherently concerned with complexity, emergence and causality,...  Read More >>

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The chapters in this volume use ethnographically-based methodologies to address the interconnectedness between forms...  Read More >>

This book provides a linguistic snapshot of a small urban place, the town of Veliko Turnovo in Bulgaria. It investigates...  Read More >>

This book provides a social interpretation of written South African translation history from the seventeenth century...  Read More >>

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The book discusses recycled discourses of language and nationalism in Finnish higher education, demonstrating the...  Read More >>

There is growing acceptance among pragmaticians that identity is often (de)constructed and negotiated in communication...  Read More >>

This book shows the transformative power of placing translanguaging at the center of teaching and learning. It shows...  Read More >>

This book adds a diachronic dimension to the study of written language contact. It examines in a contrastive way...  Read More >>

Dire le silence présente l'évolution des discours sur la langue en Acadie de 1867 à 1970 en analysant, d'une part,...  Read More >>

This book shows the transformative power of placing translanguaging at the center of teaching and learning. It shows...  Read More >>

The book first discusses the use of discourse analysis in the context of bei and ba constructions and then demonstrates...  Read More >>

Bringing together Peter Trudgill's highly popular columns for the New European, this collection explores how English...  Read More >>

This book presents the results of a large-scale experiment into interpretations of the metaphor “the Nation as a...  Read More >>