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Cross-linguistic Register Variation

Edited by Sylvi Rørvik and Marlén Izquierdo

A current trend in contrastive corpus linguistics is to take register variation as a point of departure for identifying similarities and differences across languages. This volume looks back at central previous contributions in this area, and adds to our store of knowledge in the form of nine… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 125] 2026. v, 267 pp.

Labeling in Language, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Edited by Heiko Motschenbacher

Special issue of Journal of Language and Sexuality 15:1 (2026) v, 136 pp.

The Loss of Primordial Language and the Future of National Languages

Edited by Irene Capdevila and Francesc Feliu

The modern world, to the extent that it disassociates us from the secular traditional world, from the “primordial” jobs and words that support the cultural particularity forged over the centuries, weakens the borders between languages. Neologisms bring languages closer together irreversibly, and… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 47] 2026. vi, 264 pp.

Speaking of Writing Romani: Language attitudes, text editing, and variability

Melanie Schippling

As a traditionally oral language spoken in areas with a literacy-based culture, Romani provides a unique case for the study of orality and literacy. In a mixed-methods approach, this work investigates attitudes of Romani speakers towards the modalities, their communicative functions and use, and… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 56] 2026. xix, 432 pp.

Talk Goes Many Ways: Language and social life in a Papua New Guinea village

Darja Hoenigman

'The Talk Goes Many Ways' is a fascinating anthropological study of language use among the Awiakay, a small village society in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea. Innovative in the way it integrates written analysis with segments of observational film, the book pairs key social themes with… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 25] 2026. xxxix, 481 pp. + index | open access

Cultural Conceptualizations of the SELF in Hong Kong English

Denisa Latić

This monograph offers a cultural-cognitive approach to the study of identity construction at a cultural group level and how it patterns language, exemplified with Hong Kong English. For this, cultural values, political ideology, language models, and reported self- and other-perception as… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 19] 2025. xviii, 289 pp.

Cultural models of GENDER and HOMOSEXUALITY in Indian and Nigerian English

Anna Finzel

The study presented in this book explores the cultural models of GENDER and HOMOSEXUALITY in Indian and Nigerian English, drawing on the research fields of Cultural Linguistics, Cognitive Sociolinguistics and World Englishes. With the help of different methodologies and empirical data in the form… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 17] 2025. xxi, 229 pp.

Dialect on Air: Bahamian Creole in historical radio broadcasts

Diana Wengler

Despite the increasing interest in diachronic linguistic studies, such research remains particularly scarce for creole varieties, largely due to the limited availability of historical data on non-standard languages. This book addresses this gap by introducing a soap opera from the early 1970s as a… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G71] 2025. xvii, 198 pp.

English across Borders: A reflexive approach to anglophone migrants’ repertoires

Axel Bohmann

This book presents an account of English in the communicative repertoires of anglophone West-Africans living in Southwestern Germany. Adopting an ethnographically grounded perspective, it analyzes how participants perceive and utilize English as well as other linguistic resources at their disposal… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G72] 2025. xi, 244 pp.

Linguistic Insecurities and Authorities: 19th- and 21st-century language commentary on French

Emma Humphries

This book offers two new perspectives on language attitudes and ideologies. First, it compares language commentary from two thus far relatively neglected time periods: the 19th and 21st centuries. Second, it draws on non-traditional, dialogic sources to explore not only the well-studied “expert”… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 54] 2025. xv, 262 pp.

Multilingualism and Language Contact in Asia-Pacific

Edited by Shobha Satyanath

Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 11:1/2 (2025) vi, 222 pp.

Our People’s Language: Variation and change in the Lánnang-uè of the Manila Lannangs. (Dân láng-e uè: Mga Manilá Lánnáng-e Lánnang-uè-e pagka-varỳ kâp pagka-pièn)

Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales

This book pioneers the study of Lánnang-uè, deeply embedded in Manila’s Lannang community’s culture. It approaches Lánnang-uè not just as a language but as a vibrant social practice, highlighting its variability and complex social meanings (e.g., identity-marking). Over six years and with more than… read more

[Contact Language Library, 62] 2025. xiv, 461 pp.

Pluricentricity and Pluriareality: Dialects, Variation, and Standards

Edited by Philipp Meer and Ryan Durgasingh

This edited collection engages with the contentious debate surrounding standard varieties and their distribution. For the past three decades, these arguments have coalesced around two camps: pluricentricity (the idea that standard varieties are intimately associated with nation states, with more… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 32] 2025. viii, 197 pp.

Register and Professional Discourse

Edited by Shelley Staples and Gavin Brookes

Special issue of Register Studies 7:1 (2025) v, 160 pp.

Research at the Intersection of Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics: Studies in honor of Kimberly L. Geeslin

Edited by Megan Solon, Matthew Kanwit and Aarnes Gudmestad

This volume honors the scholarly legacy of Kimberly L. Geeslin. Geeslin’s pioneering work on variation in the Spanish copula system united and extended research in the fields of second language acquisition and sociolinguistics. Geeslin laid the foundation for a growing subfield of investigation… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 43] 2025. ix, 370 pp.

Sociolinguistic Approaches to Arabic and Spanish in Contact

Edited by Farah Ali, Carol Ready and Sherez Mohamed

This volume brings together empirical research in sociolinguistics that focuses on Arabic and Spanish contact across different geopolitical, sociocultural, and digital spaces. Bridging historical and modern sociolinguistic perspectives, this volume challenges the marginalization of Arabic-Spanish… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 44] 2025. vii, 222 pp.

Spanish Sociolinguistics in the 21st Century: Current trends and methodologies

Edited by Cecilia Montes-Alcalá and Miguel García

This volume features the latest advancements in Spanish sociolinguistics, drawing from the 10th Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (WSS10). Organized into three sections, its nine chapters explore crucial issues in bilingualism and sociolinguistic variation (morpho-syntactic, phonetic,… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 42] 2025. xi, 241 pp.

World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies

Edited by Peter Siemund, Gardy Stein and Manuela Vida-Mannl

World Englishes coexist and interact with local languages in multilingual ecologies. Multilingual speakers use the languages in their ecologies for different functions, with different interlocutors, and at different proficiency levels. Attitudinal responses to the languages vary. Speaker groups are… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 9] 2025. xii, 406 pp. | open access

The Anatomy of Polish Offensive Words: A sociolinguistic exploration

Łukasz Zarzycki

Swearing plays an important role in everyday language. We swear in the streets, at school, universities, at work and at home, on the means of transport, with family and friends. People have used swear words for centuries and they will continue to use them. The Anatomy of Polish Offensive Words… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 53] 2024. xvii, 336 pp.

