Sociolinguistics

This book provides a complete grammar of the Mani language spoken in the Samu (alternate French spelling "e;Samou"e;) region of Sierra Leone and Guinea.

The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide is a thorough guide to the indigenous languages of this part of the world.

This is an innovative study of variation among linguistic items in what has been traditionally described as present perfect contexts.

Space provides the stage for our social lives - social thought evolved and developed in a constant interaction with space.

Dialectology proper has traditionally focused on the geographic distribution of language variation as an end in itself and has remained relatively segregated from other branches of linguistic and extra-linguistic inquiry.

The complex linguistic situation of earlier multilingual Britain has led to numerous contact-induced changes in the history of English.

This is the second volume of the multi-volume set A Contemporary Grammar of British English Dialects.

Cross-linguistic studies on relative constructions in European languages are often centred on standard varieties as described in reference grammars.

Warrongo is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language that used to be spoken in northeast Australia.

The book provides the first comparison of usage preferences across registers in the language pair English-German.

This is the first description of Goemai, a West Chadic language of Nigeria.

Vaeakau-Taumako, also known as Pileni, is a Polynesian Outlier language spoken in the Reef and Duff Islands in the Solomon Islands' Temotu Province.

The Upper Necaxa Totonac Dictionary represents to-date the most extensive collection of lexical material for any member of the Totonac-Tepehua family and the only such record for this previously-undescribed polysynthetic language, currently spoken in two principal dialects by some 3,400 people, mainly adults, in the Sierra Norte of Puebla State, Mexico.

The book explores the role of age in communication under consideration of various age groups, genres, cultures and languages, and demonstrates the growing potential of age-related research for linguistic and social analyses that is founded on a more comprehensive and systematic basis than has been practiced so far.

The volume explores the relationship between linguistic universals and language variation.

This book puts forward a new model of acculturation combining psychological, sociolinguistic and identity theories to study Turkish immigrants across the globe.

The historical relationship between the Catalan and Occitan languages had a definitive impact on the linguistic identity of the powerful Crown of Aragon and the emergent Spanish Empire.

Linguistic complexity is one of the currently most hotly debated notions in linguistics.

In variational linguistics, the concept of space has always been a central issue.

The study of the interaction between syntax and information structure has attracted a great deal of attention since the publication of foundational works on this subject such as Enric Vallduvi's (1992) The Informational Component and Knud Lambrecht's (1994) Information Structure and Sentence Form.

Bronislaw Maliniowski claimed in his monograph Argonauts of the Western Pacific that to approach the goal of ethnographic field-work, requires a "e;collection of ethnographic statements, characteristic narratives, typical utterances, items of folk-lore and magical formulae .

Cognitive Sociolinguistics is a novel and burgeoning field of research which seeks to foster investigation into the socio-cognitive dimensions of language at a usage-based level.

Dialekträume werden wahrnehmungsdialektologisch als kognitive Räume gesehen, die sich durch linguistische, geographische und sozio-kulturelle Konzeptualisierungen konstituieren.

Volume 4 includes unique records of Orok (Uilta), a Tungusic language (dictionaries, texts, grammatical comments) noted down by Pilsudski directly from native informants at the beginning of the 20th century on Sakhalin.

The "e;native speaker"e; is often thought of as an ideal language user with "e;a complete and possibly innate competence in the language"e; which is perceived as being bounded and fixed to a homogeneous speech community and linked to a nation-state.

Die Begriffe ‚Nähe‘ und ‚Distanz‘ bezeichnen konzeptionelle Eigenschaften von Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit.

The dimensions of time and space fundamentally cause and shape the variability of all human language.

In der vorliegenden Studie, die sich als Beitrag zur historischen Sprachkontakt- und Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung versteht, wird der Sprachwechsel der Hugenotten vom Französischen zum Deutschen in verschiedenen brandenburgischen Stadt- und Landkolonien rekonstruiert.

The questions as to why most languages appear to have more trouble borrowing verbs than nouns, and as to the possible mechanisms and paths by which verbs can be borrowed or the obstacles for verb borrowing, have been a topic of interest since the late 19th century.

This book investigates the notion of Speech Act from a cross-cultural perspective.

Pragmatics of society takes a socio-cultural perspective on pragmatics and gives a broad view of how social and cultural factors influence language use.

This book brings together the study of translation with public sphere theory, in order to discuss social communication as it really happens.

The book provides an introduction to an interdisciplinary field of inquiry that can be called "e;global linguistics"e; (GL).

While variation within individual languages has traditionally been focused upon in sociolinguistics, its relevance for grammatical theory has only recently been acknowledged.

In a collection of 16 papers, eminent scholars from several disciplines present diverse and yet cohering perspectives on the expression of social knowledge, its acquisition and management.

This book suggests that gossip can be used as an interpretive key to understand more of early Christian identity and theology.

This book is the first work to address the question of what kinds of words get borrowed in a systematic and comparative perspective.

Die vorwiegend empirisch ausgerichtete Studie untersucht die frühneuzeitlichen Sprachentwicklungsprozesse in den vier regional nah beieinander liegenden Städten Emmerich, Geldern, Nimwegen und Wesel.

In der Abhandlung wird der Stil der Texte aus dem Info-System untersucht.

No detailed description available for "e;Linguistic Theories of Humor"e;.

The first volume of the two-volume set Body, Language and Mind focuses on the concept of embodiment, understood in most general terms as "e;the bodily basis of phenomena such as meaning, mind, cognition and language"e;.