Sociolinguistics

This volume will give readers insight into how genres are characterised by the patterns of frequency and distribution of linguistic features across a number of European languages.

This book analyzes the impact of historical, political and sociocultural contexts on the reading, rewriting and translating of texts.

This book explores the present-day Irish Diaspora in Argentina, using oral narrative and a sociolinguistic theoretical framework to draw out the features that define contemporary Hiberno-Argentine identity.

This volume offers a new perspective on sociolinguistics in Africa.

This book explores cultural conceptions of the child and the cinematic absence of black children from contemporary Hollywood film.

This interdisciplinary volume brings together leading scholars from several disciplines to uncover the key to young people's socialization within institutional settings, from school to the workplace.

This book examines how injustice based on social positioning is performed within the context of international schools.

This collection reflects on the emerging phenomenon of 'selfie citizenship', which capitalises on individual visibility and agency, at the time when citizenship itself is increasingly governed through biometrics and large-scale dataisation.

This book explores the issue of student speech in public schools from a student usability perspective.

This book examines the historical background of game development, offline and online gamer interactions, and presents a method to study the health impacts of digital games in East Asia.

This book responds to recent criticisms that the research and theorization of multilingualism on the part of applied linguists are in collusion with neoliberal policies and economic interests.

This book offers a new perspective on the role played by colonial descriptions and translation of Caribbean plants in representations of Caribbean culture.

This is the first book that sheds light on global game industries and cultural policy.

This book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive review and critique of the scientific evidence concerning the prevalence, nature and potential effects of food advertising and other forms of marketing on children.

This book focuses on the discursive processes that allow activists to make sense of themselves and of the modes of politics they engage in.

This lively and engaging book, set in the historical context of centuries of migration and multilingualism in Berlin, explores the relationship between language and migration.

This monograph on indirect reports offers insights on the semantics/pragmatics interface and a refinement of the notion of explicature.

This volume explores why Americans are among the least likely in the world to speak another language and how this U.

This book presents research on the instruction of two heritage languages and two foreign languages in Israeli schools.

This book uniquely integrates discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine representations of the self and other within lifestyle migration.

This book critically examines the European Union's "e;Unity in Diversity"e; mantra with regard to language.

This critical ethnographic school-based case study offers insights onthe interaction between ideology and the identity development of individualEnglish language learners in Singapore.

This book analyses the experiences of multicultural education in nine very different international settings uncovering insights from a vast variety of educational contexts.

Trade schools, universities, and programs for international students have begun to experiment with Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) as a viable pedagogy for instruction, as the pedagogy of CLIL increasingly gains recognition as a practical form of language and content education in Europe and beyond, and its application in instructional settings becomes more diverse.

This volume offers the reader a singular overview of current thinking on indirect reports.

These in-depth case studies provide novel insights in to the fast-changing language situation in multilingual China, and how it changes the meanings of language identity and language learning.

This volume offers an in-depth description and discussion of research design for a large-scale investigation of bilingual development.

The book presents most recent investigations into foreign language teaching and learning discussed by prominent scholars in the field.

This book contains an Open Access chapter.

This book presents a description and analysis of sociolinguistics written from a demographer's perspective.

Dieses Buch stellt ein umfassendes Kompendium relevanter Aspekte in der Arbeit mit älteren Menschen mit geistiger Behinderung dar.

Dieses Buch stellt ein umfassendes Kompendium relevanter Aspekte in der Arbeit mit älteren Menschen mit geistiger Behinderung dar.

Die demografische Alterung ist seit langer Zeit bekannt.

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

Dieses Buch stellt ein umfassendes Kompendium relevanter Aspekte in der Arbeit mit älteren Menschen mit geistiger Behinderung dar.

The Routledge Handbook of Teaching English as an International Language provides a ground-breaking overview of the research on the global spread of English with pedagogical implications.

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This edited book fills a void in the existing research concerning anti-communist movements in Central and Eastern Europe, outlining the linguistic implications of the cultural, social and political metamorphoses brought about by the (change of) regime.