Sociolinguistics books

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A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar of English Creoles

A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar of English Creoles...

Author: Anand Syea
ISBN: 9780367897369
Format: Paperback
$77.99

A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar of English Creoles provides a detailed, comprehensive description of the...  Read More >>

Proverbs Are Never Neutral

Proverbs Are Never Neutral

Author: Marina Yu. Kotova ,  Outi Lauhakangas
ISBN: 9783031326455
Format: Hardback
$310.47

This book examines how proverbs can carry ethnonyms and contradictory oppositions in everyday speech, and interrogates...  Read More >>

A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar of English Creoles

A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar of English Creoles...

Author: Anand Syea
ISBN: 9780367897376
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Multilingualism: A Sociolinguistic and Acquisitional Approach

Multilingualism: A Sociolinguistic and Acquisitional...

Author: Sarah Buschfeld ,  Patricia Ronan
ISBN: 9783031284045
Format: Paperback
$103.47

This textbook takes a broad perspective on multilingualism, using a sociolinguistics and acquisition-informed approach...  Read More >>

Unpacking Metaphor-related Prepositions in Political Discourse: From Polysemous to Powerful

Unpacking Metaphor-related Prepositions in Political...

Author: Mokhtar Ounis
ISBN: 9781032431611
Format: Hardback
$103.00

This book explores the context around why English prepositions are used in figurative language. This volume will...  Read More >>

The Anatomy of Polish Offensive Words: A sociolinguistic exploration

The Anatomy of Polish Offensive Words: A sociolinguistic...

Author: Łukasz Zarzycki (University of the National Education Commission in Krakow)
ISBN: 9789027214461
Format: Hardback
$261.34

The Anatomy of Polish Offensive Words examines offensive and vulgar language of young Poles in their everyday life...  Read More >>

Intertextuality 2.0: Metadiscourse and Meaning-Making in an Online Community

Intertextuality 2.0: Metadiscourse and Meaning-Making...

Author: Cynthia Gordon (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University)
ISBN: 9780197642689
Format: Hardback
$246.00

"""Intertextuality"" is the overarching idea that all texts and conversations are linked to other texts and conversations,...  Read More >>

Migration, Adult Language Learning and Multilingualism: Critical Sociolinguistics Research with New Speakers of Faroese

Migration, Adult Language Learning and Multilingualism:...

Author: Anna-Elisabeth Holm
ISBN: 9781032371511
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book focuses on the nexus of migration, adult language learning, and multilingualism of migrants in the Faroe...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Irish English

The Oxford Handbook of Irish English

Author: Raymond Hickey (Adjunct Professor, Adjunct Professor, University of LimerickAdjunct Professor, University of Limerick)
ISBN: 9780198856153
Format: Hardback
$318.00

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the range of varieties of English spoken on the island of Ireland....  Read More >>

Kamba Proverbs from Eastern Kenya: Sources, Origins & History

Kamba Proverbs from Eastern Kenya: Sources, Origins...

Author: Professor Jeremiah M Kitunda (Contributor)
ISBN: 9781847013699
Format: Paperback
$77.60

A unique historical and linguistic resource for those in anthropology, art, folklore, history, linguistics, literature,...  Read More >>

Global Language Justice

Global Language Justice

Author: Lydia Liu (Columbia University) ,  Anupama Rao
ISBN: 9780231210393
Format: Paperback
$57.95

This book brings together leading experts and younger scholars across the humanities and social sciences to investigate...  Read More >>

Global Language Justice

Global Language Justice

Author: Lydia Liu (Columbia University) ,  Anupama Rao
ISBN: 9780231210386
Format: Hardback
$232.95

This book brings together leading experts and younger scholars across the humanities and social sciences to investigate...  Read More >>

Migracion, Pluricentrismo Y Acomodacion: Nuevas Perspectivas Desde La Lengua Espanola

Migracion, Pluricentrismo Y Acomodacion: Nuevas Perspectivas...

Author: Rolf Kailuweit ,  Sandra Schlumpf
ISBN: 9783968218762
Format: Paperback
$240.24

The articles in this book address the issues of migration, linguistic pluricentricity and linguistic accommodation...  Read More >>

Methodology in Politeness Research

Methodology in Politeness Research

Author: Elena Landone
ISBN: 9783031091636
Format: Paperback
$316.77

This book presents overviews on the specific methods for the study of verbal politeness, which is deeply and constantly...  Read More >>

African Migrations: Traversing Hybrid Landscapes

African Migrations: Traversing Hybrid Landscapes

Author: Sarali Gintsburg ,  Ruth Breeze
ISBN: 9781666938692
Format: Hardback
$178.00

This book explores the hybrid landscapes of African migration and offers new insights into the complexity of migratory...  Read More >>

English in the Nordic Countries: Connections, Tensions, and Everyday Realities

English in the Nordic Countries: Connections, Tensions,...

Author: Elizabeth Peterson (University of Helsinki, Finland) ,  Kristy Beers Fägersten
ISBN: 9781032224688
Format: Hardback
$284.00

People in the Nordic states – Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland – rank as among the most proficient...  Read More >>

Standards, Stigma, Surveillance: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and England’s Schools

Standards, Stigma, Surveillance: Raciolinguistic Ideologies...

Author: Ian Cushing
ISBN: 9783031178931
Format: Paperback
$194.04

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The United States of English: The American Language from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century

The United States of English: The American Language...

Author: Rosemarie Ostler (Freelance Writer, Freelance Writer)
ISBN: 9780197647295
Format: Hardback
$55.95

"The story of how English became American -- and how it became Southern, Bostonian, Californian, African-American,...  Read More >>

Lexical Variation and Change: A Distributional Semantic Approach

Lexical Variation and Change: A Distributional Semantic...

Author: Dirk Geeraerts (University of Leuven) ,  Dirk Speelman (University of Leuven)
ISBN: 9780198890676
Format: Hardback
$195.95

This book introduces a systematic framework for understanding and investigating lexical variation, using a distributional...  Read More >>

From Deficit to Dialect: The Evolution of English in India and Singapore

From Deficit to Dialect: The Evolution of English in...

Author: Devyani Sharma (Professor, Professor, Queen Mary University of London)
ISBN: 9780195307504
Format: Hardback
$170.95

The emergence of new English dialects in postcolonial regions has transformed the politics of English in the world...  Read More >>

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