Sociolinguistics

An investigation of how governments, organizations, and groups use the Internet to promote civic and political engagement among young people.

This collection brings together established and exciting new voices to shed light on the language of and about sex work, offering an empirically nuanced understanding of commercial sex through language.

Widely recognized as an authoritative resource, this book has been revised and updated with the latest research and techniques, including new material on telehealth services.

There are different forms of discrimination.

'I came away from this book enraged, enlightened and with a sense of urgency to do something' Annie Mac'Lays down a transformative path to peace' David Lammy MP'Compelling' The Sunday Times; 'Assured' Observer; 'Brilliantly written' Nikesh Shukla_________________________Demetri wants to study criminology at university to understand why people around him carry knives.

A scientific solution to women's heath issues and concerns.

Our children have the energy, capacity, and passion to create and nurture a global culture in which inclusion, acceptance, respect, and participation are the core values that underpin a human being's every interaction.

As the teenage brain rewires, hormones surge, and independence beckons, a perfect storm for family conflict emerges.

This is a book about languages, what languages can and what they cannot do.

From Los Angeles and New York to Chicago and Miami, street gangs are regarded as one of the most intractable crime problems facing our cities, and a vast array of resources is being deployed to combat them.

Not since the 1960s have the activities of resistance among lower- and working-class youth caused such anxiety in the international community.

Whilst assessment has long been central to the counselling process, with the recent moves towards evidence-based practice and increased regulation it is taking an increasingly pivotal role in service provision.

Vague language ('bags of time', 'doing stuff', 'and all that') is an aspect of communicative competence of considerable social importance.

The children and grandchildren of South Asian migrants to the UK are living out British identities which go largely unrecognized.

Globalization is calling for new conceptualizations of belonging within culturally diverse communities.

This book gives an inside view of real engineers communicating in a modern aerospace engineering environment.

Sexualities are perceived, constructed and represented in different ways in various languages and cultures.

An extended study of the writings of Lil' Kim, the multi-platinum selling Hip Hop artist.

This book explores youth in postmodern society through a Lacanian lens.

Why do people routinely risk their health by smoking cigarettes?

The first collection to bring together well-known scholars writing from feminist perspectives within Critical Discourse Analysis.

Presenting new and exciting data from lesbian and gay conversations, narratives, representations of lesbians in film and erotic fiction, and representations of prominent gay men in newspapers, this book looks at some of the ways lesbians and gay men construct identity from among the symbolic resources available within lesbian and gay communities.

This book shows the effects of globalization on language in social context, identifying the city as the key site for the realization of these effects.

This blends discussion of the role of language minorities in politics with examples of language policy in a range of national contexts.

In this first-hand study of the relationship of gender, ethnicity and the participation of children within an English-language teaching classroom, Jule re-assesses Lacan's approach to belonging with other theoretical approaches to gender and language, making use of case-study methods.

This is the fully revised and expanded second edition of English - One Tongue, Many Voices, a book by three internationally distinguished English language scholars who tell the fascinating, improbable saga of English in time and space.

Arguing against a common sense view of bilingualism as the co-existence of two linguistic systems, this volume develops a critical perspective which approaches bilingualism as a wide variety of sets of sociolinguistic practices connected to the construction of social difference and of social inequality under specific historical conditions.

In this coherent historical development of the passive voice in English, the main argument deals not only with the passive per se, but also with its related constructions, which can play vital parts in identifying both functional and structural motivations for creating the passive.

The contributors present a coherent collection of work on the functioning of metaphor in public discourse and related discourse areas from a broadly cognitive-linguistic background, providing a state-of-the-art overview of research on the discursive grounding of metaphor from a cognitive-linguistic perspective.

Researching communication disorders involves a range of disciplines including speech-language pathology, linguistics and psychology.

This volume explores the discursive nature of post-1989 social change in Central and Eastern Europe.

Identity Trouble assembles contributions from a variety of discourse fields to discuss the pressures on traditional understandings of identity.

One of the most common phenomena of language use among bilingual speakers is language alternation.

Despite the inroads made by women in the professions, the glass ceiling remains a persistent barrier to their career progression.

Dominance, identity and resistance are key themes in this examination of language in global, virtual and local settings.

The Language of Sexual Crime explores the role of language in the construction of identity of both perpetrators and victims of sexual violence, the ways in which language is used in the detection of sexually-motivated crime, and the articulation/manipulation of language in police interviews, the courtroom and the media.

Children today are growing up in a world of global media.

The first critical ethnography of bilingual education in Japan.

This volume brings together specialists from a range of disciplines to discuss the discursive construction of ethnic, national and regional identities and analyse how specific identity discourses condition and constrain knowledge and action with regard to various socio-political issues in Europe.

Employing a discourse analytical approach this book focuses on the under-researched strategy of humour to illustrate how discursive performances of leadership are influenced by gender and workplace culture.

By revisiting globalization using an analysis of metaphors, such as 'global village' and 'network society', this volume sheds new light on overlooked dimensions of global politics, redresses outdated conceptualizations, and provides a critical analysis of existing approaches to the study of globalization.

This is a practical guide to all aspects of linguistic fieldwork.

Working in Language and Law is a detailed account of the forensic linguistic work done by the author in the last 35 years.

Leading researchers in the field of spoken discourse and language teaching offer an empirically informed, issues-based discussion of the present state of research into spoken language.

The author presents a new approach to the study of language policy, by focusing on language policy formation and implementation as a dynamic, conflict-laden process involving the interaction of various actors with different motivations and uneven bargaining powers, rather than as a product , examinable post hoc from existing language legislation.

Karen Orr Vered demonstrates how children's media play contributes to their acquisition of media literacy.

The contributors to Language Ideologies, Policies and Practices investigate the workings of language ideologies in relation to other social processes in a globalizing world.

This book contributes to an understanding of the complex relationship of gender and language alongside religion and religious life as experienced by various religious groups around the world.