Sociolinguistics

This book examines translation policies (TP) for foreign languages in Shanghai, China and aims to propose effective TP for communication between authorities and foreigners.

This book examines translation policies (TP) for foreign languages in Shanghai, China and aims to propose effective TP for communication between authorities and foreigners.

This book serves as an essential reference for understanding the complex landscape of public opinions regarding climate change in Malaysia.

This book examines the status and relationships of the languages included in Jamaica’s Language Education Policy, with a particular focus on Spanish.

This book examines the feasibility of realising the plurilingual vision of the Barcelona Summit Agreement (mother tongue plus two additional languages) through the  second-level education system by employing three strategies: 1) harmonising postprimary modern foreign language (MFL) classes in line with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) through cross-age teaching; 2) replacing the current state second-level MFL exams with CEFR international exams; and 3) implementing Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL).

This book examines the status and relationships of the languages included in Jamaica’s Language Education Policy, with a particular focus on Spanish.

This book serves as an essential reference for understanding the complex landscape of public opinions regarding climate change in Malaysia.

This book examines the feasibility of realising the plurilingual vision of the Barcelona Summit Agreement (mother tongue plus two additional languages) through the  second-level education system by employing three strategies: 1) harmonising postprimary modern foreign language (MFL) classes in line with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) through cross-age teaching; 2) replacing the current state second-level MFL exams with CEFR international exams; and 3) implementing Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL).

This book traces the history, sociolinguistics and structure of world Englishes and examines the complexities of English(es) and the transmedia narratives of their users in modern-day international universities and workplaces.

This book traces the history, sociolinguistics and structure of world Englishes and examines the complexities of English(es) and the transmedia narratives of their users in modern-day international universities and workplaces.

How do the social, material, and spatial processes underlying the making of early modern missionary grammars, vocabularies, and devotional translations deepen our understanding of their contents?

How do the social, material, and spatial processes underlying the making of early modern missionary grammars, vocabularies, and devotional translations deepen our understanding of their contents?

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Race provides an up-to-date overview of language and race from a modern global perspective.

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Race provides an up-to-date overview of language and race from a modern global perspective.

En plena revolucion digital es necesario volver la vista a los atlas linguisticos impresos para rescatar sus datos, revisar su metodologia y, sobre todo, rendirles un merecido homenaje.

Der Begriff der Mehrsprachigkeit pragt seit Jahrzehnten den sprachwissenschaftlichen und sprachpolitischen Diskurs in Europa.

Der Begriff der Mehrsprachigkeit pragt seit Jahrzehnten den sprachwissenschaftlichen und sprachpolitischen Diskurs in Europa.

En plena revolucion digital es necesario volver la vista a los atlas linguisticos impresos para rescatar sus datos, revisar su metodologia y, sobre todo, rendirles un merecido homenaje.

El presente libro recoge algunas aportaciones analiticas y aplicativas sobre los discursos: Linguistico, pedagogico y juvenil realizadas a partir del estudio teorico y la recoleccion de diversos corpus orales y escritos producidos en ambitos socio-educativos en la ciudad de Pereira.

Perspectivas y aplicaciones teoricas del Lenguaje, titulo que sirve a la presente obra de la coleccion de Estudios de la Maestria en Linguistica, presenta los aportes investigativos realizados por docentes, estudiantes, conferencistas y egresados del programa como un aporte a la comprension de la lengua en diferentes contextos de usos reales.

This handbook addresses the interrelatedness of nationalism, identity, language, linguistics, and multilingualism in an African context.

This handbook addresses the interrelatedness of nationalism, identity, language, linguistics, and multilingualism in an African context.

This book explores how minoritized languages and identities are impacted by “deglobalization” - marked by increased state control, declining global market power, and growing repression of civil liberties.

This book explores how minoritized languages and identities are impacted by “deglobalization” - marked by increased state control, declining global market power, and growing repression of civil liberties.

This book discusses performance in communities of practice, social criticism through song, and how folk song and language interact.

Introduces the concept of language socialization by providing case studies from various classrooms around the world.

Investigates when and how preschool children acquire the vernacular norms of the community they come from.

An up-to-date, theoretically informed study of male, in-group, street-aligned, youth language practice in various urban centres in Africa.

Explores how children develop linguistic and literary competence from early childhood into adolescence, in a diverse range of linguistic contexts.

The first book of its kind to provide historical and state-of-the-art perspectives on language regard.

Investigates the underrepresentation of women in politics, by examining how language use constructs and maintains gender inequalities in political institutions.

Presents an interdisciplinary study of literary dialect and an argument for a mixed-method approach to digital research.

Provides a comprehensive overview of third language acquisition (additive multilingualism) in adulthood, an increasingly important subfield of language acquisition.

Demonstrates how data, methods and theories from sociolinguistics and creole studies synergize and mutually benefit each subfield.

Explores how global youth push the boundaries of standard language and exploit the potential of their multilingual repertoires online.

Offers a linguistic window into contemporary hunter-gatherer societies, looking at how they survive and interface with agricultural and industrial societies.

Explores and provides situational and linguistic descriptions of the full range of registers found on the searchable web.

A comprehensive linguistic analysis of Mexican American English, introducing a model of the language shift that results within immigrant groups.

Investigates how stories are shared in online contexts and provides a method for studying them.

Explores how suspect statements are elicited in police interrogations, written down and transformed into a document that is cited in court.