SubjectsLinguistics / Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

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AILA Applied Linguistics Series

Edited by Susanna Nocchi

ISSN 1875-1113
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Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics

Edited by Marijke J. van der Wal and Terttu Nevalainen

ISSN 2214-1057
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Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity

Edited by Peter Siemund and Ingrid Gogolin

ISSN 2211-3703
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Pragmatics & Beyond

Edited by Herman Parret and Jef Verschueren

ISSN 0166-6258
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Pragmatics & Beyond Companion Series

Edited by Herman Parret and Jacob L. Mey

ISSN 0920-3079
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Pragmatics & Beyond New Series

Edited by Miriam A. Locher

ISSN 0922-842X
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ISSN 1879-5382
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Studies in Language Variation

Edited by Peter Auer, Frans Hinskens and Paul Kerswill

ISSN 1872-9592
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Topics in Address Research

Edited by Horst J. Simon, Bettina Kluge, John Hajek, María Irene Moyna and Víctor Fernández-Mallat

ISSN 2405-9269
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Varieties of English Around the World

Edited by Stephanie Hackert

ISSN 0172-7362

Journals

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Arabic Linguistics

Edited by Enam Al-Wer, Lina Choueiri and Uri Horesh

ISSN 2950-1806 | E‑ISSN 2950‑1792
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Asia-Pacific Language Variation

Edited by Maya Ravindranath Abtahian and Rebecca Lurie Starr

ISSN 2215-1354 | E‑ISSN 2215‑1362
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Chinese Language and Discourse

An International and Interdisciplinary Journal

Edited by Xiaoting Li, K.K. Luke, Hongyin Tao and Li Wei

ISSN 1877-7031 | E‑ISSN 1877‑8798
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English World-Wide

A Journal of Varieties of English

Edited by Marianne Hundt and Anne Schröder

ISSN 0172-8865 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9730
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International Journal of Chinese Linguistics

Edited by Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai, Ning Yu and Hongming Zhang

ISSN 2213-8706 | E‑ISSN 2213‑8714
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Journal of Language and Pop Culture

Edited by Valentin Werner, Paul Flanagan and Mie Hiramoto

ISSN 2950-578X | E‑ISSN 2950‑5798
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Journal of Language and Sexuality

Edited by Heiko Motschenbacher

ISSN 2211-3770 | E‑ISSN 2211‑3789
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ISSN 0920-9034 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9870
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Language Ecology

General Editor: Umberto Ansaldo and Lisa Lim

ISSN 2452-1949 | E‑ISSN 2452‑2147
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ISSN 0272-2690 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9889
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Language, Culture and Society

General Editor: Alfonso Del Percio and Cécile B. Vigouroux

ISSN 2543-3164 | E‑ISSN 2543‑3156
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Linguistic Landscape

An international journal

Edited by Robert Blackwood and Kellie Gonçalves

ISSN 2214-9953 | E‑ISSN 2214‑9961
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Pragmatics and Society

Edited by Daria Dayter

ISSN 1878-9714 | E‑ISSN 1878‑9722
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Register Studies

Edited by Jesse Egbert and Bethany Gray

ISSN 2542-9477 | E‑ISSN 2542‑9485
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Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics

Published under the auspices of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics

Edited by Francisco Alonso-Almeida and Giovanni Garofalo

ISSN 0213-2028 | E‑ISSN 2254‑6774
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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.
Other subjects Discourse studies
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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
Other subjects Language policy
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Names and Naming

Edited by Philipp Krämer, Eeva Sippola and Rachel Selbach

Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 41:1 (2026) v, 172 pp.
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Pardon my French?: Dutch–French language contact in the Netherlands (1500–1900)

Gijsbert Rutten, Andreas Krogull, Brenda Assendelft and Jill Puttaert

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Dutch–French contact situation in the Early and Late Modern period, when the Dutch language and culture supposedly underwent frenchification in various spheres of life. Bringing together empirical approaches based on a wide range of datasets,… read more
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 15] 2026. ix, 312 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Pragmatics in African Contexts

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 17:2 (2026) v, 141 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Register and Discourse through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics

Edited by Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Dolores González-Álvarez and Esperanza Rama-Martínez

Register and Discourse through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics offers a rigorous and engaging exploration of two of the field’s most dynamic areas. Drawing on key frameworks – including Construction Grammar, Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies, Speech Act Theory, and Local Grammar – the volume… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 127] 2026. vi, 327 pp.
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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
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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 logo open access
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Beyond Binaries in Address Research: Politeness and identity practices in interaction

Edited by Víctor Fernández-Mallat and María Irene Moyna

Beyond binaries in address research: Politeness and identity practices in interaction shifts the focus of address studies away from the traditional T/V opposition and toward a more flexible, contextually situated framework. The volume brings together linguistic phenomena that do not fit neatly… read more
[Topics in Address Research, 6] 2025. vi, 266 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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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
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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
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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.
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Dutch and Contact Linguistics: The Dutch language outside the Low Countries

Edited by Christopher Joby and Nicoline van der Sijs

Whilst the Dutch language cannot be considered a world language in the manner of English, Spanish, Portuguese, or French, the fact that speakers of Dutch have sailed to the four corners of the earth means that it cannot be overlooked in language-contact studies. This volume brings together scholars… read more
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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.
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Evaluative Discourse Metaphor in Online Communities

Mateusz-Milan Stanojević and Ljiljana Šarić

This monograph introduces the Evaluative Discourse Metaphor model, which argues that participants in public and semi-public online discourse (re)use evaluative metaphors to construct and maintain communities. We explore how such metaphors trigger others with similar forms, though not necessarily… read more
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Identity Perspectives from Peripheries

Edited by Yoshiko Matsumoto and Jan-Ola Östman

Data dubbed “peripheral” or previously unaccounted for have inspired new methods, new models and theories of language and new ways of understanding language and communication within pragmatics. The chapters in the volume extend this perspective to include language users and their identities as… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 352] 2025. vii, 295 pp.
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Italo-Romance Heritage Languages: Multiple approaches

Edited by Eugenio Goria and Margherita Di Salvo

This volume brings together research on Italian and Italo-Romance varieties spoken as heritage languages across the world, with contributions from different fields of linguistics and from diverse regions (the Americas, Australia, Europe). It offers a timely update on the state of the art, combining… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 68] 2025. vi, 302 pp.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
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Register and Professional Discourse

Edited by Shelley Staples and Gavin Brookes

Special issue of Register Studies 7:1 (2025) v, 160 pp.
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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
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Selected Papers from the 37th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics

Edited by Reem Khamis and Mira Goral

Special issue of Arabic Linguistics 1:2 (2025) v, 135 pp.
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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
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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
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Storytelling, Identity Formation, and Resistance in Indigenous Cultures in Canada and the United States

Edited by Kamelia Talebian Sedehi

Storytelling is a means of fostering a sense of identity, belonging, and continuity. Through stories, Indigenous peoples understand and interpret the world, and learn how to survive in spite of external forces such as colonialism. Storytelling has been studied by many scholars across myriad… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 28] 2025. xiii, 250 pp.
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Variation in Language Acquisition: Unity in diversity

Edited by Laura Rosseel and Eline Zenner

This volume, resulting from the fifth edition of the conference series Variation in Language Acquisition (ViLA), brings together research at the intersection of language acquisition and sociolinguistics. Work within the ViLA tradition explores how learners—from preschoolers to adult second-language… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 34] 2025. vi, 262 pp.
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Varieties of German in Contact Settings: Studies in honor of William D. Keel

Edited by B. Richard Page and Michael T. Putnam

This volume pays homage to the legacy of William D. Keel and the significant impact of his research on German in contact settings from myriad perspectives and traditions. It includes structural and sociolinguistic studies focusing on varieties of German spoken throughout the world, including… read more
[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 10] 2025. vi, 275 pp.
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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 logo open access
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10th Anniversary Issue: Engaging with LL futures

Edited by Robert Blackwood and Elana Shohamy

Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 10:4 (2024) v, 110 pp.
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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
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Australian Contact Languages

Edited by Carmel O'Shannessy, Denise Angelo and Jane Simpson

Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 39:1 (2024) vi, 311 pp.
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Children’s Peer Cultures in Dialogue: Participation, hierarchy, and social identity in diverse schools

Nicola Nasi

Contemporary schools are enlivened by a multitude of children with rather disparate linguistic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds. These children spend most of their school hours in interaction with other children, engaging in multifarious activities (conflict, gossip, play, humor,… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 34] 2024. x, 202 pp.
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Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex Multilingual Contact Settings

Edited by Bertus van Rooy and Haidee Kotze

Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex Multilingual Contact Settings explores an innovative proposal: that linguistic similarities identified in different forms of contact-influenced varieties of language use (including translation, native and non-native varieties of… read more
[Contact Language Library, 60] 2024. vi, 293 pp.
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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.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
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Exploring the Sociopragmatics of Online Humor

Villy Tsakona

This monograph explores the diverse sociopragmatic functions and meanings of humorous discourse in various online contexts affecting its use. To this end, an analytical model is proposed which takes into consideration the aspects of context which are relevant to the production and reception of… read more
[Topics in Humor Research, 12] 2024. xi, 264 pp.
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Language Change in the 20th Century: Exploring micro-diachronic evolutions in Romance languages

Edited by Salvador Pons Bordería and Shima Salameh Jiménez

Language Change in the 20th Century: Exploring micro-diachronic evolutions in Romance languages examines the distinctive features that set the study of the 20th century apart from preceding periods. With a primary focus on Romance languages, including Spanish, Italian, French, and Portuguese, the… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 340] 2024. vi, 292 pp.
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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
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Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Diversity in a Global Perspective

Edited by Adams Bodomo and Carola Koblitz

Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Diversity in a Global Perspective is a captivating collection of research articles. This volume explores the intricate connections between language, culture, and identity across the globe. An agenda-setting introduction by the editors and essays by… read more
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Pragmatics of Active Social Inclusion

Edited by Yoshiko Matsumoto and Heidi E. Hamilton

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 15:1 (2024) vi, 213 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Translanguaging and Multimodality

Edited by Qi Zhang

Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 15:2 (2024) v, 138 pp.
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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
Other subjects Narrative Studies
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Corpus Dialectology

Edited by Elissa Pustka, Carmen Quijada Van den Berghe and Verena Weiland

Corpus Dialectology combines the fields of corpus linguistics and dialectological mapping. It concerns documentation of linguistic variation and mapping of linguistic spaces and boundaries, while ascribing renewed importance to the methodology and the material itself, especially data processing and… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 110] 2023. vi, 220 pp.
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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
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Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary discourse across time and space

Edited by Minna Korhonen, Haidee Kotze and Jukka Tyrkkö

As the legislative bodies of democratic nations, parliaments play a fundamental role in society. Consequently the linguistic practices observed in parliamentary discourse are of importance to everyone. This volume brings together leading researchers in areas of corpus linguistics, big data,… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 111] 2023. vi, 379 pp.
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Free Variation in Grammar: Empirical and theoretical approaches

Edited by Kristin Kopf and Thilo Weber

Recent years have seen a growing interest in grammatical variation, a core explanandum of grammatical theory. The present volume explores questions that are fundamental to this line of research: First, the question of whether variation can always and completely be explained by intra- or… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 234] 2023. vi, 352 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Innovative Approaches to Research in Hispanic Linguistics: Regional, diachronic, and learner profile variation

Edited by Sara Fernández Cuenca, Tiffany Judy and Lauren Miller

This volume presents research from across the subdisciplines of Hispanic Linguistics in an attempt to showcase how new research methods, together with a renewed focus on language variation, have advanced our field. This volume is divided into three sections of original research, with the first… read more
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It's different with you: Contrastive perspectives on address research

Edited by Nicole Baumgarten and Roel Vismans

This book is a collection of studies about forms of address in the world’s languages, with a focus on contrast and difference. The individual chapters highlight inter- and intralinguistic variation in the expression of address and its sociol-cultural functions across media, registers, geographical… read more
[Topics in Address Research, 5] 2023. vi, 432 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Language Contact with Chinese

Edited by Zhiming Bao

Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 38:1 (2023) vi, 206 pp.
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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.
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Lexical semantics towards the big-data era

Edited by Meichun Liu and Chunyu Kit

Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 14:1 (2023) v, 207 pp.
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Manufacturing Knowledge

Edited by Alfonso Del Percio and Cécile B. Vigouroux

Special issue of Language, Culture and Society 5:2 (2023) v, 112 pp.
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New Englishes, New Methods

Edited by Guyanne Wilson and Michael Westphal

There is an ever-growing body of work on New Englishes, and the time has come to take stock of how research on varieties of English is carried out. The contributions in this volume critically explore the gamut of familiar and unfamiliar methods applied in data collection and analysis in order to… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G68] 2023. viii, 276 pp.
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The Political Economy of Linguistic Landscapes

Edited by Johan Järlehed, Tommaso M. Milani and Tove Rosendal

Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 9:3 (2023) v, 109 pp.
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Saipanese English: Local and global sociolinguistic trends

Dominique B. Hess

In this volume, the emergence of English in Saipan is examined in the complex context of its colonial past. The focus lies on the influence of the American era on the linguistic outcomes in Saipan. Sociolinguistic interviews with indigenous Chamorros and Saipan Carolinians were analyzed using… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G69] 2023. xx, 249 pp.
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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 logo open access
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Study Abroad and the Second Language Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation in Spanish

Edited by Sara Zahler, Avizia Y. Long and Bret Linford

This volume offers a comprehensive snapshot of the breadth of empirical research currently being conducted on the second language acquisition of sociolinguistic variation in Spanish during study abroad. Research on this topic spans diverse methodological approaches, types of programs, linguistic… read more
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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.
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The interpersonal functions of public signs during the Covid-19 pandemic

Edited by Eva Ogiermann

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 14:2 (2023) v, 185 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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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
Other subjects Romance linguistics
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Chronotopes and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Edited by Anna De Fina and Sabina M. Perrino

Special issue of Language, Culture and Society 4:2 (2022) v, 171 pp.
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Dialogicity in Political Discourse

Edited by Elda Weizman and Zohar Livnat

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 13:5 (2022) v, 154 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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The Discourse of Terrorism

Edited by Encarnación Hidalgo-Tenorio and Juan L. Castro

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 13:3 (2022) vi, 202 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Earlier North American Englishes

Edited by Merja Kytö and Lucia Siebers

Varieties of English in the U.S. and Canada display fascinating developments from colonial times up until the twenty-first century. To throw light on the linguistics of North American Englishes and their socio-historical contexts, this volume brings together research from various traditions,… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G66] 2022. viii, 261 pp.
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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
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Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community

Sabine Fiedler and Cyril Robert Brosch

This book addresses a fascinating topic – a constructed language that has turned from a project into a fully-fledged language used by some of its speakers on a daily basis. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book provides rare and profound insights into the use of Esperanto in a large number of… read more
[Studies in World Language Problems, 10] 2022. xx, 429 pp. | Open Access logo open access
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
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Extravagant Morphology: Studies in rule-bending, pattern-extending and theory-challenging morphology

Edited by Matthias Eitelmann and Dagmar Haumann

Taking extra-vagans literally (Lat. ‘wandering outside, out of bounds’), this volume comprises nine case studies on extravagant morphology ranging from pattern-extending derivational processes via theory-challenging compounding processes to interface-straddling morphosyntactic phenomena. As a… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 223] 2022. v, 258 pp.
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Language, conflict and security

Edited by Roberta Medda-Windischer and Andrea Carlà

Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 46:2 (2022) v, 118 pp.
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The Linguistic Landscape of Covid-19

Edited by Jackie Jia Lou, David Malinowski and Amiena Peck

Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 8:2/3 (2022) vi, 176 pp.
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Media Language and Discourse in Cultural China

Edited by Doreen D. Wu, Ming Liu and David C.S. Li

Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 13:1 (2022) v, 165 pp.
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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.
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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.
Other subjects Discourse studies
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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
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Register and social media

Edited by Isobelle Clarke and Jack Grieve

Special issue of Register Studies 4:2 (2022) v, 190 pp.
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Sociolinguistic Variation in Old English: Records of communities and people

Olga Timofeeva

This is the first extensive study of Old English to utilise the insights and methodologies of sociolinguistics. Building on previous philological and historical work, it takes into account the sociology and social dialectology of Old English and offers a description of its speech communities… read more
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 13] 2022. xv, 204 pp.
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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.
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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.
Other subjects Discourse studies
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Address Variation in Sociocultural Context: Region, power and distance in Italian service encounters

Agnese Bresin

This study looks at the sociocultural context of five Italian regions and at the situational context of restaurant encounters (a sub-type of service encounters) to examine address variation in spoken Italian—with a focus on singular address pronouns tu, voi and lei. It offers a thorough examination… read more
[Topics in Address Research, 2] 2021. xxi, 290 pp.
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Approaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and practice

Edited by Chaoqun Xie, Francisco Yus and Hartmut Haberland

Internet-mediated communication is pervasive nowadays, in an age in which many people shy away from physical settings and often rely, instead, on social media and messaging apps for their everyday communicative needs. Since pragmatics deals with communication in context and how more gets… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 318] 2021. vii, 348 pp.
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Approaches to Variation in Creole Studies

Edited by Isabelle Léglise, Bettina Migge and Nicolas Quint

Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 36:1 (2021) v, 219 pp.
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Aspects of Latin American Spanish Dialectology: In honor of Terrell A. Morgan

Edited by Manuel Díaz-Campos and Sandro Sessarego

This book focuses on contemporary sociolinguistic approaches to Spanish dialectology. Each of the authors draws on key issues of contemporary sociolinguistics, combining theoretical approaches with empirical data collection. Overall, these chapters address topics concerning language variation and… read more
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Bermudian English: A sociohistorical and linguistic profile

Nicole Eberle

Bermudian English. A sociohistorical and linguistic profile focuses on a hitherto severely under-researched variety of English. The book traces the origins and development of Bermudian English, so as to situate the variety within the canon of other lesser-known varieties of English, and provides a… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G64] 2021. xv, 231 pp.
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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.
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Corpora, Constructions, New Englishes: A constructional and variationist approach to verb patterning

Samantha Laporte

This book takes an integrated approach to the fields of Corpus Linguistics, Construction Grammar, and World Englishes through a thorough constructional and corpus-based examination of the patterning of the versatile high-frequency verb make in British English and New Englishes. It contributes to… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 100] 2021. xxii, 395 pp.
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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.
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The Dynamics of English in Namibia: Perspectives on an emerging variety

Edited by Anne Schröder

The English language as spoken in Namibia has virtually been overlooked in most textbooks, handbooks, and surveys of varieties of English around the world, or else has only been mentioned in passing. However, this variety of English has recently attracted the attention of several researchers and… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G65] 2021. ix, 305 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics
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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 logo open access
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Intersubjectivity in Action: Studies in language and social interaction

Edited by Jan Lindström, Ritva Laury, Anssi Peräkylä and Marja-Leena Sorjonen

Intersubjectivity is a precondition for human life – for social organization as well as for individual development and well-being. Through empirical examination of social interactions in everyday and institutional settings, the authors in this volume explore the achievement and maintenance of… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 326] 2021. vi, 437 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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The Joint Production of Conversational Turns

Edited by K.K. Luke and Mei Fang

Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 12:1 (2021) v, 134 pp.
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Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union

Edited by Diana Forker and Lenore A. Grenoble

The former Soviet Union (USSR) provides the ideal territory for studying language contact between one and the same dominant language (Russian) and a wide range of genealogically and typologically diverse languages with varying histories of language contact. This is the first book that bundles… read more
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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 logo open access
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Language, Epistemology, and the Politics of Knowledge Production

Edited by Alfonso Del Percio, Patricia Baquedano-López, Miguel Pérez-Milans and Cécile B. Vigouroux

