Sociolinguistics books

The book will appeal to anyone interested in language contact, the Arabic language, and North Africa. It uses sociohistorical...  Read More >>

This book examines linguistic nationalism in India. It focuses on the emergence of language as a marker of identity...  Read More >>

This book breaks new ground in its representation of the voices of people in a superdiverse city. Poetic and compelling,...  Read More >>

This volume offers a comprehensive account of the typology of noun classification across the world's languages....  Read More >>

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The Center for Catalan Studies (CCS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara in cooperation with Juan de...  Read More >>

Explores the physical, psychological and social factors that shape the way in which people engage with embodied...  Read More >>

This book explores the semantics and pragmatics of honorifics, expressions that indicate the degree of formality...  Read More >>

This edited book examines the crucial role still played by African languages in pedagogy and literatures in the...  Read More >>

This book offers the first full-length study of the education of children living within the Gaeltacht, the Irish-speaking...  Read More >>

An original study of the language of mediation, which uses excerpts from real mediation sessions to illustrate how...  Read More >>

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This book explores the semantics and pragmatics of honorifics, expressions that indicate the degree of formality...  Read More >>

The Business of Words examines the practices of 'high-end' language workers or wordsmiths. An essential resource...  Read More >>

The Business of Words examines the practices of 'high-end' language workers or wordsmiths. An essential resource...  Read More >>

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“This book provides a significant contribution to the discursive analysis of service encounters. It demonstrates,...  Read More >>

For linguists and language teachers, as well as anthropologists, educationalists, psychologists and psycholinguists,...  Read More >>

For linguists and language teachers, as well as anthropologists, educationalists, psychologists and psycholinguists,...  Read More >>

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This book unites studies on second language acquisition and interculturality in a study abroad context, providing...  Read More >>

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Writing Through the Visual and Virtual: Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the...  Read More >>

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This highly original and timely collection brings together case studies from salient areas of the Himalayan region...  Read More >>