The Continuity of Linguistic Change: Selected papers in honour of Juan Andrés Villena-Ponsoda

Edited by Matilde Vida-Castro and Antonio Manuel Ávila-Muñoz

The Continuity of Linguistic Change presents a collection of selected papers in honour of Professor Juan Andrés Villena-Ponsoda. The essays revolve around the study of linguistic variation and the mechanisms and processes associated with linguistic change, a field to which Villena-Ponsoda has… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 31] 2024. ix, 194 pp.

Lifespan Acquisition and Language Change: Historical sociolinguistic perspectives

Edited by Israel Sanz-Sánchez

This volume connects the latest research on language acquisition across the lifespan with the explanation of language change in specific sociohistorical settings. This conversation benefits from recent advances in two areas: on the one hand, the study of how learners of various ages and in various… read more

[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 14] 2024. x, 336 pp.

Conversiones Religiosas e Identitarias al Islam: Un estudio transatlántico de Españoles y US Latinos

Marta Boris Tarré

Religious and Identity Conversions to Islam: A Transatlantic Study of Spaniards and US latinos examines how two groups with historical, cultural, and linguistic commonalities redefine their new religious identity and make sense of their conversion to Islam, not only as national groups but also, as… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 39] 2023. xii, 204 pp.

Desired Language: Languages as objects of national ideology

Edited by Francesc Feliu

National linguistic ideology has been at the base of most historical processes that –whether they are complete or not – have brought us to the current reality: a world of languages that represent, with greater or lesser exactitude, the diversity – and convergences – of human groups. Various of… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 35] 2023. vi, 294 pp.

Language and Characterisation in Television Series: A corpus-informed approach to the construction of social identity in the media

Monika Bednarek

This book explores how language is used to create characters in fictional television series. To do so, it draws on multiple case studies from the United States and Australia. Brought together in this book for the first time, these case studies constitute more than the sum of their parts. They… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 106] 2023. xii, 265 pp.

The Sociophonetics of Dublin English: Phonetic realisation and sociopragmatic variation

Marion Schulte

The Sociophonetics of Dublin English shows how social inequalities and language are connected by the stances speakers take in interaction. It is based on an instrumental phonetic analysis of recorded interviews and broadcasting data and a detailed qualitative account of the same data as well as the… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 30] 2023. xii, 172 pp. | open access

Urban Panamanian English

Catherine Laliberté

Urban Panamanian English presents the first detailed account of the English used by the descendants of the Afro-Caribbean builders of the Panama Canal. It offers an up-to-date sociolinguistic account of the Panamanian West Indian community of Panama City and Colón, including empirical coverage of… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G70] 2023. ix, 225 pp.

Advances in Interdisciplinary Language Policy

Edited by François Grin, László Marácz and Nike K. Pokorn

This book stems from the joint effort of 25 research teams across Europe, representing a dozen disciplines from the social sciences and humanities, resulting in a radically novel perspective to the challenges of multilingualism in Europe. The various concepts and tools brought to bear on… read more

[Studies in World Language Problems, 9] 2022. xxvi, 570 pp.

Catalan Sociolinguistics: State of the art and future challenges

Edited by Miquel Àngel Pradilla Cardona

L’objectiu de l’obra Catalan Sociolinguistics. State of the Art and Future Challenges és donar compte, de manera sumària, dels grans vèrtexs en què s’ha manifestat l’estudi de la relació entre llengua i societat en la comunitat lingüística catalana, la recepció que s’ha fet dels plantejaments… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 32] 2022. x, 333 pp.

English Rock and Pop Performances: A sociolinguistic investigation of British and American language perceptions and attitudes

Lisa Jansen

This book addresses the phenomenon of non-American rock and pop singers emulating an Americanized singing style for performance purposes. By taking a novel approach to this pop cultural trend and drawing attention to the audience, British and American students’ perceptions of English rock and pop… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 51] 2022. ix, 191 pp.

The Middle Voice and Connected Constructions in Ibero-Romance: A variationist and dialectal account

Carlota de Benito Moreno

The reflexive constructions that are the focus of this book are the constructions broadly described with the term “middle”: i.e., those that can appear in all persons, and in which the reflexive marker (RM) cannot be understood as a full referential pronoun. One goal of this study is to provide a… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 29] 2022. ix, 375 pp.

Nonbinary pronouns as a site of advocacy in research and teaching

Edited by Lex Konnelly, Bronwyn M. Bjorkman and Lee Airton

Special issue of Journal of Language and Sexuality 11:2 (2022) vi, 153 pp.

Reconstructing Non-Standard Languages: A socially-anchored approach

Lenore A. Grenoble and Jessica Kantarovich

Focusing on language contact involving Russian, and the linguistic varieties that emerged from that contact in different social settings, this book analyzes issues and methodologies in reconstructing both the linguistic effects of language contact and the social contexts of usage. In-depth analyses… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 52] 2022. xv, 354 pp.

Register and social media

Edited by Isobelle Clarke and Jack Grieve

Special issue of Register Studies 4:2 (2022) v, 190 pp.

Variation in Second and Heritage Languages: Crosslinguistic perspectives

Edited by Robert Bayley, Dennis R. Preston and Xiaoshi Li

Variationist work in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) began in the mid 1970s and steadily progressed during the 1980s. Much of it was reviewed along with newer approaches in Bayley and Preston 1996 (B&P), heavily devoted to VARBRUL analyses that exposed the variability in developing interlanguages… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 28] 2022. xx, 365 pp.

What’s so standard about standards? Variationist principles and debates

Edited by Jonathan R. Kasstan

Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 8:2 (2022) v, 135 pp.

10th Anniversary Issue: Reflections on the Field of Language and Sexuality Studies

Edited by William L. Leap and Heiko Motschenbacher

Special issue of Journal of Language and Sexuality 10:1 (2021) v, 96 pp.

Contested Languages: The hidden multilingualism of Europe

Edited by Marco Tamburelli and Mauro Tosco

This is the first volume entirely dedicated to contested languages. While generally listed in international language atlases, contested languages usually fall through the cracks of research: excluded from the literature on minority languages and treated as mere ensembles of geographically defined… read more

[Studies in World Language Problems, 8] 2021. vi, 271 pp.

Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation

Edited by Elena Seoane and Douglas Biber

As the first collective volume to focus exclusively on corpus-based approaches to register variation, this book provides an exhaustive account of the range and depth of possibilities that the domain of register variation in English has to offer. It illustrates register variation analysis in… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 103] 2021. xi, 341 pp.

Cultural-Linguistic Explorations into Spirituality, Emotionality, and Society

Edited by Hans-Georg Wolf, Denisa Latić and Anna Finzel

This book offers Cultural-Linguistic explorations into the diverse Lebenswelten of a wide range of cultural contexts, such as South Africa, Hungary, India, Nigeria, China, Romania, Iran, and Poland. The linguistic expedition sets out to explore three thematic segments that were, thus far,… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 14] 2021. vii, 279 pp.

