Sociolinguistics Books

New and Published Books

1. Palestinian-Israeli Contact and Linguistic Practices

   By Nancy Hawker

   Series: Routledge Arabic Linguistics Series

   Offering insight into linguistic practices resulting from different kinds of Palestinian-Israeli contact, this book examines a specific conceptualisation of the link between the political and economic contexts and human practices, or between structure and agency, termed "articulation". The...

   Published May 23rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Language in Late Capitalism

   Pride and Profit

   Edited by Alexandre Duchêne, Monica Heller

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism

   This book examines the ways in which our ideas about language and identity which used to be framed in national and political terms as a matter of rights and citizenship are increasingly recast in economic terms as a matter of added value. It argues that this discursive shift is connected to...

   Published May 23rd 2013 by Routledge
3. Data Collection in Sociolinguistics

   Methods and Applications

   By Christine Mallinson, Becky Childs, Gerard Van Herk

   This edited volume provides up-to-date, succinct, relevant, and informative discussion about methods of data collection in sociolinguistic research. It covers the main areas of research design, conducting research, and sharing data findings with longer chapters and shorter vignettes written by a...

   Published May 19th 2013 by Routledge
4. Analysing 21st Century British English

   Conceptual and Methodological Aspects of the 'Voices' Project

   Edited by Clive Upton, Bethan Davies

   The Voices project of the British Broadcasting Corporation, a recent high-profile media investigation, gathered contemporary English dialect samples from all over the UK and invited contributions from the public to a dedicated website. This book explores both issues of ideology and representation...

   Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
5. Urban Schools and English Language Education in Late Modern China

   A Critical Sociolinguistic Ethnography

   By Miguel Pérez-Milans

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism

   This book explores the meaning of modernization in contemporary Chinese education. It examines the implications of the implementation of reforms in English language education for experimental-urban schools in the People’s Republic of China. Pérez-Milans sheds light on how national, linguistic, and...

   Published April 15th 2013 by Routledge
6. Language and Identity in Englishes

   By Urszula Clark

   Language and Identity in Englishes examines the core issues and debates surrounding the relationship between English, language and identity. Drawing on a range of international examples from the UK, US, China and India, Clark uses both cutting-edge fieldwork and her own original research to give a...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
7. Framing Languages and Literacies

   Socially Situated Views and Perspectives

   Edited by Margaret R. Hawkins

   In this seminal volume leading language and literacy scholars clearly articulate and explicate major social perspectives and approaches in the fields of language and literacy studies. Each approach draws on distinct bodies of literature and traditions and uses distinct identifiers, labels, and...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
8. Bilingual Education and Language Policy in the Global South

   Edited by Jo Arthur Shoba, Feliciano Chimbutane

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism

   This volume considers a range of ways in which bilingual programs can make a contribution to aspects of human and economic development in the global South. The authors examine the consequences of different policies, programs, and pedagogies for learners and local communities through recent...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
9. Stories and Social Media

   Identities and Interaction

   By Ruth E. Page

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

   This book examines everyday stories of personal experience that are published online in contemporary forms of social media. Taking examples from discussion boards, blogs, social network sites, microblogging sites, wikis, collaborative and participatory storytelling projects, Ruth Page explores how...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
10. English Language Pedagogies for a Northeast Asian Context

    Developing and Contextually Framing the Transition Theory

    By Michael Hadzantonis

    Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

    This book investigates, from a sociocultural, linguistic, and pedagogical perspective, the conceptual and pragmatic frameworks that characterize secondary language learning in a Northeast Asian context. Hadzantonis contextualizes these salient domains through an engagement with social and cultural...

    Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge