Sociolinguistics

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What does it mean to be young, American, and white at the dawn of the twenty-first century?

Units, rules, codes, systems: this is how most linguists study language.

Many parents, politicians, and activists agree that there's too much violence and not enough education on children's television.

Spain has one of the highest per capita international adoption rates in the world.

Armed with speakers, turntables, light systems, and records, Filipino American mobile DJ crews, such as Ultimate Creations, Spintronix, and Images, Inc.

In Exiled Home, Susan Bibler Coutin recounts the experiences of Salvadoran children who migrated with their families to the United States during the 1980-1992 civil war.

Growing Up America brings together new scholarship that considers the role of children and teenagers in shaping American political life during the decades following the Second World War.

Sarah Gorham recounts her childhood education as a rebellious, insecure, angry girl shipped overseas to a tiny international school perched on a mountain shelf in Bernese-Oberland, Switzerland.

The Outcast Majority invites policymakers, practitioners, academics, students, and others to think about three commanding contemporary issues-war, development, and youth-in new ways.

In the last few decades, the media, academics, and the general public have put considerable focus on Muslim culture and politics around the world.

A compelling look at the ways in which youth, gender and gender identities are being transformed around the globe.

Die Beiträge des Bandes befassen sich mit (physischer wie anderer) Gewalt, die von Jugendlichen ausgeübt oder ihnen von Erwachsenen etwa in Schulen und Fürsorgeheimen zugefügt wurde.

The sociolinguist William Labov has worked for decades on change in progress in American dialects and on African American Vernacular English (AAVE).

Tradition, community, and pride are fundamental aspects of the history of Appalachia, and the language of the region is a living testament to its rich heritage.

Tradition, community, and pride are fundamental aspects of the history of Appalachia, and the language of the region is a living testament to its rich heritage.

While the Baby Boomer generation has consistently commanded widespread attention-both scholarly and popular-little has been written about Generation X, the 46 million Americans born between the mid-1960s and late 1970s.

More than 70 percent of America's 60 million young people believe they can make a difference in their communities, and the numbers support their assertions.

Those working within the field of applied behavior analysis (ABA) encounter potential ethical dilemmas on a daily basis.

The East Asian economic miracle of the twentieth century is now a fond memory.

Historians of wilderness have shown that nature reserves are used ideologically in the construction of American national identity.

The cities of Saudi Arabia are among the most gender segregated in the world.

This pathbreaking book examines the strategies, successes, and challenges of youth advocacy organizations, highlighting the importance of local contexts for these efforts.

People's experiences of racial inequality in adulthood are well documented, but less attention is given to the racial inequalities that children and adolescents face.

Growing Up America brings together new scholarship that considers the role of children and teenagers in shaping American political life during the decades following the Second World War.

In the last few decades, the media, academics, and the general public have put considerable focus on Muslim culture and politics around the world.

This collection presents a holistic picture of the sociolinguistic landscape in Bangladesh, offering a critical understanding of language ideologies and social inequalities in the country, as they connect more widely to dynamics in the Global South.

This collection presents a holistic picture of the sociolinguistic landscape in Bangladesh, offering a critical understanding of language ideologies and social inequalities in the country, as they connect more widely to dynamics in the Global South.

This edited book offers a new look at community and heritage languages schools around the world, providing a comprehensive and nuanced portrait of language education and cultural understanding in and beyond school contexts.

This edited book offers a new look at community and heritage languages schools around the world, providing a comprehensive and nuanced portrait of language education and cultural understanding in and beyond school contexts.

This is the first book-length study on how authors of color present themselves in public literary discourse.

The Handbook of Juvenile Forensic Psychology is a comprehensive handbook for mental health professionals working with juveniles in the criminal justice system and in family and dependency courts.

Periods are a fact of life for roughly half the population, yet discussions of the menstrual cycle are often shrouded in confusion and embarrassment.

This book presents a pioneering new theory of grammar, which explains a wide variety of sentence types across languages.

Much of Canadian cultural life is sustained and enriched by translation.

Much of Canadian cultural life is sustained and enriched by translation.

How the Ontario Schools Crisis turned into a violent public protest within the Catholic Church.

In 1912, the Ontario Conservative government issued the controversial Regulation 17 in an attempt to improve the quality of English-language teaching in the province, while effectively restricting French-language instruction within bilingual schools.

Mapping the changing realities of youth creative self-employment in the twenty-first century.

Soulja Boy, Justin Bieber, and Tavi Gevinson are hardly representative of typical youth experiences, but their origins highlight many of the realities of youth doing independent creative work.

At a time when Canadian governments are encouraging the dispersion of immigrants throughout the provinces in an attempt to reduce clustering in large metropolitan areas, studies of immigration outside urban centres are rare - and studies of immigrant youth even rarer.

Talking in Context demonstrates the importance of cultural contact on the structure of languages and addresses the socio-cultural aspects of indigenous language use in the modern world.

In Community Besieged Garth Stevenson describes the unusual circumstances that allowed English-speaking Quebecers to live in virtual isolation from their francophone neighbours for almost a century after Confederation.

Using a sample of 324 young adults in four urban centres who left high school in the mid-1980s as well as interviews with representative parents, former teachers, and employers, the authors identify factors that ease transition from school to.

Bonner analyses historical contributions to the urban-rural debate by Karl Marx, Ferdinand Tonnies, Max Weber, Georg Simmel, Louis Wirth, and Robert Redfield, as well as contributions by contemporary theorists, such as Ray Pahl, Anthony Giddens, and Peter Berger.

Solway explains that the current generation of students, raised in a nonhistorical and iconic environment, do not live in time as an emergent, continuous medium in which the complexities of experience are parsed and organized.

Childs discusses working-class family life and considers the changes that becoming a wage earner and a contributor to the family economy made to a youth's status within the home.

Speaking Memory evokes the complex language-scapes that form at the crossroads of culture and history in cities.