Sociolinguistics

This book presents a comparative literary study of the works of four writers working in European minority languages - Frisian, Welsh, Scots and Breton.

This book addresses, for the first time, the question of how development NGOs attempt to 'listen' to communities in linguistically diverse environments.

This handbook comprehensively examines social interaction by providing a critical overview of the field of linguistic politeness and impoliteness.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of language and tourist mobility within an adventure tourism context.

This book draws on visual data, ranging from advertisements to postage stamps to digital personal photography, to offer a complex interpretation of the different social functions realised by these texts as semiotic artefacts.

Romani is the first language, and family and community language, of upwards of 3-4 million people and possibly many more in Europe, the Americas, and Australia.

This book explores the experiences of Indigenous children and young adults around the world as they navigate the formal education system and wider society.

This book is an introduction to cosplay as a subculture and community, built around playful spaces and the everyday practices of crafting costumes, identities, and performances.

This book deals with one the most interesting aspects of human life-the search for meaning.

How do we learn what it means to be a man?

This book provides an accessible yet comprehensive introduction to the study of the dialects of English as they are spoken around the world, from the earliest dialect dictionaries of the sixteenth century to contemporary research emerging from the field of geolinguistics.

This book highlights the need to develop new educational perspectives in which multilingualism is valorised and strategically used in settings and contexts of instruction and learning.

Children and Crime offers a multidisciplinary and research-based approach to the study of child maltreatment and juvenile delinquency.

The geriatric population, defined as men and women 65 years and older, is the fastest growing population in the world.

The world of contemporary American infants and young children is saturated with inappropriate images of American Indians.

Dawn of Memories is a journey into the realm of early recollections of childhood and a search for the meaning of the remembrances.

Paradox for Life Review explains how older adults' levels of self-esteem become the lens through which they review their reminiscences.

This is the first therapy book that focuses on clinical work with youth who construct queer identities (as differentiated from essentialized gay or lesbian identities).

In this absorbing new collection, Short and Hughes and their distinguished coauthors investigate why and how we study youth gangs.

There is perhaps no place in the world today where the stakes of partying and having sex are higher than in present-day Iran.

This guide for professionals working with students with autism spectrum conditions (ASCs) in further education meets the increasing demand for information and support on this subject.

Girls are more than just sugar and spice.

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

This book contains an Open Access chapter.

The German language holds an ambivalent and controversial place in the modern history of European Jews, representing different-often conflicting-historical currents.

Trumpism has not only ushered in a new political regime, but also a new regime of language-one that cries out for intelligent and informed analysis.

Homeless women and their children who reside in a transitional housing facility or shelter have experienced multiple traumas and disruptions in their earliest attachments.

This edited collection provides research-informed guidance on how reflexivity may be practised in applied linguistics research.

This volume provides a broad coverage of the intersection of sociolinguistic variation and language acquisition.

This book is the first longitudinal study that addresses language policy and planning in the context of a major international sporting event and examines the ideological, political, social, cultural, and economic effects of such context-specific policy initiatives on contemporary China.

This book is about the social condition of Deaf people, told through a Deaf woman's autobiography and a series of essays investigating how hearing societies relate to Deaf people.

This book offers an in-depth exploration of the unique landscape of Chinese language learning and teaching in Canada.

This book presents the findings from original research about court interpreting in the disciplines of humanities and social sciences from a linguistic perspective.

This book explores the Irish Traveller community through an ethnographic and folk linguistic lens.

Inclusion and exclusion are important issues for sports teams and organisations.

The central question explored in this volume is: How is humor multimodally produced, perceived, responded to, and negotiated?

This third edition provides a comprehensive view of intercultural communication through its concise style and unique theoretical framework of ten interconnected principles.

This collection re-envisions the academic study of institutional translation and interpreting (ITI), revealing oppression in established institutional spaces toward challenging existing policies and the myths which inhibit critical inquiry within the field.

This edited book brings together studies on different aspects of marginalization in Japanese, creating a framework for studying marginalization which can also be applied in other linguistic and international contexts.

This collection re-envisions the academic study of institutional translation and interpreting (ITI), revealing oppression in established institutional spaces toward challenging existing policies and the myths which inhibit critical inquiry within the field.

This book seeks to contribute to the critical applied linguistics by investigating the dynamic role of English on social media, focusing on EFL university students in East Asia - Mongolia and Japan.

This edited book brings together original contributions from scholars working across Language Policy and Planning to advance the recent 'Empirical turn' that has taken place in the field.

This book calls for the institution of an African feminist philosophy of language, challenging existing debates and encouraging a move away from the Western gaze.

This book examines how sociopolitical and intercultural ideologies surrounding globalisation and neoliberalism are constructed and negotiated in travel documentaries, focusing on the role of the BBC in reproducing neo-imperialistic and neoliberal values.