Sociolinguistics Books

A collection of studies offering an up-to-date analysis of official policies to promote Catalan in a democratic framework in each of the main Spanish regions where it is spoken: Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands.

There is a dearth of literature about the use of popular culture texts for students who are English language learners. This work begins to fill this gap in the literature by observing the use of popular texts as a means to develop language and literacies...

Scholars suggest that writing is culture-embedded and L1 rhetorical norms and strategies transfer and influence L2 writing. The theoretical underpinnings behind this premise, on the other hand, have been incomplete and most research in this area has...

The book brings together 16 contributions exploring, broadly, two main areas: The first one relates to the issue of the effects of language in the FL classroom, while the second one investigates the effects of language on society and/or on the...

Transform your international communication skills with this unique, easy-to-read guide.Is that clear? is a small and user-friendly guide for any native English speaker working or socialising with international colleagues and friends.Condensed into...

Colour is largely assumed to be already in the world, a natural universal that everyone, everywhere understands. Yet cognitive scientists routinelytell us that colour is an illusion, and a private one for each of us; neither social nor material, it is...

Fertile rather than sterile, what makes constructive debate possible? How to reason together at tackling such a vital issue as drinking water management? Claire Polo here presents textbook case diving into the argumentative mechanisms of discussions...

Translated for the first time, with annotations and useful additions, this long under-appreciated work of S. D. Luzzatto is now available to modern scholars. A history of both Hebrew and Hebrew scholarship, it is replete with valuable information and...

In this Hebrew language learning setting, students' backgrounds and histories arediverse: some were born and raised in Canada, the United States, or South Africa andstudied Hebrew at Jewish day schools; others were born in the former USSR, immigratedto...

In this Hebrew language learning setting, students' backgrounds and histories arediverse: some were born and raised in Canada, the United States, or South Africa andstudied Hebrew at Jewish day schools; others were born in the former USSR, immigratedto...

This ground breaking research explores language maintenance and shift focusing on a school community. Following students' language practice inside and outside of school, the author offers a full picture of students' multilingual practices and their role...

Using key perspectives from Linguistic anthropology the book illuminates how social actors take up the ideals of law, equality, and democratic representation in locally-meaningful ways to make their own national history in ways that may perpetuate...

This book examines the fundamental interactional dimension to foreign language communication, including the establishment, development, consolidation and maintenance of interpersonal relations.

This is both the first systematic introduction to Discourse Studies for students and scholars of social movements and a study of discourses on the European "refugee crisis", by leading theorist, Teun A. van Dijk.

This book explores the emergence and development of multilingual fiction series, a relatively new phenomenon propelled by the globalization of media industries and the consolidation of streaming platforms as central vectors in the production and...

Cette enquête linguistique propose une étude détaillée des patois d'Ardenne. L'auteur examine leur évolution historique et les influences des langues environnantes, et analyse la grammaire et la syntaxe de ces dialectes locaux. Ce livre sera d'un grand...

This annual publication of the English Dialect Society includes scholarly articles on all aspects of English dialectology, as well as reviews of recent publications and notices of Society news and events. It also provides a catalog of the Society's...

A comprehensive guide to the dialect of mid-Yorkshire and lower Nidderdale, including an outline grammar. Perfect for language enthusiasts and dialect researchers.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the...

This unique book provides a window into the Gaelic English dialect spoken in Scotland's Western Isles. Through a series of conversations recorded by the author, readers can gain an understanding of the syntax, vocabulary, and culture of this endangered...

An introduction both to languages themselves and to their social role, Languages and Their Status gives insight into the meaning, value, and function of language within culture and into the ways language behavior varies and changes. It examines the part...

In Praise of Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English"Spoken Soul brilliantly fills a huge gap. . . . a delightfully readable introduction to the elegant interweave between the language and its culture." -Ralph W. Fasold, Georgetown...

A fresh and unique take on a widely taught topic, Language and Linguistic Diversity in the US discusses the many languages and forms of language that have been used in the US and shows how this distribution and diversity of languages has helped shape and...

