Sociolinguistics

English medium-of-instruction (EMI) is transforming modern-day universities across the globe, creating increasingly complex linguistic and intercultural realities which lecturers, students and decision-makers must negotiate.

This book looks at the humor that artists and editors believed would have appeal in four different countries.

This is Volume 1 of Dangerous Language.

Through an investigation on how Palestinian youth appropriate low-end information and communication technologies (ICTs) and digital media forms, Sanjay Asthana and Nishan Havandjian analyze how certain developments in globalization and media convergence enable young people to create new civic spaces.

Writing centers are complex.

This Handbook is an in-depth appraisal of the field of minority languages and communities today.

How we address one another says a great deal about our social relationships and which groups in society we belong to.

This book argues that Britain is gripped by an endemic and ongoing panic about the position of children in society - which frames them as, alternately, victims and threats.

Language Ideologies and Canadian Media explores how French and English Canadian media discuss languages and language issues, which language ideologies predominate in English and French, and whether language ideologies in traditional news media are transferred to new and social media.

This book offers a holistic practitioner and research-based perspective on English Language Teaching and teacher education in difficult circumstances.

This book discusses a new breed of racism, namely language racism, which is spreading both in the USA and in Europe, as well as other parts of the world.

This book is about complexity-driven, trandsisciplinary approach to language study.

This book adds the missing link between post-foundational discourse theory and the methods of empirical research, and in doing so it develops a post-foundational discourse analysis research program.

This volume showcases recent sociolinguistic research about Wales and offers contributions from scholars working on Welsh, English and other languages spoken in the country.

This book brings together the fields of language policy and discourse studies from a multidisciplinary theoretical, methodological and empirical perspective.

This book analyzes the literary representation of Indigenous women in Latin American letters from colonization to the twentieth century, arguing that contemporary theorization of Indigenous feminism deconstructs denigratory imagery and offers a (re)signification, (re)semantization and reinvigoration of what it means to be an Indigenous woman.

This book discusses the empirical studies on how biological age influences foreign language learning in school.

At a time when social, cultural and linguistic diversity has become a characteristic of education systems around the world, this timely text considers how teacher education is responding to these developments in the context of increased mobilities within and across national boundaries.

This book explores the gradual evolution of Adult literacy policy from the 1970s using philosophical, sociological and economic frames of reference from a range of perspectives to highlight how priorities have changed.

This book explores children's meaning making of the books they learn to read with, especially relating to the intersections of race, gender and class.

This book investigates the reasons why the traditional psychological understanding of bullying fails those affected, and deconstructs how bullying is shaped by prominent discourse.

This book uses the experiences and conversations of Black British women as a lens to examine the impact of discourses surrounding Black beauty shame.

Based on an eight-year study of a family on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, this book explores why the children in the family do not often speak Gaelic, despite the adults' best efforts to use the language with them, as well as the children's attendance at a Gaelic immersion school.

This book explores the linguistic ecology of the Kumaun region of Uttarakhand, India through the experiences and discourses of minority youth and their educators.

Based on ethnographic and policy data collected over a ten-year span at a university in the People's Republic of China, this book analyses the history of English Language Teaching (ELT) polices in Chinese higher education.

This book examines how identities associated with cycling are evoked, narrated and negotiated in a media context dominated by digital environments.

This engagingly written textbook provides a unique 'hands-on' introduction to sociolinguistics, which equips readers with the tools to start their own sociolinguistic research project.

This book presents an empirically-grounded sociolinguistic history of the English language in Hong Kong in the past 170 years.

This book offers new insights on how senior business women in Middle Eastern and Western companies use language for effective leadership in their respective management meetings.

This book explores the use of English within otherwise local-language conversations by two continental European social media communities.

This book explores the topic of teacher cognition, making use of sociocultural theory as a framework to understand what teachers know, think, believe and do in their professional contexts through 'applied' conversation analysis.

This book updates the latest research in the field of 'English pronunciation', providing readers with a number of original contributions that represent trends in the field.

After 1918 Central Europe's multiethnic empires were replaced by nation-states, which gave rise to an unusual ethnolinguistic kind of nationalism.

Winner of the Association for Business Communication's Distinguished Publication on Business Communication Award 2016This edited volume offers a collection of original chapters focusing on the Ins and Outs of professional discourse research.

This book examines the language of public inquiries to reveal how blame is assigned, avoided, negotiated and discussed in this quasi-legal setting.

This Handbook gathers together empirical and theoretical chapters from leading scholars and clinicians to examine the broad issue of adult mental health.

This book offers original corpus research in a range of workplace contexts including office-based settings, call center interactions and healthcare communication.

This book analyses parental anxieties about their children's healthcare issues in urban China, engaging with wider theoretical debates about modernity, risk and anxiety.

New speakers are an increasingly important aspect of the revitalization of minority languages since, in some cases, they can make up the majority of the language community in question.

This book brings together current thinking on informal language learning and the findings of over 30 years of research on captions (same language subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing) to present a new model of language learning from captioned viewing and a future roadmap for research and practice in this field.

This book examines reports that are written by reviewers of submissions to a peer-reviewed journal.

Debates about how to remember politically contested or painful pasts exist throughout the world.

This book is a comparative study of vague language based on naturally occurring data of L1 and L2 speakers in academic settings.

The authors examine youths' practices in digital culture affecting social change, pedagogy, and creative learning practices.

Based on a selection of 30 election campaign speeches during Obama's first run for the American presidency in 2008, this book investigates the Democratic presidential candidate's much celebrated rhetoric from a cognitive semantics point of view.

The high-pressured, fast-paced environment of television production leaves little time for producers to reflect on how the potentialities of texts and images will be interpreted outside of the immediate broadcast imperatives.

This book explores the various choices speakers or communicators make when expressing power relations in modern societies.

Meaning Making in Text presents new insights into forms of communication in a range of contexts: cultural, linguistic, multimodal and educational.

This book offers contemporary perspectives on English pronunciation teaching and research in the context of increasing multilingualism and English as an international language.

This book uncovers exactly what is involved when researchers from different disciplines engage with one another in research projects.