Sociolinguistics

An in-depth and far-reaching account of the study of ''African languages'' and ''language in Africa'' as an autonomous academic discipline.

A state-of-the-art survey of Arabic linguistics, covering both traditional and modern topics and pioneering studies of new Arabic media.

The first textbook dedicated to interactional linguistics, focusing on, and introducing, the linguistic analyses of conversational phenomena.

The first textbook dedicated to interactional linguistics, focusing on, and introducing, the linguistic analyses of conversational phenomena.

An in-depth and far-reaching account of the study of ''African languages'' and ''language in Africa'' as an autonomous academic discipline.

A state-of-the-art survey of Arabic linguistics, covering both traditional and modern topics and pioneering studies of new Arabic media.

This book examines a dramatic rise of nonviolent youth movements on the eve of national elections in Eastern Europe.

An intelligibility-based approach to teaching that presents pronunciation as critical, yet neglected, in communicative language teaching.

Explores the physical, psychological and social factors that shape the way in which people engage with embodied metaphor.

Explores how humor can be explained across the various sub-disciplines of linguistics, in order to aid communication.

This book examines a dramatic rise of nonviolent youth movements on the eve of national elections in Eastern Europe.

An intelligibility-based approach to teaching that presents pronunciation as critical, yet neglected, in communicative language teaching.

Explores the physical, psychological and social factors that shape the way in which people engage with embodied metaphor.

Explores how humor can be explained across the various sub-disciplines of linguistics, in order to aid communication.

The first in-depth study to integrate the study of legal language with analysis of multimodal communication.

Analysis of bilinguals'' use of two languages reveals highly adept code-switching: alternating between languages while keeping intact the separate grammars.

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.

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''.