Sociolinguistics

This book provides a microanalysis of the interactions between four children and their parents starting when the children were aged 9 to 13 months and ending when they were 18 months old.

The goal of this volume is to examine academic discourse (AD) from cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspectives.

The central concern in this book is the relationship between language and group identity, a relationship that is thrown into greatest relief in 'minority' settings.

Age is by far the most underdeveloped of the sociolinguistic variables in terms of research literature.

The study of languages in contact is an ever-relevant topic in linguistics, especially at present times when increasing globalization leads to a number of new contact situations.

This volume presents a ground-breaking overview of the interconnections between socio-cultural reality and language practices, by looking at the different ways in which social roles are performed, maintained, adopted and assigned through linguistic means.

This volume focuses on work situations in Europe, North America and South-Africa, such as academic, medical and public sector, or business settings, in which participants have to make constant use of more than one language to cooperate with partners, clients, or colleagues.

Understanding sociolinguistics as a theoretical and methodological framework hopefully could attempt to promote change and social development in human communities.

This interdisciplinary study investigates the relationship between culture, language and cognition based on the aspects of social structure, space and possession in Tonga, Polynesia.

This book makes an innovative contribution to the relatively young field of Queer Linguistics.

The study of linguistic variation in the Caribbean has been central to the emergence of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics as an academic field.

Language Variation - European Perspectives III contains 18 selected papers from the International Conference on Language Variation in Europe which took place in Copenhagen 2009.

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This book addresses some of the most fundamental questions that can be asked about target language (TL) acquisition in the classroom context, namely1.

It has become commonplace to employ dialogue-based approaches in producing and communicating knowledge in diverse fields.

In most subtitling countries, those lines at the bottom of the screen are the most read medium of all, for which reason they deserve all the academic attention they can get.

Since the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Darwin's The Language of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), emotionology has become a respectable and even thriving research domain again.

This volume contains a selection of reviewed and revised papers, originally presented at the International Pragmatics Conference held in Viareggio, Italy, 1-5 September 1985.

This study is both particularistic and generalizing.

This volume focuses on priorities for research in language pedagogy.

This volume suggests a novel treatment of context in the analysis of everyday interaction.

The selected articles compiled in the present volume are based on contributions prepared for the 17th International L.

Text-based interaction among humans connected via computer networks, such as takes place via email and in synchronous modes such as "e;chat"e;, MUDs and MOOs, has attracted considerable popular and scholarly attention.

The book offers a combined discussion of the main theoretical, methodological and application issues related to corpus work.

The appearance of Uriel Weinreich's Languages in Contact: Findings and Problems (1953) marked a milestone in the study of multilingualism and language contact.

An impressive collection of theoretical perspectives and empirical data which includes papers on Catalan, Galician, Tagalog, and the minority languages of Kenya.

Can historically marginalized, threatened languages be saved in the contemporary global era?

Anthropology and linguistics, as historically developing disciplines, have had partly separate roots and traditions.

This essay concerns the analysis of speech act verbs.

This edited volume offers the first comprehensive collection devoted to the study of Slavic gender linguistics by a team of international Slavic linguists.

This volume consists of six essays on interrelated themes, focusing on key aspects of language reflection during the period 1500-1800, with particular emphasis on the seventeenth century.

In the late Qing period, from the Opium War to the 1911 revolution, China absorbed the initial impact of Western arms, manufactures, science and culture, in that order.

The American courtroom trial is a speech situation.

This volume covers many of the ways of speaking that create problems between doctor and patient.

Today, computer-mediated communication spans a range of activities from interactive messages to word processing.

This work arose from the desire to teach foreign students in North America a particular variety of language used in their disciplines (speech situations), whereupon the inadequacy or non-existence of previous study became apparent.

The purpose of the volume is to open up new perspectives in the study of literacy by bringing together current research findings from linguistics, psychology, sociology and anthropology.

This book details the findings of a research project investigating the social uses of literacy in a range of contexts in South Africa.

Pretend play in early childhood arises in the context of social interaction and, as such, constitutes a form of discourse indigenous to the child's world.

An empirical study based on an analysis of 35 taped job interviews.

The papers in this volume describe a wide variety of language contact settings in which one or more languages are in a process of shift.

Traditional text types (or genres) are complex linguistic, sociocultural and cognitive phenomena that can only be analysed in flexible interdisciplinary frameworks fusing structural and process-oriented approaches and combining quantitative description with qualitative interpretation and evaluation.

This book explores the possibilities and limitations of pragmatic research in classical Sanskrit concentrating on linguistic politeness.

This volume examines the sociocultural factors that influence language choices and uses in the multilingual country of Luxembourg.

The 19th-century European notion of the one people-one language nation as the ideal state has been a very pervasive influence in spite of the fact that most countries in the world today are multilingual, that is they contain ethnic groups in contact and not infrequently in competition.

The Brule Dwellers of Ascension Parish are descendants of Canary Island immigrants who came to Louisiana in the late 1700s.

In recent years, ethnic ways of speaking by young people with migrant background have become an important research object in sociolinguistics; work on these ways of speaking has been prospering in many European countries.

The book sketches a systematics of non-verbal communication.

This is the second volume of papers on sign-based linguistics to emerge from Columbia School linguistics conferences.

If politics is a serious matter and humour a funny one, this volume investigates how and why the boundaries between the two are blurred: politics can be represented in a humorous manner and humour can have a serious intent.