Sociolinguistics

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.

In the last few years a lively discussion on information packaging has arisen, where traditional dichotomies Theme/Rheme, Topic/Comment and Focus/Background have been taken up again and partly reinterpreted.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

No detailed description available for "e;Syntactic Structures"e;.

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

The volume addresses the enormous imbalance that exists between academic interest in politeness phenomena when compared to impoliteness phenomena.

This book is about the doing and experiencing of diagnosis in everyday life.

The proposition that there is a correlation between language and culture or culture-specific ways of thinking can be traced back to the views of Herder and von Humboldt in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Language users are creatures of habit with a tendency to re-use morphosyntactic material that they have produced or heard before.

Narrative as Social Practice sets out to explore the complex and fascinating interrelatedness of narrative and culture.

Is the world en route to becoming a linguistic colony of the United States?

This book presents a unified formal approach to various contemporary linguistic formalisms such as Government & Binding, Minimalism or Tree Adjoining Grammar.

This book is about the struggle for social power in the interethnic context of the Austrian part of the 19th century Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The book is the first of its kind to establish Cognitive Linguistics as a research paradigm within the field of world Englishes.

A union of Cognitive Linguistics and Sociolinguistics was bound to happen.

One of the central themes in cognitive linguistics is the uniquely human development of some higher potential called the "e;mind"e; and, more particularly, the intertwining of body and mind, which has come to be known as embodiment.

A Grammar of Dolakha Newar is the first fully comprehensive reference grammar of a Newar variety.

This wide-ranging volume explores how gender and language are used and transformed to discuss, enact, and project social differences in light of global economic and political changes in the late nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first centuries.

This volume presents an interactional perspective on linguistic variability that takes into account the construction of social identities through the formation of social communicative styles.

The global spread of English, with over two billion users of the language, is now well-documented.

Überall wird im öffentlichen Diskurs heute auf Befindlichkeiten Rücksicht genommen: Es werden vor Gefahren wie »expliziter Sprache« gewarnt, Schreibweisen mit Binnen-I empfohlen, dritte Klotüren installiert.

Sprachgerechtigkeit - Ein inspirierender Beitrag zur Debatte um Menschenrechte und VernunftrechtIn den aktuellen Debatten um Menschenrechte, Vernunftrecht, Persönlichkeitsrechte und internationales Recht wird oft auf den Begriff der Gerechtigkeit verwiesen.

entlarvend – vernichtend – schonungslosWenn eine Regenhose zur »Schutzwaffe« wird, um friedliche Demonstranten als Bedrohung hinzustellen, der Gefahrenbereich zur »Sicherheitszone« mutiert oder der staatlich sanktionierte Mord zur »gezieltenTötung« wird, um sie notwendig und richtig erscheinen zu lassen – dann steckt eine Absicht dahinter: Verschleiern, was das Zeug hält!

Dieser Sammelband präsentiert Ergebnisse des DFG-Forschungsprojekts "Lexikalische und grammatische Typologie des Yukatekischen Maya" (Universitäten Bielefeld und Erfurt 1996–2002, Leitung Christian Lehmann).

The contributions included in this collection present different perspectives on various aspects of Maltese Linguistics, thereby enriching a field which has been attracting considerably greater interest in recent years than was the case in the past.

This in-depth areal-typological study analyzes the grammatical means which are employed in the languages of Europe to express the comparative of inequality/superiority.

Auf der Grundlage empirisch erhobenen Sprachmaterials untersucht die Studie das diskursive Aushandeln von Sprache und Identitat innerhalb der intimsten "e;Community of Practice (CofP)"e;, der Ehe zwischen interkulturellen Sprachpartnern.

Der vorliegende Band bietet vielfältige Herangehensweisen zu den Sprachen der indigenen Völker Amerikas – zu den großen Sprachen (Guaraní, Zapotekisch, Otomí, klassisches Aztekisch) ebenso wie zu den kleinen (Mosetén, Cabécar).