Sociolinguistics

Shu-mei Shih inaugurates the field of Sinophone studies in this vanguard excursion into sophisticated cultural criticism situated at the intersections of Chinese studies, Asian American studies, diaspora studies, and transnational studies.

This highly original study provides an entirely new critical perspective on the central importance of ideas about language in the reproduction of gender, class, and race divisions in modern Japan.

In an increasingly interconnected world, supporting students as they learn to communicate in linguistically diverse intercultural settings is a significant aim of English language and international education.

This book offers an innovative theory of religion as a class of cultural representations.

Does your language influence your thought and world view?

Does your language influence your thought and world view?

This book presents a model of authority for parents, teachers and community workers that is suitable for today''s free, pluralistic societies.

The first book to use techniques of linguistic analysis to examine the construction of diverse white identities.

Provides a linguistic description of the patterns used by children when acquiring African American English.

This book offers an innovative theory of religion as a class of cultural representations.

Containing tales of historical-sociolinguistic detection, this book provides a unique insight into how language contact shapes varieties of English.

This book considers the issues facing contemporary Japan as it struggles to adapt its employment system to the global economy.

Provides original data and theoretical analyses that address the formation, nature, and significance of romantic relationships in emerging adults.

This book provides a comprehensive survey of the dominant languages and dialects used in the British Isles.

This book presents a model of authority for parents, teachers and community workers that is suitable for today''s free, pluralistic societies.

Provides a linguistic description of the patterns used by children when acquiring African American English.

This book considers the issues facing contemporary Japan as it struggles to adapt its employment system to the global economy.

Provides original data and theoretical analyses that address the formation, nature, and significance of romantic relationships in emerging adults.

This book focuses on what is involved in acquiring a second dialect and how such learning is different from second language acquisition.

Examines the current status, history and features of Canadian English, focusing on the ''standard'' variety heard across the country today.

Investigates the linguistic diversity of the USA by profiling the twelve most commonly used languages other than English.

Explores how language is used in a contact setting to build and present identities, expectations and social relations.

Containing tales of historical-sociolinguistic detection, this book provides a unique insight into how language contact shapes varieties of English.

In this book Jan Blommaert discusses the changes in human language in an age of globalization.

Presents an innovative approach to research and practice with young people growing up in the context of political violence.

This volume shows how linguistics can be integrated into school curricula, presenting research and practice in the field of language within education.

This book outlines the relationship between our identity as members of groups and the language varieties important to each group.

This book explores the social and structural dynamics that underlie the creation of new, or restructured, grammars.

This lively introduction discusses language attitudes and their implications for our use of language.

Provides an insider''s view and reveals how language is chosen and shaped into the stories we read and hear.

An introduction exploring many debates at the forefront of modern national language policy.

Examines the current status, history and features of Canadian English, focusing on the ''standard'' variety heard across the country today.

Investigates the linguistic diversity of the USA by profiling the twelve most commonly used languages other than English.

Explores how language is used in a contact setting to build and present identities, expectations and social relations.

This book focuses on what is involved in acquiring a second dialect and how such learning is different from second language acquisition.

This book explores youth culture and the gendered power relations in which sexual negotiations take place.

Presents an innovative approach to research and practice with young people growing up in the context of political violence.

In this book Jan Blommaert discusses the changes in human language in an age of globalization.

This volume shows how linguistics can be integrated into school curricula, presenting research and practice in the field of language within education.

Documents the linguistic properties of lesser-known varieties of English, showing their relevance for language spread and change.

Addresses the issue of what we should make of competing claims about meaning when debated in highly charged circumstances.

An introduction to the structure and sociolinguistics of the German language for students of German and linguistics.

An insightful study that proposes a unified theory of speech through which conflicting ideas about language might be understood.

Exploring practices in the family, school, the workplace, this book investigates the varied ways people choose to address one another.

This Handbook is a comprehensive and accessible overview of how bilinguals alternate between their languages when they speak.

This book presents a theory of context that explains how text and talk are adapted to their social environment.

This lively introduction discusses language attitudes and their implications for our use of language.

Provides an insider''s view and reveals how language is chosen and shaped into the stories we read and hear.

Examines how social relationships are developed and maintained through language.

This book describes a range of the most important kinds of texts in English and introduces methodological techniques used to analyse them.