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Cross-linguistic Register Variation
Edited by Sylvi Rørvik and Marlén Izquierdo
A current trend in contrastive corpus linguistics is to take register variation as a point of departure for identifying similarities and differences across languages. This volume looks back at central previous contributions in this area, and adds to our store of knowledge in the form of nine… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 125] 2026. v, 267 pp.
English in Kuwait: Development, status and usage
Mohammad A.N. Alenezi
This volume presents the first in-depth exploration of Kuwait within the framework of World Englishes. It examines the historical trajectory of English language contact, the contemporary spread of the language, and public attitudes toward its use in the country. Central to the study is the… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G73] 2026. xiv, 228 pp. + index
The Loss of Primordial Language and the Future of National Languages
Edited by Irene Capdevila and Francesc Feliu
The modern world, to the extent that it disassociates us from the secular traditional world, from the “primordial” jobs and words that support the cultural particularity forged over the centuries, weakens the borders between languages. Neologisms bring languages closer together irreversibly, and… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 47] 2026. vi, 264 pp.
Speaking of Writing Romani: Language attitudes, text editing, and variability
Melanie Schippling
As a traditionally oral language spoken in areas with a literacy-based culture, Romani provides a unique case for the study of orality and literacy. In a mixed-methods approach, this work investigates attitudes of Romani speakers towards the modalities, their communicative functions and use, and… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 56] 2026. xix, 432 pp.
Talk Goes Many Ways: Language and social life in a Papua New Guinea village
Darja Hoenigman
'The Talk Goes Many Ways' is a fascinating anthropological study of language use among the Awiakay, a small village society in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea. Innovative in the way it integrates written analysis with segments of observational film, the book pairs key social themes with… read more
Verbal Aggression in Contemporary Polish: A usage-based and perception-oriented study
Artur Świątek
This monograph investigates verbal aggression in contemporary Polish from a usage-based and perception-oriented perspective. Drawing on a mixed-methods design, the study combines survey data on speakers’ evaluations of aggressive expressions with a corpus-based analysis of their occurrence in… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 57] 2026. xv, 232 pp. + index
Cultural Conceptualizations of the SELF in Hong Kong English
Denisa Latić
This monograph offers a cultural-cognitive approach to the study of identity construction at a cultural group level and how it patterns language, exemplified with Hong Kong English. For this, cultural values, political ideology, language models, and reported self- and other-perception as… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 19] 2025. xviii, 289 pp.
Cultural models of GENDER and HOMOSEXUALITY in Indian and Nigerian English
Anna Finzel
The study presented in this book explores the cultural models of GENDER and HOMOSEXUALITY in Indian and Nigerian English, drawing on the research fields of Cultural Linguistics, Cognitive Sociolinguistics and World Englishes. With the help of different methodologies and empirical data in the form… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 17] 2025. xxi, 229 pp.
Dialect on Air: Bahamian Creole in historical radio broadcasts
Diana Wengler
Despite the increasing interest in diachronic linguistic studies, such research remains particularly scarce for creole varieties, largely due to the limited availability of historical data on non-standard languages. This book addresses this gap by introducing a soap opera from the early 1970s as a… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G71] 2025. xvii, 198 pp.
English across Borders: A reflexive approach to anglophone migrants’ repertoires
Axel Bohmann
This book presents an account of English in the communicative repertoires of anglophone West-Africans living in Southwestern Germany. Adopting an ethnographically grounded perspective, it analyzes how participants perceive and utilize English as well as other linguistic resources at their disposal… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G72] 2025. xi, 244 pp.
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.
Linguistic Insecurities and Authorities: 19th- and 21st-century language commentary on French
Emma Humphries
This book offers two new perspectives on language attitudes and ideologies. First, it compares language commentary from two thus far relatively neglected time periods: the 19th and 21st centuries. Second, it draws on non-traditional, dialogic sources to explore not only the well-studied “expert”… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 54] 2025. xv, 262 pp.
