Sociolinguistics

This volume brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines to define and describe tabooed words and language and to investigate the reasons and beliefs behind them.

This book explores the results of language contact in Michif, an endangered Canadian language that is traditionally claimed to combine a French noun phrase with a Cree verb phrase, and is hence usually considered a 'mixed' language.

This volume explores the grammar of Niuean, an endangered Polynesian language spoken on the island of Niue and in New Zealand, with a focus on the issue of predication.

This wide-ranging volume offers a detailed exploration of coloniality in the discipline of linguistics, with case studies drawn from Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Caribbean.

This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a speaker's language may be affected by crosslinguistic interference and non-use.

This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a speaker's language may be affected by crosslinguistic interference and non-use.

This book is the first comprehensive and systematic introduction to the linguistics of humor.

This book offers an introduction to the many facets of multilingualism in a changing world.

This book offers an introduction to the many facets of multilingualism in a changing world.

Scribal Repertoires in Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period deals with the possibility of glimpsing pre-modern and early modern Egyptian scribes, the actual people who produced ancient documents, through the ways in which they organized and wrote those documents.

Popular assumptions about gender and communication - famously summed up in the title of the massively influential 1992 bestseller Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus - can have unforeseen but far-reaching consequences in many spheres of life, from attitudes to the phenomenon of 'date-rape' to expectations of achievement at school, and potential discrimination in the work-place.

In a series of cross-cultural investigations of word meaning, Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka examine key expressions from different domains of the lexicon - concrete, abstract, physical, sensory, emotional, and social.

This book provides a state-of-the-art account of past and current research in the interface between linguistics and law.

This book provides a state-of-the-art account of past and current research in the interface between linguistics and law.

How are languages invented?

How are languages invented?

This book explores grammatical gender in the Romance languages and dialects and its evolution from Latin.

In this handbook, scholars from around the world offer an up-to-date account of the state of the art in different areas of onomastics, in a format that is both useful to specialists in related fields and accessible to the general reader.

In this handbook, scholars from around the world offer an up-to-date account of the state of the art in different areas of onomastics, in a format that is both useful to specialists in related fields and accessible to the general reader.

The past 15 years have witnessed an increasing interest in the comparative study of language and music as cognitive systems.

The past 15 years have witnessed an increasing interest in the comparative study of language and music as cognitive systems.

Beginning in Rome around 600 BC, Latin became the language of the civilized world and remained so for more than two millennia.

In Europe and throughout the world, competence in English is spreading at a speed never achieved by any language in human history.

This book traces the history of language technology from writing - the first technology specifically designed for language - to digital speech and other contemporary language systems.

Why we can't resist listening in on our neighboursEavesdropping has a bad name.

Why have 1500 separate languages developed in the Pacific region?

Why have 1500 separate languages developed in the Pacific region?

This book traces the history of language technology from writing - the first technology specifically designed for language - to digital speech and other contemporary language systems.

Why we can't resist listening in on our neighboursEavesdropping has a bad name.

As literature written in Latin has almost no female authors, we are dependent on male writers for some understanding of the way women would have spoken.

Talking Proper is a history of the rise and fall of the English accent as a badge of cultural, social, and class identity.

This book looks at the ever-present anxieties associated with language change.

Beginning in Rome around 600 BC, Latin became the language of the civilized world and remained so for more than two millennia.

This book focuses on language, culture, and national identity in Africa.

Homeric Voices is a study, from a compositional point of view, of the substantial speeches and exchanges of speech that Homer depicts in his songs.

Wars of Words is the first comprehensive survey of the politics of language in Ireland during the colonial and post-colonial periods.

Language and National Identity in Asia is a comprehensive introduction to the role of language in the construction and development of nations and national identities in Asia.

In some languages every statement must contain a specification of the type of evidence on which it is based: for example, whether the speaker saw it, or heard it, or inferred it from indirect evidence, or learnt it from someone else.

Language rifts in the Balkans are endemic and have long been both a symptom of ethnic animosity and a cause for inflaming it.

Languages can be similar in many ways - they can resemble each other in categories, constructions and meanings, and in the actual forms used to express these.

Two languages can resemble each other in the categories, constructions, and types of meaning they use, and in the forms they employ to express these.

A full update of the standard introduction to the syntax, semantics, phonology, and sociolinguistics of German.

This book argues that language is a network of concepts which in turn is part of the general cognitive network of the mind.

This book examines the question of whether languages can differ in grammatical complexity and, if so, how relative complexity differences might be measured.

This book addresses different linguistic and philosophical aspects of referring to the self in a wide range of languages from different language families, including Amharic, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Newari (Sino-Tibetan), Polish, Tariana (Arawak), and Thai.

Small Dictionaries and Curiosity tells a story which has not been told before, that of the first European wordlists of minority and unofficial languages and dialects, from the end of the Middle Ages to the early nineteenth century.

Scribal Repertoires in Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period deals with the possibility of glimpsing pre-modern and early modern Egyptian scribes, the actual people who produced ancient documents, through the ways in which they organized and wrote those documents.

The third edition of The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics is an authoritative and invaluable reference source covering every aspect of its wide-ranging field.

What makes a word bad?

What makes a word bad?