This book explores the ways in which professional groups develop specific interactional procedures for conducting and representing their activities, all of which contribute to a distinctive collaborative identity. It highlights the drawbacks as well as...

The authors address one of the most significant aspects of social life in our times: that of cultural identities and identifications, and of the ways we construct them through our speech and the narrative of ourselves and others. They combine a...

Multilingual Livingpresents speakers' own accounts of the challenges and advantages of living in several languages at individual, family and societal levels. Individuals note profound differences in their sense of themselves, their relationships and...

Identity Trouble assembles contributions from a variety of discourse fields to discuss the pressures on traditional understandings of identity. The focus is on failures and uncertainties in people's construction of their identities when faced change and...

This book addresses the perennial question of how to promote Africa's indigenous languages as medium of instruction in educational systems. Breaking with the traditional approach to the continent's language question by focusing on the often overlooked...

This edited collection presents cutting edge research on the process of identity construction in professional and institutional contexts, from corporate workplaces, to courtrooms, classrooms, and academia. The chapters consider how interactants do...

Leading scholars in the field examine the role played by the English language in contemporary Japanese society. Their various chapters cover the nature, status, and function of English in Japan, focusing on the ways in which globalization is influencing...

This is the first edited collection to examine politeness in a wide range of diverse cultures. Most essays draw on empirical data from a wide variety of languages, including some key-languages in politeness research, such as English, and Japanese, as...

Gender is a hotly debated topic in the field of education. The role that language plays in educational contexts especially in the classroom has long been acknowledged. Innovatively combining approaches in the analysis of classroom discourse,this book...

In a context of globalization, developing approaches to writing that take account of the differences between local and global contexts, between centre and periphery, between us and them is a real and pressing challenge. A critical cosmopolitan approach...

Linguists usually discuss language or dialects in terms of groups of speakers. Believing that patterns can be seen more clearly in the group than the individual, researchers often present group scores with no indication of the variation within the group...

The American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech. Hot dog, rush hour, butter-and-egg man, gold digger, shyster, buttinsky, smart aleck, sidewalk...

The papers in this volume investigate the semantics of French determiners both from a theoretical and descriptive point of view, covering a time interval that goes from contemporary French back in time to the early centuries of the second millennium and...

This highly original and timely collection brings together case studies from salient areas of the Himalayan region to explore the politics of language contact. Promoting a linguistically and historically grounded perspective, The Politics of Language...

This book examines linguistic nationalism in India. It focuses on the emergence of language as a marker of identity by analysing themes such as Linguistic Reorganization of States, nationalism, philology, and linguistic identity. Formulating a novel...

This book investigates children's acquisition of L1 English in the context of Singapore, one of the Kachruvian Outer Circle or ESL countries.This book also sheds light on how the acquisitional steps taken by children differ across regions.

Authority and Power in Social Interaction explores methods of analyzing authority and power in the minutiae of interaction. Drawing on the expertise of a diverse international team of organizational communication and language and social interaction...

Translation and Translanguaging brings into dialogue translanguaging as a theoretical lens and translation as an applied practice. This book is the first to ask: what can translanguaging tell us about translation and what can translation tell us about...

This book examines the relationship between the English language and growth - economic and inclusive - in India. It explores why English continues to be the language of aspiration long after Independence. With the second largest English-speaking...

The Beatles and Vocal Expression presents a mixed-methodology for analysing paralinguistic voice qualities, which give rise to performative expressive tropes, that are retained on recordings. Such tropes convey a series of paralinguistic personae that...

Dies ist eine Sammlung von Artikeln, die im Journal des Allgemeinen Deutschen Sprachvereins veröffentlicht wurden. Der Verein widmet sich der Förderung der deutschen Sprache und Kultur und in dieser Sammlung werden wichtige Themen wie Grammatik,...

This book is a glossary of the dialect used in the Almondbury and Huddersfield regions of England. It includes definitions of words and phrases unique to these areas, as well as examples of their usage. It is a great resource for linguists and anyone...

A linguistic study of the dialect spoken in the northwestern region of the Veluwe in the Netherlands.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in...