Sociolinguistics

Many can attest to the importance of the self-growth that occurs for young people through the arts and their accompanying communities of support, understanding, and caring.

Languages are constantly changing.

In December 1968 two girls who lived next door to each other - Mary, aged eleven, and Norma, thirteen - stood before a criminal court in Newcastle, accused of strangling two little boys; Martin Brown, four years old, and Brian Howe, three.

Gendered Talk at Work examines how women and men negotiate their gender identities as well as their professional roles in everyday workplace communication.

Adolescence is a challenging stage for all individuals, especially for those with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and the City is the first multifaceted and cross-disciplinary overview of how cities can be read through the lens of translation and how translation studies can be enriched by an understanding of the complex dynamics of the city.

This book advocates for a new model of describing the practices of language revitalization, and decolonizing the research methods used to study them.

This book gathers international and interdisciplinary work on youth studies from the Global South, exploring issues such as continuity and change in youth transitions from education to work; contemporary debates on the impact of mobility, marginalization and violence on young lives; how digital technologies shape youth experiences; and how different institutions, cultures and structures generate a diversity of experiences of what it means to be young.

A landmark survey of Turkic by a leading expert, covering structural, functional, historical, sociolinguistic, and literary aspects.

In a stimulating and novel approach, this book explains why metaphors are persuasive, suggesting that they are ideologically effective because they are cognitively plausible and evoke an emotional response.

Presents state-of-the-art knowledge about languages in contact from individual bilingualism (or bilinguality) to societal bilingualism.

Pragmatics Pedagogy in English as an International Language aims to bring to light L2 pragmatics instruction and assessment in relation to English as an International Language (EIL).

This book troubles the ways young people have been constructed as 'trouble' through critical readings of the effects and impacts, politically and ideologically, globally and locally, of scholarship and practice directed at South African young people's sexualities over the last three decades of addressing HIV, GBV and other sexual and gender justice challenges.

This edited volume presents an analysis of the evolution of French language policies and their impact on French regional languages and their communities.

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture presents the first comprehensive survey of research on the relationship between language and culture.

Obwohl Unverbindlichkeit von Politikern und Politikerinnen ein z.

Die Idylle steht im Spannungsfeld von Kitsch und Katastrophe, das Nils Jablonski durch medienkomparatistische close readings literarischer, filmischer und televisiver Texte untersucht.

This innovative collection explores the points of contact between translation practice and ecological culture by focusing on the relationship between ecology and translation.

The traditional dialect spoken in the Shetland Isles, the northernmost part of Scotland and Britain, is highly distinct.

This book focuses on the idea of Academic Persian in the growing competition of many Middle Eastern languages to produce and highlight their academic discourse.

London Jamaican provides the reader with a new perspective on African descent in London.

This collection of original essays is intended to both celebrate Derek Bickerton's sixty-fifth birthday and honor his long and eminent career.

This book offers a new perspective on the role played by colonial descriptions and translation of Caribbean plants in representations of Caribbean culture.

This is a multi-disciplinary account of language repertoires of early multilingualism across continents, languages and contexts.

This book is a collection of studies of corrections and repair in conversation, by Gail Jefferson, co-founder of the field of Conversation Analysis and one of its foremost researchers.

The first ever textbook devoted to the cross-linguistic study of voice, covering various topics and discussing data from numerous languages.

This volume offers insights on language learning outside the classroom, or in the wild, where L2 users themselves are the driving force for language learning.

This edited book attempts to foreground how challenges and complexities between policy and practice intertwine in the teaching and learning of the STEM subjects in multilingual settings, and how they (policy and practice) impact on educational processes, developments and outcomes.

Aus Sicht der Gesetzgebung ist Luxemburg ein dreisprachiges Land.

Including illustrative real-life case studies, this book draws on empirical data to explore how silence can be embraced in teaching.

This book examines communication between police and residents of a designated crime 'hotspot' community in the Global South.

How can teachers ensure a pedagogy of possibility underpinned by social justice, and what has literacy got to do with this?

Faces of English explores the phenomenon of increasing dialects, varieties, and creoles, even as the spread of globalization supports an apparently growing uniformity among nations.

Understanding and managing risk and uncertainty is a central task in contemporary societies characterised by rapid social, technological and environmental change.

As people are living longer on average than ever before, the number of those with dementia will increase.

This is a comprehensive workbook for actors, covering the key characteristics and profiles of a wide range of African accents of English.

In this wonderfully original, intensely personal yet deeply analytical work, Carli Coetzee argues that difference and disagreement can be forms of activism to bring about social change, inside and outside the teaching environment.

This edited book examines language perceptions and practices in multilingual university contexts in the aftermath of recent theoretical developments questioning the conceptualization of language as a static entity, drawing on case studies from different Northern European contexts in order to explore the effects of phenomena including internationalization, widening participation, and migration patterns on language attitudes and ideologies.

This book offers an eclectic range of transdisciplinary insights into the role of metaphor, myth and fable in shaping our understanding of the world and how we interact with it and with each other.