Sociolinguistics books

Using key perspectives from Linguistic anthropology the book illuminates how social actors take up the ideals of...  Read More >>

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"Offering new critical reflections on the reasons prohibitions have historically arisen, the book analyses ""prohibitions""...  Read More >>

Drawing on--but also extending--the theories and methods of applied linguistics, this book demonstrates how scholars...  Read More >>

In this interdisciplinary study, Mónika Fodor explores how intergenerational memory narratives embedded in own stories...  Read More >>

This volume is the first to explore the influence of the formal properties of language on the expression of emotions,...  Read More >>

This book provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the methodological tools that have to date been implemented...  Read More >>

Penry Williams' book presents an original study of Australian English and, via this, insights into Australian society....  Read More >>

All languages and cultures appear to have one or more ""mind-like"" constructs that supplement the human body. Linguistic...  Read More >>

This book explores the perceptions of English language teachers from 15 culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds...  Read More >>

This volume proposes a contextualized multimodal framework that brings together storytelling practitioners’ and...  Read More >>

This book provides a comprehensive overview of this core and dynamic area of study, allowing readers to access important...  Read More >>

Combining theory and empirical data, the book presents ground-breaking research on accent attitudes in the Chinese...  Read More >>

This book takes a systemic functional perspective on political discourse to provide a complete, integrate, exhaustive,...  Read More >>

Australian English is best known for its colourful slang. This collection provides a much richer account by bringing...  Read More >>

Die Arbeit befasst sich mit dem Schwund der Germanismen in der zweiten H�lfte des 20. Jh. in der Alltagssprache...  Read More >>

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Drawing from a rich corpus of British cultural production and postcolonial theory, this book positions Brexit in...  Read More >>

Linguistic Landscape in the Spanish-speaking World is the first book dedicated to languages in the urban space of...  Read More >>

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This book revisits a number of key issues in Chinese Translation Studies. Reflecting on e.g. what Translation Studies...  Read More >>

This handbook is the first multi-faceted and cross-disciplinary overview of how cities can be read through the lens...  Read More >>

This book examines the racial and socio-linguistic dynamics of Jamaica, a majority black nation where the dominant...  Read More >>

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