Sociolinguistics

This book examines the interactional practices of nurse practitioners (NPs) and the delivery of health care in the US.

This collection brings together perspectives drawn from a range of international scholars who have conducted research into the applications of neo-tribal theory.

This book offers insights from a seven-year study into the impact of English as an International Language at a national level, from the effect of rich English input on a previously monolingual people's linguistic repertoire to its effect on the situated language use demanded of speakers who find themselves in a new linguistic environment for which they have not been prepared.

This book focuses on Shine, a musical performance about how energy, humanity, and climate are interrelated.

By examining cultural consumption, tastes and imaginaries as a means of relating to the world, this book describes the effects of globalization on young people from an aesthetic and cultural perspective.

This book represents a significant intervention into the debates surrounding Brexit and language policy.

This book explores the significance and meaning of the countryside within mid-twentieth century youth movements.

This book examines the social organizational discourse of task-oriented business meetings in a Kuwaiti financial organization and an American non-profit trade organisation.

This book uses a corpus of manuscript letters from Bess of Hardwick to investigate how linguistic features characteristic of spoken communication function within early modern epistolary prose.

This book examines how the fairy tale is currently being redeployed and revised on the contemporary teen screen.

This exciting new book advances current practice-based and theoretical knowledge around how youth defines and engages with consumerism to provoke a larger conversation within science and environmental education.

This book showcases current research on language in new media, the performing arts and music in Africa, emphasising the role that youth play in language change and development.

This book presents case studies of five schools engaged in radical change in order to engage with children's home languages and cultures in a more multilingual and inclusive way.

This book explores how the UK press constructs and represents women leaders drawn from three professional spheres: politics, business, and the mass media.

This book empirically explores assessment of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) writing in different Arab world contexts at the university level, which often presents a challenge for teachers and students alike.

This book analyses the Youth Justice Conferencing Program in New South Wales, Australia.

This book empirically explores how different linguistic resources are utilized to achieve appropriate workplace role inhabitance and to achieve work-oriented communicative ends in a variety of workplaces in Japan.

This book offers a range of perspectives and insights from around the world on the teaching and learning of listening, speaking, reading and writing.

This unique study explores the vampire as host and guest, captor and hostage: a perfect lover and force of seductive predation.

This book introduces a new tool for improving communication and promoting clearer thinking in a world where the use of Global English can create numerous comprehension and communication issues.

This book analyses the language practices of young adults in Mongolia and Bangladesh in online and offline environments.

This book takes a fresh approach to analysing how new languages are created, combining in-depth colonial history and empirical, usage-based linguistics.

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

This book provides a unique insight into negotiations around language investment for employability in the context of public employment services.

This book builds on conversations between the author educators and other experts in the field, including authors, illustrators and teachers, to explore the benefits of discussions around quality literature within a classroom context that exercises the imagination and generates new ideas and discoveries.

This book challenges the dominant tendency in world Englishes scholarship to rely on the 'nation' as a static spatial entity and reliable analytic category.

This book examines the domestic evolution and international connections of post-war fascists in the UK.

This book adopts a sociolinguistic perspective to trace the origins and enduring significance of hip-hop as a global tool of resistance to oppression.

This volume critically examines the phenomenon of "e;English fever"e; in South Korea from both micro- and macro-perspectives.

This book presents a sociolinguistics of academic publishing from an historical and contemporary perspective.

This book provides insight into the diverse ways young people from around the world are regenerating politics in innovative and multifaceted ways.

This book analyses the language that ordinary people employ when discussing money, debt and financial behaviour.

This book explores communication on Facebook, developing the new theoretical concept of context design as a way of understanding the dynamics of online interaction.

This volume brings together a wide array of papers which explore, among other things, to what extent languages and cultures are variable with respect to the interactions around the event of death.

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.