Our People’s Language: Variation and change in the Lánnang-uè of the Manila Lannangs. (Dân láng-e uè: Mga Manilá Lánnáng-e Lánnang-uè-e pagka-varỳ kâp pagka-pièn)
Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales
This book pioneers the study of Lánnang-uè, deeply embedded in Manila’s Lannang community’s culture. It approaches Lánnang-uè not just as a language but as a vibrant social practice, highlighting its variability and complex social meanings (e.g., identity-marking). Over six years and with more than… read more[Contact Language Library, 62] 2025. xiv, 461 pp.
Pluricentricity and Pluriareality: Dialects, Variation, and Standards
Edited by Philipp Meer and Ryan Durgasingh
This edited collection engages with the contentious debate surrounding standard varieties and their distribution. For the past three decades, these arguments have coalesced around two camps: pluricentricity (the idea that standard varieties are intimately associated with nation states, with more… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 32] 2025. viii, 197 pp.
Register and Professional Discourse
Edited by Shelley Staples and Gavin Brookes
Special issue of Register Studies 7:1 (2025) v, 160 pp.
Research at the Intersection of Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics: Studies in honor of Kimberly L. Geeslin
Edited by Megan Solon, Matthew Kanwit and Aarnes Gudmestad
This volume honors the scholarly legacy of Kimberly L. Geeslin. Geeslin’s pioneering work on variation in the Spanish copula system united and extended research in the fields of second language acquisition and sociolinguistics. Geeslin laid the foundation for a growing subfield of investigation… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 43] 2025. ix, 370 pp.
Situational Context in Register Studies
Edited by Marianna Gracheva and Larissa Goulart
Special issue of Register Studies 7:2 (2025) v, 219 pp.
Sociolinguistic Approaches to Arabic and Spanish in Contact
Edited by Farah Ali, Carol Ready and Sherez Mohamed
This volume brings together empirical research in sociolinguistics that focuses on Arabic and Spanish contact across different geopolitical, sociocultural, and digital spaces. Bridging historical and modern sociolinguistic perspectives, this volume challenges the marginalization of Arabic-Spanish… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 44] 2025. vii, 222 pp.
Spanish Sociolinguistics in the 21st Century: Current trends and methodologies
Edited by Cecilia Montes-Alcalá and Miguel García
This volume features the latest advancements in Spanish sociolinguistics, drawing from the 10th Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (WSS10). Organized into three sections, its nine chapters explore crucial issues in bilingualism and sociolinguistic variation (morpho-syntactic, phonetic,… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 42] 2025. xi, 241 pp.
World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies
Edited by Peter Siemund, Gardy Stein and Manuela Vida-Mannl
World Englishes coexist and interact with local languages in multilingual ecologies. Multilingual speakers use the languages in their ecologies for different functions, with different interlocutors, and at different proficiency levels. Attitudinal responses to the languages vary. Speaker groups are… read more
The Anatomy of Polish Offensive Words: A sociolinguistic exploration
Łukasz Zarzycki
Swearing plays an important role in everyday language. We swear in the streets, at school, universities, at work and at home, on the means of transport, with family and friends. People have used swear words for centuries and they will continue to use them. The Anatomy of Polish Offensive Words… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 53] 2024. xvii, 336 pp.
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.
The Continuity of Linguistic Change: Selected papers in honour of Juan Andrés Villena-Ponsoda
Edited by Matilde Vida-Castro and Antonio Manuel Ávila-Muñoz
The Continuity of Linguistic Change presents a collection of selected papers in honour of Professor Juan Andrés Villena-Ponsoda. The essays revolve around the study of linguistic variation and the mechanisms and processes associated with linguistic change, a field to which Villena-Ponsoda has… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 31] 2024. ix, 194 pp.
Lifespan Acquisition and Language Change: Historical sociolinguistic perspectives
Edited by Israel Sanz-Sánchez
This volume connects the latest research on language acquisition across the lifespan with the explanation of language change in specific sociohistorical settings. This conversation benefits from recent advances in two areas: on the one hand, the study of how learners of various ages and in various… read more[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 14] 2024. x, 336 pp.
