Sociolinguistics

The focus of this study is upon those pidgins and creoles which are English based and which have arisen since the fifteenth century.

An Introduction to Language and Society explores how our ways of seeing and engaging with the world may be shaped by the categories, systems and patterns of language.

An Introduction to Language and Society explores how our ways of seeing and engaging with the world may be shaped by the categories, systems and patterns of language.

Language and Culture at Work provides an overview of the complex role that culture plays in workplace contexts.

Language and Culture at Work provides an overview of the complex role that culture plays in workplace contexts.

This book presents a history of English and development of language education in modern India.

This book presents a history of English and development of language education in modern India.

This book makes accessible the major structural features of the dialects of Italy and emphasises the importance of a detailed understanding of the dialects for issues in general linguistic theory.

This book makes accessible the major structural features of the dialects of Italy and emphasises the importance of a detailed understanding of the dialects for issues in general linguistic theory.

Gender in Translation is a broad-ranging, imaginative and lively look at feminist issues surrounding translation studies.

Gender in Translation is a broad-ranging, imaginative and lively look at feminist issues surrounding translation studies.

A Framework for Cognitive Sociolinguistics attempts to lay out the epistemological system for a cognitive sociolinguistics-the first book to do so in the English language.

A Framework for Cognitive Sociolinguistics attempts to lay out the epistemological system for a cognitive sociolinguistics-the first book to do so in the English language.

By looking at the effect of language difference, rather than at theories of language, John Edwards examines the interaction of language with nationalism, politics, history, identity and education.

By looking at the effect of language difference, rather than at theories of language, John Edwards examines the interaction of language with nationalism, politics, history, identity and education.

Rather than the standard American story of an increasingly triumphant march of scientific inquiry towards structural phonology, Women, Language and Linguistics reveals linguistics where its purpose was communication; the appeal of languages lay in their diversity; and the authority of language lay in its speakers and writers.

Rather than the standard American story of an increasingly triumphant march of scientific inquiry towards structural phonology, Women, Language and Linguistics reveals linguistics where its purpose was communication; the appeal of languages lay in their diversity; and the authority of language lay in its speakers and writers.

Worlds in Common?

Worlds in Common?

Creolization of Language and Culture is the first English edition of Robert Chaudenson's landmark text Des iles, des hommes, des langues, which has also been fully revised.

Creolization of Language and Culture is the first English edition of Robert Chaudenson's landmark text Des iles, des hommes, des langues, which has also been fully revised.

With the impact of accelerated globalization, digital technologies, mobility, and migration, the fields of Applied Linguistics, Language, and Intercultural Education have been shifting.

With the impact of accelerated globalization, digital technologies, mobility, and migration, the fields of Applied Linguistics, Language, and Intercultural Education have been shifting.

RLE: Linguistics Mini-set A focuses on the field of General Linguistics, and collects classic titles from imprints such as Garland, Allen & Unwin, and Croom Helm.

A Social History of English is the first history of the English language to utilize the techniques, insights and concerns of sociolinguistics.

A Social History of English is the first history of the English language to utilize the techniques, insights and concerns of sociolinguistics.

Engaging!

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Hispanic applied linguistics, allowing students to understand the field from a variety of perspectives and offering insight into the ever-growing number of professional opportunies afforded to Spanish language program graduates.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Hispanic applied linguistics, allowing students to understand the field from a variety of perspectives and offering insight into the ever-growing number of professional opportunies afforded to Spanish language program graduates.

This volume brings together scholars in sociolinguistics and the sociology of new media and mobile technologies who are working on different social and communicative aspects of the Latino diaspora.

This volume brings together scholars in sociolinguistics and the sociology of new media and mobile technologies who are working on different social and communicative aspects of the Latino diaspora.

Immigration, racism and nationalism have become hotly debated issues in the Western world.

Immigration, racism and nationalism have become hotly debated issues in the Western world.

Standard English draws together the leading international scholars in the field, who confront the debates surrounding 'Standard English', grammar and correctness head-on.

Standard English draws together the leading international scholars in the field, who confront the debates surrounding 'Standard English', grammar and correctness head-on.

The globalisation of the present day world economy means that more and more people are experiencing different cultures through their work.

The globalisation of the present day world economy means that more and more people are experiencing different cultures through their work.

In this highly engaging book, Antony Easthope examines 'Englishness' as a form and a series of shared discourses.

In this highly engaging book, Antony Easthope examines 'Englishness' as a form and a series of shared discourses.

This book explores the social, political, and historical forces that mediate language ideology and practices in post-colonial education and how such ideology and practices influence students' academic achievement.

This book explores the social, political, and historical forces that mediate language ideology and practices in post-colonial education and how such ideology and practices influence students' academic achievement.

Representing Rape is the first feminist analysis of the language of sexual assault trials from the perspective of linguists.

Representing Rape is the first feminist analysis of the language of sexual assault trials from the perspective of linguists.

This book opens up a new route to the study of knowledge dynamics and the sociology of knowledge.

This book opens up a new route to the study of knowledge dynamics and the sociology of knowledge.

Language and Social Change in China: Undoing Commonness through Cosmopolitan Mandarin offers an innovative and authoritative account of the crucial role of language in shaping the sociocultural landscape of contemporary China.

This is a book about the politics of New Labour that focuses on language.

This is a book about the politics of New Labour that focuses on language.

This unique work challenges the assumption that dictionaries act as objective records of our language, and instead argues that the English dictionary is a fundamentally ethnocentric work.

This unique work challenges the assumption that dictionaries act as objective records of our language, and instead argues that the English dictionary is a fundamentally ethnocentric work.