Sociolinguistics books

A guide to film and TV accents for linguists, media scholars, actors, and dialect coaches. It shows how pronunciation...  Read More >>

This book critically discusses the development of education and language policies in the Philippines. It highlights...  Read More >>

This ground-breaking work calls into question the exclusive use of academic English in internationalising higher...  Read More >>

Metaphors of Multilingualism explores changing attitudes towards multilingualism by focusing on shifts both in the...  Read More >>

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This book examines the creative exchanges between architects, artists and intellectuals, from the Early Renaissance...  Read More >>

Language and State: A Theory of the Progress of Civilization, Second Edition, argues that the state takes form because...  Read More >>

Currently, the most influential sociolinguistic model for the evolution of 'Post-Colonial Englishes' is the Dynamic...  Read More >>

"Collects essays from native speakers of English who studied Chinese, learned it unusually well, and then used it...  Read More >>

Hip-hop and rap music have been a central part of youth cultures all around the world for decades. While every country...  Read More >>

This volume provides a collection of new perspectives on linguistic aspects of language criticism. It aims to offer...  Read More >>

Today, academics, business professionals and private persons alike need to communicate successfully and establish...  Read More >>

Contesting Grand Narratives of the Intercultural uses an auto-ethnographic account of the author’s experience of...  Read More >>

This book analyzes language, literacy, and health as social practices, and the relations among them, with a focus...  Read More >>

This book explores debaters’ professional identity construction through implicit negation in televised debates from...  Read More >>

This book gives a sociolinguistic account of Syrian Christian and Telugu Catholic personal names.  Read More >>

Explores key questions about translations and translators of South Asian Buddhist texts, past and present.  Read More >>

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This edited book offers a broad selection of interdisciplinary studies within cognitive science.  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 analyses the letters of marginalised groups of World War I soldiers - including Black, Indian and disabled...  Read More >>

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First published in 1991, An Uncommon Tongue explores the theme of usage in its widest sense: usage as what we say...  Read More >>

Kabuto explores how identity impacts the development of bilingual readers and reading practices are mediated by...  Read More >>

This volume brings together leading scholars in their fields who offer much needed and wide-ranging perspectives...  Read More >>