Sociolinguistics

This newly revised edition is both a lively introduction and practical guide to the main concepts and challenges of intercultural communication.

More than 90 percent of adults with current substance use disorders started using before age 18, engaging in behaviors that affect healthy neurological and psychological development.

More than 90 percent of adults with current substance use disorders started using before age 18, engaging in behaviors that affect healthy neurological and psychological development.

Bringing together research from a global team of scholars, this innovative volume explores morphosyntactic features of verbal aggression.

This Element explores new ways of thinking about agency and ontology in language.

This Element explores new ways of thinking about agency and ontology in language.

Approaching creole studies from contrasting standpoints, this book offers new insights into language variation and contact-induced change.

Approaching creole studies from contrasting standpoints, this book offers new insights into language variation and contact-induced change.

Bringing together research from a global team of scholars, this innovative volume explores morphosyntactic features of verbal aggression.

Including examples from diverse sources, this book explores the pragmatic functions and effects of ''you'' across time, genre and medium.

Bringing together Trudgill''s columns for the New European, this collection explores the influence of European language on English.

Provides a corpus-based and empirically-derived framework which allows language use to be contrastively examined across linguacultures.

Provides a corpus-based and empirically-derived framework which allows language use to be contrastively examined across linguacultures.

Written by leading experts in the field, this Handbook provides a systematic, cutting-edge introduction to the field of sociopragmatics.

Bringing together Trudgill''s columns for the New European, this collection explores the influence of European language on English.

Including examples from diverse sources, this book explores the pragmatic functions and effects of ''you'' across time, genre and medium.

Written by leading experts in the field, this Handbook provides a systematic, cutting-edge introduction to the field of sociopragmatics.

This pioneering work provides a comprehensive analysis of general extenders, a new linguistic category.

Is there one Indian English accent?

This Element shows how modern cognitive linguistics can explain the evolution of New Englishes spoken all over the world.

This Element shows how modern cognitive linguistics can explain the evolution of New Englishes spoken all over the world.

Is there one Indian English accent?

An engaging celebration of global linguistic diversity, with plenty of fascinating cases of cross-linguistic variation in each chapter.

What message about gender roles and language are the supposedly “innocent” children''s movies of Disney and Pixar presenting?

An engaging and accessible A-Z of linguistics from the expert team behind Babel: The Language Magazine.

What message about gender roles and language are the supposedly “innocent” children''s movies of Disney and Pixar presenting?

By examining Trump''s verbal techniques, this book illuminates how he employs words to power his presidency whilst scandalizing the world.

With step-by-step instructions, this guide shows how to get the best from EDD Online, a freely available English dialect dictionary.

An engaging celebration of global linguistic diversity, with plenty of fascinating cases of cross-linguistic variation in each chapter.

Investigates the underrepresentation of women in politics, by examining how language use constructs and maintains gender inequalities in political institutions.

An engaging and accessible A-Z of linguistics from the expert team behind Babel: The Language Magazine.

How do newspapers use language to represent obesity, and how does this language potentially shame and stigmatise people with obesity?

The book highlights the expansion of discourse-pragmatic variation and change, especially under-studied variables and languages.

Kramsch combines insights from linguistics, anthropology and sociology to show how language represents and constructs social reality.

How do newspapers use language to represent obesity, and how does this language potentially shame and stigmatise people with obesity?

An interdisciplinary guide to traditional as well as cutting-edge methods for the study of language attitudes.

Demonstrates how complexity theory and statistical mechanics help define the language groups and model the language dynamics.

An interdisciplinary guide to traditional as well as cutting-edge methods for the study of language attitudes.

Kramsch combines insights from linguistics, anthropology and sociology to show how language represents and constructs social reality.

A pioneering 20-year longitudinal study of 67 African American children that illuminates how and why language changes in childhood.

A pioneering 20-year longitudinal study of 67 African American children that illuminates how and why language changes in childhood.

The book highlights the expansion of discourse-pragmatic variation and change, especially under-studied variables and languages.

Why do certain words have the power to offend?

This collection brings together Peter Trudgill''s essays on the sociolinguistic aspects of historical linguistics for the first time.

Why do certain words have the power to offend?

This collection brings together Peter Trudgill''s essays on the sociolinguistic aspects of historical linguistics for the first time.

This Element examines recent documentaries depicting marginalized youth who are ostensibly redeemed by their encounters with Shakespeare.

This Element examines recent documentaries depicting marginalized youth who are ostensibly redeemed by their encounters with Shakespeare.

With examples of conversation, this book is a lively account of social and intellectual import of everyday talk about language.

Using diverse language examples and tasks, this book illustrates how intercultural communication theory can inform second language teaching.