Conversiones Religiosas e Identitarias al Islam: Un estudio transatlántico de Españoles y US Latinos
Marta Boris Tarré
Religious and Identity Conversions to Islam: A Transatlantic Study of Spaniards and US latinos examines how two groups with historical, cultural, and linguistic commonalities redefine their new religious identity and make sense of their conversion to Islam, not only as national groups but also, as… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 39] 2023. xii, 204 pp.
Desired Language: Languages as objects of national ideology
Edited by Francesc Feliu
National linguistic ideology has been at the base of most historical processes that –whether they are complete or not – have brought us to the current reality: a world of languages that represent, with greater or lesser exactitude, the diversity – and convergences – of human groups. Various of… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 35] 2023. vi, 294 pp.
Language and Characterisation in Television Series: A corpus-informed approach to the construction of social identity in the media
Monika Bednarek
This book explores how language is used to create characters in fictional television series. To do so, it draws on multiple case studies from the United States and Australia. Brought together in this book for the first time, these case studies constitute more than the sum of their parts. They… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 106] 2023. xii, 265 pp.
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.
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
Urban Panamanian English
Catherine Laliberté
Urban Panamanian English presents the first detailed account of the English used by the descendants of the Afro-Caribbean builders of the Panama Canal. It offers an up-to-date sociolinguistic account of the Panamanian West Indian community of Panama City and Colón, including empirical coverage of… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G70] 2023. ix, 225 pp.
Advances in Interdisciplinary Language Policy
Edited by François Grin, László Marácz and Nike K. Pokorn
This book stems from the joint effort of 25 research teams across Europe, representing a dozen disciplines from the social sciences and humanities, resulting in a radically novel perspective to the challenges of multilingualism in Europe. The various concepts and tools brought to bear on… read more[Studies in World Language Problems, 9] 2022. xxvi, 570 pp.
Catalan Sociolinguistics: State of the art and future challenges
Edited by Miquel Àngel Pradilla Cardona
L’objectiu de l’obra Catalan Sociolinguistics. State of the Art and Future Challenges és donar compte, de manera sumària, dels grans vèrtexs en què s’ha manifestat l’estudi de la relació entre llengua i societat en la comunitat lingüística catalana, la recepció que s’ha fet dels plantejaments… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 32] 2022. x, 333 pp.
English Rock and Pop Performances: A sociolinguistic investigation of British and American language perceptions and attitudes
Lisa Jansen
This book addresses the phenomenon of non-American rock and pop singers emulating an Americanized singing style for performance purposes. By taking a novel approach to this pop cultural trend and drawing attention to the audience, British and American students’ perceptions of English rock and pop… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 51] 2022. ix, 191 pp.
The Middle Voice and Connected Constructions in Ibero-Romance: A variationist and dialectal account
Carlota de Benito Moreno
The reflexive constructions that are the focus of this book are the constructions broadly described with the term “middle”: i.e., those that can appear in all persons, and in which the reflexive marker (RM) cannot be understood as a full referential pronoun. One goal of this study is to provide a… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 29] 2022. ix, 375 pp.
Reconstructing Non-Standard Languages: A socially-anchored approach
Lenore A. Grenoble and Jessica Kantarovich
Focusing on language contact involving Russian, and the linguistic varieties that emerged from that contact in different social settings, this book analyzes issues and methodologies in reconstructing both the linguistic effects of language contact and the social contexts of usage. In-depth analyses… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 52] 2022. xv, 354 pp.
Register and social media
Edited by Isobelle Clarke and Jack Grieve
Special issue of Register Studies 4:2 (2022) v, 190 pp.
Variation in Second and Heritage Languages: Crosslinguistic perspectives
Edited by Robert Bayley, Dennis R. Preston and Xiaoshi Li
Variationist work in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) began in the mid 1970s and steadily progressed during the 1980s. Much of it was reviewed along with newer approaches in Bayley and Preston 1996 (B&P), heavily devoted to VARBRUL analyses that exposed the variability in developing interlanguages… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 28] 2022. xx, 365 pp.
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[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 32] 2021. vi, 292 pp.
