Sociolinguistics books

‘Electrifying … A user manual for our polarized world’ Adam Grant, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Think...  Read More >>

Language Diversity in the Sinophone World offers interdisciplinary insights into social, cultural, and linguistic...  Read More >>

"This collection brings together contributions from researchers on language and gender studies and workplace discourse...  Read More >>

This volume explores the socio-political dynamics, historical forces, and unequal power relationships which mediate...  Read More >>

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This is a different kind of book, written from an anthropological standpoint. Welcome to the world of a people who...  Read More >>

The authors highlight the importance of conceptual studies of languages and cultures, as well as language choice,...  Read More >>

This innovative collection brings together a range of perspectives on the notions of ‘orderly heterogeneity’ and...  Read More >>

Spanish in Miami reveals the multifaceted ways in which the language is ideologically rescaled and sociolinguistically...  Read More >>

Investigates how dialect variation in the North of England is represented in writing.  Read More >>

Placing contemporary spoken English at the centre of phonological research, this book tackles the issue of language...  Read More >>

This book brings together two types of varieties of English that have so far been treated separately: postcolonial...  Read More >>

In this extensive study of the changing role of Gaelic in modern Scotland, Wilson McLeod looks at the policies of...  Read More >>

The first systematic survey of the language planning and language policy discourse of major Arabic language academies...  Read More >>

This book presents a critical sociolinguistic ethnography of the Emmaus movement, analyzing linguistic and discursive...  Read More >>

Korangy and Sharifian’s groundbreaking book offers the first in-depth study into cultural linguistics for the Persian...  Read More >>

This book takes a narrative approach to investigate how social media are reconfiguring dying, death, and mourning,...  Read More >>

This monograph provides the first investigation into the ways these authors and their readers engage with script...  Read More >>

Centered on narratives from ethnically and racially diverse scholars of color with experience of working or studying...  Read More >>

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Slavs in the Making addresses the question of migration in the archaeology of early medieval Eastern Europe. It...  Read More >>

Drawing on examples from 20+ sites across Korea and Koreatowns around the world, this book asks readers to rethink...  Read More >>

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This book explored interpreters’ role when interpreting for Chinese government press conference and discovered the...  Read More >>

This edited book attempts to foreground how challenges and complexities between policy and practice intertwine in...  Read More >>