Norms and the Study of Language in Social Life

• Hardcover | Engels | Language and Social Life [lsl] | nr. 24
• Sociolinguistics and the social sciences more generally tend to take an interest in norms as central to social life. The importance of norms is easily... Lees meer

Swearing and Cursing

• Paperback | Engels | Language and Social Life [lsl] | nr. 22
• While most of the more recent influential work on swearing has concentrated on English and other languages from the Global North, looking at forms and... Lees meer

Breton in Contemporary Media

Merryn Davies-Deacon

• Hardcover | Engels | Language and Social Life [lsl] | nr. 27
• This monograph investigates questions around new speakers of Breton, their identities, attitudes, and motivations, and how these intersect with lingui... Lees meer

The Weaponizing of Language in the Classroom and Beyond

• Hardcover | Engels | Language and Social Life [lsl] | nr. 28
• In this edited volume, language weaponization -- or the weaponization of language -- is used to describe the process in which words, discourse, and la... Lees meer

Language Policy and the Internationalization of Universities

Josep Soler

• Paperback | Engels | Language and Social Life [lsl] | nr. 15
• Many universities around the world are actively engaged in the process of the internationalization of their higher education systems, trying to become... Lees meer

Language, Society, and the State

Gareth Price

• Hardcover | Engels | Language and Social Life [lsl] | nr. 9
• Using Taiwan as a case study, this book constructs an innovative theory of a political sociology of language. Through documentary and ethnographic dat... Lees meer

Staging Language

Urszula Clark

• Paperback | Engels | Language and Social Life [lsl] | nr. 13
• Although there are many studies on linguistic variation as it relates to both "traditional" and "new" media such as film, TV, newspapers, and online b... Lees meer

Visualizing Digital Discourse

• Hardcover | Engels | Language and Social Life [lsl] | nr. 21
• The first dedicated volume of its kind, Visualizing Digital Discourse brings together sociolinguists and discourse analysts examining the role of visu... Lees meer

Rapport and the Discursive Co-Construction of Social Relations in Fieldwork Encounters

• Hardcover | Engels | Language and Social Life [lsl] | nr. 19
• In accounts of ethnographic fieldwork and textbooks on ethnography, we often find the notion of rapport used to describe social relationships in the f... Lees meer

Quotation in Indigenised and Learner English

Julia Davydova

• Hardcover | Engels | Language and Social Life [lsl] | nr. 16
• Quotative marking in modern English is a highly dynamic domain which has been undergoing progressive expansion, with newcomer variants, notably quotat... Lees meer

Cityscapes and Perceptual Dialectology

• Hardcover | Engels | Language and Social Life [lsl] | nr. 5
• This edited collection presents papers relating to the state of the art in Perceptual Dialectology research. The authors take an international view of... Lees meer

English as a Scientific and Research Language

• Hardcover | Engels | Language and Social Life [lsl] | nr. 3
• This volume examines the role of English in academic and research settings in Europe and provides recommendations on the challenges posed by the domin... Lees meer

Language, Society, and the State

Gareth Price

• Paperback | Engels | Language and Social Life [lsl] | nr. 9
• Using Taiwan as a case study, this book constructs an innovative theory of a political sociology of language. Through documentary and ethnographic dat... Lees meer

Attitudes Towards English in Europe

• Hardcover | Engels | Language and Social Life [lsl] | nr. 2
• The status of English in Europe is changing, and this book offers a series of studies of attitudes to English today. Until recently English was often ... Lees meer

Towards a New Standard

• Hardcover | Engels | Language and Social Life [lsl] | nr. 6
• In many European languages the National Standard Variety is converging with spoken, informal, and socially marked varieties. In Italian this process i... Lees meer

Isms in Language Education

• Hardcover | Engels | Language and Social Life [lsl] | nr. 11
• This volume develops a comprehensive understanding of the manner in which dominant/emergent ideologies, discourses and social structures impact langua... Lees meer

Italian(s) Abroad

• Hardcover | Engels | Language and Social Life [lsl] | nr. 23
• Italy is known for its history of emigration, with millions leaving its borders to find new beginnings elsewhere. They take with them their languages ... Lees meer

Multilingualism and Pluricentricity

• Hardcover | Engels | Language and Social Life [lsl] | nr. 20
• This volume explores linguistic diversity and complexity in different urban contexts, many of which have never been subject to significant sociolingui... Lees meer

Public Attitudes Towards Gender-Inclusive Language

• Hardcover | Engels | Language and Social Life [lsl] | nr. 31
• The (potential) use of gender-inclusive language is being discussed controversially in the public sphere. Opinions on it have increasingly been voiced... Lees meer

English-Medium Instruction in European Higher Education

• Hardcover | Engels | Language and Social Life [lsl] | nr. 4
• This volume provides a focused account of English Medium Instruction (EMI) in European higher education, considering issues of ideologies, policies, a... Lees meer

Past, Present and Future of a Language Border

• Hardcover | Engels | Language and Social Life [lsl] | nr. 1
• This volume revisits the issue of language contact and conflict in the Low Countries across space and time. The contributions deal with important site... Lees meer

Staging Language

Urszula Clark

• Hardcover | Engels | Language and Social Life [lsl] | nr. 13
• Although there are many studies on linguistic variation as it relates to both "traditional" and "new" media such as film, TV, newspapers, and online b... Lees meer

Language Policy and the Internationalization of Universities

Josep Soler

• Hardcover | Engels | Language and Social Life [lsl] | nr. 15
• Many universities around the world are actively engaged in the process of the internationalization of their higher education systems, trying to become... Lees meer

Investigating English in Europe

Andrew Linn

• Hardcover | Engels | Language and Social Life [lsl] | nr. 10
• This book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in researching or just learning more about the changing role and status of English across Eu... Lees meer