Contested Languages: The hidden multilingualism of Europe
Edited by Marco Tamburelli and Mauro Tosco
This is the first volume entirely dedicated to contested languages. While generally listed in international language atlases, contested languages usually fall through the cracks of research: excluded from the literature on minority languages and treated as mere ensembles of geographically defined… read more[Studies in World Language Problems, 8] 2021. vi, 271 pp.
Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation
Edited by Elena Seoane and Douglas Biber
As the first collective volume to focus exclusively on corpus-based approaches to register variation, this book provides an exhaustive account of the range and depth of possibilities that the domain of register variation in English has to offer. It illustrates register variation analysis in… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 103] 2021. xi, 341 pp.
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.
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
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
Linguistic Landscape in the Spanish-speaking World
Edited by Patricia Gubitosi and Michelle F. Ramos Pellicia
Linguistic Landscape in the Spanish-speaking World is the first book dedicated to languages in the urban space of the Spanish-speaking world filling a gap in the extensive research that highlights the richness and complexity of Spanish Linguistic Landscapes. This book provides scholars with an… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 35] 2021. xi, 395 pp.
Metroethnicity, Naming and Mocknolect: New horizons in Japanese sociolinguistics
John C. Maher
Language is a social space, an aesthetic, a form of play and communication, a geographical reference, a jouissance, a producer of numerous social and personal identities. This book takes up salient issues of sociolinguistics with a specific focus on Japan: language and gender (the married name… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 49] 2021. xiii, 239 pp.
Nominal and Pronominal Address in Jamaica and Trinidad: Variation and patterns
Matthias Klumm
This book examines the various patterns of nominal and pronominal address used in Jamaica and Trinidad, the two most populous islands of the English-speaking Caribbean. Given that the Anglo-Caribbean context has so far been largely neglected in address research, this study aims to provide an… read more[Topics in Address Research, 3] 2021. xiv, 246 pp.
Register in L1 and L2 Language Development
Edited by Bethany Gray and Jesse Egbert
Special issue of Register Studies 3:2 (2021) v, 122 pp.
Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Acquisition across the Lifespan
Edited by Anna Ghimenton, Aurélie Nardy and Jean-Pierre Chevrot
This volume provides a broad coverage of the intersection of sociolinguistic variation and language acquisition. Favoured by the current scientific context where interdisciplinarity is particularly encouraged, the chapters bring to light the complementarity between the social and cognitive… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 26] 2021. vi, 319 pp.
Urban Matters: Current approaches in variationist sociolinguistics
Edited by Arne Ziegler, Stefanie Edler and Georg Oberdorfer
The city as a complex socio-cultural structure plays a central role, economically, administratively as well as culturally. Factors such as higher population density, a more expansive infrastructure, and larger social and cultural diversity compared to rural areas have a substantial impact on urban… read more
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.
Canvi lingüístic, estandardització i identitat en català / Linguistic Change, Standardization and Identity in Catalan
Edited by Hans-Ingo Radatz
The multiplicity of parallel identities that make up our personalities is a phenomenon in which our individual identitary choices merge with diverse collective identities. The present volume is a contribution to the field of Identity Studies, but from a clearly linguistic perspective. It unites… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 27] 2020. xvii, 190 pp.
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.
Intermediate Language Varieties: Koinai and regional standards in Europe
Edited by Massimo Cerruti and Stavroula Tsiplakou
The papers in this volume address the interplay of factors underlying the formation of intermediate varieties in the ‘dialect-standard’ landscape of present-day Europe. Research is presented on varieties of several different languages (Norwegian, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, Greek), on speech… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 24] 2020. vi, 258 pp.
A Language Management Approach to Language Problems: Integrating macro and micro dimensions
Edited by Kimura Goro Christoph and Lisa Fairbrother
In recent years there has been increased interest in examining the treatment of language problems across different levels of society, ranging from individual interactional issues to language policy and planning at the national or supra-national level. Among the various approaches to tackle this… read more[Studies in World Language Problems, 7] 2020. ix, 273 pp.
