Sociolinguistics

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.

This volume offers a thorough, systematic, and crosslinguistic account of evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which a statement is based.

This volume offers a thorough, systematic, and crosslinguistic account of evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which a statement is based.

What makes a word bad?

What makes a word bad?

This book examines the variation found in modern spoken French, based on the research programme 'Phonology of Contemporary French' (Phonologie du Francais Contemporain, PFC).

Women in the History of Linguistics is a ground-breaking investigation into women's contribution to the description, analysis, and codification of languages across a wide range of different linguistic and cultural traditions.

This book explores the life and experiences of one of the world's most renowned and well-respected experts in bilingualism.

This volume brings together distinguished scholars from all over the world to present an authoritative, thorough, and yet accessible state-of-the-art survey of current issues in pragmatics.

The chapters in this volume address the process of syntactic change at different granularities.

The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages is the most exhaustive treatment of the Romance languages available today.

The BBC's Advisory Committee on Spoken English was set up to provide an authoritative guide to pronunciation and the use of language for BBC announcers.

This handbook brings together past and current research on all aspects of lying and deception, with chapters contributed by leading international experts in the field.

This handbook brings together past and current research on all aspects of lying and deception, with chapters contributed by leading international experts in the field.

This book provides an accessible account of the origins and conceptual foundations of language policy.

During the 1990s lone mothers reached the top of the political agenda, viewed as both a drain on public expenditure and a moral threat.

Language is one of the faculties that sets humans apart from animals, the crucial thing which makes our complex social interactions possible.

In this book, Aidan Doyle traces the history of the Irish language from the time of the Norman invasion at the end of the 12th century to independence in 1922, combining political, cultural, and linguistic history.

During the 1990s lone mothers reached the top of the political agenda, viewed as both a drain on public expenditure and a moral threat.

Language is one of the faculties that sets humans apart from animals, the crucial thing which makes our complex social interactions possible.

This is a book about the multi-faceted notion of gender.

This book addresses the complex question of how and why languages have spread across the globe: why do we find large language families distributed over a wide area in some regions, while elsewhere we find clusters of very small families or language isolates?

This monograph offers a novel investigation of the Edwardian picture postcard as an innovative form of multimodal communication, revealing much about the creativity, concerns and lives of those who used postcards as an almost instantaneous form of communication.

This monograph offers a novel investigation of the Edwardian picture postcard as an innovative form of multimodal communication, revealing much about the creativity, concerns and lives of those who used postcards as an almost instantaneous form of communication.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of current research in African languages, drawing on insights from anthropological linguistics, typology, historical and comparative linguistics, and sociolinguistics.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of current research in African languages, drawing on insights from anthropological linguistics, typology, historical and comparative linguistics, and sociolinguistics.

This book tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present.

The Grammar of Knowledge offers both a linguistic and anthropological perspective on the expression of information sources, as well as inferences, assumptions, probability and possibility, and gradations of doubt and beliefs in a range of languages.

This book, by a group of leading international scholars, outlines the history of the spoken dialects of Arabic from the Arab Conquests of the seventh century up to the present day.

Silence takes on meaning based on the contexts of its occurrence.

Silence takes on meaning based on the contexts of its occurrence.

Language and Society is a broad introduction to the interaction of language and society, intended for undergraduate students majoring in any academic discipline.

"e;Friends don't let friends skip leg day.

"e;Friends don't let friends skip leg day.

What challenges face jurisdictions that attempt to conduct law in two or more languages?

Anita Pomerantz is one of the pioneers of Conversation Analysis (CA), a field that has grown from a small and marginalized subfield into a significant, international, multidisciplinary field of inquiry.

Anita Pomerantz is one of the pioneers of Conversation Analysis (CA), a field that has grown from a small and marginalized subfield into a significant, international, multidisciplinary field of inquiry.

Though indeterminacy in legal texts is pervasive, there is a widespread misunderstanding about what indeterminacy is, particularly as it pertains to law.

Though indeterminacy in legal texts is pervasive, there is a widespread misunderstanding about what indeterminacy is, particularly as it pertains to law.