Sociolinguistics

This book models how people use ritual practices in interaction, and politeness and impoliteness situated in/triggered by ritual practices.

This unique book examines how children learn to read across seventeen languages and their orthographies.

This book models how people use ritual practices in interaction, and politeness and impoliteness situated in/triggered by ritual practices.

Illustrates the latest trends in politeness research from a multilingual and multicultural perspective, through the application of diverse methodologies.

This book explores twenty-first century approaches to place by bringing together a range of language variation and change research.

This book explores twenty-first century approaches to place by bringing together a range of language variation and change research.

This book argues that ideophones provide the ''missing link'' in our knowledge of how communication has evolved to become the spoken language of today.

Uniquely organized in terms of theoretical approaches, this is an advanced textbook on the study of English historical linguistics.

Uniquely organized in terms of theoretical approaches, this is an advanced textbook on the study of English historical linguistics.

This book examines the arguments and evidence for and against conceptual metaphors across academic disciplines.

This book examines the arguments and evidence for and against conceptual metaphors across academic disciplines.

Speech Communities presents the main concepts and critical arguments surrounding how language and communication styles distinguish and identify groups.

Speech Communities presents the main concepts and critical arguments surrounding how language and communication styles distinguish and identify groups.

An in-depth and meticulous study of the English-Spanish bilingual development of two siblings from their first word to age six.

An in-depth and meticulous study of the English-Spanish bilingual development of two siblings from their first word to age six.

An in-depth study of endangered language revitalisation, which assesses the implications of changing language attitudes for language campaigners and policy-makers.

Explores current efforts to record, collect and archive endangered languages which are in danger of falling silent.

Based on new data and cutting-edge technologies, this study investigates how narrators and recipients cooperate when telling stories.

An in-depth study of endangered language revitalisation, which assesses the implications of changing language attitudes for language campaigners and policy-makers.

Explores current efforts to record, collect and archive endangered languages which are in danger of falling silent.

Based on new data and cutting-edge technologies, this study investigates how narrators and recipients cooperate when telling stories.

This monograph explores the expansion of the Tablighi Jama''at, a transnational Islamic missionary movement that originated in India in the mid-nineteenth century.

This systematic, state-of-the-art survey is ideal for both novice researchers and professionals interested in extending their methodological repertoires.

Este libro reúne trabajos que tienen el fin de estudiar los mecanismos de producción, circulación y consumo de ciertos fenómenos actuales de "retoma" discursiva, se centran teórica y/o analíticamente en distintos discursos mediáticos e hipermediáticos.

This monograph explores the expansion of the Tablighi Jama''at, a transnational Islamic missionary movement that originated in India in the mid-nineteenth century.

This systematic, state-of-the-art survey is ideal for both novice researchers and professionals interested in extending their methodological repertoires.

Berman''s long-lost tract shows how properly negotiated, translated and formalised legal language is essential to fostering peace and common understanding.

Berman''s long-lost tract shows how properly negotiated, translated and formalised legal language is essential to fostering peace and common understanding.

This book studies the principles for constructing polite speeches, based on the detailed study of three unrelated languages and cultures.

The interactions and multiple identities of indigenous and Mediterranean communities in Southern Gaul come to life through sociolinguistics and archaeology.

This invaluable textbook will give you the skills and knowledge required for carrying out research projects in ''the field''.

The interactions and multiple identities of indigenous and Mediterranean communities in Southern Gaul come to life through sociolinguistics and archaeology.

This invaluable textbook will give you the skills and knowledge required for carrying out research projects in ''the field''.

In this fascinating account, Alene Moyer examines the social, psychological, educational and legal ramifications of sounding ''foreign''.

Updated and restructured new edition of a textbook for courses in language and gender which is accessible to non-linguists.

Updated and restructured new edition of a textbook for courses in language and gender which is accessible to non-linguists.

This book studies the principles for constructing polite speeches, based on the detailed study of three unrelated languages and cultures.

This groundbreaking exploration navigates the reader through the fascinating area of politeness.

This groundbreaking exploration navigates the reader through the fascinating area of politeness.

A comprehensive work which offers a new and provocative approach to Spanish from political and historical perspectives.

A comprehensive work which offers a new and provocative approach to Spanish from political and historical perspectives.

This book, first published in 1983, traces language patterns and cultural differences between ''Roadville'' and ''Tracton''.

This book, first published in 1983, traces language patterns and cultural differences between ''Roadville'' and ''Tracton''.

This new and updated textbook gives students a coherent view of the complex interaction of language and society.

William Labov extends his widely used framework for narrative analysis to matters of greatest human concern: life and death.

William Labov extends his widely used framework for narrative analysis to matters of greatest human concern: life and death.

This new and updated textbook gives students a coherent view of the complex interaction of language and society.

This book investigates how health interventions are imagined into being in high-income countries, drawing on over seven years of fieldwork in the self-described "e;global health capital"e; Atlanta to consider the role of storytelling in the construction of global health futures.

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