Sociolinguistics

First published in 1986, this book looks at the impact of mass literacy on everyday life, discussing the fundamental differences between traditional oral cultures and contemporary industrialised societies where most people rely on complex combinations of oral and literate communication.

First published in 1986, this book looks at the impact of mass literacy on everyday life, discussing the fundamental differences between traditional oral cultures and contemporary industrialised societies where most people rely on complex combinations of oral and literate communication.

The 'other' languages of England - those which originate in South and East Asia, and Southern and Eastern Europe - are now important parts of everyday life in urban England.

The 'other' languages of England - those which originate in South and East Asia, and Southern and Eastern Europe - are now important parts of everyday life in urban England.

The endangered languages crisis is widely acknowledged among scholars who deal with languages and indigenous peoples as one of the most pressing problems facing humanity, posing moral, practical, and scientific issues of enormous proportions.

Over the course of the late-twentieth century Basil Bernstein pioneered an original approach to educational phenomena, taking seriously questions regarding the transmission, distribution and transformation of knowledge as no other before had done.

Spoken English: The Basics offers a clear, non-jargonistic introduction to what the study of spoken English entails, ranging from its basic phonology and the grammar and vocabulary of speaking to the role of speaking in society.

A vivid commentary on Jewish survival and Jewish speech communities, investigating difficult questions about language varieties and choices.

A vivid commentary on Jewish survival and Jewish speech communities, investigating difficult questions about language varieties and choices.

A multilevel analysis of language contact under classical diglossia and societal bilingualism in North Africa.

This collection offers an in-depth study of children''s peer talk and its potential impact on children''s learning.

An introduction exploring many debates at the forefront of modern national language policy.

This book provides a comprehensive survey of the dominant languages and dialects used in the British Isles.

This collection offers an in-depth study of children''s peer talk and its potential impact on children''s learning.

A multilevel analysis of language contact under classical diglossia and societal bilingualism in North Africa.

A handy beginner''s guide to linguistic fieldwork - from the preparation of the work to the presentation of the results.

A handy beginner''s guide to linguistic fieldwork - from the preparation of the work to the presentation of the results.

This edited collection provides an overview of linguistic diversity, societal discourses and interaction between majorities and minorities in the Baltic States.

Contributions in this book illustrate the many methods available for researching language in context and for the analysis of everyday text types.

This is a practical guide to planning, conducting and presenting a sociolinguistic research project.

This new study explores how British youth was made, and how it made itself, over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This book explores the experiences of Indigenous children and young adults around the world as they navigate the formal education system and wider society.

Focusing on narratives with supernatural components, Karen J.

This work builds on the assumption that language learning and teaching needs to be made more relevant to the 'glocalised' digital world we live in.

This book offers a novel approach to understanding the complexities of communication in culturally and linguistically diverse health care contexts.

This book is an academic work which reviews and critiques the research literature concerning violent games and their alleged effects on players.

This book examines the agreements and discrepancies between public understanding and assumptions about refugees, and the actual beliefs and practices among the refugees themselves in a time of increasing mobility fuelled by what many call 'refugee crisis'.

Gender, Power and Political Speech explores the influence of gender on political speech by analyzing the performances of three female party leaders who took part in televised debates during the 2015 UK General Election campaign.

This book offers an innovative approach to analysing written texts, grounded in principles of semiotics.

This revised second edition is a comprehensive overview of why we speak the languages that we do.

This book represents the first collection specifically devoted to New Speaker Studies, focusing on language ideologies and practices of speakers in a variety of minority language communities.

This book presents an analysis of masculinity construction in a large corpus of women's magazines, adopting a feminist Critical Stylistic approach to reveal how men are talked about and 'sold' to women as part of a successful performance of hegemonic femininity.

This book examines the fan-created combination of Doctor Who, Sherlock, and Supernatural as a uniquely digital fan experience, and as a metaphor for ongoing scholarship into contemporary fandom.

This volume explores the evolution of the language of museum communication from 1950 to the present day, focusing on its most salient tool, the press release.

This book presents an overview of sociolinguistic research in England.

This book advances our understanding of change over time in human social conduct, and represents the first consolidated effort to reveal how micro-analytic studies of social interaction address such issues.

This book explores the language and literacy practices which sustain transnational migration across generations and across traditional boundaries such as school and home.

This book focuses on linguistic practices of identity construction in a popular culture media context, the Eurovision Song Contest.

This book presents post-Marxist theoretical approaches towards social critique and offers discourse analytical tools for critical research.

This edited collection provides an overview of linguistic diversity, societal discourses and interaction between majorities and minorities in the Baltic States.

The distinctive point of the book is its innovative interdisciplinary approach to business communication, with interconnections between linguistics, sociology, and critical organisational studies as applied to the corporate world.

This book is a sociological study of Muslim youth culture in two global cities in the Asia Pacific: Singapore and Sydney.

This book explores the mechanics of storytelling within a study aimed at focusing on a 'hidden' population of migrants in the city of York, UK.

This book offers a cross-cultural comparison of French and British cosmetics advertisements and explores how the discourse of beauty advertising represents ideas about femininity in French and English language contexts.

This book highlights the need to develop new educational perspectives in which multilingualism is valorised and strategically used in settings and contexts of instruction and learning.

Contributors to this volume discuss different types of emergencies and conflicts and how challenging these multilingual operational environments are for linguists.

This book examines language change and documentation during the First World War.

With several terms from the First World War still present in modern speech, Languages and the First World War presents over 30 essays by international academics investigating the linguistic aspects of the 1914-18 conflict.

This book considers the largely under-recognised contribution that young writers have made to life writing genres such as memoir, letter writing and diaries, as well as their innovative use of independent and social media.

This book analyzes the role of manga in contemporary Japanese political expression and debate, and explores its role in propagating new perceptions regarding Japanese history.