Special issue of Language, Culture and Society 3:2 (2021) v, 135 pp.
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Language, Multimodal Interaction and Transaction: Studies of a Southern Chinese marketplace

Xuehua Xiang

Xuehua Xiang examines multimodal interaction in the marketplace in a multilingual town at the juncture of urbanization in Southern China. Using a collection of data that span nearly 20 years from ethnographic fieldwork, Language, Multimodal Interaction and Transaction: Studies of a Southern Chinese… read more
[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 14] 2021. xii, 217 pp.
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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
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Lost in Change: Causes and processes in the loss of grammatical elements and constructions

Edited by Svenja Kranich and Tine Breban

While research on language change has formulated robust empirical generalisations about processes and motivations underlying the emergence and spread of linguistic elements, their decline and loss is less well understood. So far a systematic investigation into the processes and motivations of… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 218] 2021. vi, 366 pp.
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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
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The Mysterious Address Term anata 'you' in Japanese

Yoko Yonezawa

The use of the second person singular pronoun anata ‘you’ in modern Japanese has long been regarded as mysterious and problematic, generating contradictory nuances such as polite, impolite, intimate, and distancing. Treated as a troublesome pronoun, scholars have searched for a semantically loaded… read more
[Topics in Address Research, 4] 2021. xv, 208 pp.
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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.
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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.
Other subjects Discourse studies
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Polymedia in Interaction

Edited by Jannis Androutsopoulos

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 12:5 (2021) vi, 168 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Pragmatics of Accents

Edited by Gaëlle Planchenault and Livia Poljak

What impact do accents have on our lives as we interact with one another? Are accents more than simple sets of phonetic features that allow us to differentiate from one dialect, variety or style, to the other? What power relationships are at work when we speak with what those around us perceive as… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 327] 2021. vii, 266 pp.
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The Pragmatics of Adaptability

Edited by Daniel N. Silva and Jacob L. Mey

Humans are adaptive beings. Gradually, we have produced the fundamental capacities for our cooperation, recognition of intentions, and interaction which led to the development of language and culture. The present collective volume builds on an orientation to pragmatics as the sustained and… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 319] 2021. vi, 358 pp.
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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.
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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.
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The Sociopragmatics of Stance: Community, language, and the witness depositions from the Salem witch trials

Peter J. Grund

Anchored in historical pragmatics, historical sociolinguistics, and corpus linguistics, this book weaves together a powerful narrative of the significance of stance marking in the history of English. Focusing on the community of practice that developed during the witch trials in Salem… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 329] 2021. ix, 246 pp.
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Spanish Socio-Historical Linguistics: Isolation and contact

Edited by Whitney Chappell and Bridget Drinka

This interdisciplinary volume explores the unique role of the sociohistorical factors of isolation and contact in motivating change in the varieties of Spanish worldwide. Recognizing the inherent intersectionality of social and historical factors, the book’s eight chapters investigate phenomena… read more
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 12] 2021. v, 235 pp.
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Syntactic Geolectal Variation: Traditional approaches, current challenges and new tools

Edited by Alba Cerrudo, Ángel J. Gallego and Francesc Roca Urgell

This volume brings together studies that combine both traditional and contemporary tools in the study of syntactic geolectal variation, with a special focus on a subset of Iberian varieties. There is an increasing body of research on syntactic micro-variation, but the interaction between… read more
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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 logo open access
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Advances in Contact Linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken

Edited by Norval Smith, Tonjes Veenstra and Enoch O. Aboh

Issues in multilingualism and its implications for communities and society at large, language acquisition and use, language diversification, and creative language use associated with new linguistic identities have become hot topics in both scientific and popular debates. A ubiquitous aspect of… read more
[Contact Language Library, 57] 2020. ix, 400 pp.
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Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and Evolution

Edited by Stephen Fafulas

Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and Evolution explores the unique origins, linguistic features, and geo-political situation of the Spanish that has emerged in the Amazon. While this region boasts much linguistic diversity, many of the indigenous languages found within its limits are now being… read more
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Analysing Chinese Language and Discourse across Layers and Genres

Edited by Wei Wang

Aspirational and expanding, this book examines contemporary Chinese language and discourse across a spectrum of linguistic layers and genres in diverse social contexts. Addressing issues ranging from the usual focus on language per se, or language use in reaction to the immediate settings, to the… read more
[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 13] 2020. xiii, 233 pp.
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Bonding through Context: Language and interactional alignment in Japanese situated discourse

Edited by Risako Ide and Kaori Hata

This book examines the linguistic and interactional mechanisms through which people bond or feel bonded with one another by analyzing situated discourse in Japanese contexts. The term “bonding” points to the sense of co-presence, belonging, and alignment with others as well as with the space of… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 314] 2020. vii, 291 pp.
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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
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Corpora and the Changing Society: Studies in the evolution of English

Edited by Paula Rautionaho, Arja Nurmi and Juhani Klemola

This book showcases eleven studies dealing with corpora and the changing society. The theme of the volume reflects the fact that changes in society lead to changes in language and vice versa. Focusing on the English language, be it from Old English to the present, or a shorter time span in the… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 96] 2020. xii, 305 pp.
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Corpus Approaches to Social Media

Edited by Sofia Rüdiger and Daria Dayter

From Twitter to Reddit, Facebook, and WhatsApp – social media is a part of modern everyday life. Studying the language used on social media platforms presents great opportunities as well as challenges to corpus linguists. The contributions in Corpus Approaches to Social Media address technical,… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 98] 2020. vi, 210 pp.
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Discursive Navigation of Employable Identities in the Narratives of Former Refugees

Emily Greenbank

Incorporating both interview and workplace data, this book examines the discursive and social challenges that former refugees encounter as they navigate successes and failures in the New Zealand labour market. Over five chapters of microlevel discourse analysis – drawing on Bamberg &… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 27] 2020. x, 228 pp.
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Hate speech: Definitions, interpretations and practices

Edited by Fabienne H. Baider, Sharon Millar and Stavros Assimakopoulos

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 11:2 (2020) v, 165 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Hispanic Contact Linguistics: Theoretical, methodological and empirical perspectives

Edited by Luis A. Ortiz López, Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo and Melvin González-Rivera

This volume comprises cutting edge research on language contact and change. The chapters present a wide scope of settings in which Spanish is in contact with other languages, such as Catalan, English, and Quechua; a large breadth of geographical areas (e.g., United States, Puerto Rico, Colombia,… read more
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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.
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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.
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Metasex – The Discourse of Intimacy and Transgression

Anne Storch and Nico Nassenstein

This study focuses on the language around sexuality and discourses about sex, labeled by the authors as metasex, from a broad crosslinguistic perspective. Unlike many existing studies on sexting that predominantly take into account the linguistic practices of teenagers often located in the Global… read more
[Culture and Language Use, 22] 2020. ix, 132 pp.
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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
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Records of Real People: Linguistic variation in Middle English local documents

Edited by Merja Stenroos and Kjetil V. Thengs

English local documents – leases, wills, accounts, letters and the like – provide a unique resource for historical sociolinguistics. Abundant from the early fifteenth century, they represent the language and concerns of people from a wide range of social, institutional and geographical backgrounds.… read more
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 11] 2020. ix, 310 pp.
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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.
Other subjects Discourse studies
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Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain

Edited by Rajiv Rao

Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain brings together scholars working on a wide range of aspects of the Spanish sound system and how their coexistence with another language in speech communities across the Hispanophone world influences their… read more
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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
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Translation in Knowledge, Knowledge in Translation

Edited by Rocío G. Sumillera, Jan Surman and Katharina Kühn

This volume explores the intersection between Translation Studies and History and Philosophy of Science to shed light on the workings of scientific communities, the dissemination of knowledge across languages and cultures, and the transformation in the process of that knowledge and of the… read more
[Benjamins Translation Library, 154] 2020. vii, 272 pp.
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Variation and Evolution: Aspects of language contact and contrast across the Spanish-speaking world

Edited by Sandro Sessarego, Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana and Adrián Rodríguez-Riccelli

This book is a collection of original studies analyzing how different internal and external factors affect Spanish language variation and evolution across a number of (socio)linguistic scenarios. Its primary goal is to expand our understanding of how native and non-native varieties of Spanish… read more
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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.
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Walking on the Grammaticalization Path of the Definite Article: Functional Main and Side Roads

Edited by Renata Szczepaniak and Johanna Flick

This volume focuses on the grammaticalization of the definite article in German. It contains eight empirically-based papers which examine individual stages of the grammaticalization path from its beginnings as a demonstrative to the definite article and beyond. Focusing on cognitive, pragmatic,… read more
[Studies in Language Variation, 23] 2020. vi, 253 pp.
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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.
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Categorization in multilingual storytelling

Edited by Matthew T. Prior and Steven Talmy

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 10:3 (2019) vi, 163 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian

Gertjan Postma

Pomeranian is the West Germanic language spoken by European emigrants who went from Farther Pomerania (present-day Poland) to Brazil in the period 1857–1887. This language is no longer spoken in cohesive societies in Europe, but the language has survived and is in remarkably good shape on this… read more
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 248] 2019. xxxi, 312 pp.
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Conversation Analysis in Chinese: Part II

Edited by Ni-Eng Lim

Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 10:2 (2019) v, 175 pp.
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Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes

Edited by Alexandra U. Esimaje, Ulrike Gut and Bassey E. Antia

Corpus linguistics has become one of the most widely used methodologies across the different linguistic subdisciplines; especially the study of world-wide varieties of English uses corpus-based investigations as one of the chief methodologies. This volume comprises descriptions of the many new… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 88] 2019. ix, 403 pp.
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Corpus-based Research on Variation in English Legal Discourse

Edited by Teresa Fanego and Paula Rodríguez-Puente

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the research carried out over the past thirty years in the vast field of legal discourse. The focus is on how such research has been influenced and shaped by developments in corpus linguistics and register analysis, and by the emergence from the mid… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 91] 2019. vii, 294 pp.
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The Determinants of Diachronic Stability

Edited by Anne Breitbarth, Miriam Bouzouita, Lieven Danckaert and Melissa Farasyn

While much of the literature has focused on explaining diachronic variation and change, the fact that sometimes change does not seem to happen has received much less attention. The current volume unites ten contributions that look for the determinants of diachronic stability, mainly in the areas of… read more
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 254] 2019. vi, 294 pp.
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Heritage Languages: A language contact approach

Suzanne Aalberse, Ad Backus and Pieter Muysken

Heritage languages, such as the Turkish varieties spoken in Berlin or the Spanish used in Los Angeles, are non-dominant languages, often with little prestige. Their speakers also speak the dominant language of the country they live in. Often heritage languages undergo changes due to their special… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 58] 2019. xix, 302 pp.
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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
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Italian Dialectology at the Interfaces

Edited by Silvio Cruschina, Adam Ledgeway and Eva-Maria Remberger

Recent years have seen a growing interest in linguistic phenomena whose formal manifestation and underlying licensing conditions represent the convergence of two or more areas of the grammar, an area of investigation particularly invigorated in recent generative research by developments such as… read more
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 251] 2019. vi, 369 pp.
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It’s not all about you: New perspectives on address research

Edited by Bettina Kluge and María Irene Moyna

The twenty-first century has seen a surge in cross-linguistic research on forms of address from increasingly diverse and complementary perspectives. The present edited collection is the inaugural volume of Topics in Address Research, a series that aims to reflect that growing interest. The volume… read more
[Topics in Address Research, 1] 2019. vi, 447 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Keeping in Touch: Emigrant letters across the English-speaking world

Edited by Raymond Hickey

The current volume presents a number of chapters which look at informal vernacular letters, written mostly by emigrants to the former colonies of Britain, who settled at these locations in the past few centuries, with a focus on letters from the nineteenth century. Such documents often show… read more
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Language Planning as Nation Building: Ideology, policy and implementation in the Netherlands, 1750–1850

Gijsbert Rutten

The decades around 1800 constitute the seminal period of European nationalism. The linguistic corollary of this was the rise of standard language ideology, from Finland to Spain, and from Iceland to the Habsburg Empire. Amidst these international events, the case of Dutch in the Netherlands offers… read more
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 9] 2019. x, 312 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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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.
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Late Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century. Including the LMEMT Corpus

Edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Turo Hiltunen

The eighteenth century in medicine is a fallow period lying between the innovations of the Royal Society (1662–) with its new ways of doing science and the nineteenth-century achievements of clinical and laboratory medicine. The period deserves more attention, as the seeds of some modern… read more
[Not in series, 221] 2019. xix, 432 pp., incl. CD-RoM
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Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English

Sofia Rüdiger

Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English presents fundamental research on the use of English by South Korean speakers. Despite the extraordinary and vibrant status of the English language in South Korean society (demonstrated, for example, by the notion of English Fever), research on the… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G62] 2019. xvii, 228 pp.
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Morphological Variation: Theoretical and empirical perspectives

Edited by Antje Dammel and Oliver Schallert

Morphological variation is a rather young, yet fascinating topic to study in its own right because it offers challenging evidence both for the autonomy of morphology (morphomic processes) as well as for its tight interconnection with other grammatical domains, notably phonology and syntax. Covering… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 207] 2019. v, 345 pp.
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Normativity in Language and Linguistics

Edited by Aleksi Mäkilähde, Ville Leppänen and Esa Itkonen

This volume sets out to discuss the role of norms and normativity in both language and linguistics from a multiplicity of perspectives. These concepts are centrally important to the philosophy and methodology of linguistics, and their role and nature need to be investigated in detail. The chapters… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 209] 2019. vii, 272 pp.
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Norms and Conventions in the History of English

Edited by Birte Bös and Claudia Claridge

This volume explores changing norms and conventions in the English language, as displayed in a broad range of historical data from more than five centuries. The contributions discuss the interplay of sociocultural conditions, specific discourse traditions and structural aspects of language, paying… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 347] 2019. v, 215 pp.
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Police interviews: Communication challenges and solutions

Edited by Luna Filipović

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 10:1 (2019) v, 151 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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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.
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Recent Advances in the Study of Spanish Sociophonetic Perception

Edited by Whitney Chappell

This book provides a cutting-edge exploration of the social meaning of phonetic variation in the Spanish-speaking world. Its 11 chapters elucidate the ways in which listeners process, perceive, and propagate phonetically motivated social meaning across monolingual and contact varieties, including… read more
Other subjects Phonetics | Romance linguistics
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Reference and Identity in Public Discourses

Edited by Ursula Lutzky and Minna Nevala

This volume explores the concepts of reference and identity in public discourses. Its contributions study discourse-specific reference and labelling patterns, both from a historical and present-day perspective, and discuss their impact on self- and other-representation in the construction of… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 306] 2019. vi, 284 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Regional Chinese in Contact

Edited by James A. Walker

Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 5:1 (2019) v, 108 pp.
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The Social Dynamics of Pronominal Systems: A comparative approach

Edited by Paul Bouissac

Personal pronouns have a special status in languages. As indexical tools they are the means by which languages and persons intimately interface with each other within a particular social structure. Pronouns involve more than mere grammatical functions in live communication acts. They variously… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 304] 2019. vi, 320 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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X-Scapes: New horizons in Linguistic Landscapes

Edited by Crispin Thurlow and Kellie Gonçalves

Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 5:2 (2019) v, 106 pp.
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Anglo-German Discourse Crossings and Contrasts

Edited by Sylvia Jaworska and Torsten Leuschner

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 9:1 (2018) vi, 172 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Arabic in Contact

Edited by Stefano Manfredi and Mauro Tosco

The present volume provides an overview of current trends in the study of language contact involving Arabic. By drawing on the social factors that have converged to create different contact situations, it explores both contact-induced change in Arabic and language change through contact with Arabic. read more
[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 6] 2018. vi, 372 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Building and Using the Siarad Corpus: Bilingual conversations in Welsh and English

Margaret Deuchar, Peredur Webb-Davies and Kevin Donnelly

This book is a research monograph divided into two parts. The first part describes the methods used to build the first sizeable corpus of informal conversational data collected from bilingual speakers of Welsh and English: Siarad. The second part describes the linguistic analysis of data from this… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 81] 2018. vii, 199 pp.
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Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change

Edited by Richard J. Whitt

This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the intersecting fields of corpus linguistics, historical linguistics, and genre-based studies of language usage. Papers in this collection are devoted to presenting relevant methods pertinent to corpus-based studies of the connection between… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 85] 2018. viii, 337 pp.
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Discourse approaches to evidentiality in Spanish

Edited by Marta Albelda Marco and María Estellés

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 9:3 (2018) v, 162 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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The Discourse of Online Sportscasting: Constructing meaning and interaction in live text commentary

Jan Chovanec

This book offers the first comprehensive linguistic analysis of live text commentary, one of the most innovative online genres of modern news media. The study focuses on written sports commentaries in online newspapers that enable partial real-time audience involvement in the media text. Adopting… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 297] 2018. xxii, 303 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Language/Sexuality/Affect

Edited by William L. Leap

Special issue of Journal of Language and Sexuality 7:1 (2018) v, 144 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies
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Mediation Strategies

Edited by Anthony Pym

Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 42:3 (2018) v, 110 pp.
Other subjects Language policy
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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.
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Offers and Offer Refusals: A postcolonial pragmatics perspective on World Englishes

Eric A. Anchimbe

This study offers a pragmatic dimension to World Englishes research. It is particularly timely because pragmatics has generally been understudied in past research on World Englishes, especially postcolonial Englishes. Apart from drawing attention to the paucity of research, the book also… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 298] 2018. xix, 316 pp.
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Patterns of Change in 18th-century English: A sociolinguistic approach

Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily

Eighteenth-century English is often associated with normative grammar. But to what extent did prescriptivism impact ongoing processes of linguistic change? The authors of this volume examine a variety of linguistic changes in a corpus… read more
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 8] 2018. xi, 311 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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The Politics of Multilingualism: Europeanisation, globalisation and linguistic governance

Edited by Peter A. Kraus and François Grin

This book proposes a multidisciplinary assessment of the impact of complex diversity on language politics and policies, analysing how the legacies of the old interact with the challenges of the new. Its main focus is on the interplay of multilingualism on the one hand, and the dynamics of… read more
[Studies in World Language Problems, 6] 2018. xix, 367 pp.
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The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil

Edited by Laura Álvarez López, Perpétua Gonçalves and Juanito Ornelas de Avelar

The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil is the first publication in English to offer studies on a whole set of varieties of Portuguese in Africa as well as Brazilian Portuguese. Authored by specialists on varieties of Portuguese in Africa and Brazil, the eleven chapters and the… read more
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 20] 2018. xii, 318 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Positioning the Self and Others: Linguistic perspectives

Edited by Kate Beeching, Chiara Ghezzi and Piera Molinelli

Though positioning has been addressed in social psychology and in identity construction, less attention has been paid to the specific linguistic markers which are drawn upon in discourse to position the self and other(s). This volume focusses on address terms, pragmatic markers, code… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 292] 2018. vi, 316 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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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.
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Socioeconomic Pragmatic Variation: Speech acts and address forms in context

Larssyn Staley

On a regular basis people encounter unfamiliar uses of pragmatic features, such as offers or requests with differing levels of directness or terms of address showing differing amounts of solidarity or deference. Variational pragmatics is the study of such uses, according to region, gender, age,… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 291] 2018. xiv, 201 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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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
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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
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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.
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Advances in Swearing Research: New languages and new contexts

Edited by Kristy Beers Fägersten and Karyn Stapleton

Any behavior that arouses, as swearing does, controversy, disagreement, disdain, shock, and indignation as often as it imbues passion, sincerity, intimacy, solidarity, and jocularity should be an obvious target of in-depth scholarship. Rigorous, scholarly investigation of the practice of swearing… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 282] 2017. vi, 266 pp.
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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.
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Argumentation across Communities of Practice: Multi-disciplinary perspectives