Grammatical and Sociolinguistic Aspects of Ethiopian Languages

Edited by Derib Ado, Almaz Wasse Gelagay and Janne Bondi Johannessen †

The focus of this unique publication is on Ethiopian languages and linguistics. Not only major languages such as Amharic and Oromo receive attention, but also lesser studied ones like Sezo and Nuer are dealt with. The Gurage languages, that often present a descriptive and sociolinguistic puzzle to… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 48] 2021. viii, 415 pp. | open access

Language Variation – European Perspectives VIII: Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 10), Leeuwarden, June 2019

Edited by Hans Van de Velde, Nanna Haug Hilton and Remco Knooihuizen

This volume contains a selection of papers from the 10th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 10), which was organized by the Fryske Akademy and held in Leeuwarden/Ljouwert (the Netherlands) in June 2019. The editors have selected thirteen papers on a wide range of… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 25] 2021. vi, 316 pp. | open access

Linguistic Landscape in the Spanish-speaking World

Edited by Patricia Gubitosi and Michelle F. Ramos Pellicia

Linguistic Landscape in the Spanish-speaking World is the first book dedicated to languages in the urban space of the Spanish-speaking world filling a gap in the extensive research that highlights the richness and complexity of Spanish Linguistic Landscapes. This book provides scholars with an… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 35] 2021. xi, 395 pp.

Metroethnicity, Naming and Mocknolect: New horizons in Japanese sociolinguistics

John C. Maher

Language is a social space, an aesthetic, a form of play and communication, a geographical reference, a jouissance, a producer of numerous social and personal identities. This book takes up salient issues of sociolinguistics with a specific focus on Japan: language and gender (the married name… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 49] 2021. xiii, 239 pp.

Nominal and Pronominal Address in Jamaica and Trinidad: Variation and patterns

Matthias Klumm

This book examines the various patterns of nominal and pronominal address used in Jamaica and Trinidad, the two most populous islands of the English-speaking Caribbean. Given that the Anglo-Caribbean context has so far been largely neglected in address research, this study aims to provide an… read more

[Topics in Address Research, 3] 2021. xiv, 246 pp.

Pink Dot: Discursive Formations, Constructions, and Contestations

Edited by Adi Saleem Bharat, Pavan Mano and Robert Phillips

Special issue of Journal of Language and Sexuality 10:2 (2021) v, 119 pp.

Register in L1 and L2 Language Development

Edited by Bethany Gray and Jesse Egbert

Special issue of Register Studies 3:2 (2021) v, 122 pp.

Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Acquisition across the Lifespan

Edited by Anna Ghimenton, Aurélie Nardy and Jean-Pierre Chevrot

This volume provides a broad coverage of the intersection of sociolinguistic variation and language acquisition. Favoured by the current scientific context where interdisciplinarity is particularly encouraged, the chapters bring to light the complementarity between the social and cognitive… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 26] 2021. vi, 319 pp.

Urban Matters: Current approaches in variationist sociolinguistics

Edited by Arne Ziegler, Stefanie Edler and Georg Oberdorfer

The city as a complex socio-cultural structure plays a central role, economically, administratively as well as culturally. Factors such as higher population density, a more expansive infrastructure, and larger social and cultural diversity compared to rural areas have a substantial impact on urban… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 27] 2021. x, 280 pp. | open access

Variation Rolls the Dice: A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene

Edited by Enoch O. Aboh and Cécile B. Vigouroux

Variation Rolls the Dice: A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene aims to celebrate Mufwene’s ground-breaking contribution to linguistics in the past four decades. The title also encapsulates his approach to language as both systemic and socio-cultural practices, and the role of… read more

[Contact Language Library, 59] 2021. xiv, 330 pp.

Variation and change in the languages of Indonesia

Edited by Maya Ravindranath Abtahian and Abigail C. Cohn

Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 7:2 (2021) v, 132 pp.

Variation in the Pacific: Part II

Edited by Eri Kashima and Miriam Meyerhoff

Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 7:1 (2021) v, 82 pp.

Canvi lingüístic, estandardització i identitat en català / Linguistic Change, Standardization and Identity in Catalan

Edited by Hans-Ingo Radatz

The multiplicity of parallel identities that make up our personalities is a phenomenon in which our individual identitary choices merge with diverse collective identities. The present volume is a contribution to the field of Identity Studies, but from a clearly linguistic perspective. It unites… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 27] 2020. xvii, 190 pp.

Intermediate Language Varieties: Koinai and regional standards in Europe

Edited by Massimo Cerruti and Stavroula Tsiplakou

The papers in this volume address the interplay of factors underlying the formation of intermediate varieties in the ‘dialect-standard’ landscape of present-day Europe. Research is presented on varieties of several different languages (Norwegian, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, Greek), on speech… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 24] 2020. vi, 258 pp.

A Language Management Approach to Language Problems: Integrating macro and micro dimensions

Edited by Kimura Goro Christoph and Lisa Fairbrother

In recent years there has been increased interest in examining the treatment of language problems across different levels of society, ranging from individual interactional issues to language policy and planning at the national or supra-national level. Among the various approaches to tackle this… read more

[Studies in World Language Problems, 7] 2020. ix, 273 pp.

Macro and micro-social variation in Asia-Pacific sign languages

Edited by Nick Palfreyman

Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 6:1 (2020) v, 150 pp.

New Approaches to Language Attitudes in the Hispanic and Lusophone World

Edited by Talia Bugel and Cecilia Montes-Alcalá

The analysis of language attitudes is important not only because attitudes can affect language maintenance and language change but also because such reflections and discussions can bring light to social, cultural, political and educational matters that require an interdisciplinary approach. This… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 25] 2020. xi, 274 pp.

Sexuality and the discursive construction of the digital self in the Global South

Edited by Nell Haynes and Baird Campbell

Special issue of Journal of Language and Sexuality 9:1 (2020) v, 100 pp.

Talking about Food: The social and the global in eating communities

Edited by Sofia Rüdiger and Susanne Mühleisen

All humans eat and all humans speak – activities which in social life often, but not always, co-occur: We talk while eating and drinking with others, but food is also a prominent literal and metaphorical discursive topic which contributes to establishing communities and identities. This… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 47] 2020. vi, 284 pp.

Variation in the Pacific: Part I

Edited by Eri Kashima and Miriam Meyerhoff

Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 6:2 (2020) v, 128 pp.

World Englishes on the Web: The Nigerian diaspora in the USA

Mirka Honkanen

World Englishes on the Web focuses on linguistic practices at the intersection of international migration and social media, examining the language repertoires of Nigerians living in the United States, and their negotiations of identity and authenticity on a Nigerian web forum. Based on a large… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G63] 2020. vii, 338 pp.

