Sociolinguistics

This book models how people use ritual practices in interaction, and politeness and impoliteness situated in/triggered by ritual practices.

In a search for a deeper understanding of the complex relationship between gender, language and religious identity, this book gathers a global range of studies from the field of linguistics.

Adding to the contributions made by Soul Searching and Souls in Transition--two books which revolutionized our understanding of the religious lives of young Americans--Lisa Pearce and Melinda Lundquist Denton here offer a new portrait of teenage faith.

Michael Ungar's Nurturing Hidden Resilience in Troubled Youth is the first text in its field to examine resilience as a social construct; it offers a comprehensive theory of resilience and a model for the application of this theory to direct practice with high-risk youth in clinical, residential, and community settings.

Across the social and behavioural sciences there has been an increased interest in identity as a subject of inquiry.

The subject of this book is linguistic minorities, and how language is used by speakers of languages which are not the main language of communication.

The book sets out to examine the concept of 'chav', providing a review of its origins, its characterological figures, the process of enregisterment whereby it has come to be recognized in public discourse, and the traits associated with it in traditional media representations.

Every language has been influenced in some way by other languages.

Stories told within institutions play a powerful role, helping to define not only the institution itself, but also its individual members.

This practical resource demonstrates how all clinicians can broaden and enhance their work with children by integrating drawing into therapy.

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

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

Proposes a new analytical approach to the semantics of Russian verbal prefixes, using modern theoretical tools to explore wide-ranging data.

This book provides an insight into girls' cultural identities and young femininities through an understanding of tween girls' dressing in Singapore.

For more than three decades, the percentage of people who married someone of a different race, ethnicity, culture, or linguistic background has been on the rise in the United States, but the communication practices of such couples have remained understudied.

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.

After 1918 Central Europe's multiethnic empires were replaced by nation-states, which gave rise to an unusual ethnolinguistic kind of nationalism.

Topically organized, Adult Development and Aging: Growth, Longevity and Challenges provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the aging process in adulthood from multiple perspectives.

This collection critically reflects on the state-of-the-art research on Korean-as-a-heritage-language (KHL) teaching and learning, centering KHL as an object of empirical inquiry by offering multiple perspectives on its practices and directions for further research.

Revised edition of a seminal introduction to language contact, providing an overview of the field and its most recent developments.

In a unique contribution to understanding the interaction of language policy and planning in modern conflict resolution, Janet Muller provides an insider account of the search for improved status for the Irish language in Northern Ireland from the 1980s.

This pioneering work provides a comprehensive analysis of general extenders, a new linguistic category.

How do boys see themselves?

Introduces a new framework for the study of ideology in written language.

Explores how humor can be explained across the various sub-disciplines of linguistics, in order to aid communication.

There have been noticeable demographic changes recently in the use of English around the world.

Many can attest to the importance of the self-growth that occurs for young people through the arts and their accompanying communities of support, understanding, and caring.

The Baby Boomer generation is facing a time of heightened uncertainty.

In Democracy Remixed, award-winning scholar Cathy J.

This volume offers an in-depth corpus linguistic analysis of the word "e;empathy"e; aiming to foster unique insights into a word widely found across contemporary discourses and into methodological innovations for analyzing large corpora.

With new case studies and fresh perspectives, this Handbook gives a complete overview of standardization, norms and standard languages.

Words in both law and religion can shape power relationships and are often highly disputed.

This Element offers a new contribution to corpus pragmatics research by examining the multifaceted nature of speech acts in conversation.

With the rise and rise of social media, today's communication practices are significantly different from those of even the recent past.

Just as workers are confronting the rapidly changing practices of the restructured, technological workplace and the increasing convergence of working and learning, so those involved in any form of workplace education or training are also restructuring their focus, teaching methods and approaches.

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

For linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure is the defining figure of its modern period.

from the Foreword:Possibly the heartless treatment of children, from the practice of infanticide and abandonment through to the neglect, the rigors of swaddling, the purposeful starving, the beatings, the solitary confinement, and so on, was and is only one aspect of the basic aggressiveness and cruelty of human nature, of the inbred disregard of the rights and feelings of others.

This book explores the various choices speakers or communicators make when expressing power relations in modern societies.

Offering insight into linguistic practices resulting from different kinds of Palestinian-Israeli contact, this book examines a specific conceptualisation of the link between the political and economic contexts and human practices, or between structure and agency, termed "e;articulation"e;.

'Brilliantly illustrates how multilingual mothers are disproportionately tasked with preserving linguistic heritage on one hand and preparing children for public society on the other - all while finding a language for their own new maternal identity' Eliane Glaser, author of Motherhood: A ManifestoIt is estimated that more than half of the world's population communicates in more than one language and over a third of the population in the United Kingdom is multilingual.

Failure to Launch is a book geared towards helping clinicians work with dependent adult children.

The Sociolinguistics of Survey Translation presents an overview of challenges in survey translation, introduces a sociolinguistic framework to overcome these challenges, and demonstrates step-by-step how this framework works to guide and evaluate survey translation.

The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes constitutes a comprehensive introduction to the study of World Englishes.

This book offers a close look at the discourse of and around three socially marginalised and vulnerable groups – Irish Travellers, Squatters and Homeless people – in order to understand more about how individuals within them position themselves vis-à-vis mainstream society.

Using rigorous data-led methods, the book analyses formulaic language from the angle of historical linguistics, revealing key new insights.

Though it may seem hard to believe, it took America's lawmakers some 110 years before they crafted legislation aimed at protecting the welfare of children.

A lively and accessible introduction to world Englishes, setting a range of global varieties in their historical and social contexts.