Edited by Cornelia Ilie and Giuliana Garzone

Featuring multidisciplinary and transcultural investigations, this volume showcases state-of-the-art scholarship about the impact of argumentation-based discourses and field-specific argumentation practices in a wide range of communities of practice belonging to the media, social, legal and… read more
[Argumentation in Context, 10] 2017. vi, 345 pp.
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Cameroon Pidgin English: A comprehensive grammar

Miriam Ayafor and Melanie Green

Cameroon Pidgin English (CPE) is an English-lexified Atlantic expanded pidgin/creole spoken in some form by an estimated 50% of Cameroon’s population, primarily in the anglophone west regions, but also in urban centres throughout the country. Primarily a spoken language, CPE enjoys a vigorous oral… read more
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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.
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Cultural Keywords in Discourse

Edited by Carsten Levisen and Sophia Waters

Cultural keywords are words around which whole discourses are organised. They are culturally revealing, difficult to translate and semantically diverse. They capture how speakers have paid attention to the worlds they live in and embody socially recognised ways of thinking and feeling. The book… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 277] 2017. ix, 249 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Discourse and Identity Formation: Parliamentary debates in Bahrain

Lamya Alkooheji and Chitra Sinha

The book explores eleven debates held at the Bahraini Council of Representatives (or the Parliament) over 2007-2010 to comprehend how parliamentary discourse contributes towards identity formation within Bahraini society. Within the framework of critical discourse studies, the book traces the… read more
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context: Eight hundred years of LIKE

Alexandra D'Arcy

Like is a ubiquitous feature of English with a deep history in the language, exhibiting regular and constrained variable grammars over time. This volume explores the various contexts of like, each of which contributes to the reality of contemporary vernaculars: its historical context, its… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 187] 2017. xx, 235 pp.
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Dynamics of Linguistic Diversity

Edited by Hagen Peukert and Ingrid Gogolin

This volume emphasizes the energetic nature of linguistic diversity and its consequences of how we think about language, how it affects the individual, education in school, and urban spaces across the globe. Hence, linguistic diversity reflects the constant state of rapid change prevalent in modern… read more
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Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics

Edited by Tanja Säily, Arja Nurmi, Minna Palander-Collin and Anita Auer

This volume explores potential paths in historical sociolinguistics, with a particular focus on the inter-related areas of methodological innovations, hitherto un- or under-explored textual resources, and theoretical advancements and challenges. The individual chapters cover Dutch, Finnish and… read more
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 7] 2017. vii, 331 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics
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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
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Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas: In honor of John V. Singler

Edited by Cecelia Cutler, Zvjezdana Vrzić and Philipp Angermeyer

Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas brings together the original research of nineteen leading scholars on language contact and pidgin/creole genesis. In recent decades, increasing attention has been paid to the role of historical, cultural and demographic factors in… read more
[Creole Language Library, 53] 2017. vii, 369 pp.
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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.
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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.
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Language and Slavery: A social and linguistic history of the Suriname creoles

Jacques Arends

This posthumous work by Jacques Arends offers new insights into the emergence of the creole languages of Suriname including Sranantongo or Suriname Plantation Creole, Ndyuka, and Saramaccan, and the sociohistorical context in which they developed. Drawing on a wealth of sources including little… read more
[Creole Language Library, 52] 2017. xxix, 463 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Language and Violence: Pragmatic perspectives

Edited by Daniel N. Silva

This book combines scholarship in pragmatics, linguistic anthropology, and philosophy to address the problem of violence in language. How do words wound? What is the relation between physical and linguistic violence? How do racial invectives, misogynous language, homophobic slurs, among other forms… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 279] 2017. vi, 250 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Socio-onomastics: The pragmatics of names

Edited by Terhi Ainiala and Jan-Ola Östman

The volume seeks to establish socio-onomastics as a field of linguistic inquiry not only within sociolinguistics, but also, and in particular, within pragmatics. The linguistic study of names has a very long history, but also a history sometimes fraught with skepticism, and thus often neglected by… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 275] 2017. vi, 231 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Studies on Variation in Portuguese

Edited by Pilar Barbosa, Maria da Conceição de Paiva and Celeste Rodrigues

Studies on Variation in Portuguese offers a collection of studies on a range of variable phenomena attested within and across varieties of Portuguese. The volume starts out with an overview of current issues in the study of intralinguistic variation and is divided in two parts. Part 1 is dedicated… read more
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(Co-)Constructing Interpersonally Sensitive Activities Across Institutional Settings

Edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Rosina Márquez Reiter

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 7:4 (2016) v, 186 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Constructing Languages: Norms, myths and emotions

Edited by Francesc Feliu and Josep M. Nadal

As language historians we believe that the subject of our study is neither natural languages nor idiolects which speakers have always been able to develop individually (loosely what Chomsky calls L-i), but rather the social constructions of reference shared by all speakers (basically what Chomsky… read more
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Conversation Analysis in Chinese

Edited by Sandra A. Thompson and Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu

Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 7:2 (2016) v, 166 pp.
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Emotion in Multilingual Interaction

Edited by Matthew T. Prior and Gabriele Kasper

This volume brings together for the first time a collection of studies that investigates how multilingual speakers construct emotions in their talk as a joint discursive practice. The contributions draw on the well established, converging traditions of conversation analysis, discursive psychology,… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 266] 2016. vii, 326 pp.
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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 logo open access
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English in the Netherlands: Functions, forms and attitudes

Alison Edwards

This volume provides the first comprehensive investigation of the Netherlands in the World Englishes paradigm. It explores the history of English contact, the present spread of English and attitudes towards English in the Netherlands. It describes the development and analysis of the Corpus of Dutch… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G56] 2016. xv, 271 pp.
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Exploring Discourse Strategies in Social and Cognitive Interaction: Multimodal and cross-linguistic perspectives

Edited by Manuela Romano and M. Dolores Porto

This volume offers readers interested in Discourse Analysis and/or Socio-Cognitive models of language a closer view of the relationship between discourse, cognition and society by disclosing how the cognitive mechanisms of discourse processing depend on shared knowledge and situated cognition. An… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 262] 2016. vi, 299 pp.
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Exploring Language Aggression against Women

Edited by Patricia Bou-Franch

Exploring Language Aggression against Women presents a collection of systematic studies that delve into the critical role of language in constructing violence, creating inequality, and justifying discrimination against women. Drawing on a range of discourse analytic methods, this volume subjects to… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 86] 2016. v, 159 pp.
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Fluid Orality in the Discourse of Japanese Popular Culture

Senko K. Maynard

This volume invites the reader into the world of pragmatic and discourse studies in Japanese popular culture. Through “character-speak”, the book analyzes quoted speech in light (graphic) novels, the effeminate onee kotoba in talk shows, narrative character in keetai (mobile phone) novels, floating… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 263] 2016. xi, 344 pp.
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Forms of Address in the Spanish of the Americas

Edited by María Irene Moyna and Susana Rivera-Mills

In the growing field of address research, Spanish emerges as one of the most complex Indo European languages. Firstly, it presents second person variation in its nominal, pronominal, and verbal systems. Moreover, several Spanish varieties have more than two address variants, which compete and mix… read more
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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
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Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country

Edited by Jean-Christophe Verstraete and Diane Hafner

This volume offers a state-of-the-art survey of linguistic, anthropological, archaeological and historical work focused on Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, in Australia’s northeast. The volume also honours Bruce Rigsby, emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Queensland,… read more
[Culture and Language Use, 18] 2016. x, 492 pp.
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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
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Linguistics and Literary History: In honour of Sylvia Adamson

Edited by Anita Auer, Victorina González-Díaz, Jane Hodson and Violeta Sotirova

Linguistics and Literary History systematically explores the advantages of an inter-disciplinary approach within the broad area of English studies. It brings together stylistics, literary theory and diachronic linguistics in order to explore their interaction at various methodological, descriptive… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 25] 2016. vi, 216 pp.
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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.
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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.
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Memory and memorialization

Edited by Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Elana Shohamy

Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 2:3 (2016) v, 104 pp.
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New Approaches to English Linguistics: Building bridges

Edited by Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja and Sarah Chevalier

This book aims at providing a cross-section of current developments in English linguistics, by tracing recent approaches to corpus linguistics and statistical methodology, by introducing new inter- and multidisciplinary refinements to empirical methodology, and by documenting the on-going emphasis… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 177] 2016. vi, 326 pp.
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Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning: Pedagogical potential and research agenda

Edited by Masatoshi Sato and Susan Ballinger

This volume represents the first collection of empirical studies focusing on peer interaction for L2 learning. These studies aim to unveil the impact of mediating variables such as task type, mode of interaction, and social relationships on learners’ interactional behaviors and language development… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 45] 2016. vii, 399 pp.
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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.
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Requests in American and British English: A contrastive multi-method analysis

Ilka Flöck

This volume encompasses a thorough examination of the use of request strategies on two contrastive dimensions. On the cross-cultural dimension, it compares the use of British and American English request strategies in naturally occurring informal conversations. The conversational data are retrieved… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 265] 2016. xvi, 264 pp.
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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
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Spanish-English Codeswitching in the Caribbean and the US

Edited by Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo, Catherine M. Mazak and M. Carmen Parafita Couto

This volume provides a sample of the most recent studies on Spanish-English codeswitching both in the Caribbean and among bilinguals in the United States. In thirteen chapters, it brings together the work of leading scholars representing diverse disciplinary perspectives within linguistics,… read more
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Theoretical Approaches to Linguistic Variation

Edited by Ermenegildo Bidese, Federica Cognola and Manuela Caterina Moroni

The contributions of this book deal with the issue of language variation. They all share the assumption that within the language faculty the variation space is hierarchically constrained and that minimal changes in the set of property values defining each language give rise to diverse outputs… read more
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 234] 2016. vii, 376 pp.
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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.
Other subjects Discourse studies
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Ugandan English: Its sociolinguistics, structure and uses in a globalising post-protectorate

Edited by Christiane Meierkord, Bebwa Isingoma and Saudah Namyalo

Ugandan English is a variety that has scarcely been noticed in past research. This timely volume brings together African and European scholars in a first-ever collection of articles that offer comprehensive discussions of the historical and present-day sociolinguistics of English in Uganda and… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G59] 2016. vi, 280 pp.
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World Englishes: New theoretical and methodological considerations

Edited by Elena Seoane and Cristina Suárez-Gómez

This book provides a collection of articles that reflect the current state of affairs in the blossoming field of World Englishes by bringing together several innovative synchronic and diachronic approaches. It contributes to the ongoing theoretical discussion concerning the criteria that make a… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G57] 2016. viii, 285 pp.
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World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition: Insights from Southeast Asian Englishes

Michael Percillier

Bridging the gap between the fields of World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition, this volume offers an in-depth comparative analysis of two postcolonial varieties of English (Singapore and Malaysian English) and neighbouring Indonesian learner English in order to examine the Outer/Expanding… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G58] 2016. xviii, 205 pp.
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The pragmatics of professional discourse

Edited by Winnie Cheng

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 7:1 (2016) vi, 168 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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“Happiness” and “Pain” across Languages and Cultures

Edited by Cliff Goddard and Zhengdao Ye

In the fast-growing fields of happiness studies and pain research, which have attracted scholars from diverse disciplines including psychology, philosophy, medicine, and economics, this volume provides a much-needed cross-linguistic perspective. It centres on the question of how much ways of… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 84] 2016. vi, 145 pp.
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Changing Genre Conventions in Historical English News Discourse

Edited by Birte Bös and Lucia Kornexl

This volume explores the dynamics of genre conventions in historical English news discourse. The contributions cover a wide spectrum of news writing and publication formats: from corantos to modern tabloids, from prototypical hard news stories and crime reports to more specialised genres such as… read more
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 5] 2015. xiv, 254 pp.
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Circulating Signs and People: Politics, affect, ethnography

Edited by Daniel N. Silva

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 6:2 (2015) vi, 144 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Contemporary Chinese Discourse and Social Practice in China

Edited by Linda Tsung and Wei Wang

Significant socio-political changes in China have had great impact on Chinese discourse. Changes to the discourse have become an increasing focus of scholarship. This book examines contemporary Chinese discourse and social practice in China with a focus on the role that language plays in the… read more
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Dialogue in Multilingual and Multimodal Communities

Edited by Dale Koike and Carl S. Blyth

Dialogue in Multilingual and Multimodal Communities contains a collection of new articles that approach the study of dialogue through the construct of the ‘community’, that is, a group of people who come together for any number of reasons; e.g. geographical location, a common goal, a search for… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 27] 2015. vi, 314 pp.
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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
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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
Other subjects Pragmatics
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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 logo open access
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Grammatical Change in English World-Wide

Edited by Peter Collins

The contributions to this volume apply and extend the techniques of corpus linguistics and diachronic linguistics to the challenge of describing and explaining grammatical change in varieties of English world-wide. The book is divided into two parts, with ten chapters on ‘Inner Circle’ varieties… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 67] 2015. vi, 488 pp.
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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Im/politeness

Edited by Marina Terkourafi

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Im/politeness brings together the work of linguists, psychologists, neuroscientists, and second language experts in order to provide readers with a snapshot of the possibilities for studying im/politeness in the 21st century. The volume is organized along… read more
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 14] 2015. xi, 279 pp.
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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.
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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
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
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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
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Language Issues in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Edited by Paula Prescod

This collection is a pioneer study of linguistic phenomena in St Vincent and the Grenadines, written by scholars who are both respected in their field of research and connected to the linguistic realities in the geographic area under investigation. This book covers the subfields of… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G51] 2015. xv, 191 pp.
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Language Structure and Environment: Social, cultural, and natural factors

Edited by Rik De Busser and Randy J. LaPolla

Language Structure and Environment is a broad introduction to how languages are shaped by their environment. It makes the argument that the social, cultural, and natural environment of speakers influences the structures and development of the languages they speak. After a general overview, the… read more
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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.
Other subjects Historical linguistics
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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
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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.
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The Lexis and Lexicogrammar of Sri Lankan English

Tobias Bernaisch

This book offers the first in-depth corpus-based description of written Sri Lankan English. In comparison to British and Indian English, lexical and lexicogrammatical features of Sri Lankan English are analysed in a complex corpus environment comprising data from the respective components of the… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G54] 2015. xiv, 248 pp.
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Linguistic Equality

Edited by Humphrey Tonkin

Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 39:3 (2015) v, 101 pp.
Other subjects Language policy
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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.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Pragmatics
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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
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Multilingualism in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

Edited by Dirk Delabastita and Ton Hoenselaars

No literary tradition in early modern Europe was as obsessed with the interaction between the native tongue and its dialectal variants, or with ‘foreign’ languages and the phenomenon of ‘translation’, as English Renaissance drama. Originally published as a themed issue of English Text Construction … read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 73] 2015. viii, 215 pp.
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Narrative and Identity Construction in the Pacific Islands

Edited by Farzana Gounder

Comprising of more than twenty five percent of the world’s known languages, the Pacific is considered to be the most linguistically diverse region in the world. What unifies the region is the culture of storytelling, which provides a fundamental means for perpetuating cultural knowledge across… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 21] 2015. xvi, 260 pp.
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Researching Northern English

Edited by Raymond Hickey

Northern English has become the focus of intensive research in the past decade or so, following on a series of dedicated conferences. The present book brings together leading-edge contributions on various aspects of language use, variation and change in the North of England. The volume covers the… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G55] 2015. x, 483 pp.
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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
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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.
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South Pacific Englishes: A Sociolinguistic and Morphosyntactic Profile of Fiji English, Samoan English and Cook Islands English

Carolin Biewer

Second-language varieties of English in the South Pacific have received scant attention, until now. This monograph offers the first book-length analysis of the sociolinguistics and morphosyntax of three representatives of South Pacific L2 English in comparison – two of which have never been… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G52] 2015. xvi, 351 pp.
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Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English

Edited by Marina Dossena

The volume presents an innovative approach to studies in Late Modern English by giving attention to variation and change in varieties of English on both sides of the Atlantic. As new corpora become available, scholarly interests broaden their horizons to encompass varieties, the history of which… read more
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 4] 2015. vii, 221 pp.
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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.
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Trilingual Language Acquisition: Contextual factors influencing active trilingualism in early childhood

Sarah Chevalier

This book examines the language development of two children from the ages of two till four, who are growing up exposed to English, Swiss German and French. Its aim is to ascertain the importance of different environmental factors in fostering active trilingualism. These factors include the quantity… read more
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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.
Other subjects Discourse studies
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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
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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.
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Arabic-based Pidgins and Creoles

Edited by Stefano Manfredi and Mauro Tosco

Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 29:2 (2014) v, 253 pp.
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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.
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Contact, Variation, and Change in the History of English

Edited by Simone E. Pfenninger, Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja, Marianne Hundt and Daniel Schreier

The papers in this volume aim at facilitating exchange between three fields of inquiry that are of great importance in historical linguistics: language change, (socio)linguistic research on variation, and contact linguistics. Drawing on a range of recently-developed methodological innovations, such… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 159] 2014. vi, 326 pp.
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Current Trends in Chinese Discourse

Edited by Wei Wang and Linda Tsung

Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 5:1 (2014) v, 97 pp.
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Educated Fiji English: Lexico-grammar and variety status

Lena Zipp

This volume contains a comprehensive corpus-based study of prepositional constructions in written Fiji English. It explores the endo- and exonormative dynamics of norm-giving and norm-developing varieties and contributes to our understanding of structural nativization and variety formation in a… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G47] 2014. xvii, 230 pp.
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English in Nordic Universities: Ideologies and practices

Edited by Anna Kristina Hultgren, Frans Gregersen and Jacob Thøgersen

This volume brings together theoretical perspectives and empirical studies on the ongoing Englishization of Nordic universities. A core objective is to contrast and address the gap between ideological representations of this phenomenon and the ways in which it unfolds in the practices on the ground. read more
[Studies in World Language Problems, 5] 2014. vi, 268 pp.
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English in the Indian Diaspora

Edited by Marianne Hundt and Devyani Sharma

Diasporic populations offer unique opportunities for the study of language variation and change. This volume is the first collection of sociolinguistic studies of English use across the historically complex and widely dispersed Indian diaspora. The contributions describe particular sociohistorical… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G50] 2014. ix, 244 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics
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The Evaluation of Language Regimes: Theory and application to multilingual patent organisations

Michele Gazzola

Building on existing analytical frameworks, this book provides a new methodology allowing different language policies in international multilingual organisations (or “language regimes”) to be compared and evaluated on the basis of criteria such as efficiency and fairness. It explains step-by-step… read more
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The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond

Edited by Sarah Buschfeld, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch

This two-part volume provides a collection of 27 linguistic studies and contributions that shed light on the evolution of different Englishes world-wide (varieties, learner Englishes, dialects, creoles) from a broad spectrum of different perspectives, including both synchronic and diachronic… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G49] 2014. xviii, 513 pp.
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The Expression of Inequality in Interaction: Power, dominance, and status

Edited by Hanna Pishwa and Rainer Schulze

In keeping with the profile of Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, this volume presents and discusses issues that are central to aspects of social inequality, power, dominance and status as expressed in discourse in its broadest sense. The volume aggregates research efforts of the past years, and it… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 248] 2014. vi, 267 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Grammatical Variation and Change in Jersey English

Anna Rosen

Situated at the crossroads of dialectology, sociolinguistics and contact linguistics, this volume provides a first comprehensive description of the morphosyntactic inventory of the variety of English spoken on Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands. Based on a specially compiled corpus of… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G48] 2014. xii, 237 pp.
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Ideophones: Between Grammar and Poetry