The Intricacy of Languages

Edited by Francesc Feliu and Olga Fullana

If, as we believe, the history of languages is the history of the construction of an ideal artefact that permits a specific interpretation of the linguistic reality and helps to approve and assimilate a certain zone of diversity, enabling the accumulation of collective historical knowledge and… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 20] 2019. xi, 436 pp.

Language Variation - European Perspectives VII: Selected papers from the Ninth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 9), Malaga, June 2017

Edited by Juan-Andrés Villena-Ponsoda, Francisco Díaz Montesinos, Antonio Manuel Ávila-Muñoz and Matilde Vida-Castro

This volume contains a selection from papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 9), which was held at the University of Malaga (Spain), from June 6 to 9, 2017. The volume includes plenaries by Manuel Almeida (“Language hybridism: On the origin of… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 22] 2019. ix, 248 pp.

Processes of Change: Studies in Late Modern and Present-Day English

Edited by Sandra Jansen and Lucia Siebers

The present volume brings together leading scholars studying language change from a variety of sociolinguistic perspectives, complementing and enriching the existing literature by providing readers with a kaleidoscopic perspective of aspects of change in English from around 1700 until the present… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 21] 2019. vii, 263 pp.

Regional Chinese in Contact

Edited by James A. Walker

Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 5:1 (2019) v, 108 pp.

Corpus Linguistics in Language and Sexuality Studies: Developments and Prospects

Edited by Heiko Motschenbacher

Special issue of Journal of Language and Sexuality 7:2 (2018) v, 135 pp.

Language/Sexuality/Affect

Edited by William L. Leap

Special issue of Journal of Language and Sexuality 7:1 (2018) v, 144 pp.

Modeling World Englishes: Assessing the interplay of emancipation and globalization of ESL varieties

Edited by Sandra C. Deshors

At a time when globalization and the advent of the internet have accelerated the spread and diversification of English varieties worldwide, this book provides a constructive assessment of the theoretical models that best account for the development and use of Englishes in the early 21st century. In… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G61] 2018. x, 297 pp.

Reorganising Grammatical Variation: Diachronic studies in the retention, redistribution and refunctionalisation of linguistic variants

Edited by Antje Dammel, Matthias Eitelmann and Mirjam Schmuck

With most studies on grammatical variation concentrating on the synchronic level, a systematic investigation of long-term grammatical variation within the context of language change, i.e. from a predominantly diachronic perspective, has largely remained a desideratum. The present volume fills this… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 203] 2018. v, 302 pp.

The Sociolinguistics of Place and Belonging: Perspectives from the margins

Edited by Leonie Cornips and Vincent A. de Rooij

This volume shows the relevance of the concepts of ‘place’ and ‘belonging’ for understanding the dynamics of identification through language. It also opens up a new terrain for sociolinguistic and linguistic anthropological study, namely the margins. Rural, as well as urbanized areas that are seen… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 45] 2018. vi, 291 pp.

Spanish in Colombia and New York City: Language contact meets dialectal convergence

Rafael Orozco

This volume fills a void in language variation and change research. It is the first to provide an empirical, comparative study of Spanish in Colombia and New York City. Remarkable similarities in the linguistic conditioning on language variation in both communities contrast with interesting… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 46] 2018. xv, 193 pp.

Acquiring Sociolinguistic Variation

Edited by Gunther De Vogelaer and Matthias Katerbow

The study of how linguistic variation is acquired is considered a nascent field in both psycho- and sociolinguistics. Within that research context, this book aims at two objectives. First, it wants to help bridging the gap between researchers working on acquisition from different theoretical… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 20] 2017. vi, 347 pp.

Applied Linguistics in the Middle East and North Africa: Current practices and future directions

Edited by Atta Gebril

This volume offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of applied research efforts in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This region has not received due attention in the literature and this publication provides a much-needed contribution to the existing body of knowledge. The editor… read more

[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 15] 2017. ix, 390 pp.

Consensus and Dissent: Negotiating Emotion in the Public Space

Edited by Anne Storch

This book is the result of intensive and continued discussions about the social role of language and its conceptualisations in societies other than Northern (European-American) ones. Language as a means of expressing as well as evoking both interiority and community has been in the focus of these… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 19] 2017. vii, 252 pp.

Integration, Identity and Language Maintenance in Young Immigrants: Russian Germans or German Russians

Edited by Ludmila Isurin and Claudia Maria Riehl

The volume presents a selection of contributions related to integration, adaptation, language attitudes and language change among young Russian-speaking immigrants in Germany. At the turn of the century, Germany, which defined itself as a mono-ethnic and mono-racial society, has become a country… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 44] 2017. vii, 285 pp.

Language Variation - European Perspectives VI: Selected papers from the Eighth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 8), Leipzig, May 2015

Edited by Isabelle Buchstaller and Beat Siebenhaar

Language Variation - European Perspectives VI showcases a selection of papers from the 8th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe which was held in Leipzig in 2015. The volume includes plenaries by Miriam Meyerhoff and Steffen Klaere (“The large and the small of it: Big issues… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 19] 2017. xvi, 237 pp.

Language Variation on Jamaican Radio

Michael Westphal

This volume presents an in-depth analysis of language variation in Jamaican radio newscasts and talk shows. It explores the interaction of global and local varieties of English with regard to newscasters’ and talk show hosts’ language use and listeners’ attitudes. The book illustrates the benefits… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G60] 2017. xvi, 257 pp.

Why Gesture?: How the hands function in speaking, thinking and communicating

Edited by Ruth Breckinridge Church, Martha W. Alibali and Spencer D. Kelly

Co-speech gestures are ubiquitous: when people speak, they almost always produce gestures. Gestures reflect content in the mind of the speaker, often under the radar and frequently using rich mental images that complement speech. What are gestures doing? Why do we use them? This book is the first… read more

[Gesture Studies, 7] 2017. vii, 433 pp.

Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger: Issues of documentation, policy, and language rights

Edited by Luna Filipović and Martin Pütz

This peer-reviewed collection brings together the latest research on language endangerment and language rights. It creates a vibrant, interdisciplinary platform for the discussion of the most pertinent and urgent topics central to vitality and equality of languages in today’s globalised world. The… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 42] 2016. ix, 413 pp. | open access

IntraLatino Language and Identity: MexiRican Spanish

Kim Potowski

The increasing diversity of the U.S. Latino population has given rise to a growing population of “mixed” Latinos. This is a study of such individuals raised in Chicago, Illinois who have one Mexican parent and one Puerto Rican parent, most of whom call themselves “MexiRicans.” Given that these two… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 43] 2016. ix, 278 pp.

Linguistic Purism: Language Attitudes in France and Quebec

Olivia Walsh

This book represents the first in-depth, comparative investigation of linguistic purism in modern French. It investigates the relative prevalence of purist ideology in France and Quebec. Both experience influence from English and have similar language legislation, but they differ in their social,… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 41] 2016. xviii, 324 pp.

