Sociolinguistics

The history of English news discourse is characterised by intriguing multilevel developments, and the present cannot be separated from them.

This volume explores a pivotal period in European history, the 'long' nineteenth century.

This is the first volume entirely dedicated to contested languages.

Language Variation - European Perspectives VI showcases a selection of papers from the 8th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe which was held in Leipzig in 2015.

This book presents a new approach to comparative politico-linguistic discourse analysis.

This book offers a unique analysis of how political representatives construct ideas about the nation in contemporary Indonesian politics.

This book presents a thoughtful and thorough account of diverse studies on Chinese translation and interpreting (TI).

Written with an emphasis on instruction, policy, practice, and assessment, this book focuses on English literacy at the pre-primary/primary, secondary, and university level, and discusses literacy policies in the region.

This practical manual reviews salient topics in Adolescent Medicine.

This book explores the dynamics of language changes from sociolinguistic and historical linguistic perspectives.

This book offers a novel perspective on the intersection of translation and narration in literary translation by investigating how three translations of Shuihu Zhuan present the original narrative mode to the target readership in terms of four narrative elements-voice, commentary, point of view and motif-in different periods of history.

This book presents the results of a large-scale experiment into interpretations of the metaphor "e;the Nation as a Body"e; among 1,800+ respondents from 30 linguistic and cultural backgrounds.

This book revisits a number of key issues in Chinese Translation Studies.

This book provides readers with the latest research on the affective aspect of online interactions between doctors and e-patients in the context of China from a poststructuralist discourse analysis perspective.

This book fills the gap in World Englishes studies in terms of the pedagogic implication of China English and its use in the Chinese workplace.

This book explores how language ideologies have emerged for gangtaiqiang through a combination of indexical and ideological processes in televised media.

This book gathers international and interdisciplinary work on youth studies from the Global South, exploring issues such as continuity and change in youth transitions from education to work; contemporary debates on the impact of mobility, marginalization and violence on young lives; how digital technologies shape youth experiences; and how different institutions, cultures and structures generate a diversity of experiences of what it means to be young.

This book is the first in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics.

This book explores heterogeneity in the Indian academic setting.

This book investigates the life trajectories of Generation X and Y Australians through the 1990s and 2000s.

This book delivers essential skills in "e;spoken"e; professional communications, presenting theoretical and applied frameworks for business talk using English as a lingua franca.

This book documents the impact of Stephen Harris's works in Aboriginal education, Aboriginal learning styles, domains of language use and bilingual-bicultural education.

This book proposes a critical public relations approach to analyzing crisis communication with Malaysia Airlines flight 370 (MH370) disappearance (2014-2018) as a case study.

This book addresses the question: What can close discourse analysis contribute to the understanding of language?

This collection offers a comprehensive account of the development of intercultural communication strategies through Virtual English as a lingua franca, reflecting on the ways in which we make pragmatic meaning in today's technology-informed globalized world.

This collection offers a comprehensive account of the development of intercultural communication strategies through Virtual English as a lingua franca, reflecting on the ways in which we make pragmatic meaning in today's technology-informed globalized world.

Comic books for adults have become one of the most novel and colourful forms of cultural expression in the Arab world today.

The point of leaving care has been identified as a potentially critical turning point at which services might moderate later outcomes.

The point of leaving care has been identified as a potentially critical turning point at which services might moderate later outcomes.

Against the backdrop of uncritical promotions of English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education globally, this edited volume maps out the political, ideological, and policy-related issues of EMI programs in multilingual and multicultural universities in Asia.

Against the backdrop of uncritical promotions of English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education globally, this edited volume maps out the political, ideological, and policy-related issues of EMI programs in multilingual and multicultural universities in Asia.

This book is an essential resource for those new to, developing and established in the field of trans voice.

This volume offers a holistic understanding of the interconnections of language, specifically English, scholarly publishing, and knowledge production and circulation through a sociolinguistic lens in contemporary academia across different European settings for research purposes.

This book is an essential resource for those new to, developing and established in the field of trans voice.

A state-of-the-field survey of the key topics in Discourse Studies, written for the 21st century.

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

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

Übersichtlich und verständlich führt dieses Buch in das Gebiet der Entwicklungspsychologie des Erwachsenenalters ein.

Mediante una aproximación sociolingüística a la comunicación en los campos de concentración nacionalsocialistas –a partir de su reflejo en el corpus literario legado por los supervivientes–, se pretende obtener una perspectiva detallada y comparativa sobre las tendencias que caracterizan la interacción social.

Mediante una aproximación sociolingüística a la comunicación en los campos de concentración nacionalsocialistas –a partir de su reflejo en el corpus literario legado por los supervivientes–, se pretende obtener una perspectiva detallada y comparativa sobre las tendencias que caracterizan la interacción social.

Beyond the Deception of Depression is not a how-to guide; it is an authentic and personal story of one woman who found wholeness in the words of Scripture.

This book examines the methods and approaches currently being taken by the global community of youth in influencing environmental policymakers of the United Nations.

This book adopts a corpus-based critical discourse analysis approach and examines a corpus of newspaper articles from Pakistani and Indian publications to gain comparative insights into the ideological construction of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) within news discourses.

This book explores the policing response to teen sexting - the digital exchange, both consensual and non-consensual, of intimate images among youth peers.

This book explores the concept of disfluency in speech production, particularly as it occurs in the context of second language acquisition.

This book sheds light on how the public engage with, make sense of, and discursively evaluate news media constructions of people from asylum seeking backgrounds.

This edited volume offers an insightful theoretical conceptualization of issues central to 21st century foreign language learning and teaching.

This book explores the policing response to teen sexting - the digital exchange, both consensual and non-consensual, of intimate images among youth peers.