Edited by Katherine Lahti, Rusty Barrett and Anthony K. Webster

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 5:3 (2014) vi, 185 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Korean English: A corpus-driven study of a new English

Glenn Hadikin

The English language is changing every day and it is us – the individual speakers and writers – that drive those changes in small ways by choosing to use certain strings of words over others. This book discusses and describes some of the choices made by speakers from South Korea by examining the… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 62] 2014. xiv, 192 pp.
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Left Sentence Peripheries in Spanish: Diachronic, Variationist and Comparative Perspectives

Edited by Andreas Dufter and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta

Since the advent of syntactic cartography, left sentence peripheries have begun to take center stage in linguistic research. Following the lead of Rizzi (1997), much work on left peripheries has been focused on Italian, whereas other Romance languages have attracted somewhat less attention. This… read more
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 214] 2014. viii, 423 pp.
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Letters as Loot: A sociolinguistic approach to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch

Gijsbert Rutten and Marijke J. van der Wal

The study of letter writing is at the heart of the historical-sociolinguistic enterprise. Private letters, in particular, offer an unprecedented view on language history. This book presents an in-depth study of the language of letters focussing on a unique collection of Dutch private letters from… read more
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 2] 2014. xiii, 426 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Mots nous en català / New words in Catalan: Una panoràmica geolectal / A diatopic view

Edited by Teresa Cabré, Ona Domènech Bagaria and Rosa Estopà

This is an innovative and distinctive comparative monograph about new word creation in the different varieties of Catalan. In eight chapters, it provides a panoramic analysis of the neologisms documented by the NEOXOC network. Each chapter is dedicated to the qualitative and quantitative analysis,… read more
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Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600–1900: A sociolinguistic and comparative perspective

Edited by Gijsbert Rutten, Rik Vosters and Wim Vandenbussche

Historical sociolinguistics has successfully challenged the traditional focus on standardization in linguistic historiography. Extensive research on newly uncovered textual resources has shown the widespread variation in the written language of the past that was previously hidden or neglected. The… read more
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 3] 2014. viii, 334 pp.
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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.
Other subjects Discourse studies
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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.
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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
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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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.
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Usage-Based Approaches to Language Change

Edited by Evie Coussé and Ferdinand von Mengden

Usage-based approaches to language have gained increasing attention in the last two decades. The importance of change and variation has always been recognized in this framework, but has never received central attention. It is the main aim of this book to fill this gap. Once we recognize that usage… read more
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Communities of Practice in the History of English

Edited by Joanna Kopaczyk and Andreas H. Jucker

Languages change and they keep changing as a result of communicative interactions and practices in the context of communities of language users. The articles in this volume showcase a range of such communities and their practices as loci of language change in the history of English. The notion of… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 235] 2013. vii, 291 pp.
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Corpus Perspectives on Patterns of Lexis

Edited by Hilde Hasselgård, Jarle Ebeling and Signe Oksefjell Ebeling

A hallmark of corpus linguistics is the study of patterns of language use. The studies presented in this volume all use corpora to investigate patterns of lexis from various perspectives. The first section, “Sequence and Order”, presents theoretical and practical aspects of the linguist’s task of… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 57] 2013. viii, 299 pp.
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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.
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The Discursive Construction of the Scots Language: Education, politics and everyday life

Johann Wolfgang Unger

This monograph is about how the Scots language is discursively constructed, both from ‘above’ (through texts such as educational policies, debates in parliament and official websites) and from ‘below’ (in focus group discussions among Scottish people). It uses the interdisciplinary… read more
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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
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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.
Other subjects English linguistics
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Exploring the Dynamics of Multilingualism: The DYLAN project

Edited by Anne-Claude Berthoud, François Grin and Georges Lüdi

This book addresses the meanings and implications of multilingualism and its uses in a context of rapid changes, in Europe and around the world. All types of organisations, including the political institutions of the European Union, universities and private-sector companies must rise to the many… read more
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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
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
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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
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New Perspectives on English as a European Lingua Franca

Heiko Motschenbacher

This volume complements earlier work on English as a lingua franca (ELF) by providing an in-depth study of the phenomenon from a decidedly European perspective. Distancing itself from more traditional approaches to the study of English in Europe (linguistic imperialism and “Euro-English”), the… read more
[Not in series, 182] 2013. xi, 249 pp.
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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.
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The Politics of English: South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific

Edited by Lionel Wee, Robbie B.H. Goh and Lisa Lim

This volume brings together contributions that explore the increasingly important roles that English plays in Asia, including its contribution to economic growth, national imaginaries and creative writing. These are issues that are political in a broad sense, but the diversity of Asian contexts… read more
[Studies in World Language Problems, 4] 2013. ix, 322 pp.
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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.
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Space for all? European perspectives on minority languages and identity

Edited by Dawn Archer, Christopher Williams and Paul Fryer

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 4:2 (2013) v, 130 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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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.
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Thematising Multilingualism in the Media

Edited by Helen Kelly-Holmes and Tommaso M. Milani

This volume analyses the complex relations between multilingualism and the media: how the media manage multilingualism; how multilingualism is presented and used as media content; and how the media are discursive sites where debates about multilingualism and other language-related issues unfold. It… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 49] 2013. v, 151 pp.
Other subjects Language policy | Multilingualism
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Touching the Past: Studies in the historical sociolinguistics of ego-documents

Edited by Marijke J. van der Wal and Gijsbert Rutten

The study of ego-documents figures as a prominent theme in cutting-edge research in the Humanities. Focusing on private letters, diaries and autobiography, this volume covers a wide range of different languages and historical periods, from the sixteenth century to World War I. The volume stands out… read more
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 1] 2013. vii, 279 pp.
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Transferring Linguistic Know-how into Institutional Practice

Edited by Kristin Bührig and Bernd Meyer

This volume is dedicated to applied linguistic research on multilingualism. The term “applied linguistics” is used in a broad sense and describes several examples of the cooperation between linguists and public service institutions or commercial companies. Furthermore, renowned scholars in the… read more
[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 15] 2013. vii, 151 pp.
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Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse: Perspectives from corpus linguistics

Edited by Julia Bamford, Silvia Cavalieri and Giuliana Diani

This book focuses on aspects of variation and change in language use in spoken and written discourse on the basis of corpus analyses, providing new descriptive insights, and new methods of utilising small specialized corpora for the description of language variation and change. The sixteen… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 21] 2013. xiii, 290 pp.
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Variation and Change in the Encoding of Motion Events

Edited by Juliana Goschler and Anatol Stefanowitsch

The linguistic typology of motion event encoding is one of the central topics in Cognitive Linguistics. A vast body of typological, contrastive, and psycholinguistic research has shown the potential, but also the limitations of the original distinction between verb-framed and satellite-framed… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 41] 2013. x, 251 pp.
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Agency in the Emergence of Creole Languages: The role of women, renegades, and people of African and indigenous descent in the emergence of the colonial era creoles

Edited by Nicholas Faraclas

This book is a ‘must read’ for those who are looking for fresh perspectives on the process of creolization of language. Focusing on peoples whose agency has too often been rendered invisible in colonial and neo-colonial history and on voices which have too often been silenced in linguistic accounts… read more
[Creole Language Library, 45] 2012. xiii, 246 pp.
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The Anglicization of European Lexis

Edited by Cristiano Furiassi, Virginia Pulcini and Félix Rodríguez González

This volume explores the lexical influence of English on European languages, a topical theme with linguistic and cultural implications. It provides an extensive introductory background to a cross-national view of English-induced lexical borrowing, posing crucial analytical questions such as what… read more
[Not in series, 174] 2012. ix, 356 pp.
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The Dialect Laboratory: Dialects as a testing ground for theories of language change

Edited by Gunther De Vogelaer and Guido Seiler

Much theorizing in language change research is made without taking into account dialect data. Yet, dialects seem to be superior data to build a theory of linguistic change on, since dialects are relatively free of standardization and therefore more tolerant of variant competition in grammar. In… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 128] 2012. vi, 297 pp.
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English in Southeast Asia: Features, policy and language in use

Edited by Ee-Ling Low and Azirah Hashim

This volume provides a first systematic, comprehensive account of English in Southeast Asia (SEA) based on current research by leading scholars in the field. The volume first provides a systematic account of the linguistic features across all sub-varieties found within each country. It also has a… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G42] 2012. xiv, 394 pp.
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Evidentiality in Interaction

Edited by Janis B. Nuckolls and Lev Michael

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 3:2 (2012) v, 191 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Ibero-Asian Creoles: Comparative Perspectives

Edited by Hugo C. Cardoso, Alan N. Baxter and Mário Pinharanda-Nunes

Starting in 1498, contact between Ibero-Romance and Asian languages has taken place along a vast stretch of the coastlines of continental and insular Asia, producing a string of contact varieties which are among the least visible in the field of Creole Studies. This volume, the first one dedicated… read more
[Creole Language Library, 46] 2012. xi, 375 pp.
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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.
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Language Maintenance and Language Death: The decline of Texas Alsatian

Karen A. Roesch

This book provides the first extensive description of Texas Alsatian, a critically-endangered Texas German dialect, as spoken in Medina County in the 21st century. The dialect was brought to Texas in the 1840s by colonists recruited by French entrepreneur Henri Castro and has been preserved with… read more
[Culture and Language Use, 6] 2012. xv, 253 pp.
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Mapping Unity and Diversity World-Wide: Corpus-Based Studies of New Englishes

Edited by Marianne Hundt and Ulrike Gut

This volume presents a collection of in-depth cross-varietal studies on a broad spectrum of grammatical features in English varieties spoken all over the world. The contributions explore the structural unity and diversity of New Englishes and thus investigate central aspects of dialect evolution… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G43] 2012. xiv, 294 pp.
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Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies

Edited by Kurt Braunmüller and Christoph Gabriel

The 25 contributions of this volume represent a selection from the more than 120 papers originally presented at the International Conference on “Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies” (MIMS), held in Hamburg (October 2010) and organized by the Collaborative Research Center… read more
[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 13] 2012. xiv, 474 pp.
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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
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New Perspectives on Irish English

Edited by Bettina Migge and Máire Ní Chiosáin

This volume brings together current research by international scholars on the varieties of English spoken in Ireland. The papers apply contemporary theoretical and methodological approaches and frameworks to a range of topics. A number of papers explore the distribution of linguistic features in… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G44] 2012. xvii, 361 pp.
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Phonological Variation in French: Illustrations from three continents

Edited by Randall Gess, Chantal Lyche and Trudel Meisenburg

This volume presents a selection of French varieties representing the great diversity of this language along geographical, social, and stylistic dimensions. Twelve illustrations from regions as far removed as Western Canada and Central Africa represent widely divergent social contexts of language… read more
[Studies in Language Variation, 11] 2012. vii, 397 pp.
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Phonological Variation in Rural Jamaican Schools

Véronique Lacoste

This book investigates variation in the classroom speech of 7-year-old children who are learning Standard Jamaican English as a second language variety in rural Jamaica. For sociolinguists and second language/dialect researchers interested in the acquisition and use of sociolinguistic variables, an… read more
[Creole Language Library, 42] 2012. xiv, 293 pp.
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Pragmatic Variation in First and Second Language Contexts: Methodological issues

Edited by J. César Félix-Brasdefer and Dale Koike

Departing from Schneider and Barron (2008), representing the emerging field of Variational Pragmatics, this volume examines pragmatic variation focusing on methods utilized to collect and analyze data in a variety of first (L1) and second (L2) language contexts. The objectives are to: (1) examine… read more
Other subjects Language acquisition | Pragmatics
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Standard Languages and Multilingualism in European History

Edited by Matthias Hüning, Ulrike Vogl and Olivier Moliner

This volume explores the roots of Europe's struggle with multilingualism. It argues that, over the centuries, the pursuit of linguistic homogeneity has become a central aspect of the mindset of Europeans. In its extreme form, it became manifest in the principle of 'one language, one state, one… read more
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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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Swiss German Intonation Patterns

Adrian Leemann

Switzerland is renowned for having a diverse linguistic and dialectal landscape in a comparatively small and confined space. Possibly, this is one of the reasons why Swiss German dialects have been investigated thoroughly on various linguistic levels. Nevertheless, natural speech intonation has,… read more
[Studies in Language Variation, 10] 2012. xv, 331 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Phonology
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The Syntax of Spoken Indian English

Claudia Lange

This book offers an in-depth analysis of several features of spoken Indian English that are generally considered as ‘typical’, but have never before been studied empirically. Drawing on authentic spoken data from the International Corpus of English, Indian component, the book focuses on the domain… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G45] 2012. xv, 265 pp.
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Bilingual Youth: Spanish in English-speaking societies

Edited by Kim Potowski and Jason Rothman

The present volume represents a variety of portraits of what happens when families attempt to raise children in Spanish while living in English-speaking societies. Aided by the foregrounding chapter by Suzanne Romaine about language and identity and the afterword by Carol Klee that ties together… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 42] 2011. vi, 371 pp.
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Bilingualism in the USA: The case of the Chicano-Latino community

Fredric Field

This text provides an overview of bi- and multilingualism as a worldwide phenomenon. It features comprehensive discussions of many of the linguistic, social, political, and educational issues found in an increasingly multilingual nation and world. To this end, the book takes the Chicano-Latino… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 44] 2011. xviii, 320 pp.
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Corpus-based Analysis and Diachronic Linguistics

Edited by Yuji Kawaguchi, Makoto Minegishi and Wolfgang Viereck

Nowadays, linguists do not question the existence of synchronic variation, and the dichotomy between synchrony and diachrony. They recognize that synchrony can be motivated regionally (diatopic variation), sociolinguistically (diastratic variation), or stylistically (diaphasic variation). But,… read more
[Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 3] 2011. vi, 293 pp.
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Creoles and Typology

Edited by Parth Bhatt and Tonjes Veenstra

Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 26:1 (2011) v, 233 pp.
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The Discourse of Social Achievement

Edited by Georgeta Cislaru

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 2:2 (2011) v, 173 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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English in Europe Today: Sociocultural and educational perspectives

Edited by Annick De Houwer and Antje Wilton

This volume discusses several facets of English in today's multilingual Europe. It emphasizes the interdependence between cultures, languages and situations that influence its use. This interdependence is particularly relevant to European settings where English is being learned as a second language. read more
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 8] 2011. xi, 170 pp.
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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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Indentured Identities: Resistance and accommodation in plantation-era Fiji

Farzana Gounder

The book explores the historical dimension of Indian indenture from within the lived experience of laborers, who emigrated to Fiji from colonial India a century ago. As these laborers are no longer alive, one could argue that the experience of indenture is no longer accessible, if there had not… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 15] 2011. xvii, 345 pp.
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Internal and External Factors in Child Second Language Acquisition

Edited by Aafke Hulk and Theodoros Marinis

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 1:3 (2011) v, 139 pp.
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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.
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Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations

Edited by J. Clancy Clements and Shelome Gooden

The studies in Language Change in Contact Languages showcase the contributions that the study of contact language varieties make to the understanding of phenomena such as relexification, transfer, reanalysis, grammaticalization, prosodic variation and the development of prosodic systems. Four of… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 36] 2011. v, 241 pp.
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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.
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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.
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Structural Nativization in Indian English Lexicogrammar

Marco Schilk

This book contains the first in-depth corpus-based description of structural nativization at the lexis-grammar interface in Indian English, the largest institutionalized second-language variety of English world-wide. For a set of three ditransitive verbs give, send and offer –collocational… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 46] 2011. xiii, 182 pp.
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Transcribing Talk and Interaction: Issues in the representation of communication data

Christopher Jenks

Interest in transcript-based research has grown significantly in recent years. Alongside this growth has been an increase in awareness of the empirical utility of naturalistic research on language use in interaction. However, a quick scan of the literature reveals that very few transcription books… read more
[Not in series, 165] 2011. xi, 120 pp.
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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.
Other subjects Creole studies
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Aspect in Grammatical Variation

Edited by James A. Walker

The articles in this edited volume represent a range of approaches to studying the role of verbal aspect in grammatical variation. Issues addressed include: defining the variable context; operationalizing aspectual distinctions as factors conditioning linguistic variation; and the appropriate… read more
[Studies in Language Variation, 6] 2010. vi, 150 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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Continuity and Change in Grammar

Edited by Anne Breitbarth, Christopher Lucas, Sheila Watts and David Willis

One of the principal challenges of historical linguistics is to explain the causes of language change. Any such explanation, however, must also address the ‘actuation problem’: why is it that changes occurring in a given language at a certain time cannot be reliably predicted to recur in other… read more
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 159] 2010. viii, 359 pp.
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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.
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Grimm Language: Grammar, Gender and Genuineness in the Fairy Tales

Orrin W. Robinson

Grimm Language addresses a number of issues in the Grimms’ fairy tales from a (Germanic) linguist’s point of view. In sections dealing with the Grimms’ use of regional dialect material, various grammatical constructions, and specific nouns and adjectives in their Children’s and Household Tales, the… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 10] 2010. xi, 190 pp.
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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
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Language, Gender and Sexual Identity: Poststructuralist perspectives

Heiko Motschenbacher

This book makes an innovative contribution to the relatively young field of Queer Linguistics. Subscribing to a poststructuralist framework, it presents a critical, deconstructionist perspective on the discursive construction of heteronormativity and gender binarism from a linguistic point of view.… read more
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Media Intertextualities: Semiotic mediation across time and space

Edited by Mie Hiramoto

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 1:2 (2010) iv, 141
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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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
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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.
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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.
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Pidgins and Creoles in Asian Contexts

Edited by Umberto Ansaldo

Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 25:1 (2010) v, 199 pp.
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Social Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English

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

This volume presents a ground-breaking overview of the interconnections between socio-cultural reality and language practices, by looking at the different ways in which social roles are performed, maintained, adopted and assigned through linguistic means. The introductory chapter discusses and… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 195] 2010. viii, 241 pp.
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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.
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Society and Language Use

Edited by Jürgen Jaspers, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, cultural,… read more
[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 7] 2010. xiii, 324 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Storied Conflict Talk: Narrative construction in mediation

Katherine A. Stewart and Madeline M. Maxwell

Narrative analyses routinely investigate autobiographical and interview data. This book examines narratives-in-interaction co-constructed by participants in formal mediation sessions, by asking how many of the five cases in the videotaped data display the adversarial narrative pattern pervasive… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 12] 2010. vii, 137 pp.
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Variation and Change: Pragmatic perspectives

Edited by Mirjam Fried, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

The ten volumes of the Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, cultural,… read more
[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 6] 2010. x, 275 pp.
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Varieties of English in Writing: The written word as linguistic evidence

Edited by Raymond Hickey

This volume is concerned with assessing fictional and non-fictional written texts as linguistic evidence for earlier forms of varieties of English. These range from Scotland to New Zealand, from Canada to South Africa, covering all the major forms of the English language around the world. Central… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G41] 2010. x, 378 pp.
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Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and beyond

Edited by Pam Peters, Peter Collins and Adam Smith

This anthology brings together fresh corpus-based research by international scholars. It contrasts southern and northern hemisphere usage on variable elements of morphology and syntax. The nineteen invited papers include topics such as irregular verb parts, pronouns, modal and quasimodal verbs, the… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G39] 2009. x, 406 pp.
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Contemporary Indian English: Variation and change

Andreas Sedlatschek

Contemporary Indian English: Variation and Change offers the first comprehensive description of Indian English and its emerging regional standard in a corpus-linguistic framework. Drawing on a wealth of authentic spoken and written data from India (including the Kolhapur Corpus and the… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G38] 2009. xix, 363 pp.
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Convergence and Divergence in Language Contact Situations

