Sociolinguistics

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.

Have you ever wondered if you can have just one minute of uninterrupted time with your daughter where you can pour into her life the love and gratitude that God has given you to share?

In this book, the words "e;God"e; and "e;Word"e; are repeated over and over again, declaring the glory and magnitude of God, illustrating God's deity, celestial being, and his stewardship through his divine power which flows from the throne room of God.

The ABC's to Knowing Your Bible is an activity workbook for all ages.

Translingual discrimination is inequality based on transnational migrants'' specific linguistic and communicative repertoires that are (il)legitimized by the national order of things.

Translingual discrimination is inequality based on transnational migrants'' specific linguistic and communicative repertoires that are (il)legitimized by the national order of things.

A phonetic analysis of accents in North American film and television: how they vary and how they have changed.

A phonetic analysis of accents in North American film and television: how they vary and how they have changed.

Shows how identities, cultural categories and social groupings are forged semiotically, via dynamic, more or less subtle discursive rituals.

Shows how identities, cultural categories and social groupings are forged semiotically, via dynamic, more or less subtle discursive rituals.

This volume brings together state-of-the-art research on population movement and language change from a team of international scholars.

This volume brings together state-of-the-art research on multilingualism and population structure from a team of international scholars.

This volume brings together state-of-the-art research on population movement and language change from a team of international scholars.

This volume brings together state-of-the-art research on multilingualism and population structure from a team of international scholars.

With a particular focus on the Early Modern English period, this book explores the standardisation of English spelling.

This Element explores grammatical restructuring in the AAE copula/auxiliary system that developed in the context of the Great Migration.

This book questions what culture is and what it is assumed to ''look like'' in the context of globalization.

This book questions what culture is and what it is assumed to ''look like'' in the context of globalization.

This Element explores grammatical restructuring in the AAE copula/auxiliary system that developed in the context of the Great Migration.