Sociolinguistics

This account of language acquisition in a multilingual context explains how hybrid grammars develop and can result in language change.

An introduction to bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking world, looking at topics including language contact, bilingual societies, code-switching and language choice.

Offering a global perspective to help students achieve and maintain mental health, enhance their learning outcomes and access services, worldwide.

Offering a global perspective to help students achieve and maintain mental health, enhance their learning outcomes and access services, worldwide.

This volume provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of corpus-based linguistic research on English.

A comprehensive account of face-to-face interactions in commercial and non-commercial service encounter settings.

Drawing on everyday telephone and video interactions, this book surveys how English speakers use grammar to formulate responses in conversation.

This book documents the lesser-known varieties of English which have been overlooked and understudied within the canon of English linguistics.

An introduction to bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking world, looking at topics including language contact, bilingual societies, code-switching and language choice.

This account of language acquisition in a multilingual context explains how hybrid grammars develop and can result in language change.

An introduction to language endangerment.

How long has Spanish been spoken in the US and how many people speak it today?

Using a multidisciplinary approach, this book explores how multilingualism is shaped by a variety of factors.

Drawing on real-life interviews, Brandt explores what happens when writing overtakes reading as the basis of people''s daily literate experience.

Using a multidisciplinary approach, this book explores how multilingualism is shaped by a variety of factors.

Drawing on real-life interviews, Brandt explores what happens when writing overtakes reading as the basis of people''s daily literate experience.

A pioneering exploration of form, meaning, theme and function in African American slang, illustrated with thousands of contextual examples.

This book provides an up-to-date overview of the main areas of the sociolinguistics of sign languages.

This book provides an up-to-date overview of the main areas of the sociolinguistics of sign languages.

A pioneering exploration of form, meaning, theme and function in African American slang, illustrated with thousands of contextual examples.

Communication across Cultures is an excellent resource for students of linguistics and related disciplines, including anthropology, sociology and education.

Communication across Cultures is an excellent resource for students of linguistics and related disciplines, including anthropology, sociology and education.

This volume explores and compares linguistic practices among young people in linguistically and culturally diverse urban spaces.

The first handbook to survey and expand the burgeoning field of corpus pragmatics, the intersection of pragmatics and corpus linguistics.

This volume explores and compares linguistic practices among young people in linguistically and culturally diverse urban spaces.

The first handbook to survey and expand the burgeoning field of corpus pragmatics, the intersection of pragmatics and corpus linguistics.

This interdisciplinary, book-length study of the linguistics of organizational styling presents an innovative take on the notion of style.

This interdisciplinary, book-length study of the linguistics of organizational styling presents an innovative take on the notion of style.

A thorough review of the worldwide problem of language endangerment and death.

A thorough review of the worldwide problem of language endangerment and death.

This book explores how new technologies have the potential to revolutionise the documentation, analysis and revitalisation of endangered languages.

This book explores how new technologies have the potential to revolutionise the documentation, analysis and revitalisation of endangered languages.

This widely acclaimed empirical study uses a factor analysis to identify six dimensions of variation on the basis of linguistic co-occurence patterns.

This book is a clear and reliable introduction to the field of sociolinguistics.

New edition of widely-acclaimed textbook, including new sections on up-to-date topics for the 1990s.

This revised edition of Bilingualism in Schools and Society is an accessible introduction to the sociolinguistic and educational aspects of and the political issues surrounding bilingualism, including code-switching in popular music, advertising, and online social spaces.

This revised edition of Bilingualism in Schools and Society is an accessible introduction to the sociolinguistic and educational aspects of and the political issues surrounding bilingualism, including code-switching in popular music, advertising, and online social spaces.

The second edition of Data Collection in Sociolinguistics: Methods and Applications continues to provide up-to-date, succinct, relevant, and informative discussion about methods of data collection in sociolinguistic research.

The second edition of Data Collection in Sociolinguistics: Methods and Applications continues to provide up-to-date, succinct, relevant, and informative discussion about methods of data collection in sociolinguistic research.

This book brings together an ensemble of leading voices from the fields of economics, language policy, law, political philosophy, and translation studies.

This book brings together an ensemble of leading voices from the fields of economics, language policy, law, political philosophy, and translation studies.

As a founder and leading figure in multimodality and social semiotics, Theo van Leuween has made significant contributions to a variety of research fields, including discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, communication and media studies, education, and design.

As a founder and leading figure in multimodality and social semiotics, Theo van Leuween has made significant contributions to a variety of research fields, including discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, communication and media studies, education, and design.

Studies in Corpus-Based Sociolinguistics illustrates how sociolinguistic approaches and linguistic distributions from corpora can be effectively combined to produce meaningful studies of language use and language variation.

Studies in Corpus-Based Sociolinguistics illustrates how sociolinguistic approaches and linguistic distributions from corpora can be effectively combined to produce meaningful studies of language use and language variation.

Shortlisted for BAAL (British Association for Applied Linguistics) Book Prize 2022The Routledge Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality provides an accessible and authoritative overview of this dynamic and growing area of research.

Shortlisted for BAAL (British Association for Applied Linguistics) Book Prize 2022The Routledge Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality provides an accessible and authoritative overview of this dynamic and growing area of research.

This groundbreaking book explores the relevance of queer theory to Translation Studies and of translation to Global Sexuality Studies.