Edited by Kurt Braunmüller and Juliane House

This book deals with the consequences of converging and diverging processes and their development in language contact situations. It provides insights into the various forms of language contact and the conditions under which bilingual speakers master their every-day life in bilingual communities.… read more
[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 8] 2009. viii, 241 pp.
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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.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics
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Gradual Creolization: Studies celebrating Jacques Arends

Edited by Rachel Selbach, Hugo C. Cardoso and Margot van den Berg

Is creolization an abrupt or a gradual process? In this volume leading scholars provide both comparative and case studies that outline their working definitions and their views on the particular or average time depth, or key processes necessary for contact language formation, providing a… read more
[Creole Language Library, 34] 2009. x, 392 pp.
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Grammatical Variation across Space and Time: The French interrogative system

Martin Elsig

Interrogative clauses in French show abundant variation, especially with regard to the position of the subject vis-à-vis the finite verb, the placement of the wh-word, and the use of question markers such as est-ce que and ti/tu. This book presents a comprehensive study of the evolution and use of… read more
[Studies in Language Variation, 3] 2009. xvi, 282 pp.
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Humor in Interaction

Edited by Neal R. Norrick and Delia Chiaro

This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to humor in interaction. It is a rich collection of essays by an international array of scholars representing various theoretical perspectives, but all concerned with interactional aspects of humor. The contributors are scholars active both in… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 182] 2009. xvii, 238 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Introducing Sociolinguistics: Second Edition

Rajend Mesthrie, Joan Swann, Ana Deumert and William L. Leap

FOR SALE IN U.S. AND CANADA ONLY. FOR SALES IN ALL OTHER COUNTRIES, PLEASE CONTACT EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS.Sociolinguistics is one of the central branches of modern linguistics and deals with the place of language in human societies. This second edition of Introducing Sociolinguistics expertly… read more
[Not in series, 102] 2009. xxvi, 502 pp.
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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.
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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.
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Luxembourg

Edited by Kristine Horner

Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 33:2 (2009) 96 pp
Other subjects Language policy
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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.
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Multidisciplinary Approaches to Code Switching

Edited by Ludmila Isurin, Donald Winford and Kees de Bot

The volume presents a selection of contributions by leading scholars in the field of code-switching. In the past the phenomenon of code-switching was studied within different subfields of linguistics and they all took their own perspectives on code-switching without taking into account findings… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 41] 2009. xviii, 364 pp.
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On Apologising in Negative and Positive Politeness Cultures

Eva Ogiermann

This book investigates how speakers of English, Polish and Russian deal with offensive situations. It reveals culture-specific perceptions of what counts as an apology and what constitutes politeness. It offers a critical discussion of Brown and Levinson's theory and provides counterevidence to the… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 191] 2009. x, 296 pp.
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The Pragmatics of Interaction

Edited by Sigurd D’hondt, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, social, cultural,… read more
[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 4] 2009. xiii, 262 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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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.
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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
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The Typology of Asian Englishes

Edited by Lisa Lim and Nikolas Gisborne

Special issue of English World-Wide 30:2 (2009) 124 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics
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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
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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.
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Youngspeak in a Multilingual Perspective

Edited by Anna-Brita Stenström and Annette Myre Jørgensen

Despite its potential influence on the standard language, there is still relatively little written about the language of the young. This book gives new insight into some important areas of their language, such as identity construction reflected, for instance, in prosodic patterns and language… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 184] 2009. vi, 206 pp.
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Bilingualism and Identity: Spanish at the crossroads with other languages

Edited by Mercedes Niño-Murcia and Jason Rothman

Sociolinguists have been pursuing connections between language and identity for several decades. But how are language and identity related in bilingualism and multilingualism? Mobilizing the most current methodology, this collection presents new research on language identity and bilingualism in… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 37] 2008. vii, 365 pp.
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Controversy and Confrontation: Relating controversy analysis with argumentation theory

Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen

The essays that are collected in Controversy and Confrontation provide a closer insight into the relationship between controversy and confrontation that deepens our understanding of the functioning of argumentative discourse in managing differences of opinion. Their authors stem from two… read more
[Controversies, 6] 2008. xiii, 278 pp.
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Dimensions of Forensic Linguistics

Edited by John Gibbons and M. Teresa Turell

This volume functions as a guide to the multidisciplinary nature of Forensic Linguistics understood in its broadest sense as the interface between language and the law. It seeks to address the links in this relatively young field between theory, method and data, without neglecting the need for new… read more
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 5] 2008. vi, 316 pp.
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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.
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English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006. Volume III: Geo-Historical Variation in English

Edited by Marina Dossena, Richard Dury and Maurizio Gotti

The papers collected in this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). Alongside studies of syntax, morphology, lexis and semantics, published in two sister volumes, many innovative contributions focused on geo-historical… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 297] 2008. xiii, 197 pp.
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In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology. In honor of Harold Crane Fleming

Edited by John D. Bengtson

Compiled in honor and celebration of veteran anthropologist Harold C. Fleming, this book contains 23 articles by anthropologists (in the general sense) from the four main disciplines of prehistory: archaeology, biogenetics, paleoanthropology, and genetic (historical) linguistics. Because of… read more
[Not in series, 145] 2008. xxiv, 476 pp.
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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
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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.
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New-Dialect Formation in Canada: Evidence from the English modal auxiliaries

Stefan Dollinger

This book details the development of eleven modal auxiliaries in late 18th- and 19th-century Canadian English in a framework of new-dialect formation. The study assesses features of the modal auxiliaries, tracing influences to British and American input varieties, parallel developments, or Canadian… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 97] 2008. xxii, 355 pp.
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Positioning in Media Dialogue: Negotiating roles in the news interview

Elda Weizman

This book proposes a socio-pragmatic exploration of the discursive practices used to construe and dynamically negotiate positions in news interviews. It starts with a discursive interpretation of ‘positioning’, ‘role’ and ‘challenge’, puts forward the relevance of a distinction between social and… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 3] 2008. xiv, 208 pp.
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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.
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Roots of Creole Structures: Weighing the contribution of substrates and superstrates

Edited by Susanne Maria Michaelis

This book reflects an ongoing shift in the study of contact languages: After a period of history-free universalism, it directs the attention to the individual historical circumstances under which the pidgin and creole languages arose. The contributions deal with different areas of language… read more
[Creole Language Library, 33] 2008. xvii, 425 pp.
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Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities: Celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff

Edited by Miriam Meyerhoff and Naomi Nagy

This volume offers a synthetic approach to language variation and language ideologies in multilingual communities. Although the vast majority of the world’s speech communities are multilingual, much of sociolinguistics ignores this internal diversity. This volume fills this gap, investigating… read more
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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.
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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.
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Variational Pragmatics: A focus on regional varieties in pluricentric languages

Edited by Klaus P. Schneider and Anne Barron

This collection of papers is designed to establish variational pragmatics. This new field is situated at the interface of pragmatics and dialectology and aims at systematically investigating the effect of macro-social pragmatic variation on language in action. As such, it challenges the widespread… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 178] 2008. vii, 371 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Context and Appropriateness: Micro meets macro

Edited by Anita Fetzer

This book departs from the premise that context and appropriateness represent complex relational configurations which can no longer be conceived as analytic primes but rather require the accommodation of micro and macro perspectives to capture their inherent dynamism. The edited volume presents a… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 162] 2007. vi, 265 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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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.
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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.
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Selves in Two Languages: Bilinguals’ verbal enactments of identity in French and Portuguese

Michèle Koven

Bilinguals often report that they feel like a different person in their two languages. In the words of one bilingual in Koven’s book, “When I speak Portuguese, automatically, I'm in a different world…it's a different color.” Although testimonials like this abound in everyday conversation among… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 34] 2007. xi, 327 pp.
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Small Stories, Interaction and Identities

Alexandra Georgakopoulou

Narrative research is frequently described as a diverse enterprise, yet the kinds of narrative data that it bases itself on present a striking consensus: they tend to be autobiographical and elicited in interviews. This book sets out to carve out a space alongside this narrative canon for stories… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 8] 2007. xi, 185 pp.
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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
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Substrate Influence in Creole Formation

Edited by Bettina Migge and Norval Smith

Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 22:1 (2007) 200 pp.
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Beyond Misunderstanding: Linguistic analyses of intercultural communication

Edited by Kristin Bührig and Jan D. ten Thije

This book challenges two tacit presumptions in the field of intercultural communication research. Firstly, misunderstandings can frequently be found in intercultural communication, although, one could not claim that intercultural communication is constituted by misunderstandings alone. This volume… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 144] 2006. vi, 339 pp.
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Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion

Edited by Tope Omoniyi and Joshua A. Fishman †

The Sociology of Language and Religion (SLR) is still in its infancy as a sub-discipline in the macrosociolinguistic tradition. It is therefore no coincidence that the editorial collaboration to produce its first definitive text Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion has involved… read more
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History, Society and Variation: In honor of Albert Valdman

Edited by J. Clancy Clements, Thomas A. Klingler, Deborah Piston-Hatlen and Kevin J. Rottet

This volume presents a collection of new articles by sixteen specialists in the field of pidgin and creole studies, assembled in honor of the world-renowned creolist, Albert Valdman. The articles, written from a variety of theoretical perspectives, are organized thematically in three sections: on… read more
[Creole Language Library, 28] 2006. vi, 304 pp.
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Language Variation and Change in the American Midland: A New Look at ‘Heartland’ English

Edited by Thomas E. Murray and Beth Lee Simon

This volume explores the linguistic complexities and critical issues of the Midland dialect area of the USA, and contains a unique data-based set of investigations of the Midlands dialect. The authors demonstrate that the large central part of the United States known colloquially as the Heartland,… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G36] 2006. xii, 320 pp.
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Language Variation – European Perspectives: Selected papers from the Third International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 3), Amsterdam, June 2005

Edited by Frans Hinskens

This volume presents 16 original studies of variation in languages representing the three main European language families, as well as in varieties of Greek and Hungarian. The studies concern variation in or across dialects or dialect groups, in standard varieties or in emerging regional varieties… read more
[Studies in Language Variation, 1] 2006. vi, 279 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
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Broadening the Horizon of Linguistic Politeness

Edited by Robin T. Lakoff and Sachiko Ide

This collection of 19 papers celebrates the coming of age of the field of politeness studies, now in its 30th year. It begins with an investigation of the meaning of politeness, especially linguistic politeness, and presents a short history of the field of linguistic politeness studies, showing how… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 139] 2005. xii, 342 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Creole Language in Creole Literatures

Edited by Susanne Mühleisen

Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 20:1 (2005) 232 pp.
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Dialects Across Borders: Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (Methods XI), Joensuu, August 2002

Edited by Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, Marjatta Palander and Esa Penttilä

Nonstandard varieties of languages have recently become an object of new interest in scholarly research. This is very much due to the advances in the methods used in data collection and analysis, as well as the emergence of new language-theoretical frameworks. The articles in this volume stem from… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 273] 2005. xii, 291 pp.
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Discourse and Power in a Multilingual World

Adrian Blackledge

In Discourse and Power in a Multilingual World the discourse of politicians and policy-makers in Britain links languages other than English, and therefore speakers of these languages, with civil disorder and threats to democracy, citizenship and nationhood. These powerful arguments travel along… read more
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Dublin English: Evolution and change

Raymond Hickey

The present book describes the English language in all its facets as spoken in present-day Dublin, the capital of the Republic of Ireland. It covers the entire range of its history since the first arrival of English there several hundred years ago. Apart from the evolution of English in the… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G35] 2005. x, 270 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
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Hungarian Language Contact Outside Hungary: Studies on Hungarian as a minority language

Edited by Anna Fenyvesi

In Communist times, it was impossible to do sociolinguistic work on Hungarian in contact with other languages. In the short period of time since the collapse of the Soviet bloc, Hungarian sociolinguists have certainly done their very best to catch up. This volume brings together the fruits of their… read more
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Multiple Case Narrative: A qualitative approach to studying multiple populations

Asher Shkedi

This book introduces a methodology for the construction of a comprehensive narrative description and narrative-based theory from the study of multiple populations. The book has two parallel foci. On the one hand, it is a conceptual treatise, focusing on the principles of the Multiple Case Narrative. read more
[Studies in Narrative, 7] 2005. xvi, 210 pp.
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Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles

Edited by Susanne Mühleisen and Bettina Migge

Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles is the first collection to focus on socio-pragmatic issues in the Caribbean context, including the socio-cultural rules and principles underlying strategic language use. While the Caribbean has long been recognized as a rich and interesting site where… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G34] 2005. viii, 293 pp.
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Questions and Answers in the English Courtroom (1640–1760): A sociopragmatic analysis

Dawn Archer

This book belongs to the rapidly growing field of historical pragmatics. More specifically, it aims to lend definition to the area of historical sociopragmatics. It seeks to enhance our understanding of the language of the historical courtroom by documenting changes to the discursive roles of the… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 135] 2005. xiv, 374 pp.
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The Sociolinguistics of Narrative

Edited by Joanna Thornborrow and Jennifer Coates

This book aims to appraise sociolinguistic work devoted to the form and function of storytelling and to examine in detail the ways in which narrative constitutes a fundamental discursive resource across a range of contexts. The chapters presented here bring together some of the most recent work in… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 6] 2005. vi, 300 pp.
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Syntax and Variation: Reconciling the Biological and the Social

Edited by Leonie Cornips and Karen P. Corrigan

The papers in this collection share a common interest in the empirical, theoretical and meta-theoretical aspects of the ‘internal-external’ (‘formal-functional’) debate in linguistic theory. The primary aim of this volume is to initiate cooperation between internationally renowned generative and… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 265] 2005. vi, 312 pp.
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Considering Counter-Narratives: Narrating, resisting, making sense

Edited by Michael Bamberg and Molly Andrews

Counter-narratives only make sense in relation to something else, that which they are countering. The very name identifies it as a positional category, in tension with another category. But what is dominant and what is resistant are not, of course, static questions, but rather are forever shifting… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 4] 2004. x, 381 pp.
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Creoles, Contact, and Language Change: Linguistic and social implications

Edited by Geneviève Escure and Armin Schwegler

This volume contains a selection of fifteen papers presented at three consecutive meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, held in Washington, D.C. (January 2001); Coimbra, Portugal (June 2001); and San Francisco (January 2002). The fifteen articles offer a balanced sampling of… read more
[Creole Language Library, 27] 2004. x, 355 pp.
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The Dynamic Consultation: A discourse analytical study of doctor–patient communication

Marisa Cordella

This book introduces a unique model of medical discourse that identifies the forms of talk – voices – that doctors and patients use during the consultation, and studies the dynamic interaction as it unfolds particularly in follow-up visits. Natural recordings, semi-structured interviews,… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 128] 2004. xvi, 254 pp.
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First Language Attrition: Interdisciplinary perspectives on methodological issues

Edited by Monika S. Schmid, Barbara Köpke, Merel Keijzer and Lina Weilemar

This volume provides a state-of-the-art treatment of research on language attrition, the non-pathological loss of a language through lack of exposure. It combines a review of past and present research with in-depth treatments of specific theoretical and methodological issues and reports on… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 28] 2004. x, 378 pp.
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Language Standardization and Language Change: The dynamics of Cape Dutch

Ana Deumert

Language Standardization and Language Change describes the formation of an early standard norm at the Cape around 1900. The processes of variant reduction and sociolinguistic focusing which accompanied the early standardization history of Afrikaans (or ‘Cape Dutch’ as it was then called) are… read more
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Narrative Counselling: Social and linguistic processes of change

Peter Muntigl

What actually happens in counselling interactions? How does counselling bring about change? How do clients end up producing new and alternative stories of their lives and relationships? By addressing these questions and others, Peter Muntigl explores the narrative counselling process in the context… read more
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Revisiting the Interpreter’s Role: A study of conference, court, and medical interpreters in Canada, Mexico, and the United States

Claudia V. Angelelli

Through the development of a valid and reliable instrument, this book sets out to study the role that interpreters play in the various settings where they work, i.e. the courts, the hospitals, business meetings, international conferences, and schools. It presents interpreters’ perceptions and… read more
[Benjamins Translation Library, 55] 2004. xvi, 125 pp.
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Singapore English: A grammatical description

Edited by Lisa Lim

Singapore English: A grammatical description provides a vivid account of current, contemporary Singapore English, complementing older seminal accounts of this variety. Drawing primarily on the Grammar of Spoken Singapore English Corpus, which comprises naturally-occurring conversational speech, the… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G33] 2004. xiv, 172 pp.
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South Africa

Edited by Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu and Timothy Reagan

Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 28:2 (2004) 114 pp.
Other subjects Language policy
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Spanish/English Codeswitching in a Written Corpus

Laura Callahan

Spanish/English codeswitching in published work represents a claim to the right to participate in the marketplace on a bilingual and not just monolingual basis. This book offers a syntactic and sociolinguistic analysis of the codeswitching in a corpus of thirty texts: novels and short stories… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 27] 2004. viii, 181 pp.
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Urban Bahamian Creole: System and variation

Stephanie Hackert

This volume, a detailed empirical study of the creole English spoken in the Bahamian capital, Nassau, contributes to our understanding of both urban creoles and tense-aspect marking in creoles. The first part traces the development of a creole in the Bahamas via socio-demographic data and outlines… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G32] 2004. xiv, 254 pp.
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World Applied Linguistics: A Celebration of AILA at 40. AILA Review, Volume 17

Edited by Susan M. Gass and Sinfree Makoni

Volume 17 of AILA Review will focus on Applied Linguistics as an international discipline. Authors from various regions of the world will focus on the following questions: What has been the development of Applied Linguistics in your region? What are current issues being dealt with in Applied… read more
[AILA Review, 17] 2004. 143 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics
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Africa and Applied Linguistics. AILA Review, Volume 16

Edited by Sinfree Makoni and Ulrike H. Meinhof

AILA Review is a publication of the Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée, an international federation of national associations for applied linguistics. Volume 16 of AILA Review is the first to appear with John Benjamins and contains a unique collection of articles, guest-edited by… read more
[AILA Review, 16] 2003. ii, 173 pp.
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The Art of Commemoration: Fifty years after the Warsaw Uprising

Edited by Titus Ensink and Christoph Sauer

The Art of Commemoration focuses on a particular historical event that illustrates how nations define their own identities and establish mutual relations in their discourse: the Warsaw Uprising of August 1944 and its Commemoration in 1994. This Commemoration was an innovative and unique form of… read more
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Aspects of Multilingualism in European Language History

Edited by Kurt Braunmüller and Gisella Ferraresi

This volume gives an up-to-date account of various situations of language contact and multilingualism in Europe especially from a historical point of view. Its ten contributions present newly collected data from different parts of the continent seen through diverse theoretical perspectives. They… read more
[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 2] 2003. viii, 289 pp.
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Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean

Edited by Michael Aceto and Jeffrey P. Williams

Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean is the first collection to focus, via primary linguistic fieldwork, on the underrepresented and neglected area of the Anglophone Eastern Caribbean. The following islands are included: The Virgin Islands (USA & British), Anguilla, Barbuda, Dominica, St.… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G30] 2003. xx, 322 pp.
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Creole Formation as Language Contact: The case of the Suriname Creoles

Bettina Migge

The research on the formation of (radical) creoles has seen an unprecedented intensification and diversification in the last 20 years. This book discusses, illustrates, and evaluates current research on creole formation based on an in-depth investigation of the processes and mechanisms that… read more
[Creole Language Library, 25] 2003. xii, 151 pp.
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Discourse Constructions of Youth Identities

Edited by Jannis Androutsopoulos and Alexandra Georgakopoulou

This volume sets out to foreground the issues of youth identity in the context of current sociolinguistic and discourse research on identity construction. Based on detailed empirical analyses, the twelve chapters offer examinations of how youth identities from late childhood up to early twenties… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 110] 2003. viii, 338 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Discourse and Silencing: Representation and the language of displacement