Managing Plurilingual and Intercultural Practices in the Workplace: The case of multilingual Switzerland

Edited by Georges Lüdi, Katharina Höchle Meier and Patchareerat Yanaprasart

The contributions in this volume stem from different lines of research and represent both a continuation and an advancement of the European DYLAN project. The book addresses the meanings and implications of multilingualism and plurilingual repertoires as well as the ways in which cultural diversity… read more

[Multilingualism and Diversity Management, 4] 2016. viii, 374 pp.

Master Narratives, Identities, and the Stories of Former Slaves

Jonathan Clifton and Dorien Van De Mieroop

This book is intended for researchers in the field of narrative from post-graduate level onwards. It analyzes the audio-recordings of the narratives of former slaves from the American South which are now publically available on the Library of Congress website: Voices from the days of slavery. More… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 22] 2016. viii, 229 pp.

Queering Borders: Language, sexuality, and migration

Edited by David A.B. Murray

In recent years, migration has moved to the forefront of national and global debates, intensifying discussions about borders, security, identity and citizenship. In this volume we ask how language and sexuality impact these discussions: how do sexuality and language contribute toward the… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 85] 2016. v, 158 pp.

Spanish Language and Sociolinguistic Analysis

Edited by Sandro Sessarego and Fernando Tejedo-Herrero

This book explores the current state of Spanish sociolinguistics and its contribution to theories of language variation and change, from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives. It offers original analyses on a variety of topics across a wide spectrum of linguistic subfields from different… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 8] 2016. xvi, 406 pp.

Transnational discourses of peripheral sexualities in the Hispanic world

Edited by Michael J. Horswell and Nuria Godón

Special issue of Journal of Language and Sexuality 5:2 (2016) v, 150 pp.

Education in Languages of Lesser Power: Asia-Pacific Perspectives

Edited by Craig Alan Volker and Fred E. Anderson

The cultural diversity of the Asia-Pacific region is reflected in a multitude of linguistic ecologies of languages of lesser power, i.e., of indigenous and immigrant languages whose speakers lack collective linguistic power, especially in education. This volume looks at a representative sampling of… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 35] 2015. xv, 300 pp.

Gender Across Languages: Volume 4

Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Heiko Motschenbacher

This is the fourth volume of a comprehensive reference work which provides systematic descriptions of the manifestations of gender in languages of diverse areal, typological and socio-cultural affiliations. To the 30 languages already analysed in previous volumes, Vol. 4 adds another 12 languages… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 36] 2015. xv, 415 pp.

Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, attrition and change

Edited by Janne Bondi Johannessen † and Joseph C. Salmons

This book presents new empirical findings about Germanic heritage varieties spoken in North America: Dutch, German, Pennsylvania Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, West Frisian and Yiddish, and varieties of English spoken both by heritage speakers and in communities after language shift. The… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 18] 2015. vi, 418 pp. | open access

Jamaican Creole Goes Web: Sociolinguistic styling and authenticity in a digital 'Yaad'

Andrea Moll

Large-scale migration after WWII and the prominence of Jamaican Creole in the media have promoted its use all around the globe. Deterritorialisation has entailed the contact-induced transformation of Jamaican Creole in diaspora communities and its adoption by ‘crossers’. Taking sociolinguistic… read more

[Creole Language Library, 49] 2015. viii, 294 pp.

Language Development: The lifespan perspective

Edited by Annette Gerstenberg and Anja Voeste

Language Development: The lifespan perspective generates insights into the central issues of age-dependent language change, focusing especially on the middle and later stages of life. The contributors exploit contemporary and historical longitudinal data, adopting psycholinguistic, corpus… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 37] 2015. vii, 233 pp.

Language Endangerment: Disappearing metaphors and shifting conceptualizations

Edited by Elisabeth Piirainen and Ari Sherris

Languages and language varieties around the globe have been diminishing at an astonishing rate. Despite great efforts at language documentation, scholarship on metaphors and figurative units – often particularly fragile parts of language – has been largely neglected until recently. This book, like… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 7] 2015. vi, 208 pp.

Language Variation - European Perspectives V: Selected papers from the Seventh International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 7), Trondheim, June 2013

Edited by Eivind Torgersen, Stian Hårstad, Brit Mæhlum and Unn Røyneland

Language Variation – European Perspectives V is based on papers presented at the Seventh International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 7), which was held in Trondheim, Norway from 26 to 28 June 2013. The 17 papers included in the book explore phonetic and phonological variation… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 17] 2015. xiii, 240 pp.

Language and Material Culture

Allison Paige Burkette

This innovative and provocative work introduces complexity theory and its application to both the study of language and the study of material culture. The book begins with a wide-ranging theoretical background, covering the areas of dialect geography, the anthropological study of material culture,… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 38] 2015. xvii, 192 pp.

Languages of Governance in Conflict: Negotiating democracy in Tokelau

Ingjerd Hoëm

Through an ethnographically based study of local communicative practices in the Pacific atoll society of Tokelau, the book adds to our understanding of how systems of governance are constituted by minute acts of social interaction, and are informed by our conceptions of the nature of sociality. It… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 13] 2015. xxii, 152 pp.

Linguistic Variation in Research Articles: When discipline tells only part of the story

Bethany Gray

Linguistic Variation in Research Articles investigates the linguistic characteristics of academic research articles, going beyond a traditional analysis of the generically-defined research article to take into account varied realizations of research articles within and across disciplines. It… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 71] 2015. xiv, 222 pp.

Major versus Minor? – Languages and Literatures in a Globalized World

Edited by Theo D’haen, Iannis Goerlandt and Roger D. Sell

Do the notions of “World Lingua Franca” and “World Literature” now need to be firmly relegated to an imperialist-cum-colonialist past? Or can they be rehabilitated in a practical and equitable way that fully endorses a politics of recognition? For scholars in the field of languages and literatures,… read more

[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 1] 2015. xv, 280 pp.

Responses to Language Varieties: Variability, processes and outcomes

Edited by Alexei Prikhodkine and Dennis R. Preston

This book is about responses to language variety — their variability, shape, and content, as well as the variable cognitive and neural pathways underlying them. The chapters explore access to, processing of, and outcomes of that diversity and complexity. Many traditions are represented: from social… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 39] 2015. xiv, 249 pp.

A Sociophonetic Approach to Scottish Standard English

Ole Schützler

Applying a sociophonetic research paradigm, this volume presents an investigation of variation and change in the Scottish Standard English accent. Based on original audio recordings made in Edinburgh, it provides detailed acoustic and auditory analyses of selected accent features. In contrast to… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G53] 2015. xx, 179 pp.

