Sociolinguistics Books

Achieving high scores on the English section of the Korean UniversityAptitude Examination (KUAE) is very important for Korean high school studentsbecause the scores can determine admission to Korean universities andstudents' future social, political, and...

At the end of the 19th century, an influential group of Americans argued for the extension of U.S. control over foreign territory by force­ful means. A century later, so-called neo-conservatives advocated a policy of strength to ensure continued U.S...

Evangelina Brignoni explores the notion that Latinos mostly express their thoughts and emotions, construct their identities, and transmit inter-generationally their rich heritage through the oral domain of language. "Authors in a Latino...

The empirical investigations draw on a variety of analytical tools that lead to new research findings pertaining to persuasive verb typologies, mythological elements in advertising, classroom code-switching, conceptual emotion metaphors, subversive...

This book presents in-depth investigation of the language used about women and ageing in public discourse, and compares this with the language used by women to express their personal, lived experience of ageing. It takes a linguistic approach to identify...

This book presents a sociolinguistics of academic publishing from an historical and contemporary perspective. Using Swedish academia as a case study, it focuses on publishing practices within history and psychology. The author demonstrates how new...

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Drawing on a range of contexts and data sources, from urban multilingualism to studies of animal communication, Posthumanist Applied Linguistics offers us alternative ways of thinking about the human predicament, with major implications for research,...

This monograph takes up recent advances in social network methods in sociology, together with data on economic segregation, in order to build a quantitative analysis of the class and network effects implicated in vowel change in a Southern American city...

This book proposes, examines and unpacks the notion of unequal Englishes as a way to understand English today. Unlike many studies on the pluralization of English, the volume assumes that inequalities and Englishes are inextricably linked and must be...

Sociolinguistics in Ireland takes a fresh look at the interface of language and society in present-day Ireland. In a series of specially commissioned chapters it examines the relationship of the Irish and English languages and traces their dynamic...

This is a collection of two issues of L'Amerika Esperantisto, the official magazine of the Esperanto Association of North America. The magazine contains news, articles, and essays related to the international language of Esperanto, as well as creative...

"Code-switching," or the alternation of languages by bilinguals, has attracted an enormous amount of attention from researchers. However, most research has focused on spoken language, and the resultant theoretical frameworks have been based on spoken...

This book uniquely explores the shifting structures of power and unexpected points of intersection - entanglements - at the nexus of North and South as a lens through which to examine the impact of global and local circuits of people, practices and ideas...

Ecolinguistics: Language, Ecology and the Stories We Live By is a ground-breaking book which reveals the stories that underpin unequal and unsustainable societies and searches for inspirational forms of language that can help rebuild a kinder, more...

Heritage language policies define the context in which heritage languages are maintained or abandoned by communities, and this volume describes and analyzes international policy strategies, as well as the implications for the actual heritage language...

With unique and powerful data from within a big city prison, this book clarifies the role that conversational analysis can have within a Critical Discourse Analysis perspective. In a detailed linguistic analysis of the language use of prison officers and...

Sociolinguists and lawyers will find insight and relevance in this account of the language of the courtroom, as exemplified in the criminal trial of O.J. Simpson. The trial is examined as the site of linguistic power and persuasion, focusing on the role...

Linguistic Planets of Belief presents a way for people to notice, examine, and question the role language plays in identifying, recognizing, and understanding those around them. This book introduces the metaphor of 'planets of belief' as a framework for...

The Latin language has played a powerful role in the history of Western civilization. In this book, Jepson explores the language used in the Vulgate Psalter, providing readers with a fascinating analysis of this important text.This work has been selected...

This study raises awareness to the emergence of a new genre in world literature-hybridized literature. It rejects the assumption according to which literatures written in less commonly taught languages should be subsumed into one universally accessible...

Language is central to human experience and our understanding of who we are, whether written or unwritten, sung or spoken. But what is language and how do we record it? Where does it reside? Does it exist and evolve within written sources, in...

Drawing on a corpus of 113 narratives told by migrant workers who have returned to their home country, Ladegaard details Indonesian and Filipina (domestic) migrant workers' experiences of homecoming after years of work abroad, separated from their loved...

What can social spaces tell us about social relations in society? How do everyday social spaces like teashops, reading rooms, and libraries reify-or subvert-dominant social structures like caste and gender? These are the questions that this book explores...

Diversity is a buzzword of our times and yet the extent of religious diversity in Western societies is generally misconceived. This ground-breaking research draws attention to the journey of one migrant religious institution in an era of religious...

Using the socio-political discourse of Kwame Nkrumah, a pioneering Pan-Africanist and Ghana's independence leader, Nartey investigates the notion of political myth-making in a context underexplored in the literature. He examines Nkrumah's construction of...

This book challenges the existing misconception that there was no rhetoric in ancient China. Instead, this book provides ample evidence from public speeches in the Xia dynasty and oracle bone inscriptions in the Shang dynasty to public debates about...

This collection offers a distinctly Asian voice for English language education and addresses some of the unique needs of Asian learners in EFL contexts. Teachers and researchers from nine Asian countries present some of the most current and innovative...

Language and Politics in Post-Soviet Russia critically examines the uses of language in post-Soviet media and political texts. Drawing on theories from a range of fields, including critical discourse studies, metaphor analysis, media studies, as well as...

This book explores both theoretical and practical issues of language use in a migration context, using a mixed-method approach. The unique interview data on which the analysis is based (and therefore the lens through which these issues are viewed) stem...

This work explores the role of verb information during online processing ofspoken language. Currently, the field already acknowledges a large influenceof verb information in the prediction of structure during language comprehension,but focuses on...

In this timely and innovative book, Tamar Katriel takes a language and discourse-centred approach to the subject of peace activism in Israel-Palestine, one of the most significant political issues of our time, while also posing more general questions...

This book offers a distinct exploration of Chinese English - which has the largest rising population of speakers in the World Englishes (WE) family.Xu focuses on the fundamental issues of "names" and "norms" that are closely related to Chinese English...

Korangy and Sharifian's groundbreaking book offers the first in-depth study into cultural linguistics for the Persian language. The book highlights a multitude of angles through which the intricacies of Persian and its many dialects and accents, wherever...

An essential text on discourse theory and analytic methods, this book demonstrates the possibilities of using discourse analysis to better understand language, literacy, culture, and teaching.

This is the story of Dr. Geneva Smitherman, aka "Dr. G," the pioneering linguist often referred to as the "Queen of Black Language." In a series of narrative essays, Dr. G writes eloquently and powerfully about the role of language in social...

Published in 1788, this book is a landmark in the history of Flemish-Dutch language and literature. Its author, Jan Baptist Chrysostomus Verlooy, defends the use of Dutch, specifically the Flemish dialect, as a legitimate literary language, challenging...

A sociolinguistic and historical study of the Yiddish language, written by Ben Zion Rubsztein, a Jewish scholar and linguist. The book examines the development of the Yiddish language and its place in Jewish culture and society.This work has been...

This is a Danish-language dictionary of slang and colloquial expressions, compiled by the Danish linguist Viggo Fausbøll in the early 20th century. The dictionary includes definitions and examples of usage for a wide range of slang and informal...

Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit der plattdeutschen Sprache und der aufkommenden Literaturbewegung, die in den ersten Jahrzehnten des 20. Jahrhunderts in Norddeutschland entstand. H. Eschenhagen untersucht dabei die sprachlichen Besonderheiten des...

Notes on the South Lancashire Dialect is a linguistic work by James Allanson Picton. In this book, Picton provides a detailed analysis of the dialect used in South Lancashire, a region of northwestern England. A fascinating study of regional language and...