Edited by Lynn Thiesmeyer

Silencing is not only a physically coercive act. It is also an act of language involving forms of selection, representation and compliance. Discourse and Silencing weaves together theories and examples of discourse from different disciplines in order to put forward a theory of silencing in… read more
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Discussing Conversation Analysis: The work of Emanuel A. Schegloff

Edited by Carlo L. Prevignano and Paul J. Thibault

Discussing Conversation Analysis: The work of Emanuel A. Schegloff presents an in-depth view on Schegloff’s complex and stimulating work in Conversation Analysis (CA) and offers clear insights into how it has and may be developed further as a research tool in social psychology, social science,… read more
[Not in series, 118] 2003. xiv, 192 pp.
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Fascinated by Languages

Eugene A. Nida

In this unique account of 60 years of Bible translation, Eugene Nida sets out his journey with a personal touch. On the way, he reveals the importance of a solid knowledge of Greek and Hebrew as well as of the historical settings in which the Bible was created, in order to render effective… read more
[Not in series, 119] 2003. vi, 157 pp.
Other subjects Translation Studies
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Filipino English and Taglish: Language switching from multiple perspectives

Roger M. Thompson

English competes with Tagalog and Taglish, a mixture of English and Tagalog, for the affections of Filipinos. To understand the competing ideologies that underlie this switching between languages, this book looks at the language situation from multiple perspectives. Part A reviews the social and… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G31] 2003. xiv, 288 pp.
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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
Other subjects Pragmatics

Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men. 3 Volumes (set)

Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bußmann

This three-volume reference work 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 issues discussed for each language are the following: What are the… read more
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 9-11] 2003. xiv, 329 pp. & xiv, 349 pp. & xiv, 391 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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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
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Identity in Narrative: A study of immigrant discourse

Anna De Fina

This volume presents both an analysis of how identities are built, represented and negotiated in narrative, as well as a theoretical reflection on the links between narrative discourse and identity construction. The data for the book are Mexican immigrants' personal experience narratives and… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 3] 2003. xiv, 252 pp.
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Language Death and Language Maintenance: Theoretical, practical and descriptive approaches

Edited by Mark Janse and Sijmen Tol

Languages are dying at an alarming rate all over the world. Estimates range from 50% to as much as 90% by the end of the century. This collection of original papers tries to strike a balance between theoretical, practical and descriptive approaches to language death and language maintenance. It… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 240] 2003. xviii, 244 pp.
Other subjects Language policy
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Language and Interaction: Discussions with John J. Gumperz

Edited by Susan L. Eerdmans, Carlo L. Prevignano and Paul J. Thibault

This book features a fascinating and extended focal interview with Professor John J. Gumperz, who ranges over his long career trajectory and reflects on his scientific achievements and how they relate to the contemporary linguistic scene. In this way, the reader is presented with a snapshot… read more
[Not in series, 117] 2003. xii, 171 pp.
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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.
Other subjects Language policy
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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
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The Making of a Mixed Language: The case of Ma’a/Mbugu

Maarten Mous

The Mbugu (or Ma'á) language (Tanzania) is one of the few genuine mixed languages, reputedly combining Bantu grammar with Cushitic vocabulary. In fact the people speak two languages: one mixed and one closely related to the Bantu language Pare. This book is the first comprehensive description of… read more
[Creole Language Library, 26] 2003. xx, 322 pp.
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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
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Tok Pisin Texts: From the beginning to the present

Peter Mühlhäusler, Thomas E. Dutton and Suzanne Romaine

Tok Pisin is one of the most important languages of Melanesia and is used in a wide range of public and private functions in Papua New Guinea. The language has featured prominently in Pidgin and Creole linguistics and has featured in a number of debates in theoretical linguistics. With their… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, T9] 2003. x, 284 pp.
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Applying Sociolinguistics: Domains and face-to-face interaction

Diana Boxer

Diana Boxer’s Applying Sociolinguistics: Domains and Face-to-Face Interaction is an up-to-date overview of discourse studies in oral interaction. Its focus is on encounters in the various spheres of life: family, educational, social, religious, and work, with an additional chapter on cross-cultural… read more
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Bilingual Couples Talk: The discursive construction of hybridity

Ingrid Piller

This sociolinguistic study of the linguistic practices of bilingual couples describes the conditions, processes and results of private language contact. It is based on a unique corpus of more than 20 hours of private conversations between partners in bilingual marriages. Adding to its breadth of… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 25] 2002. xii, 315 pp.
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Comparative Historical Dialectology: Italo-Romance clues to Ibero-Romance sound change

Thomas D. Cravens

This brief monograph explores the historical motivations for two sets of phonological changes in some varieties of Romance: restructured voicing of intervocalic /p t k/, and palatalization of initial /l/ and /n/. These developments have been treated repeatedly over the decades, yet neither has… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 231] 2002. xii, 163 pp.
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Creole Discourse: Exploring prestige formation and change across Caribbean English-lexicon Creoles

Susanne Mühleisen

Creole languages are characteristically associated with a negative image. How has this prestige been formed? And is it as static as the diglossic situation in many anglo-creolophone societies seems to suggest? This volume examines socio-historical and epistemological factors in the prestige… read more
[Creole Language Library, 24] 2002. xiv, 331 pp.
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Doric: The dialect of North-East Scotland

J. Derrick McClure

The dialect of North-East Scotland, one of the most distinctive and best preserved in the country, survives as both a proudly maintained mark of local identity and the vehicle for a remarkable regional literature. The present study, after placing the dialect in its historical, geographical and… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, T8] 2002. vi, 219 pp.
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Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men. Volume 2

Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bußmann

This is the second 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… read more
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Gender in Interaction: Perspectives on femininity and masculinity in ethnography and discourse

Edited by Bettina Baron and Helga Kotthoff

In this volume, gender is seen as a communicative achievement and as a social category interacting with other social parametres such as age, status, prestige, institutional and ethnic frameworks, cultural and situative contexts. The authors come from a variety of backgrounds such as sociology of… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 93] 2002. xxiv, 357 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Gender, Politeness and Pragmatic Particles in French

Kate Beeching

This study aims to investigate politeness in women’s and men’s speech, with a particular focus on the use of c’est-à-dire, enfin, hein and quoi in contemporary spoken French. Politeness is defined as going beyond the notion of the face-threatening act, englobing both everyday ideas of politeness… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 104] 2002. x, 251 pp.
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Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology: Volume 2

Edited by Daniel Long and Dennis R. Preston

The Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology, Volume 2, expands on the coverage of both regions and methodologies in the investigation of nonlinguists' perceptions of language variety. New areas studied include Canada (anglophone and francophone), Cuba, Hungary, Italy, Korea, and Mali, and most… read more
[Not in series, HPD 2] 2002. xxvi, 412 pp.

Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology: 2 Volumes (set)

Volume 1: Perceptual dialectology investigates what ordinary people (as opposed to professional linguists) believe about the distribution of language varieties in their own and surrounding speech communities and how they have arrived at and implement those beliefs. It studies the beliefs of the… read more
[Not in series, HPD S] 2002. xl, 413 pp. & xxvi, 412 pp.
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Invisible Work: Bilingualism, language choice and childrearing in intermarried families

Toshie Okita

There is growing recognition that ‘context’ is important for bilingual language development, but understanding of that context remains underdeveloped. This innovative study, spanning the fields of bilingualism, ethnicity and family studies, shows how language use in intermarried families is deeply… read more
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Language in South Africa: The role of language in national transformation, reconstruction and development

Victor Webb

Language in South Africa (LiSA) debates the role of language and language planning in the reconstruction, development and transformation of post-apartheid democratic South Africa. The 1996 constitution of South Africa is founded on the political philosophy of pluralism and is directed at promoting… read more
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Linguistic Borrowing in Bilingual Contexts

Fredric Field

A number of previous approaches to linguistic borrowing and contact phenomena in general have concluded that there are no formal boundaries whatsoever to the kinds of material that can pass from one language into another. At the same time, various hierarchies illustrate that some things are indeed… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 62] 2002. xviii, 252 pp.
Other subjects Multilingualism
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Perspective and Perspectivation in Discourse

Edited by Carl Friedrich Graumann and Werner Kallmeyer

‘Perspective’ and ‘viewpoint’ are widely used in everyday talk as well as in the specialist languages of the social, cognitive, and literary sciences. Taken from the field of visual perception and representation, these concepts have acquired a general meaning and significance, as characteristics of… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 9] 2002. vi, 400 pp.
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Separate and Unequal: Judicial rhetoric and women's rights

Huang Hoon Chng

This book argues for a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the language of judges with respect to the issue of gender discrimination. Drawing its inspiration from Dell Hymes' socially constituted linguistics, the author examines the language of the judicial opinions of four U.S. Supreme… read more
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A Source Book for Irish English

Raymond Hickey

The current book intends to provide a flexible and comprehensive bibliographical tool to those scholars working or interested in Irish English. A whole range of references (approx. 2,500) relating to Irish English in all its aspects are gathered together here and in the majority of cases… read more
[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 27] 2002. xii, 541 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
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Speaking Back: The free speech versus hate speech debate

Katharine Gelber

This book proposes an original policy framework for addressing hate speech. Gelber argues that a policy designed to provide support to affected groups and communities to enable them to speak back when hate speech occurs, is a more useful way of addressing the harms of hate speech than punitive… read more
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Standardization: Studies from the Germanic languages

Edited by Andrew R. Linn and Nicola McLelland

This volume presents fourteen case studies of standardization processes in eleven different Germanic languages. Together, the contributions confront problematic issues in standardization which will be of interest to sociolinguists, as well as to historical linguists from all language disciplines.… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 235] 2002. xii, 258 pp.
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Still More Englishes

Manfred Görlach †

This monograph comprises eight papers, most of which originated as presentations given at international conferences or guest lectures. These papers deal with the problematic nature of English as a global language, and discuss what makes texts authentic and reliable for linguistic analysis, Scots in… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G28] 2002. xiv, 240 pp.
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Trends in Teenage Talk: Corpus compilation, analysis and findings

Anna-Brita Stenström, Gisle Andersen and Ingrid Kristine Hasund

Teenage talk is fascinating, though so far teenage language has not been given the attention in linguistic research that it merits. The dearth of investigations into teenage language is due in part to under representation in language corpora. With the Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language (COLT)… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 8] 2002. xii, 229 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics
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Us and Others: Social identities across languages, discourses and cultures

Edited by Anna Duszak †

It is natural for people to make the distinction between in-group (Us) and out-group members (Others). What is it that brings people together, or keeps them apart? Ethnicity, nationality, professional expertise or life style? And, above all, what is the role of language in communicating solidarity… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 98] 2002. viii, 517 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation

Edited by Randi Reppen, Susan Fitzmaurice and Douglas Biber

Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation illustrates the ways in which linguistic variation can be explored through corpus-based investigation. Two major kinds of research questions are considered: variation in the use of a particular linguistic feature, and variation across dialects or… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 9] 2002. xii, 275 pp.
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Circum-Baltic Languages: Volume 1: Past and Present

Edited by Östen Dahl and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm

The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origins. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European — Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others. The… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 54] 2001. xx, 382 pp.
Other subjects Typology

Circum-Baltic Languages: 2 Volumes (set)

Edited by Östen Dahl and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm

The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origins. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European — Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others. The… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 54-55] 2001. xx, 382 pp. & xx, 423 pp.
Other subjects Typology
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Conversational Dominance and Gender: A study of Japanese speakers in first and second language contexts

Hiroko Itakura

This book investigates the notion of conversational dominance in depth, and seeks to establish a systematic method of analysing it. It also offers a new insight into the role of gender and the pragmatic transfer of conversational norms in the first and second language conversations among native… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 89] 2001. xviii, 231 pp.
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Creolization and Contact

Edited by Norval Smith and Tonjes Veenstra

This volume contains revised and extended versions of a selection of the papers presented at “The Amsterdam Workshop on Language Contact and Creolization.” These studies apply the concept of relexification to creoles as well as other contact languages; highlight the relevance of strategies of… read more
[Creole Language Library, 23] 2001. vi, 323 pp.
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Culture in Communication: Analyses of intercultural situations

Edited by Aldo Di Luzio, Susanne Günthner and Franca Orletti

This volume is dedicated to questions arising in linguistic, sociological and anthropological analyses of intercultural encounters. It aims at presenting new theoretical and methodological aspects of Intercultural Communication, focusing on issues such as ideology and hegemonial attitudes,… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 81] 2001. xvi, 341 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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English World-Wide 1980–1999: Index to volumes 1–20

Compiled by Manfred Görlach †

This index to 20 volumes of English World-Wide provides an overview of the journal by presenting the complete tables of contents of those volumes, and – more importantly – easy access to the contents of the journal by carefully compiled indices of Names and Subjects. read more
[English World-Wide, 21:IND] 2001. viii, 94 pp.
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English in Australia

Edited by David Blair and Peter Collins

This unique collection fills a ten-year gap in studies on the nature of Australian English, and it is the first to deal exclusively with varieties of English on the Australian continent. The book contains chapters on the phonology, morphology, syntax and the lexicon of the dialect, and chapters on… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G26] 2001. vi, 366 pp.
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Ethnicity and Language Change: English in (London)Derry, Northern Ireland

Kevin McCafferty

Part sociolinguistic, part ethnographic, this book takes up the neglected question of how ethnic division interacts with variation and change in Northern Irish English. It identifies an idealised folk model of harmoniouscommunities, in spite of the social divide and open conflict that have long… read more
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Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men. Volume 1

Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bußmann

This is the first 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
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Language and National Identity: Comparing France and Sweden

Leigh Oakes

This book re-examines the relationship between language and national identity. Unlike many previous studies, it employs a comparative approach: France and Sweden have been chosen as case studies both for theirsimilarities (e.g. both are member states of the European Union) as well as their… read more
Other subjects Language policy
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Multilingual Literacies: Reading and writing different worlds

Edited by Marilyn Martin-Jones and Kathryn E. Jones

The research in this unique collection lies at the interface between the fields of bilingualism and literacy. It deepens our understanding of the significance of reading and writing as social practices and opens up new lines of inquiry for research on multilingualism. The authors incorporate… read more
[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 10] 2001. xxvi, 395 pp.
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New Perspectives and Issues in Educational Language Policy: In honour of Bernard Dov Spolsky

Edited by Robert L. Cooper, Elana Shohamy and Joel Walters

This formidable selection of papers reflects the psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic underpinnings of the interface between language and education. Following an introduction that positions the field of educational linguistics historically and conceptually, the volume presents 15 contributions by… read more
[Not in series, 104] 2001. vi, 307 pp.
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Pragmatic Markers and Sociolinguistic Variation: A relevance-theoretic approach to the language of adolescents

Gisle Andersen

This book combines theoretical work in linguistic pragmatics and sociolinguistics with empirical work based on a corpus of London adolescent conversation. It makes a general contribution to the study of pragmatic markers, as it proposes an analytical model that involves notions such as… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 84] 2001. ix, 352 pp.
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Social and Stylistic Variation in Spoken French: A comparative approach

Nigel Armstrong

Many of the assumptions of Labovian sociolinguistics are based on results drawn from US and UK English, Latin American Spanish and Canadian French. Sociolinguistic variation in the French of France has been rather little studied compared to these languages. This volume is the first examination and… read more
Other subjects Romance linguistics
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Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English

Edited by Sonja L. Lanehart

This volume, based on presentations at a 1998 state of the art conference at the University of Georgia, critically examines African American English (AAE) socially, culturally, historically, and educationally. It explores the relationship between AAE and other varieties of English (namely Southern… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G27] 2001. xviii, 371 pp.
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Speaking in Other Voices: An ethnography of Walloon puppet theaters

Joan Gross

Linking actual instances of language use with structures of social power in francophone Belgium, Gross outlines the history and contemporary configuration of rod puppetry in Liège. The analysis of this working class performance art moves between what occurs on and off stage. As puppeteers speak in… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 91] 2001. xxviii, 339 pp.
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Whose German?: The ach/ich alternation and related phenomena in ‘standard’ and ‘colloquial’

Orrin W. Robinson

The author addresses a number of issues in German and general phonology, using a specific problem in German phonology (the ach/ich alternation) as a springboard. These issues include especially the naturalness, or lack thereof, of the prescriptive standard in German, and the importance of… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 208] 2001. xi, 169 pp.
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Analysing Professional Genres

Edited by Anna Trosborg

An understanding of genres in communication (written and spoken) is essential to professional success. This volume studies situationally appropriate responses in professional communication in face-to-face interaction and distance communication, from a socio-cognitive point of view. A traditional… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 74] 2000. xvi, 255 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Writing and literacy
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Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages

Edited by Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh and Edgar W. Schneider

Basic notions in the field of creole studies, including the category of “creole languages” itself, have been questioned in recent years: Can creoles be defined on structural or on purely sociohistorical grounds? Can creolization be understood as a graded process, possibly resulting in different… read more
[Creole Language Library, 22] 2000. iv, 492 pp.
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Explorations in Linguistic Relativity

Edited by Martin Pütz and Marjolijn H. Verspoor

About a century after the year Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1941) was born, his theory complex is still the object of keen interest to linguists. Rencently, scholars have argued that it was not his theory complex itself, but an over-simplified, reduced section taken out of context that has become known… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 199] 2000. xvi, 369 pp.
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Grammaticization, Synchronic Variation, and Language Contact: A study of Spanish progressive -ndo constructions

Rena Torres Cacoullos

This study of Old Spanish and present-day Mexico and New Mexico data develops a grammaticization account of variation in progressive constructions. Diachronic changes in cooccurrence patterns show that grammaticization involves reductive change driven by frequency increases. Formal reduction… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 52] 2000. xvi, 252 pp.
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Hypothetical Modality: Grammaticalisation in an L2 dialect

Debra Ziegeler

This book marks a new development in the field of grammaticalisation studies, in that it extends the field of grammaticalisation studies from relatively homogeneous languages to those possessing well-established and institutionalised second language varieties. In Hypothetical Modality, special… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 51] 2000. xx, 287 pp.
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Ideology, Politics and Language Policies: Focus on English

Edited by Thomas Ricento

This volume critically examines the effects of the spread of English from colonialism to the ‘New World Order’. The research explores the complex and often contradictory roles English has played in national development. Historical analyses and case studies by leading researchers in language policy… read more

Introducing Sociolinguistics

Rajend Mesthrie, Joan Swann, Ana Deumert and William L. Leap

FOR SALE IN U.S. AND CANADA ONLY. FOR SALES IN ALL OTHER COUNTRIES, PLEASE CONTACT EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS. Sociolinguistics is one of the central branches of modern linguistics and deals with the place of language in human societies. This introductory textbook expertly synthesizes the main… read more
[Not in series, 102 (1st)] 2000. 528 pp.
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Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles

Edited by John H. McWhorter

This book collects a selection of fifteen papers presented at three meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in 1996 and 1997. The focus is on papers which approach issues in creole studies with novel perspectives, address understudied pidgin and creole varieties, or compellingly… read more
[Creole Language Library, 21] 2000. vii, 503 pp.
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Language and Dialect in the Maya Hieroglyphic Script

Gabrielle Vail and Martha J. Macri

The geographic and temporal range of the Maya Hieroglyphic script, found in over 2,000 texts spanning 1,300 years, suggests that the texts may record more that one language or dialect. This collection results from a symposium at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,… read more
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 3:1 (2000) 198 pp.
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Letter Writing as a Social Practice

Edited by David Barton and Nigel Hall

This book explores the social significance of letter writing. Letter writing is one of the most pervasive literate activities in human societies, crossing formal and informal contexts. Letters are a common text type, appearing in a wide variety of forms in most domains of life. More broadly, the… read more
Other subjects Writing and literacy
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The Lexical Basis of Grammatical Borrowing: A Prince Edward Island French case study