Traveling Conceptualizations: A cognitive and anthropological linguistic study of Jamaican

Andrea Hollington

Traveling Conceptualizations is a monograph which is concerned with African cultural conceptualizations in Jamaican. It contributes to the study of Transatlantic relations between Africa and Jamaica, and in particular to the understanding of African influences in Jamaican linguistic practices. The… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 14] 2015. xxiv, 242 pp.

Who’s really normal? Language and sexuality in public space

Edited by Mie Hiramoto

Special issue of Journal of Language and Sexuality 4:2 (2015) v, 109 pp.

The Written Questionnaire in Social Dialectology: History, theory, practice

Stefan Dollinger

Methods of linguistic data collection are among the most central aspects in empirical linguistics. While written questionnaires have only played a minor role in the field of social dialectology, the study of regional and social variation, the last decade has seen a methodological revival. This book… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 40] 2015. xxvii, 397 pp.

Advances in Sociophonetics

Edited by Chiara Celata and Silvia Calamai

Sociophonetics is a privileged domain for the investigation of language variation and change. By combining theoretical reflections and sophisticated techniques of analysis – both phonetic and statistical – it is possible to extrapolate the role of individual factors (socio-cultural, physiological,… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 15] 2014. vi, 214 pp.

Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Social and cultural variation in cognition and language use

Edited by Martin Pütz, Justyna A. Robinson and Monika Reif

This volume is intended to be a contribution to the rapidly growing field of research into Cognitive Sociolinguistics which draws on the convergence of methods and theoretical frameworks typically associated with Cognitive Linguistics and Sociolinguistics. The papers in this volume, written by… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 59] 2014. v, 214 pp.

Queering borders: Language, sexuality and migration

Edited by David A.B. Murray

Special issue of Journal of Language and Sexuality 3:1 (2014) v, 160 pp.

The Sociolinguistics of Grammar

Edited by Tor A. Åfarli and Brit Mæhlum

The aim of this book is to investigate and attain new insights on how and to what extent the wider sociolinguistic context of language use and contact impinges on formal grammatical structures. The papers contained in the book approach this important problem from various points of view by focusing… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 154] 2014. v, 260 pp.

Sociolinguistics of Style and Social Class in Contemporary Athens

Irene Theodoropoulou

This ethnographic study deals with the ways people in Athens, Greece, use style to construct their social class identities. Including a rich dataset comprising ethnographic interviews with actual people who live in the stereotypically seen as leafy and posh northern suburbs and in the… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 57] 2014. xiv, 240 pp.

Stability and Divergence in Language Contact: Factors and Mechanisms

Edited by Kurt Braunmüller, Steffen Höder and Karoline Kühl

Convergence, i.e. the increase of inter-systemic similarities, is usually considered the default development in language contact situations. This volume focuses on the other logical possibilities of diachronic development, namely stability and divergence – two well-attested, but under-researched… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 16] 2014. vi, 298 pp.

Culture, Interaction and Person Reference in an Australian Language: An ethnography of Bininj Gunwok communication

Murray Garde

The study of person reference stands at the cross-roads of linguistics, anthropology and psychology. As one aspect of an ethnography of communication, this book deals with a single problem — how one knows who is being talked about in conversation — from a rich and varied ethnographic perspective.… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 11] 2013. xx, 274 pp.

Displacement, Language Maintenance and Identity: Sudanese refugees in Australia

Anikó Hatoss

This monograph presents an ecological perspective to the study of language maintenance and shift in immigrant contexts. The ecology incorporates past, present and future and treats spatial and temporal dimensions as the main organizing frames in which everyday language use and identity development… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 34] 2013. xviii, 259 pp.

English in Cyprus or Cyprus English: An empirical investigation of variety status

Sarah Buschfeld

This volume provides the first-ever comprehensive analysis of a potential variety of English, spoken in the Greek part of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Despite the fact that Cyprus was a British colony from 1878 to 1960, the status of the English language spoken there has not yet been… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G46] 2013. xvi, 246 pp.

Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tradition, struggle and change

Edited by Lilian Lem Atanga, Sibonile Edith Ellece, Lia Litosseliti and Jane Sunderland

Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tradition, Struggle and Change is the first book to bring together the topics of language and gender, African languages, and gender in African contexts, and it does so in a descriptive, explanatory and critical way. Including fascinating new work and new,… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 33] 2013. xi, 331 pp.

Insular Toponymies: Place-naming on Norfolk Island, South Pacific and Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island

Joshua Nash

How do people name places on islands? Is toponymy in small island communities affected by degrees of connection to larger neighbours such as a mainland? Are island (contact) languages and mainland languages different in how they are used in naming places? How can we conceptualise the human-human… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 9] 2013. xiv, 302 pp.

The Interplay of Variation and Change in Contact Settings

Edited by Isabelle Léglise and Claudine Chamoreau

This volume is at the cross-roads between two research traditions dealing with language change: contact linguistics and language variation and change. It starts out from the notion that linguistic variation is still a little researched area in most contact-induced language change studies. Intending… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 12] 2013. vii, 264 pp.

Language Policy and Identity Construction: The dynamics of Cameroon's multilingualism

Eric A. Anchimbe

The (dis)empowerment of languages through language policy in multilingual postcolonial communities often shapes speakers’ identification with these languages, their attitude towards other languages in the community, and their choices in interpersonal and intergroup communication. Focusing on the… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 32] 2013. xxvi, 250 pp.

Language Variation - European Perspectives IV: Selected papers from the Sixth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 6), Freiburg, June 2011

Edited by Peter Auer, Javier Caro Reina and Göz Kaufmann

The eighteen contributions in this volume are based on papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 6), which was held at the University of Freiburg, Germany, from June 29 to July 1, 2011. The volume includes plenaries by Sjef Barbiers (‘Where is… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 14] 2013. xiv, 296 pp.

Linguistic Superdiversity in Urban Areas: Research approaches

Edited by Joana Duarte and Ingrid Gogolin

Rapidly increasing migration flows contribute to the development of multiple forms of social and cultural differentiation in urban areas – or to ‘super-diversity’. Language diversity is an important part of the resulting new social and cultural constellations. Although linguistic diversity is not a… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 2] 2013. xi, 304 pp.

The Persistence of Language: Constructing and confronting the past and present in the voices of Jane H. Hill

Edited by Shannon T. Bischoff, Deborah Cole, Amy V. Fountain and Mizuki Miyashita

This edited collection presents two sets of interdisciplinary conversations connecting theoretical, methodological, and ideological issues in the study of language. In the first section, Approaches to the study of the indigenous languages of the Americas, the authors connect historical,… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 8] 2013. xxx, 440 pp.

Rethinking Narrative Identity: Persona and Perspective

Edited by Claudia Holler and Martin Klepper

Why is it that we tend to think about our lives as stories? Why do we strive to create coherent narratives that reflect a particular perspective? What happens when we discover multiple, perhaps conflicting perspectives in our narratives? Following groundbreaking work in the study of narrative… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 17] 2013. vi, 209 pp.

