Sociolinguistics

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.

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.