Ruth King

This book is a detailed study of French-English linguistic borrowing in Prince Edward Island, Canada which argues for the centrality of lexical innovation to grammatical change. Chapters 1–4 present the theoretical and methodological perspectives adopted along with the sociolinguistic history of… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 209] 2000. xvi, 241 pp.
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Linguistic Politeness in Britain and Uruguay: A contrastive study of requests and apologies

Rosina Márquez Reiter

The first well-researched contrastive pragmatic analysis of requests and apologies in British English and Uruguayan Spanish. It takes the form of a cross-cultural corpus-based analysis using male and female native speakers of each language and systematically alternating the same social variables in… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 83] 2000. xviii, 225 pp.
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Local Educational Order: Ethnomethodological studies of knowledge in action

Edited by Stephen K. Hester and David Francis

The studies in this book take an ethnomethodological approach to educational phenomena. Ethnomethodology’s concern is with the locally accomplished and situated character of social order. With reference toeducational phenomena, this means that ethnomethodology investigates how the ‘natural facts’… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 73] 2000. viii, 322 pp.
Other subjects Language teaching | Pragmatics
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New Zealand English

Edited by Allan Bell and Koenraad Kuiper

New Zealand English is currently one of the most researched varieties of English world-wide. This book presents an up-to-date account of all the major aspects of New Zealand English by leading scholars as well as younger specialists in each of the major fields of enquiry. The book is authoritative… read more
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Why We Curse: A neuro-psycho-social theory of speech

Timothy Jay

Psychiatrists, psychologists, neurologists, linguists and speech pathologists currently have no coherent theory to explain why we curse and why we choose the words we do when we curse. The Neuro-Psycho-Social Theory of Speech draws together information about cursing from different disciplines and… read more
[Not in series, 91] 2000. xv, 328 pp.
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Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse: Studies celebrating Charlene J. Sato

Edited by John R. Rickford and Suzanne Romaine

This collection in honor of creolist Charlene Junko Sato (1951–1996) brings together contributions by leading specialists in pidgin-creole studies in three primary areas: Pidgin-Creole Genesis and Development; Attitudes and Education, and Creole Discourse and Literature. The varieties covered come… read more
[Creole Language Library, 20] 1999. viii, 418 pp.
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Ghanaian Pidgin English in its West African Context: A sociohistorical and structural analysis

Magnus Huber

This first published full-scale study of the Ghanaian variety of West African Pidgin English (GhaPE) makes extensive use of hitherto neglected historical material and provides a synchronic account of GhaPE’s structure and sociolinguistics. Special focus is on the differences between GhaPE and other… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G24] 1999. xviii, 322 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
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Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology: Volume 1

Edited by Dennis R. Preston

Perceptual dialectology investigates what ordinary people (as opposed to professional linguists) believe about the distribution of language varieties in their own and surrounding speech communities and how they have arrived at and implement those beliefs. It studies the beliefs of the common folk… read more
[Not in series, HPD 1] 1999. xl, 413 pp.
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Images of Language: Six essays on German attitudes to European languages from 1500 to 1800

William Jervis Jones

This volume consists of six essays on interrelated themes, focusing on key aspects of language reflection during the period 1500-1800, with particular emphasis on the seventeenth century. German speakers are seen attempting to discover and define the nature of adjacent languages, whilst also… read more
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Politics and Sociolinguistic Reflexes: Palestinian border villages

Muhammad Hasan Amara

This sociolinguistic study describes and analyzes an Israeli Palestinian border village in the Little Triangle and another village artificially divided between Israel and the West Bank, tracing the political transformations that they have undergone, and the accompanying social and cultural changes.… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 19] 1999. xx, 261 pp.
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Sociocultural Perspectives on Language Change in Diaspora: Soviet immigrants in the United States

David R. Andrews

This book is a sociolinguistic examination of the Russian speech of the American “Third Wave”, the migration from the Soviet Union which began in the early 1970s under the policy of détente. Within the framework of bilingualism and language contact studies, it examines developments in emigré… read more
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Sociopolitical Perspectives on Language Policy and Planning in the USA

Edited by Thom Huebner and Kathryn A. Davis

This volume is the result of a colloquium on socio-political dimensions of language policy and language planning held at the 1997 American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference. The focus is on language planning and policy in the USA, but the issues raised will be applicable to other… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 16] 1999. xvi, 365 pp.
Other subjects Language policy
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Talking at Cross-Purposes: The dynamics of miscommunication

Angeliki Tzanne

Misunderstandings have been examined extensively in studies on cross-cultural (mis)communication which associate them with participants’ differing cultural backgrounds and/or linguistic knowledge. Drawing on a large corpus of misunderstandings from cross- and intra-cultural encounters, this book… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 62] 1999. xiv, 263 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Urban Jamaican Creole: Variation in the Mesolect

Peter L. Patrick

A synchronic sociolinguistic study of Jamaican Creole (JC) as spoken in urban Kingston, this work uses variationist methods to closely investigate two key concepts of Atlantic Creole studies: the mesolect, and the creole continuum. One major concern is to describe how linguistic variation patterns… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G17] 1999. xx, 329 pp.
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Variation in (Sub)standard language

Edited by Rob Belemans and Reinhild Vandekerckhove

As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.
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[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 13] 1999. vi, 222 pp.
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American Sociolinguistics: Theorists and theory groups

Stephen O. Murray

This is a revised version of Theory Groups and the Study of Language in North America (1994), the post-World-War-II history of the emergence of sociolinguistics in North America that was described in Language in Society as “a heady combination of detailed scholarship, mordant wit, and sustained… read more
[Not in series, 86] 1998. x, 339 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics
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And Along Came Boas: Continuity and revolution in Americanist anthropology

Regna Darnell

The advent of Franz Boas on the North American scene irrevocably redirected the course of Americanist anthropology. This volume documents the revolutionary character of the theoretical and methodological standpoint introduced by Boas and his first generation of students, among whom linguist Edward… read more
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Approaching Dialogue: Talk, interaction and contexts in dialogical perspectives

Per Linell

Approaching Dialogue has its primary focus on the theoretical understanding and empirical analysis of talk-in-interaction. It deals with conversation in general as well as talk within institutions against a backdrop of Conversation Analysis, context-based discourse analysis, social pragmatics,… read more
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Current Issues in Relevance Theory

Edited by Villy Rouchota and Andreas H. Jucker

The eleven original papers collected in this volume address themselves to some of the central issues in the relevance theoretic research programme since the 1995 publication of the second edition of Sperber and Wilson’s Relevance. Communication and Cognition.Several papers investigate the… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 58] 1998. xii, 368 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Semantics
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Even More Englishes: Studies 1996–1997. With a foreword by John Spencer

Manfred Görlach †

Even More Englishes comprises Manfred Görlach’s more recent papers devoted to general problems of the world language and to individual varieties. The collection starts with principal questions as to what can rightly be regarded as ‘English’, looks at specific features of emigrant Englishes and the… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G22] 1998. x, 260 pp.
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Indian English: Texts and Interpretation

Raja Ram Mehrotra

Indian English, or rather, the forms of English used in India, have long been a topic of interest for laymen and scholars. For generations, the ‘exotic’ nature of the transplanted language was commented on, often ridiculed as a matter of unintentional comic. It was only from the 1960s onwards that… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, T7] 1998. x, 148 pp.
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Language Legislation and Linguistic Rights: Selected Proceedings of the Language Legislation and Linguistic Rights Conference, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March, 1996

Edited by Douglas A. Kibbee

The contributions to this volume cover a broad range of issues in language policy that are hotly debated in every corner of the globe. The articles included investigate the implications of language policies on the notion of language rights as the issues are played out in very specific circumstances… read more
Other subjects Language policy
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Neighborhood and Ancestry: Variation in the spoken Arabic of Maiduguri, Nigeria

Jonathan Owens

Over the past 35 years urban sociolinguistics has developed upon the base of detailed case studies carried out mainly in western countries. A fundamental dichotomy informing the interpretation of variation has been carried out within what is termed the “standard-vernacular model”. Higher vs. lower… read more
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Contact Languages: A wider perspective

Edited by Sarah G. Thomason

This book contributes to a more balanced view of the most dramatic results of language contact by presenting linguistic and historical sketches of lesser-known contact languages. The twelve case studies offer eloquent testimony against the still common view that all contact languages are pidgins… read more
[Creole Language Library, 17] 1997. xiii, 506 pp.
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Dialect Death: The case of Brule Spanish

Charles E. Holloway

The Brule Dwellers of Ascension Parish are descendants of Canary Island immigrants who came to Louisiana in the late 1700s. A few residents in and around the Ascension Parish area still speak an archaic dialect of Spanish which is at the brink of linguistic extinction. Because the Brule dialect is… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 13] 1997. x, 220 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
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Englishes around the World: Studies in honour of Manfred Görlach. Volume 1: General studies, British Isles, North America

Edited by Edgar W. Schneider

The two volumes of Englishes around the World present high-quality original research papers written in honour of Manfred Görlach, founder and editor of the journal English World-Wide and the book series Varieties of English Around the World. The papers thematically focus on the field that Manfred… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G18] 1997. vi, 329 pp.
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Englishes around the World: Studies in honour of Manfred Görlach. Volume 2: Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Australasia

Edited by Edgar W. Schneider

The two volumes of Englishes around the World present high-quality original research papers written in honour of Manfred Görlach, founder and editor of the journal English World-Wide and the book series Varieties of English Around the World. The papers thematically focus on the field that Manfred… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G19] 1997. viii, 358 pp.
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Focus on Ireland

Edited by Jeffrey L. Kallen

Irish English is both the oldest overseas variety of English and, thanks to its co-existence with Irish Gaelic, one of the longest-documented examples of a contact-influenced language variety. The dual aspects of substratal influence and dialectal conservatism, together with the spread of this… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G21] 1997. xviii, 260 pp.
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Language Choices: Conditions, constraints, and consequences

Edited by Martin Pütz

This volume is about various aspects of the theory and application of language contact and language conflict phenomena seen from an interdisciplinary perspective. The focus is on the linguistic, social, psychological, and educational issues (conditions, constraints, and consequences) involved in… read more
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Language Policy: Dominant English, Pluralist Challenges

Edited by William Eggington and Helen Wren

‘Think globally, act locally’ is the message of Language Policy: Dominant English, Pluralist Challenges. The book examines the impact of English in countries in which it is taken for granted — Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the USA. It explores how the dominance of English impacts on… read more
[Not in series, 83] 1997. xxviii, 170 pp.
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Narrative Performances: A study of Modern Greek storytelling

Alexandra Georgakopoulou

Conversational narratives provide valuable resources for the discursive construction and invoking of personal and sociocultural identities. As such, their sociolinguistic and cultural analysis constitute a high priority in the agenda of discourse studies. This book contributes to the growing line… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 46] 1997. xvii, 282 pp.
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Standards and Variation in Urban Speech: Examples from Lowland Scots

Ronald K.S. Macaulay

Standards and Variation in Urban Speech is an examination and exploration of the aims and methods of sociolinguistic investigation, based on studies of Scottish urban speech. It criticially examines the implications of the notions ‘vernacular’, ‘standard language’, ‘Received Pronunciation’, ‘social… read more
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Territory of Information

Akio Kamio

Most higher animals are said to be territorial, as a huge amount of work in ethology has made it clear. Human beings are no exceptions. They tend to occupy a certain space around them where they claim their own presence and exclude others quite naturally. If territory is so prevalent among higher… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 48] 1997. xiv, 227 pp.
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Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in honor of William Labov. Volume 2: Social interaction and discourse structures

Edited by Gregory R. Guy, Crawford Feagin, Deborah Schiffrin and John Baugh

This is a two-volume collection of original research papers designed to reflect the breadth and depth of the impact that William Labov has had on linguistic science. Four areas of 'Labovian' linguistics are addressed: First is the study of variation and change; the papers in sections I and II of… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 128] 1997. xviii, 358 pp.
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Variation, Change, and Phonological Theory

Edited by Frans Hinskens, Roeland van Hout and W. Leo Wetzels

There is a growing awareness that a fruitful cooperation between the (diachronic and synchronic) study of language variation and change and work in phonological theory is both possible and desirable. The study of language variation and change would benefit from this kind of cooperation on the… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 146] 1997. x, 314 pp.
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Anglicisms, Neologisms and Dynamic French

Michael D. Picone

This comprehensive study of Anglicisms in the context of accelerated neological activity in Contemporary Metropolitan French not only provides detailed documentation and description of a fascinating topic, but opens up new vistas on issues of general linguistic interest: the effects of technology… read more
[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 18] 1996. xii, 462 pp.
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Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, social, and cross-cultural perspectives

Edited by Susan C. Herring

Text-based interaction among humans connected via computer networks, such as takes place via email and in synchronous modes such as “chat”, MUDs and MOOs, has attracted considerable popular and scholarly attention. This collection of 14 articles on text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC),… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 39] 1996. viii, 326 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Focus on South Africa

Edited by Vivian de Klerk

This volume brings together a range of studies on various aspects of English and its use in Southern Africa. Experts in their field have written chapters on topics including the history and development of English in South Africa, the characteristics of particular pan-ethnic varieties of English… read more
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Focus on the USA

Edited by Edgar W. Schneider

This volume presents fifteen original research papers by renowned specialists in their respective fields. A variety of research traditions are included, such as dialect geography and sociolinguistics, but also smaller sub-fields such as the study of slang and perceptual dialectology. Varieties… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G16] 1996. vi, 368 pp.
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Microparametric Syntax and Dialect Variation

Edited by James R. Black and Virginia Motapanyane

Richard Kayne’s introduction to this volume stresses that comparative work on the syntax of very closely related languages and dialects is a research tool promising to provide both a broad understanding of parameters at their finest-grained and an approach to the question of the minimal units of… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 139] 1996. xviii, 269 pp.
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Status and Power in Verbal Interaction: A study of discourse in a close-knit social network

Julie Diamond

Status and Power in Verbal Interaction is a sociolinguistic study of conversation in a social context. Using an ethnographic methodology and a network analysis of the social roles and relationships in a particular language community, the book explores how speakers negotiate status, relationship,… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 40] 1996. viii, 184 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Towards a Critical Sociolinguistics

Edited by Rajendra Singh

This collection of twelve essays, some of which have been written specifically for this volume by well-known European and North-American sociolinguists, reflects an increasing recognition within the field that sociological and theoretical innocence can no longer be underwritten by it, and offers a… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 125] 1996. xii, 342 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
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Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in honor of William Labov. Volume 1: Variation and change in language and society

Edited by Gregory R. Guy, Crawford Feagin, Deborah Schiffrin and John Baugh

This is a two-volume collection of original research papers designed to reflect the breadth and depth of the impact that William Labov has had on linguistic science. Four areas of 'Labovian' linguistics are addressed: First is the study of variation and change; the papers in sections I and II of… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 127] 1996. xviii, 436 pp.
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The Current State of Interlanguage: Studies in honor of William E. Rutherford

Edited by Lynn Eubank, Larry Selinker and Michael Sharwood Smith

This state-of-the-art volume presents an outstanding collection of 22 studies on current issues facing research in second-language acquisition (SLA). The editors sought contributions for this volume from seasoned veterans of SLA like Lydia White and Susan Gass, from well-known researchers in… read more
[Not in series, 73] 1995. vii, 293 pp.
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Language International World Directory of Sociolinguistic and Language Planning Organizations

Compiled by Francesc Domínguez and Núria López

This directory gives guidance in the complicated world of sociolinguistic and language planning organizations, giving structural information on regional, national, provincial and community level, both public and private. Each entry gives full details, including full addresses, phone/fax numbers,… read more
Other subjects Applied linguistics
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More Englishes: New studies in varieties of English 1988–1994

Manfred Görlach †

This collection of eight papers is a continuation of Manfred Görlach’s previous collection “Englishes” with the author’s most influential writings in the field of varieties of English
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Romani in Contact: The history, structure and sociology of a language

Edited by Yaron Matras

A language of Indic origin heavily infuenced by European idioms for many centuries now, Romani provides an interesting experimental field for students of language contact, linguistic minorities, standardization, and typology. Approaching the language via its ever-surfacing character as a language… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 126] 1995. xvii, 208 pp.
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Consonant Strength in Upper German Dialects

Kurt Gustav Goblirsch

The present study examines the problem of fortis and lenis in approximately 150 dialects of southern Germany, Austria, German-speaking Switzerland, Alsace, and the German-speaking minorities in Italy, Hungary and the former Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. The Upper German dialects are of particular… read more
[NOWELE Supplement Series, 10] 1994. vi, 127 pp.
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Language Contact and Language Conflict

Edited by Martin Pütz

The selected articles compiled in the present volume are based on contributions prepared for the 17th International L.A.U.D. (Linguistic Agency University of Duisburg) Symposium held at the University of Duisburg on 23-27 March 1992. The 13 papers in this book focus on problems and issues of… read more
[Not in series, 71] 1994. xviii, 256 pp.
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Language Ideology and Language Change in Early Modern German: A sociolinguistic study of the consonantal system of Nuremberg

Rosina L. Lippi-Green

This quantitative study, based on a computerized corpus of texts written by five men in early 16th-century Nuremberg, employs multivariate GLM statistical procedures to analyze the way linguistic, social and stylistic factors work individually and in interaction to influence variation observed in… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 119] 1994. xiv, 150 pp.
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Language Planning in Multilingual Contexts: Policies, communities, and schools in Luxembourg

Kathryn A. Davis

This volume examines the sociocultural factors that influence language choices and uses in the multilingual country of Luxembourg. Patterns of language use within and across communities are viewed in terms of interrelationships among language policy intent, implementation, and experience. The study… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 8] 1994. xix, 220 pp.
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Linguistic Minorities in Multilingual Settings: Implications for language policies

Christina Bratt Paulston

The 19th-century European notion of the one people-one language nation as the ideal state has been a very pervasive influence in spite of the fact that most countries in the world today are multilingual, that is they contain ethnic groups in contact and not infrequently in competition. Such… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 4] 1994. xi, 136 pp.
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Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume VI: Columbus, Ohio 1992

Edited by Mushira Eid, Vicente Cantarino and Keith Walters

This volume divides into 3 sections: I. Arabic in Contact: the Hispano-Arabic Connection; II. Arabic in Contact: Other Connections; III. Phonological Perspectives.
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[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 115] 1994. viii, 238 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages
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Themes in Greek Linguistics: Papers from the First International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Reading, September 1993

Edited by Irene Philippaki-Warburton, Katerina Nicolaidis and Maria Sifianou

This volume brings together 65 papers which were presented at this Conference, the aim of which was to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between scholars with expertise in various aspects of the Greek language. For this reason the volume contains the majority of the contributions. It should… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 117] 1994. xviii, 535 pp.
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American Dialect Research: Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the American Dialect Society, 1889–1989

Edited by Dennis R. Preston

Containing all new material and published for the American Dialect Society's centennial celebration (1889-1989), this volume bings together in one place, as no previously published work has, current approaches to the general problems of language distribution and variation. The several chapters… read more
[Not in series, 68] 1993. xiv, 464 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
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Atlantic Meets Pacific: A global view of pidginization and creolization

Edited by Francis Byrne and John Holm †

Selected papers from the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics. read more
[Creole Language Library, 11] 1993. ix, 465 pp.
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Diglossia: A comprehensive bibliography, 1960–1990, and supplements

Mauro Fernández

Today, the notion of 'diglossia' occupies a prominent place in sociolinguistic research. Since the 1960s, when the dominant sense of 'diglossia' was the complementary sociofunctional distribution of two varieties of the same language, the term has been applied — often controversially — to a growing… read more
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Focus on Canada

