Sociolinguistics

This book focuses on the idea of Academic Persian in the growing competition of many Middle Eastern languages to produce and highlight their academic discourse.

This book is an innovative sociolinguistic study of New Australia, an Australian immigrant community in Paraguay in 1893, whose descendants today speak Guarani.

This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of academic researchers in order to examine how and to what extent the challenge of language revitalisation should be reassessed and reconceptualised to take account of our fast-changing social context.

This book examines the concept of interculturality in English Language Teaching (ELT), using examples from diverse international and educational settings to demonstrate different approaches.

This book is intended to introduce novice student researchers to second language acquisition in the study abroad learning environment.

This groundbreaking collection represents the broad scope of cutting-edge research in Cultural Linguistics, a burgeoning field of interdisciplinary inquiry into the relationships between language and cultural cognition.

This edited book includes chapters that explore the impact of war and its aftermath in language and official discourse.

This book builds on conversations between the author educators and other experts in the field, including authors, illustrators and teachers, to explore the benefits of discussions around quality literature within a classroom context that exercises the imagination and generates new ideas and discoveries.

This book introduces a new tool for improving communication and promoting clearer thinking in a world where the use of Global English can create numerous comprehension and communication issues.

The Mayan family of languages is ancient and unique.

This book addresses gaps in our understanding of processes that underpin the making and circulation of children's screen contents across the Arab region and Europe.

As a Sunday School teacher and church librarian for over 25years, Shirley had noticed a need for student information concerning Bible Theology and the Gospel message, along with development of a Christian's relationship with God.

Through the real-life context of one child learning to be bilingual and biliterate, this book raises questions and provides a context for pre-service and practicing teachers to understand and reflect on how children learn to read and write in multiple languages.

His life changes after he is unexpectedly left in Los Angeles at the age of fourteen.

This book investigates young children's everyday digital practices, embodied digital play, and digital media products - such as mobile applications, digital games, and software tools.

Ideology is so powerful it makes us believe that war is rational, despite both its brutal means and its devastating ends.

This book focuses on the crucial role that relationships play in the lives of teenagers.

The reflexive constructions that are the focus of this book are the constructions broadly described with the term "e;middle"e;: i.

Variationist work in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) began in the mid 1970s and steadily progressed during the 1980s.

This book analyses the letters of marginalised groups of World War I soldiers - including Black, Indian and disabled ex-servicemen - from a linguistic perspective, looking at issues such as descriptions of disability, identity and migration, dealing with minority groups who have long been rendered invisible, and exploring how these writers position themselves in relation to the 'other'.

This book offers an in-depth, cross-cultural and transdisciplinary discussion of the translatability of social emotions.

Focusing on language contact involving Russian, and the linguistic varieties that emerged from that contact in different social settings, this book analyzes issues and methodologies in reconstructing both the linguistic effects of language contact and the social contexts of usage.

Today, academics, business professionals and private persons alike need to communicate successfully and establish relationships with people from various cultures through digital means.

This book revisits the modern history of Poland, from the perspective of its social sciences.

This book explores disrupted youth cohesion in France within the context of multiple ongoing global economic, migratory, social, political, and security-related crises.

This book explores the depiction of suicide in American youth films from 1900 to 2019.

This book gives fresh insight into the diverse ways in which the transmission of minority and heritage languages is carried out in a range of sociolinguistic contexts.

In Live Love Now, New York Times bestselling author Rachel Macy Stafford tackles the biggest challenges facing kids today and equips adults to engage them with humanness and heart, compassion and honesty to discover the deep, life-giving connection everyone is longing for.

This book explores the ways in which the contemporary university is talked about, and talks about itself.

This edited book examines silence and silencing in and out of discourse, as viewed through a variety of contexts such as historical archives, day-to-day conversations, modern poetry, creative writing clubs, and visual novels, among others.

Is America the next missionary graveyard?

This clinical handbook is a valuable resource for any health professional who works with adolescents and young adults, whether in paediatric or adult acute care facilities or in the community.

In the United States today there is lively discussion, both among educators and employers, about the best way to prepare students with high-level language and cross-cultural communication proficiency that will serve them both professionally and personally in the global environment of the twenty-first century.

This book advances the growing area of language policy and planning (LPP) by examining the epistemological and theoretical foundations that engendered and sustain the field, drawing on insights and approaches from anthropology, linguistics, economics, political science, and education to create an accessible and inter-disciplinary overview of LPP as a coherent discipline.

A groundbreaking collection by leading scholars that spans a broad range of social situations, cultural contexts, and analytic perspectivesThe contemporary landscape of discourse analysiswhich examines spoken, written, and multimodal communicationis so diverse that, as volume contributor Deborah Tannen observes, discourse has become almost synonymous with language and, for many scholars, extends well beyond it.

This book addresses the importance of language in matters of sustainability and incorporating such concerns in implementing the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

An insightful exploration of the impact of urban change on Black culture, identity, and languageAcross the United States, cities are changing.

Esta es la primera traducción al castellano de una obra clave de la lingüística rusa de principios del siglo XX.

This collection brings together perspectives from early-career LGBTQ+ scholars as they navigate the scholarly publishing landscape, highlighting their experiences and challenges in providing greater representation within the academic community and existing scholarship.

This volume offers a comprehensive snapshot of the breadth of empirical research currently being conducted on the second language acquisition of sociolinguistic variation in Spanish during study abroad.

En los últimos años, el lenguaje no sexista se ha convertido en un tema de amplio interés.

If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, there are yet higher ones over them.

Each person deals with difficult challenges during their lives.

Rather than telling you "e;what"e; to think, author and expert, Ivan Lane, teaches you how to define biblical words and cross reference scripture to interpret biblical truth for yourself.

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Ditch the devices and bring back the magic of being a kid Screens are everywhere.

This book is about the policy-practice praxis in English language education, and draws on research from a diverse range of under-explored international settings to showcase the importance of contextual realities on how policy and practice interact.

This book explores communication in emergency call and response centers, taking an approach drawn from Conversation Analysis to examine how call-takers answer calls and the ways in which dispatch is issued in different contexts.