Sociolinguistics

Part sociolinguistic, part ethnographic, this book takes up the neglected question of how ethnic division interacts with variation and change in Northern Irish English.

Misunderstandings have been examined extensively in studies on cross-cultural (mis)communication which associate them with participants' differing cultural backgrounds and/or linguistic knowledge.

This volume is the result of a colloquium on socio-political dimensions of language policy and language planning held at the 1997 American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference.

This book examines different theoretical perspectives on the role that interaction plays in second language acquisition.

This sociolinguistic study describes and analyzes an Israeli Palestinian border village in the Little Triangle and another village artificially divided between Israel and the West Bank, tracing the political transformations that they have undergone, and the accompanying social and cultural changes.

This volume explores the implications of cross-linguistic structures in simultaneous bilingualism.

This book explores the social significance of letter writing.

Changing socio-political landscapes, the dynamics of ‘glocalisation’, among other factors, are spawning new policy attitudes towards multilingualism, and again putting language planning (LP) on the map – in a manner reminiscent of the 1960s and 1970s.

The theoretical issues addressed in the present volume are semantic and cognitive properties of reciprocal events, syntactic properties of reciprocals, and the relationship of reciprocals to other grammatical categories.

A synchronic sociolinguistic study of Jamaican Creole (JC) as spoken in urban Kingston, this work uses variationist methods to closely investigate two key concepts of Atlantic Creole studies: the mesolect, and the creole continuum.

Psychiatrists, psychologists, neurologists, linguists and speech pathologists currently have no coherent theory to explain why we curse and why we choose the words we do when we curse.

In this memorial volume for A.

Carl Rhodes examines the implicit power of writing and authorship that is at play when people and organisations are (re)presented in research.

The topic of negotiation has turned out to be of crucial interdisciplinary interest for our understanding of what we are doing in language use.

Many of the assumptions of Labovian sociolinguistics are based on results drawn from US and UK English, Latin American Spanish and Canadian French.

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

Any study of communication must take into account the nature and role of speech acts in a broad context.

This book combines theoretical work in linguistic pragmatics and sociolinguistics with empirical work based on a corpus of London adolescent conversation.

This book explores the discourse pragmatics of reportive evidentiality in Macedonian, Japanese and English through an empirical study of evidential strategies in narrative retelling.

This volume includes 14 papers investigating politeness phenomena in Greece and Turkey, the cultural cross-roads of Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

This book investigates the notion of conversational dominance in depth, and seeks to establish a systematic method of analysing it.

Linking actual instances of language use with structures of social power in francophone Belgium, Gross outlines the history and contemporary configuration of rod puppetry in Liege.

This volume, based on presentations at a 1998 state of the art conference at the University of Georgia, critically examines African American English (AAE) socially, culturally, historically, and educationally.

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

Gender and discourse interface in many more epistemological sites than can be represented in one collection.

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.

There is growing recognition that ‘context’ is important for bilingual language development, but understanding of that context remains underdeveloped.

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

Language in South Africa (LiSA) debates the role of language and language planning in the reconstruction, development and transformation of post-apartheid democratic South Africa.

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

This volume is dedicated to questions arising in linguistic, sociological and anthropological analyses of intercultural encounters.

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

Listeners are usually considered recipients in conversational interaction, whose main activity is to take in messages from other speakers.

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

It is natural for people to make the distinction between in-group (Us) and out-group members (Others).

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.

Current interactional linguistic research appears to be crystallizing around systematic themes, which are all represented in this collection of papers.

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 sociolinguistic study of the linguistic practices of bilingual couples describes the conditions, processes and results of private language contact.

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 book features a fascinating and extended focal interview with Professor John J.

Comparing Japanese and American interaction, Language, Social Structure, and Culture argues that language use is instrumental in the construction of social structure and culture.

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

The time-honoured study of dialects took a new turn some forty years ago, giving centre stage to social factors and the quantitative analysis of language variation and change.

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.

Creole languages are characteristically associated with a negative image.

Silencing is not only a physically coercive act.