Sociolinguistics

An accessible and entertaining textbook that introduces students to sociolinguistics in a real-world context, with issues they care about.

A new study of the importance of language for sociocultural change in Africa, from postcolonial to globally competitive knowledge societies.

Demonstrates that language awareness and discourse consciousness are key for critical thinking and communication in professional contexts.

A lively and accessible introduction to world Englishes, setting a range of global varieties in their historical and social contexts.

Using evidence-based research, this book shows how to maximise the benefits of creative metaphor and metonymy in global advertising.

An incisive account of the relationship between language and identity, illuminating the role of language in racism, sexism, colonialism and similar social forces.

An accessible and entertaining textbook that introduces students to sociolinguistics in a real-world context, with issues they care about.

A new study of the importance of language for sociocultural change in Africa, from postcolonial to globally competitive knowledge societies.

This is a multi-disciplinary account of language repertoires of early multilingualism across continents, languages and contexts.

A spirited and engaging linguistic and social re-imagination of the role and nature of clichés in communication and interaction.

Demonstrates that language awareness and discourse consciousness are key for critical thinking and communication in professional contexts.

Explores the evolution of emoji, how people use them, and what they tell us about the technology-enhanced state of modern society.

Explores the evolution of emoji, how people use them, and what they tell us about the technology-enhanced state of modern society.

Revised edition of a seminal introduction to language contact, providing an overview of the field and its most recent developments.

A multimodal approach to linguistic landscapes that analyses the affective regimes of different landscape categories.

Using evidence-based research, this book shows how to maximise the benefits of creative metaphor and metonymy in global advertising.

A brand new edition of this flagship work, that provides detailed descriptions of important text varieties in English along with methodological techniques to carry out analyses.

Explores the complex relationship between language and immigration in the United States.

Explores the complex relationship between language and immigration in the United States.

Is British English becoming more like American English?

Is British English becoming more like American English?

This edited volume provides the follow up to Erling et al.

A state-of-the-art survey of current key research in Korean linguistics, by a team of world-renowned experts in the field.

A state-of-the-art survey of current key research in Korean linguistics, by a team of world-renowned experts in the field.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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''.

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 book explores South Korean university students' perceptions of the English Medium Instruction (EMI) courses they have taken.

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

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.