The Structure of Discourse-Pragmatic Variation

Heike Pichler

Everyday language use overflows with discourse-pragmatic features. Their frequency, form and function can vary greatly across social groups and change dramatically over time. And yet these features have not figured prominently in studies of language variation and change. The Structure of… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 13] 2013. xxi, 276 pp.

An Interdisciplinary Bibliography on Language, Gender and Sexuality (2000–2011)

Heiko Motschenbacher

This comprehensive, state-of-the-art bibliography documents the most recent research activity in the vibrant field of language, gender and sexuality. It provides experts in the field and students in tertiary education with access to language-centred resources on gender and sexuality and is,… read more

[Not in series, 177] 2012. vii, 294 pp.

Multilingualism

Larissa Aronin and David Singleton

This book is an authoritative account of multilingualism in the present era, a phenomenon affecting a vast number of communities, thousands of languages and millions of language users. The book’s focus is specifically on the knowledge and use of multiple languages, but its treatment of the topic is… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 30] 2012. ix, 230 pp.

Style-Shifting in Public: New perspectives on stylistic variation

Edited by Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy and Juan Antonio Cutillas-Espinosa

Language acts are acts of identity, and linguistic variation reflects the multifaceted construction of verbal alternatives for transmitting social meaning, where style-shifting represents our ability to take up different social positions due to its potential for linguistic performance, rhetorical… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 9] 2012. vii, 231 pp.

Ethnic Styles of Speaking in European Metropolitan Areas

Edited by Friederike Kern and Margret Selting

In recent years, ethnic ways of speaking by young people with migrant background have become an important research object in sociolinguistics; work on these ways of speaking has been prospering in many European countries. This work is continued in the present volume, with the aim of bringing… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 8] 2011. vi, 321 pp.

Kwéyòl in Postcolonial Saint Lucia: Globalization, language planning, and national development

Aonghas St-Hilaire

Can historically marginalized, threatened languages be saved in the contemporary global era? In relation to the wider postcolonial world, especially the Caribbean, this book focuses on efforts to preserve and promote Lesser Antillean French Creole – Kwéyòl – as the national language of Saint Lucia… read more

[Creole Language Library, 40] 2011. xv, 316 pp.

Language Variation - European Perspectives III: Selected papers from the 5th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 5), Copenhagen, June 2009

Edited by Frans Gregersen, Jeffrey K. Parrott and Pia Quist

Language Variation – European Perspectives III contains 18 selected papers from the International Conference on Language Variation in Europe which took place in Copenhagen 2009. The volume includes plenaries by Penelope Eckert (‘Where does the social stop?’) and Brit Mæhlum (on how cities have been… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 7] 2011. vi, 260 pp.

Languages in Contact: French, German and Romansh in twentieth-century Switzerland

Uriel Weinreich

The appearance of Uriel Weinreich's Languages in Contact: Findings and Problems (1953) marked a milestone in the study of multilingualism and language contact. Yet until now, few linguists have been aware that its main themes were first laid out in Weinreich’s Columbia University doctoral… read more

[Not in series, 166] 2011. xxxiv, 401 pp.

Variation in the Caribbean: From creole continua to individual agency

Edited by Lars Hinrichs and Joseph T. Farquharson

The study of linguistic variation in the Caribbean has been central to the emergence of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics as an academic field. It has yielded influential theory, such as the (post-)creole continuum or the 'Acts of Identity' models, that has shaped sociolinguistics far beyond creole… read more

[Creole Language Library, 37] 2011. vi, 276 pp.

Corpus and Sociolinguistics: Investigating age and gender in female talk

Bróna Murphy

Age is by far the most underdeveloped of the sociolinguistic variables in terms of research literature. To-date, research on age has been patchy and has generally focused on the early life-stages such as childhood and adolescence, ignoring, for the most part, healthy adulthood as a stage worthy of… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 38] 2010. xviii, 231 pp.

Language Contact: New perspectives

Edited by Muriel Norde, Bob de Jonge and Cornelius Hasselblatt

The study of languages in contact is an ever-relevant topic in linguistics, especially at present times when increasing globalization leads to a number of new contact situations. This volume features ten papers on various aspects of language contact by leading specialists in the field. In these… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 28] 2010. vii, 225 pp.

Minority Languages and Group Identity: Cases and Categories

John Edwards

The central concern in this book is the relationship between language and group identity, a relationship that is thrown into greatest relief in ‘minority’ settings. Since much of the current interest in minority languages revolves around issues of identity politics, language rights and the plight… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 27] 2010. ix, 231 pp.

Multilingualism at Work: From policies to practices in public, medical and business settings

Edited by Bernd Meyer and Birgit Apfelbaum

This volume focuses on work situations in Europe, North America and South-Africa, such as academic, medical and public sector, or business settings, in which participants have to make constant use of more than one language to cooperate with partners, clients, or colleagues. Central questions are… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 9] 2010. viii, 274 pp.

New Perspectives on Endangered Languages: Bridging gaps between sociolinguistics, documentation and language revitalization

Edited by José Antonio Flores Farfán and Fernando F. Ramallo

Understanding sociolinguistics as a theoretical and methodological framework hopefully could attempt to promote change and social development in human communities. Yet it still presents important political, epistemological, methodological and theoretical challenges. A sociolinguistics of… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 1] 2010. v, 156 pp.

Social Structure, Space and Possession in Tongan Culture and Language: An ethnolinguistic study

Svenja Völkel

This interdisciplinary study investigates the relationship between culture, language and cognition based on the aspects of social structure, space and possession in Tonga, Polynesia. Grounded on extensive field research, Völkel explores the subject from an anthropological as well as from a… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 2] 2010. xv, 272 pp.

Corpus Analysis and Variation in Linguistics

Edited by Yuji Kawaguchi, Makoto Minegishi and Jacques Durand

For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co.In this new edition of TUFS Studies in Linguistics, we aim to showcase the various linguistics research conducted at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. In this first volume, we report on the international… read more

[Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 1] 2009. vi, 399 pp.

Language Variation – European perspectives II: Selected papers from the 4th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 4), Nicosia, June 2007

Edited by Stavroula Tsiplakou, Marilena Karyolemou and Pavlos Pavlou

This volume contains a selection of papers from the 4th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 4), which was held at the University of Cyprus from June 17th–19th 2007. The variety of theoretical frameworks and methodological perspectives (from Generative Grammar, Word… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 5] 2009. vi, 242 pp.

The Language of Daily Life in England (1400–1800)

Edited by Arja Nurmi, Minna Nevala and Minna Palander-Collin

The Language of Daily Life in England (1400–1800) is an important state-of-the art account of historical sociolinguistic and socio-pragmatic research. The volume contains nine studies and an introductory essay which discuss linguistic and social variation and change over four centuries. Each study… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 183] 2009. vii, 312 pp.

