Key readings in past and present sociolinguistics, accompanied by helpful comprehension questions and challenging conceptual questions plus a companion website with further exercises and study questions.
As the regional lingua franca, the Uyghur language long underpinned Uyghur national identity in Xinjiang. However, since the ‘bilingual education’ pol..
This collection examines and uses discourse to promote a better understanding of culture and identity, with the primary goal of advancing an understan..
A Social History of English is the first history of the English language to utilize the techniques, insights and concerns of sociolinguistics. 'An exc..
Key readings in past and present sociolinguistics, accompanied by helpful comprehension questions and challenging conceptual questions plus a companio..
In the last decade, the availability of corpora and the technological advancements of corpus tools have increased dramatically. Applied linguists have..
Canadian English is the only textbook of its kind to provide a solid foundation in linguistic principles and the different branches of sociolinguistic..
Doing Sociolinguistics: A practical guide to data collection and analysis is an accessible introduction and guide to the methods of data collection an..
Language and Social Change in China: Undoing Commonness through Cosmopolitan Mandarin offers an innovative and authoritative account of the crucial ro..
This book challenges the predominance of mainstream sociolinguistic theories by focusing on lesser-known sociolinguistic systems, from regions of Afri..
Languages and Dialects in the U.S. is a concise introduction to linguistic diversity in the U.S. for students with little to no background in linguist..
Language, Society and Power is the essential introductory text to studying language in a variety of social contexts. It examines the ways in which lan..
How can sociolinguistics help improve human well-being? What could make sociolinguistics more relevant outside academia? How can public engagement wit..