Sociolinguistics

Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2017Emoji have gone from being virtually unknown to being a central topic in internet communication.

Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2019

This book explores how political economy intersects with sociolinguistics, specifically how neoliberalism, inequality and social class mediate language in society issues.

Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2019

This book explores how political economy intersects with sociolinguistics, specifically how neoliberalism, inequality and social class mediate language in society issues.

The X figure is ubiquitous in contemporary culture, but attempts to explain our fixation with X are rare.

The X figure is ubiquitous in contemporary culture, but attempts to explain our fixation with X are rare.

An accessible, user-friendly guide to the variety of different experimental methods used in sociolinguistics, Experimental Research Methods in Sociolinguistics walks students through the how-to of experimental methods used to investigate variation in both speech production and perception.

An accessible, user-friendly guide to the variety of different experimental methods used in sociolinguistics, Experimental Research Methods in Sociolinguistics walks students through the how-to of experimental methods used to investigate variation in both speech production and perception.

Rethinking Youth Citizenship After the Age of Entitlement provides a primer for exploring hard questions about how young people understand, experience and enact their citizenship in uncertain times and about their senses of membership and belonging.

Rethinking Youth Citizenship After the Age of Entitlement provides a primer for exploring hard questions about how young people understand, experience and enact their citizenship in uncertain times and about their senses of membership and belonging.

Beginning with a thorough survey of approaches to communicative syllabus design, Melrose deals with the early 1970s functional approach and subsequent criticism of it as well as the contemporary search for a process approach to language learning.

Investigating an important field within translation studies, Community Translation addresses the specific context, characteristics and needs of translation in and for communities.

Investigating an important field within translation studies, Community Translation addresses the specific context, characteristics and needs of translation in and for communities.

This book addresses contemporary issues in the assessment of plurilingual competence and plurilingual learners.

This book addresses contemporary issues in the assessment of plurilingual competence and plurilingual learners.

In Reading Between the Signs, Anna Mindess provides a perspective on a culture that is not widely understood - American Deaf culture.

This breakthrough scientific masterwork - and INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - reveals the underlying forces that have shaped human history and will secure our future.

This book shows how objects can create new linguistic and cultural orders, spotlighting the ways in which everyday collections help make the world anew by rearranging its materiality and how multilingual speakers make meanings without words.

Grasping how to swear is a crucial skill to any English-speaker, but it can be a tricky business.

This book explores the vital role language plays in shaping how we understand and discuss medicines, making for a more detailed study of pharmaceutical and pharmacological language to more clearly understand the intersection of language, health, and culture.

Within Africa, radio provides an important platform for accommodating diverse linguistic groups and enabling speakers to express themselves in their own local languages.

In this brilliant transatlantic survival guide, Erin Moore examines the key differences between the British and the Americans through their language.

Language in Society introduces the study of the relationship between language and society, also known as sociolinguistics, without assuming any prior knowledge of linguistics.

Featured on the Podcast You Don't Know Me hosted by Chloe Combi - an exploration into the lives of global Gen Z'An important and timely book.

This book presents the findings from original research about court interpreting in the disciplines of humanities and social sciences from a linguistic perspective.

This book offers two new perspectives on language attitudes and ideologies.

The book, "e;Wet under the Rainbow"e; by Akariza Laurette Annely, explores the profound impact of the genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda on the younger generation.

An indispensable book for parents, teenagers and anyone concerned with issues in adolescence, from former headteacher Tony Little and child psychiatrist Herb Etkin.

An indispensable book for parents, teenagers and anyone concerned with issues in adolescence, from former headteacher Tony Little and child psychiatrist Herb Etkin.

What will your 100-year life look like?

What will your 100-year life look like?

A shocking expos of football's human-trafficking scandal.

Verbal performances are often encountered in the media where they are used to embody characters or social archetypes.

Verbal performances are often encountered in the media where they are used to embody characters or social archetypes.

This collection represents contemporary perspectives on important aspects of research into the language in the public space, known as the Linguistic Landscape (LL), with the focus on the negotiation and contestation of identities.

Metaphor has long provided a rich way to speak about the unspeakable, to refer to delicate issues.

Metaphor has long provided a rich way to speak about the unspeakable, to refer to delicate issues.

"Remixing multilingualism" is conceptualised in this book as engaging in the linguistic act of using, combining and manipulating multilingual forms.

"Remixing multilingualism" is conceptualised in this book as engaging in the linguistic act of using, combining and manipulating multilingual forms.

Since the earliest days of our species, technology and language have evolved in parallel.

Since the earliest days of our species, technology and language have evolved in parallel.

Second Language Identities examines how identity is an issue in different second language learning contexts.

Second Language Identities examines how identity is an issue in different second language learning contexts.

Over the last two decades, reading groups have become increasingly popular in the UK and the USA.

Over the last two decades, reading groups have become increasingly popular in the UK and the USA.

Agency and Participation in Childhood and Youth presents new critical engagement in conceptualising the roles of youth agency and participation in education, development and the pursuit of social justice.

This collection represents contemporary perspectives on important aspects of research into the language in the public space, known as the Linguistic Landscape (LL), with the focus on the negotiation and contestation of identities.

In the first five months of the Great War, one million men volunteered to fight.

In the first five months of the Great War, one million men volunteered to fight.

Agency and Participation in Childhood and Youth presents new critical engagement in conceptualising the roles of youth agency and participation in education, development and the pursuit of social justice.

You can't always plan for the future.