Sociolinguistics books

Focusing on /str/-retraction, this pioneering book uses a combination of phonological and sociolinguistic theories...  Read More >>

This book focuses on literary multilingualism and specifically on the challenging condition of writing in Trieste,...  Read More >>

Drawing on a corpus of 113 narratives told by migrant workers who have returned to their home country, Ladegaard...  Read More >>

As immigrants and others are engulfed by dominant societies, the connection to their ancestral tongues is routinely...  Read More >>

In Linguistic Landscaping and the Pacific Region, Diane Elizabeth Johnson explores the use of language in public...  Read More >>

This book focuses on abstract entity anaphora in argumentative texts with Asher’s (1993) Segmented Discourse Representation...  Read More >>

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Sociolinguistic research on immigrant communities in Italy has widely studied the acquisition and use of Italian...  Read More >>

This Element documents the evolution of a research program that began in the early 1960s with the author's first...  Read More >>

This edited book features contributions from interpreter and translator educators globally, in which they discuss...  Read More >>

This book aims to expand the theoretical framework of and counter the Eurocentric narratives in language policy...  Read More >>

Drawing on a diverse range of healthcare contexts across Asia, in particular, in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Singapore,...  Read More >>

Redefining the Hypernym Mensch: in in German: Gender, Sexuality, and Personhood examines how the verbalization of...  Read More >>

In the context of Black Lives Matter, decolonizing initiatives, #MeToo, climate emergency protests and other movements...  Read More >>

This book provides readers with the latest research on the affective aspect of online interactions between doctors...  Read More >>

Drawing on the underrepresentation of the Global South in global knowledge production with a focus on the existing...  Read More >>

Many Spaniards in Spain and Latinos in the US convert to Islam. This ethnographic study (in Spanish) examines how...  Read More >>

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Written by leading international scholars and activists with a wealth of practical experience, this guidebook provides...  Read More >>

This Element shows how two social movements, lesbian separatism and Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW), reflect the...  Read More >>

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

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

As digital communication has become dominant, commentators have declared that handwriting is a thing of the past,...  Read More >>