Sociolinguistics

Are young people today politically 'apathetic'?

This book reveals how 'double-voicing' is an inherent and routine part of spoken interactions within institutional contexts.

This book analyzes personal experiences of language through the voices of Mexican immigrant women, in relation to the racialization discourses that frame the social life of Mexican immigrant communities in the United States.

Digital Textuality explores the ways in which the English language is used in new media technologies.

Do the languages people speak influence their economic decisions and social behavior in multilingual societies?

This book sheds light on the ways in which the on-going Israeli-Arab conflict has shaped Arabic language instruction.

This book draws on a range of sources, including tales of castaways, fictional narratives, and interviews with teachers in conversation schools and universities in Japan, to explore many current concerns around teacher identity, gender, and intercultural sexuality in global English language teaching.

This book shows that over forty years of psychological laboratory-based research support the claims of the Lexical Priming Theory.

This study considers the use of they and he for generic reference in post-2000 written British English.

Western society has become increasingly diverse, but stereotypes still persist in the public discourse.

Bridal magazines have become increasingly popular in Western society, proliferating the idea of a 'princess bride' on her 'big day'.

Presents the most important theories in Translation Studies that have emerged over the last 50 years.

The New Cockney provides a sociolinguistic account of speech variation among adolescents in the 'traditional' East End of London.

This is the first book to examine the discourse of reality television.

This book contests the idea that lesbian and gay categories are disappearing, and that sexuality is becoming fluid, by showing how young people use them in a world in which heterosexuality is privileged.

Young people are regularly posited as a threat to social order and Deconstructing Youth explores why.

This book explores both theoretical and practical issues of language use in a migration context, using data from a German urban immigrant community in Canada.

This book addresses the perennial question of how to promote Africa's indigenous languages as medium of instruction in educational systems.

A detailed overview of the theories, concepts, research methods, and findings in the field of language policy is provided here in one accessible source.

This book combines an authoritative examination of the field of discourse-based research with practical guidance on research design and development.

Bringing together a selection of some of the author's key papers on language and gender, this book provides an overview of the development of language and gender studies over the last 30 years, with particular emphasis on conversational data and on single sex friendship groups.

This book explores the Linguistic Landscapes of ten French and Italian Mediterranean coastal cities.

This book explores speakers' intentions, and the structural and pragmatic resources they employ, in spoken Arabic - which is different in many essential respects from literary Arabic.

Language and Politics in Post-Soviet Russia critically examines the uses of language in post-Soviet media and political texts between 1998 and 2007.

This book provides an in-depth look into the cognitive and argumentative nature of political discourse with a focus on the role and place of conceptual metaphors in practical argumentation.

Educators and researchers in variety of locations increasingly encounter linguistically and socio-culturally diverse groups of students in their classrooms and lecture halls.

This book defines the notion of applied sign linguistics by drawing on data from projects that have explored sign language in action in various domains.

This book explores dominant ideologies about citizenship, nation, and language that frame the everyday lives of Spanish-speaking immigrant day laborers in Arizona.

This ground-breaking book takes an interdisciplinary approach to language, religion and media using an audience-response study.

This book explores the literary and cultural history behind certain Christmas and Halloween traditions, and examines the way that they have moved into broadcasting.

Metaphor and Entertainment presents the very first, large-scale exploration of metaphor in Chinese online entertainment news, one of the most vibrant and controversial news genres in contemporary China.

This book presents a comprehensive description of collocation, covering both the theoretical and practical background and the implications and applications of the concept as language model and analytical tool.

This edited book examines cultures of learning from the perspectives of education, applied linguistics and language learning.

The first book to bring together researchers and practitioners from a range of professions and institutions in exploring how people develop and may lose Trust through the ways in which they speak, write and act.

This timely volume offers an in-depth theoretical analysis of children's experiences growing up with mobile internet technologies.

This book brings together thirteen timely essays from across the globe that consider a range of 'mediated youth cultures', covering topics such as the phenomenon of dance imitations on YouTube, the circulation of zines online, the resurgence of roller derby on the social web, drinking cultures, Israeli blogs, Korean pop music, and more.

This book considers the sequential deployment of the receiver's response to the caller's request in telephone service encounters between native speakers in the U.

Sociophonetics - the interface of sociolinguistics and phonetics - is a field that has expanded rapidly in recent years.

The authors explore some of the ways in which standardization, ideology and linguistics are interrelated.

Exploring language rights politics in theoretical, historical and international context, this book brings together debates from law, sociolinguistics, international politics, and the history of ideas.

This book offers an innovative way of doing critical discourse analysis that focuses on the performatively produced concepts and social structures that support oppressive attitudes in a community.

Focuses on the endangering effects of language-ideological processes.

How do Amazonian native young people perceive, question, and negotiate the new kinds of social and cultural situations in which they find themselves?

Based on approaches from discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, this study proposes an analytical model focusing on the linguistic and discursive means narrators use to construct a variety of identities in everyday stories.

Many children learn from a young age to tell the truth.

Drawing on extensive interviews with gang members, this book provides a vivid portrayal of gang life.

This book explores the construction of identities within a lesbian group, outlining interactive tactics used in the production of mutually-negotiated norms of authenticity.

This is the fully revised and expanded second edition of English - One Tongue, Many Voices, a book by three internationally distinguished English language scholars who tell the fascinating, improbable saga of English in time and space.

Young people in Eastern Europe are more advanced in some global trends than in the west.

There is a complex relationship between performance, youth, and the shifting material circumstances (social, cultural, economic, ideological, and political) under which theatre for children and youth is generated and perceived.