More Support for More-Support: The role of processing constraints on the choice between synthetic and analytic comparative forms

Britta Mondorf

This book provides the most comprehensive account so far of novel and hitherto unexplained factors operative in the choice between synthetic (prouder) and analytic (more proud ) comparatives. It argues that the underlying motivation in using the analytic variant is to mitigate processing demands –… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 4] 2009. xi, 222 pp.

Register Variation in Indian English

Chandrika Balasubramanian

Register Variation in Indian English constitutes the first large-scale empirical investigation of an international variety of English. Using a combination of the corpus compiled for this project and relevant sections of ICE-India as its database, this work tests existing descriptions and… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 37] 2009. xviii, 284 pp.

Sociolinguistic Variation in Contemporary French

Edited by Kate Beeching, Nigel Armstrong and Françoise Gadet

Divided into three main sections on Phonology, Syntax and Semantics, this new volume on variation in French aims to provide a snapshot of the state of sociolinguistic research inside and outside metropolitan France. From a diatopic perspective, varieties in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Africa and… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 26] 2009. xi, 257 pp.

Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages

Edited by James N. Stanford and Dennis R. Preston

Indigenous minority languages have played crucial roles in many areas of linguistics - phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, typology, and the ethnography of communication. Such languages have, however, received comparatively little attention from quantitative or variationist sociolinguistics.… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 25] 2009. vii, 519 pp.

World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects: Selected papers from the 13th IAWE conference

Edited by Thomas Hoffmann and Lucia Siebers

World Englishes is a vibrant research field that has attracted scholars from many different linguistic subdisciplines. Emphasizing the common ground of all research on World Englishes, the 22 articles in this collected volume, selected from more than a hundred papers presented at the 2007… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G40] 2009. xix, 436 pp.

The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus evidence on English past and present

Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Minna Korhonen

Variability is characteristic of any living language. This volume approaches the ‘life cycle’ of linguistic variability in English using data sources that range from electronic corpora to the internet. In the spirit of the 1968 Weinreich, Labov and Herzog classic, the fifteen contributions divide… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 2] 2008. viii, 339 pp.

Language Change and Variation in Gibraltar

David Levey

While much has been written about Gibraltar from historical and political perspectives, sociolinguistic aspects have been largely overlooked. This book describes the influences which have shaped the colony’s linguistic development since the British occupation in 1704, and the relationship between… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 23] 2008. xxii, 192 pp.

Language Contact and Contact Languages

Edited by Peter Siemund and Noemi Kintana

This new volume on language contact and contact languages presents cutting-edge research by distinguished scholars in the field as well as by highly talented newcomers. It has two principal aims: to analyze language contact from different perspectives – notably those of language typology,… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 7] 2008. x, 358 pp.

Respecting Linguistic Diversity in the European Union

Edited by Xabier Arzoz

After the accession of ten new member-states in 2004, the number of official EU languages increased from eleven to twenty. In 2005, the Council of the European Union decided to expand the existing legal framework for Irish and for other languages, such as Basque, Catalan and Galician, which are… read more

[Studies in World Language Problems, 2] 2008. viii, 269 pp.

St Helenian English: Origins, evolution and variation

Daniel Schreier

This volume provides the first-ever sociolinguistic analysis of English on the island of St Helena, the oldest variety of English in the Southern Hemisphere. It is based on a concise synchronic profile of the variety (describing its segmental phonology and morphosyntax) and an evaluation of… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G37] 2008. xv, 312 pp.

Studies in French Applied Linguistics

Edited by Dalila Ayoun

Studies in French Applied Linguistics invites the reader to adopt a broad perspective on applied linguistics, illustrating the fascinating multifaceted work researchers are conducted in so many various, inter-connected subfields. The five chapters of the first part are dedicated to the first and… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 21] 2008. xiii, 400 pp.

Play Frames and Social Identities: Contact encounters in a Greek primary school

Vally Lytra

This book is a sociolinguistic study of children’s talk and how they interact with one another and their teachers in multilingual, multicultural and multiethnic schools. It is based on tape recordings and ethnographic observations of majority Greek and minority Turkish-speaking children at an… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 163] 2007. xii, 300 pp.

Selves and Identities in Narrative and Discourse

Edited by Michael Bamberg, Anna De Fina and Deborah Schiffrin

The different traditions that have inspired the contributors to this volume can be divided along three different orientations, one that is rooted predominantly in sociolinguistics, a second that is ethnomethodologically informed, and a third that came in the wake of narrative interview research.… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 9] 2007. x, 355 pp.

Spanish in Contact: Policy, Social and Linguistic Inquiries

Edited by Kim Potowski and Richard Cameron

This volume, covering a range of topics such as Spanish as a heritage language in the United States, policy issues, pragmatics and language contact, sociolinguistic variation and contact, and Bozal (Creole) Spanish, will serve the interests of linguists, educators, and policy makers alike. It… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 22] 2007. xx, 397 pp.

Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men. Volume 3

Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bußmann

This is the third of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on “Gender across Languages”, which provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of diverse genetic, typological and socio-cultural backgrounds. Among the… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 11] 2003. xiv, 391 pp.

Germanic Standardizations: Past to Present

Edited by Ana Deumert and Wim Vandenbussche

This volume presents a comparative, socio-historical study of the Germanic standard languages (Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Frisian, German, Icelandic, Low German, Luxemburgish, Norwegian, Scots, Swedish, Yiddish as well as the Caribbean and Pacific Creole languages). Each of the 16… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 18] 2003. vi, 480 pp.

Language in the Twenty-First Century: Selected papers of the millennial conferences of the Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems, held at the University of Hartford and Yale University

Edited by Humphrey Tonkin and Timothy Reagan

What is the future of languages in an increasingly globalized world? Are we moving toward the use of a single language for global communication, or are there ways of managing language diversity at the international level? Can we, or should we, maintain a balance between the global need to… read more

[Studies in World Language Problems, 1] 2003. vi, 209 pp.

Latinas’ Narratives of Domestic Abuse: Discrepant versions of violence

Shonna L. Trinch

In the American legal system valid witness-testimony is supposed to be invariable and unchanging, so defense attorneys highlight seeming inconsistencies in victims’ accounts to impeach their credibility. This book offers an examination of how and why victims of domestic violence might seem to be… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 17] 2003. x, 315 pp.

Social Dialectology: In honour of Peter Trudgill

Edited by David Britain and Jenny Cheshire

The time-honoured study of dialects took a new turn some forty years ago, giving centre stage to social factors and the quantitative analysis of language variation and change. It has become a discipline that no scholar of language can afford to ignore. This collection identifies the main… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 16] 2003. x, 344 pp.