Sociolinguistics

William Strnad traces the formation and development of modern Korean digraphia during the years 1894–1972, including a description and analysis of the historical discourse related to Korean phonetic script and Chinese characters. Modern Korean digraphia...

The chapters in this volume seek to bring hybrid language practices to the center of discussions about English as a global language. They demonstrate how local linguistic resources and practices are involved in the refashioning of identities in a variety...

Intra-individual variation is an emerging research field in linguistics with a rapidly growing number of studies. In historical sociolinguistics, this trend has been slow, as it is still largely dominated by the macroscopic approaches of earlier...

Sociolinguistics and the Legal Process is an introduction to language, law and society for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students. Its central focus is the exploration of what sociolinguistic research can tell us about how language works and...

This volume explores why Americans are among the least likely in the world to speak another language and how this U.S. foreign language deficit negatively impacts national and economic security, business and career prospects. Stein-Smith exposes how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783836454193Author Rachel SussmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publisher VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845539702Author Jerzy BartminskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Equinox Publishing LtdPublisher Equinox Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 1g

This open access book explores the deep connections between environment, language, and cultural integrity, with a focus on Indigenous peoples from early modern times to the present. It illustrates the close integration of nature and culture through...

Turn-taking is a fascinating feature of conversational interaction, due to its systematic and ordered nature. However, research has so far focused mainly on American and British conversations, with other varieties of English receiving much less attention...

This book presents in-depth investigation of the language used about women and ageing in public discourse, and compares this with the language used by women to express their personal, lived experience of ageing. It takes a linguistic approach to identify...

In his seminal work, The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica, Kamau Brathwaite attempted to expose the essential ""Jamaican"" nature of the identity that developed at the interstices between the cultures of Europe and Africa. He...

This book examines how urban adolescents attending a non-mainstream learning centre in the UK use language and other semiotic practices to enact identities in their day-to-day lives. Combining variationist sociolinguistics and ethnographically-informed...

Recent calls for justice reform have put a spotlight on how the police enforce the law in the United States. How a person's constitutional rights may be legally thwarted during police interrogation, however, has not been part of any meaningful discussion...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783110789768Author Stephanie SchnurrFormat HardbackPage Count 340Imprint De Gruyter MoutonPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 630g

The chapters in this volume seek to bring hybrid language practices to the center of discussions about English as a global language. They demonstrate how local linguistic resources and practices are involved in the refashioning of identities in a variety...

This book examines the effect of trade policy on language which represents an underrecognized area in the field of language policy and planning. It argues that trade policies like Japan’s Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) have important consequences...

A major enterprise comparable to a grand retrospective of the painting of some prominent artist of a distinctive school. Roy Harris, Times Literary Supplement. The tenth volume in Professor M.A.K. Halliday's collected works includes papers focusing on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447114820Author Daniel MullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 594g

The ways in which commercial organizations and service providers 'style' themselves - creating the image they wish to portray to their potential consumers - is a long-established area of research in the fields of sociology and business studies. However,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732306806Author Alfred SantosFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Russian Academic TranslationsPublisher Russian Academic TranslationsWeight(grams) 381g

This collection on legal interpretation in a broad sense presents state-of-the-art linguistic approaches that are applied for studying interpretation and meaning generation in various legal settings. It covers different aspects of the concepts like...

The city of Nairobi is a rich context for the study of sociolinguistic phenomena. The coexistence of speakers of many different languages, further differentiated by socio-economic status, age and ethnicity provide conditions for the development of a...

Translated for the first time, with annotations and useful additions, this long under-appreciated work of S. D. Luzzatto is now available to modern scholars. A history of both Hebrew and Hebrew scholarship, it is replete with valuable information and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783830938743Author Ulrike GroßFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Waxmann Verlag GmbH, GermanyPublisher Waxmann Verlag GmbH, GermanyWeight(grams) 264g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908092144Author Peter SamselFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint The Matheson TrustPublisher The Matheson Trust

Recent developments in the European integration process have raised, amongst many other things, the issue of linguistic diversity, for some a stumbling block to the creation of a European democratic polity and its legal and social institutions. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622731350Author Roberta IannoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Vernon PressPublisher Vernon Press

This book discusses linguistic diversity, linguistic prejudice, and language variation and change from a Global South perspective by analyzing Brazilian Portuguese, Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS) and indigenous languages spoken in Brazil. It brings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956790753Author Jacob MaparaFormat PaperbackImprint Langaa RPCIDPublisher Langaa RPCIDWeight(grams) 195g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783747054Author Selma K SonntagFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams) 156g

This edited book presents a critical vision of language and education policies and practices in Colombia, examining neoliberal perspectives which influence the promotion of English at all levels in the Colombian educational system. Some of the chapters...

Based on empirical research, this book closely analyses how European identities are discursively produced. It focuses on discourse from members of a civic association active in promoting democracy and attempting participation in the transnational public...

What is suicide? When does suicide start and when does it end? Who is involved? Examining narratives of suicide through a discourse analytic framework, Discursive Constructions of the Suicidal Process demonstrates how linguistic theories and...

The goal of fostering positive intercultural relations has taken on increased importance in a wide range of societal, educational, and business contexts. This has created growing demand for educational provision that raises awareness of the role of...

Taking a unique approach which combines sociolinguistics with theoretical linguistics, this book presents a view of language and grammar as both a cognitive and socio-cultural phenomena.Beginning with Bakhtin's theories of conceptual grammar and...

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Discussing key issues of current relevance and setting the tone...

Applied Linguistics can contribute to the enhancement of economic growth and societal well-being by addressing today’s social challenges and integrating employability, internationalization initiatives and knowledge transfer across higher education and...

This book advances and broadens the scope of research on conceptual metaphor at the nexus of language and culture by exploring metaphor and figurative language as a characteristic of the many Englishes that have developed in a wide range of geographic,...

For research in linguistic anthropology, the successful design and execution of research projects is a challenging but essential task. Balancing research design with data collection methods, this is the first textbook to guide readers through the key...

This book is the fruition of five years' work in exploring the idea of superdiversity. The editors argue that sociolinguistic superdiversity could be a source of inspiration to a wide range of post-structuralist, post-colonial and neo-Marxist...