Language and Gender is a new introduction to the study of the relation between gender and language use, written by two of the leading experts in the field. It ...more on ebook "Language and Gender..."

This volume brings together contributions from a wide variety of sociolinguistic settings in which this phenomenon of 'conversational code-switching' is ...more on ebook "Code-Switching in Conversation..."

Literacy and Literacies is a new and engaging account of literacy and its relation to power. The book develops a new synthesis of literacy studies, moving ...more on ebook "Literacy and Literacies..."

A leading expert explores the roots of African-American Vernacular English, which is the first language of millions of African-American children and the ...more on ebook "Spoken Soul: The Story of Black Eng..."

This book presents an insightful account of the academic politics of the Nazi era and analyzes the work of selected linguists, including Jos Trier and ...more on ebook "Linguistics and the Third Reich..."

The past decade has seen an unprecedented growth in the study of language contact, associated partly with the linguistic effects of globalization and increased ...more on ebook "Dynamics of Language Contact..."

Arising out of the author's lifetime fascination with the links between the formal language of mathematical models and natural language, this short book ...more on ebook "Economics and Language..."

Since the 1980s, bilingualism has become one of the main themes of sociolinguistics - but there are as yet few large-scale treatments of the subject specific to ...more on ebook "Bilingualism and the Latin Language..."

There is widespread agreement that certain non-creole language varieties are structurally quite different from the European languages out of which they grew; ...more on ebook "Languages in Contact..."

This accessible satellite textbook in the Routledge INTERTEXT series is unique in offering students hands-on practical experience of textual analysis focused on ...more on ebook "The Language of Conversation..."

A History of the Spanish Language Through Texts ...more on ebook "A History of the Spanish Language T..."

Combining text with practical exercises and discussion questions to stimulate readers, this textbook covers a wide range of sociolinguistic issues relating to ...more on ebook "The Spanish-Speaking World..."