Sociolinguistics

This volume contains revised and extended versions of a selection of the papers presented at “The Amsterdam Workshop on Language Contact and Creolization.

This is the second of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on "e;Gender across Languages"e;, which provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of diverse genetic, typological and socio-cultural backgrounds.

This book re-examines the relationship between language and national identity.

Diana Boxer’s Applying Sociolinguistics: Domains and Face-to-Face Interaction is an up-to-date overview of discourse studies in oral interaction.

This book uses Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory to show how evidential expressions can be analysed in a unified semantic/pragmatic framework.

Linguistic Emotivity explores expressive and emotive meanings in Japanese from the perspective of the Place of Negotiation theory.

There are few aspects of language which are more problematic than its discourse particles.

Teenage talk is fascinating, though so far teenage language has not been given the attention in linguistic research that it merits.

The present volume represents a selection of papers presented at the International Symposium on Ideophones held in January 1999 in St.

This book is a study of the L1 attrition of German among German Jews who emigrated to anglophone countries under the Nazi regime.

This is the third of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on "e;Gender across Languages"e;, which provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of diverse genetic, typological and socio-cultural backgrounds.

This volume sets out to foreground the issues of youth identity in the context of current sociolinguistic and discourse research on identity construction.

What is the future of languages in an increasingly globalized world?

Twenty-one articles from the 31st LSRL investigate cutting-edge issues and interfaces across phonology, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, semantics, and syntax in multiple dialects of such Romance languages as Catalan, French, Creole French, and Spanish, both old and modern.

This book addresses current approaches to sequentiality in pragmatics and discourse analysis.

Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation illustrates the ways in which linguistic variation can be explored through corpus-based investigation.

This book focuses on how participants in Japanese conversation negotiate and achieve joint courses of action within a single turn at talk.

English competes with Tagalog and Taglish, a mixture of English and Tagalog, for the affections of Filipinos.

Our species has been hunting for meaning ever since we departed from our cousins in the evolutionary tree.

This innovative study of naturally-occurring English conversations between Hong Kong Chinese and their native English friends and colleagues makes a worthwhile contribution to the research literature on intercultural conversation.

This volume unites various contributions reflecting the intellectual interests exhibited by Professor Herman Parret (Institute of Philosophy, Leuven), who has continued to observe, and often critically assess, ongoing developments in pragmatics throughout his career.

Modeling of linguistic knowledge generally involves the compartmentalization of grammar into phonological, morphological, lexical, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic components.