Edited by Sandra Clarke

Although varieties of North American English have come in for a good deal of linguistic scrutiny in recent years, the vast majority of published works have dealt with American rather than Canadian English. This volume constitutes a welcome addition to our linguistic knowledge of English-speaking… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G11] 1993. xii, 302 pp.
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A New Bibliography of Writings on Varieties of English, 1984–1992/93

Beat Glauser, Edgar W. Schneider and Manfred Görlach †

The continuing expansion of research in dialectology, sociolinguistics and English as a world language has made the field increasingly difficult to survey. This bibliography is intended to provide a comprehensive overview of the relevant publications of the past few years. Like its predecessor, it… read more
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Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages

Edited by Willem Fase, Koen Jaspaert and Sjaak Kroon

The papers in this volume describe a wide variety of language contact settings in which one or more languages are in a process of shift. In the first part of the book theoretical perspectives are presented, followed by linguistic, sociological and descriptive studies of languages and countries that… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 1] 1992. xii, 403 pp.
Other subjects Multilingualism
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Utterance Structure: Developing grammars again

Wolfgang Klein and Clive Perdue

This volume presents the results of part of the ESF project 'Second language acquisition by adult immigrants'. The present study deals specifically with structure of utterances in learner varieties. The authors have attempted to find general principles which determine the form of utterances from… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 5] 1992. xvi, 354 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition
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Variation in Language: Code switching in Czech as a challenge for sociolinguistics

Edited by Petr Sgall, Jirí Hronek, Alexandr Stich and Ján Horecký

Czech, a clear case of a language having a Standard and a strong central vernacular with intensive shifting between them, offers many points of general interest to sociolinguists. This volume is divided in 5 chapters and opens with a general discussion of language varieties. 'The Two Central… read more
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics
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Development and Structures of Creole Languages: Essays in honor of Derek Bickerton

Edited by Francis Byrne and Thom Huebner

This collection of original essays is intended to both celebrate Derek Bickerton's sixty-fifth birthday and honor his long and eminent career. Each author included in the volume is a noted scholar who has distinguished him/herself in some area of linguistics and has professionally or personally… read more
[Creole Language Library, 9] 1991. x, 222 pp.
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The Emergence of Black English: Text and commentary

Edited by Guy Bailey, Natalie Maynor and Patricia Cukor-Avila

Debate over the evolution of Black English Vernacular (BEV) has permeated Afro-American studies, creole linguistics, dialectology, and sociolinguistics for a quarter of a century with little sign of a satisfactory resolution, primarily because evidence that bears directly on the earlier stages of… read more
[Creole Language Library, 8] 1991. x, 352 pp.
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Englishes: Studies in varieties of English 1984–1988

Manfred Görlach †

Problems of how to describe and explain the forms and functions of English outside Britain and the United States (and of varieties within the two countries) have become central for English linguistics over the past twenty years. The present collection combines 8 of Gorlach's major articles in the… read more

Essays in honor of Joshua A. Fishman: Volume 1: Focus on Bilingual Education; Volume 2: Focus on Language Planning; Volume 3: Focus on Language and Ethnicity. 3 Volumes (set)

Edited by Ofelia García, James R. Dow and David F. Marshall

Three topical volumes including essays by distinguished scholars who have been influenced by the pioneer of the sociology of language, Joshua A. Fishman. In order to do justice to the multi-facetted scope of Fishman's writings, the editors chose to produce these Focusschriften on the occasion of… read more
[Not in series, FISHFEST S] 1991. 1000 pp.,3 vols
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Focus on Language Planning: Essays in honor of Joshua A. Fishman. Volume 3

Edited by David F. Marshall

This volume begins with an overview of Joshua A. Fishman's extensive work and influence in the field of language planning. The other papers link language planning with weighty issues such as politics, ecology, and national development. More specific papers deal with the problems of political and… read more
[Not in series, FISHFEST 3] 1991. viii, 360 pp.
Other subjects Language teaching
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Focus on Language and Ethnicity: Essays in honor of Joshua A. Fishman. Volume 2

Edited by James R. Dow

An impressive collection of theoretical perspectives and empirical data which includes papers on Catalan, Galician, Tagalog, and the minority languages of Kenya. Most of the contributions deal with ethnic minorities in North America: language maintenance and shift and cultural aspects of various… read more
[Not in series, FISHFEST 2] 1991. viii, 255 pp.
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Foreign Language Research in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Edited by Kees de Bot, Ralph B. Ginsberg and Claire Kramsch

This volume focuses on priorities for research in language pedagogy. The aim is to give an up-to-date overview of current thinking about important research issues such as the viability of large scale comparisons, the quantitative/qualitative research controversy, new trends in language testing and… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 2] 1991. xi, 275 pp.
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An Index to Dialect Maps of Great Britain

Andreas Fischer and Daniel Ammann

The results of the dialect surveys of Great Britain have been published in the form of hundreds of single and collected maps, but so far there has been no actual handbook to the charted material. The Index to Dialect Maps of Great Britain, containing a full introduction, an alphabetical word-list… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G10] 1991. iv, 150 pp.
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Repetition in Arabic Discourse: Paradigms, syntagms and the ecology of language

Barbara Johnstone

In this examination of expository prose in contemporary Arabic, structural and semantic repetition is found to be responsible both for linguistic cohesion and for rhetorical force. Johnstone identifies and discusses repetitive features on every level of analysis. Writers in Arabic use lexical… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 18] 1991. viii, 130 pp.
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Towards a Critical Sociology of Reading Pedagogy: Papers of the XII World Congress on Reading

Edited by Carolyn Baker and Allan Luke

Through critical sociological appraisals of literary theory, research and pedagogy, this volume presents challenges to dominant psychological approaches in reading research and to mainstream discourses about reading and writing pedagogy. Bringing together the recent work of literacy researchers in… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 19] 1991. xxi, 287 pp.
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Yiddish: Turning to Life

Joshua A. Fishman †

Worldwide interest in Yiddish has often concentrated on its secular forms of expression: its literature, its theater, its journalism and its political-party associations. This all-encompassing study, covers these phenomena as well as investigating the demographic and political mushrooming of… read more
[Not in series, 49] 1991. xii, 522 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics
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History from Below: The “Vocabulary of Elisabethville” by André Yav: Text, Translations and Interpretive Essay

Edited by Johannes Fabian

Johannes Fabian with assistance from Kalundi Mango (Administrator, National Museum of Zaire) and with linguistic notes by Walter Schicho (University of Vienna). An extraordinary linguistic and sociopolitical document, this is a history of colonization written by the colonized, about the colonized,… read more
[Creole Language Library, 7] 1990. vii, 236 pp.
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Learning, Keeping and Using Language: Selected papers from the Eighth World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Sydney, 16–21 August 1987. Volume 1

Edited by M.A.K. Halliday †, John Gibbons and Howard Nicholas

This volume contains selected papers from the Eight World Congress of Applied Linguistics held in Sydney in 1987. Volume I starts off with an overview of the field by G. Richard Tucker in which he identifies two areas: innovative language education and language education policy. The overal focus of… read more
[Not in series, LKUL 1] 1990. xx, 508 pp.
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Learning, Keeping and Using Language: Selected papers from the Eighth World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Sydney, 16–21 August 1987. Volume 2

Edited by M.A.K. Halliday †, John Gibbons and Howard Nicholas

This volume contains selected papers from the Eight World Congress of Applied Linguistics held in Sydney in 1987. Whereas the focus of Volume I is on learning language and the standpoint of the individual learner, the contributions to Volume II are concerned not so much with individuals as with… read more
[Not in series, LKUL 2] 1990. xvi, 488 pp.

Learning, Keeping and Using Language: Selected papers from the Eighth World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Sydney, 16–21 August 1987. 2 Volumes (set)

Edited by M.A.K. Halliday †, John Gibbons and Howard Nicholas

This two-volume collection brings together papers first presented at the AILA Congress in 1987. In volume I, the overall focus is on the individual language learner, and how that individual develops a command of a language (first or second) in home and classroom settings. The papers in the second… read more
[Not in series, LKUL S] 1990. xx, 508 + xvi, 488 pp.
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Sing Without Shame: Oral traditions in Indo-Portuguese Creole verse

Kenneth David Jackson

This study of literary themes, linguistic practice and cultural traditions analyzes the oral traditions of Indo-Portugese creole verse, as a synthesis from European, African and Asian sources. This musical, dramatic and textual syncretism defines tradition within the group and maintains the… read more
[Creole Language Library, 5] 1990. xxiv, 257 pp.
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Speech and Sociability at French Urban Marketplaces

Jacqueline Lindenfeld

This study is both particularistic and generalizing. At one level it can be seen as an investigation of French urban marketplaces as systems of communication, with a microscopic examination of verbal interaction and sociability patterns in a specific cultural setting. At another level it… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 7] 1990. viii, 173 pp.
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Utterance Particles in Cantonese Conversation

K.K. Luke

Utterance particles, also known as modal particles or sentence-final particles, form a class of words in Cantonese which is of great descriptive and theoretical interest to students of language. Most utterance particles do not have any semantic content (truth-conditional meaning), and few can be… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 9] 1990. xvi, 329 pp.
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Doctor–Patient Interaction

Edited by Walburga von Raffler-Engel

This volume covers many of the ways of speaking that create problems between doctor and patient. The questions under consideration in the present book are the following: How is the doctor-patient interaction structured in a particular culture? What takes place during the process? What causes… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 4] 1989. xxxviii, 294 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Hellenistic and Roman Greece as a Sociolinguistic Area

Vit Bubenik

This study concentrates on the Hellenistic and Roman periods in the history of Greek language. It focuses on the gradual contamination of classical dialects by the Hellenistic Koine, their disappearance, the range of intraregional variation, and the process of Koinization from the angle of… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 57] 1989. xv, 331 pp.
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Language Change and Variation

Edited by Ralph W. Fasold and Deborah Schiffrin

The study of language variation in social context continues to hold the attention of a large number of linguists. This research is promoted by the annual colloquia on New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English' (NWAVE). This volume is a selection of revised papers from the NWAVE XI, held at… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 52] 1989. viii, 450 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics
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The Speech of the Negros Congos in Panama

John M. Lipski

The negros congos of Panama's Caribbean coast are a unique cultural manifestation of Afro-Hispanic contact. During Carnival season each year, this group reenacts dramatic events which affected black slaves in colonial Panama, performs dances and pantomimes, and enforces a set of ritual laws' and… read more
[Creole Language Library, 4] 1989. vii, 159 pp.
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Distributions spatiales et temporelles, constellations des manuscrits/Spatial and Temporal Distributions, Manuscript Constellations: Etudes de variation linguistiques offertes à Anthonij Dees à l'occasion de son 60ème anniversaire / Studies in language variation offered to Anthonij Dees on the occasion of his 60th birthday

Sous la direction de Pieter van Reenen et Karin van Reenen-Stein

Throughout the years the extent of the contributions by A. Dees to the renewal of philology, has become progressively more evident. In his Etudes sur l'evolution des demonstratifs en ancien et en moyen français (1971) Dees has developed a framework within which language evolution in the past can be… read more
[Not in series, 37] 1988. xxii, 277 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics
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Explanation and Linguistic Change

Edited by Willem F. Koopman, Frederike van der Leek, Olga Fischer and Roger Eaton

This volume presents the outcome of a workshop, held in Amsterdam in 1985, on the nature, even possibility, of explanation in Historical Linguistics: why changes take place and others do not, and why they occur at a particular time and place. The workshop, and this volume, aim to explore questions… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 45] 1987. viii, 300 pp.
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Reader in Czech Sociolinguistics

Edited by Jan Chloupek and Jiří Nekvapil

Although in Czechoslovakia sociolinguistics is not institutionalized, some results and approaches of Czech linguistics appear to be sociolinguistic, and that from the viewpoint of other linguistic and scientific traditions in general. The socio-component' of Czech linguistics took shape as early as… read more
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics
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Contemporary Sociolinguistics: Theory, Problems, Methods

Aleksandr D. Švejcer

The "common core" of different sociolinguistic schools includes a number of general problems such as the social differentiation of language, the sociolinguistic aspects of bilingualism and diglossia, the typology of linguistic situations, language engineering, national and standard languages and… read more
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Diversity and Diachrony

David Sankoff

This volume contains a selection of papers originally presented at the 12th Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAVE), held in Montréal in 1983. It is divided into three sections: 1. Varieties of English and their history; 2. Change and variation in Romance; 3. Functions and discourse. read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 53] 1986. xii, 430 pp.
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Explorations in Japanese Sociolinguistics

Leo Loveday

Explorations in Japanese Sociolinguistics provides a treasure of information on the Japanese language and the social and cultural system it has developed and is embedded in. To the non-specialist, it opens an unknown world. To the specialist it offers theoretical and methodological perspectives… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:1] 1986. xi, 153 pp.
Other subjects Altaic languages
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Introduction to Sociolinguistics

Aleksandr D. Švejcer and L.B. Nikol'skij

Translation from the original Russian edition. The first Soviet text-book on sociolinguistics, the book introduces the reader to some of its basic problems, such as language and social structure, language as a social factor, language and nation, language and culture, language and the sociology of… read more
Other subjects Applied linguistics
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Language Inequality and Distortion in Intercultural Communication: A Critical Theory Approach

Yukio Tsuda

This study sheds light on the problem of communicative inequality, neglected both by linguists and communication scholars, among speakers of different languages. It provides a four-step Critical Theory analysis of language-based inequality and distortion between speakers of a few dominant… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:7] 1986. xi, 97 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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The Language of Evaluation: A Sociolinguistic Approach to the Story of Pedro el Cruel in Ballad and Chronicle

Louise Mirrer-Singer

This study seeks to demonstrate that throughout centuries of re-creation, linguistic devices have been used to support both the production and the reproduction of the romances. On the basis of this demonstration, it is argued that it is time to recognize these devices as evaluators and to include a… read more
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The Southwest of England

Martyn F. Wakelin

The volume consists of a substantial introduction, providing a geographical and historical outline of the area, an account of the origin of the area, an account of the origin of present-day southwestern speech varieties and a synopsis of their main features. This is followed by texts of three main… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, T5] 1986. xii, 231 pp.
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'Dialect' and 'Accent' in Industrial West Yorkshire

K.M. Petyt

This volume is concerned with one of the few thorough-going Labovian studies carried out in Britain. Based on a survey of over hundred randomly selected informants from the towns of Bradford, Halifax and Huddersfield, it deals first with the methodology employed, and then sketches some aspects of… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G6] 1985. viii, 401 pp.
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Chicano English: An ethnic contact dialect

Joyce Penfield and Jacob L. Ornstein-Galicia

Chicano English can rightly be said to be, in its different varieties, the most widespread ethnic dialect of U.S. English, spoken by large sections of the population in the American Southwest. It represents a type of speech referred to by E. Haugen as a ‘bilingual’ dialect, having developed out of… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G7] 1985. vii, 112 pp.
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Jordanian Arabic between Diglossia and Bilingualism: Linguistic analysis

Salah M. Suleiman

Suleiman provides a linguistic analysis of Jordanian Arabic spoken by educated groups and in particular by students at Yarmouk University. He investigates the extent to which spoken Jordanian Arabic is affected by the classical-colloquial dichotomy (i.e. the extent to which diglossia is involved).… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, VI:8] 1985. xvi, 131 pp.
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A Bibliography of Writings on Varieties of English, 1965–1983

Compiled by Wolfgang Viereck, Edgar W. Schneider and Manfred Görlach †

After the growth of English and American dialectology since the 1930’s and the expansion of sociolinguistics since the 1960’s, the study of ‘world English’ has emerged in recent years to join these other disciplines. This bibliography is intended to reflect what has been achieved in this area and… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G3] 1984. iv, 319 pp.
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Bilingual Conversation

Peter Auer

Code-switching and related phenomena have met with linguists’ increasing interest over the last decade. However, much of the research has been restricted to the structural (grammatical) properties of the use of two languages in conversation; scholars who have tried to capture the interactive… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, V:8] 1984. vii, 116 pp.
Other subjects Multilingualism | Pragmatics
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Focus on: England and Wales

Edited by Wolfgang Viereck

This volume is a wide-ranging study in dialectology. General surveys appear along with in-depth studies of particular problems. Some papers describe the present situation in terms of dynamic synchrony, others deal with the past and making use of present-day dialectal data to help solve certain… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G4] 1984. iv, 304 pp. (includes 40 maps).
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Prejudice in Discourse: An analysis of ethnic prejudice in cognition and conversation

Teun A. van Dijk

In this book, a study is made of ethnic prejudice in cognition and conversation, based on intensive interviewing of white majority group members. After an introductory survey of traditional and more recent approaches in social psychology to the study of prejudice, a new 'sociocognitive' theory is… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, V:3] 1984. x, 170 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Sociolinguistics in the Low Countries

Edited by Kas Deprez

This volume contains the papers read at the Second Sociolinguistics Conference of the Association Belge de Linguistique Appliquee (Belgian Association of Applied Linguistics) that was held at the University of Antwerp on the in May, 1980. The papers are grouped around two topics: 'Language and… read more
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Glasgow

Caroline Macafee

The Glasgow ‘toonheid vernacular’ is certainly the most vital and widespread – if least prestigious – form of present-day Scots. No comprehensive description has existed so far, Macauley’s sociolinguistic research having barely scratched the surface. Caroline Macafee’s long introduction to the… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, T3] 1983. iv, 167 pp.
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Singapore and Malaysia

John Platt, Heidi Weber and Mian Lian Ho

Over the years, the Englishes of Singapore and Malaysia have developed into varieties in their own right, ranging from the sub-varieties spoken by people with high levels of English-medium education and of higher socio-economic status. This text volume illustrates this from a range of examples of… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, T4] 1983. iv, 138 pp.
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Social Order in Child Communication: A study in microethnography

Jürgen Streeck

‘Context’ is a concept for linguistic analysis which has rarely been subjected to close empirical scrutiny. This volume presents an attempt to investigate in microscopic detail various processes of contextualization by which children organize their interaction ‘frame by frame’, achieve, sustain,… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, IV:8] 1983. vii, 130 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Cameroon

Loreto Todd

This volume on the Cameroonian English contains two main sections. The first section is devoted to the history of language contact in Cameroon (contact with Islam and contact with Europeans); the development of English in Cameroon; the teaching of English in Cameroon in various stages of its… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, T1] 1982. 180 pp., 1 map.
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Language Form and Linguistic Variation: Papers dedicated to Angus McIntosh

Edited by John A.E. Anderson

The papers in this volume celebrate the work of Angus McIntosh, who specialized in dialects of Later Middle English, and wrote on other topics in English linguistics as well. Of the papers in this volume most deal with English and a few with other subjects in (historical) dialectology. read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 15] 1982. viii, 496 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
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Lexical Innovation: A study of slang, colloquialisms and casual speech

Karl Sornig

In addition to borrowing from various foreign sources, the main origins of slang terms are the activation and revitalization of existing morphological and lexical material. Metaphorical manipulation of lexical items, as the main device used for the production of slangisms, shows remarkable… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, II:5] 1981. viii, 117 pp.
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The Standard in South African English and its Social History

Len W. Lanham and C.A. MacDonald

This study of the South African variety of English is an exercise in the sociology of language conducted mainly within the conceptual framework and methodology created by William Labov. It accepts that social process and social structure are reflected in patterns of covariation involving linguistic… read more

Linguistics and Anthropology: In Honor of C.F. Voegelin

Edited by Dale M. Kinkade, Kenneth L. Hale and Otmar Werner

[Not in series - Grüner, 124] 1975. 720 pp.

What is a Linguistic Fact?

William Labov

[Not in series - Grüner, 32] 1975. 61 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
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