Sociolinguistics

This volume presents a comparative, socio-historical study of the Germanic standard languages (Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Frisian, German, Icelandic, Low German, Luxemburgish, Norwegian, Scots, Swedish, Yiddish as well as the Caribbean and Pacific Creole languages).

Telephone conversation is one of the most common forms of communication in contemporary society.

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

This study investigates the morpho-syntactic variability of the second person pronouns in the Shakespeare Corpus, seeking to elucidate the factors that underlie their choice.

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

This book proposes that subjective expression shapes grammatical and lexical patterning in American English conversation.

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.

In the American legal system valid witness-testimony is supposed to be invariable and unchanging, so defense attorneys highlight seeming inconsistencies in victims' accounts to impeach their credibility.

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

Language Standardization and Language Change describes the formation of an early standard norm at the Cape around 1900.

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.

In a world of increasing migration and technological progress, multilingual communication has become the rule rather than the exception.

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.

This book belongs to the rapidly growing field of historical pragmatics.

This book aims to appraise sociolinguistic work devoted to the form and function of storytelling and to examine in detail the ways in which narrative constitutes a fundamental discursive resource across a range of contexts.

Drawing on the methods of conversation analysis and ethnography, this book sets out to examine the epistemological practices of Indo-Guyanese villagers as these are revealed in their talk and daily conduct.

Telephone helplines have become one of the most pervasive sites of expert-lay interaction in modern societies throughout the world.

This volume brings together a number of wide-ranging, transdisciplinary research articles on the interface between discourse studies and economics.

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

This monograph provides a micro-analytic description of instances of requests in everyday German conversation.

This book discusses the historical record of the idea that language is associated with national identity, demonstrating that different applications of this idea have consistently produced certain types of results.

Advice Online presents a comprehensive study of advice-giving in one particular American Internet advice column, referred to as 'Lucy Answers'.

The Sociology of Language and Religion (SLR) is still in its infancy as a sub-discipline in the macrosociolinguistic tradition.

Along with its companion volume, this book offers a fascinating glimpse into the current avenues of research into colour, a phenomenon which daily affects all our lives in often surprising ways.

The study of colour attracts researchers from a wide range of disciplines from both the sciences and the arts.

Research in the relatively new field of cultural linguistics has implications for second language learning and intercultural communication.

Discourse since September 11, 2001 has constrained and shaped public discussion and debate surrounding terrorism worldwide.

This volume, covering a range of topics such as Spanish as a heritage language in the United States, policy issues, pragmatics and language contact, sociolinguistic variation and contact, and Bozal (Creole) Spanish, will serve the interests of linguists, educators, and policy makers alike.

In this volume we approach the question of what it is to be European by considering the way in which citizens talk about their everyday lives, as they are perceived against the background of Europe and European issues.

This book is a sociolinguistic study of children's talk and how they interact with one another and their teachers in multilingual, multicultural and multiethnic schools.

While much has been written about Gibraltar from historical and political perspectives, sociolinguistic aspects have been largely overlooked.

After the accession of ten new member-states in 2004, the number of official EU languages increased from eleven to twenty.

The different traditions that have inspired the contributors to this volume can be divided along three different orientations, one that is rooted predominantly in sociolinguistics, a second that is ethnomethodologically informed, and a third that came in the wake of narrative interview research.

This new volume on language contact and contact languages presents cutting-edge research by distinguished scholars in the field as well as by highly talented newcomers.

This volume offers a synthetic approach to language variation and language ideologies in multilingual communities.

Sociolinguists have been pursuing connections between language and identity for several decades.

Variability is characteristic of any living language.

This volume provides the first-ever sociolinguistic analysis of English on the island of St Helena, the oldest variety of English in the Southern Hemisphere.

Studies in French Applied Linguistics invites the reader to adopt a broad perspective on applied linguistics, illustrating the fascinating multifaceted work researchers are conducted in so many various, inter-connected subfields.

Indigenous minority languages have played crucial roles in many areas of linguistics - phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, typology, and the ethnography of communication.

The Language of Daily Life in England (1400-1800) is an important state-of-the art account of historical sociolinguistic and socio-pragmatic research.

This book provides the most comprehensive account so far of novel and hitherto unexplained factors operative in the choice between synthetic (prouder) and analytic (more proud ) comparatives.

This volume contains a selection of papers from the 4th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 4), which was held at the University of Cyprus from June 17th-19th 2007.

World Englishes is a vibrant research field that has attracted scholars from many different linguistic subdisciplines.

Register Variation in Indian English constitutes the first large-scale empirical investigation of an international variety of English.

Divided into three main sections on Phonology, Syntax and Semantics, this new volume on variation in French aims to provide a snapshot of the state of sociolinguistic research inside and outside metropolitan France.

This book investigates how speakers of English, Polish and Russian deal with offensive situations.

This book deals with the consequences of converging and diverging processes and their development in language contact situations.

The Arab-Israeli struggle is not only a struggle over land, but a struggle over language representations.