New Approaches to Language Attitudes in the Hispanic and Lusophone World
Edited by Talia Bugel and Cecilia Montes-Alcalá
The analysis of language attitudes is important not only because attitudes can affect language maintenance and language change but also because such reflections and discussions can bring light to social, cultural, political and educational matters that require an interdisciplinary approach. This… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 25] 2020. xi, 274 pp.
Talking about Food: The social and the global in eating communities
Edited by Sofia Rüdiger and Susanne Mühleisen
All humans eat and all humans speak – activities which in social life often, but not always, co-occur: We talk while eating and drinking with others, but food is also a prominent literal and metaphorical discursive topic which contributes to establishing communities and identities. This… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 47] 2020. vi, 284 pp.
World Englishes on the Web: The Nigerian diaspora in the USA
Mirka Honkanen
World Englishes on the Web focuses on linguistic practices at the intersection of international migration and social media, examining the language repertoires of Nigerians living in the United States, and their negotiations of identity and authenticity on a Nigerian web forum. Based on a large… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G63] 2020. vii, 338 pp.
The ‘Noun Phrase’ across Languages: An emergent unit in interaction
Edited by Tsuyoshi Ono and Sandra A. Thompson
The ‘NP’ is one of the least controversial grammatical units that linguists work with. The NP is often assumed to be universal, and appears to be robust cross-linguistically (compared to ‘VP’ or even ‘clause’) in that it can be manipulated in argument positions in constructed examples. Furthermore,… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 128] 2020. vi, 366 pp.
The Intricacy of Languages
Edited by Francesc Feliu and Olga Fullana
If, as we believe, the history of languages is the history of the construction of an ideal artefact that permits a specific interpretation of the linguistic reality and helps to approve and assimilate a certain zone of diversity, enabling the accumulation of collective historical knowledge and… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 20] 2019. xi, 436 pp.
Language Variation - European Perspectives VII: Selected papers from the Ninth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 9), Malaga, June 2017
Edited by Juan-Andrés Villena-Ponsoda, Francisco Díaz Montesinos, Antonio Manuel Ávila-Muñoz and Matilde Vida-Castro
This volume contains a selection from papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 9), which was held at the University of Malaga (Spain), from June 6 to 9, 2017. The volume includes plenaries by Manuel Almeida (“Language hybridism: On the origin of… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 22] 2019. ix, 248 pp.
Processes of Change: Studies in Late Modern and Present-Day English
Edited by Sandra Jansen and Lucia Siebers
The present volume brings together leading scholars studying language change from a variety of sociolinguistic perspectives, complementing and enriching the existing literature by providing readers with a kaleidoscopic perspective of aspects of change in English from around 1700 until the present… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 21] 2019. vii, 263 pp.
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.
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.
The Sociolinguistics of Place and Belonging: Perspectives from the margins
Edited by Leonie Cornips and Vincent A. de Rooij
This volume shows the relevance of the concepts of ‘place’ and ‘belonging’ for understanding the dynamics of identification through language. It also opens up a new terrain for sociolinguistic and linguistic anthropological study, namely the margins. Rural, as well as urbanized areas that are seen… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 45] 2018. vi, 291 pp.
Spanish in Colombia and New York City: Language contact meets dialectal convergence
Rafael Orozco
This volume fills a void in language variation and change research. It is the first to provide an empirical, comparative study of Spanish in Colombia and New York City. Remarkable similarities in the linguistic conditioning on language variation in both communities contrast with interesting… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 46] 2018. xv, 193 pp.
Acquiring Sociolinguistic Variation
Edited by Gunther De Vogelaer and Matthias Katerbow
The study of how linguistic variation is acquired is considered a nascent field in both psycho- and sociolinguistics. Within that research context, this book aims at two objectives. First, it wants to help bridging the gap between researchers working on acquisition from different theoretical… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 20] 2017. vi, 347 pp.
Applied Linguistics in the Middle East and North Africa: Current practices and future directions
Edited by Atta Gebril
This volume offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of applied research efforts in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This region has not received due attention in the literature and this publication provides a much-needed contribution to the existing body of knowledge. The editor… read more[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 15] 2017. ix, 390 pp.
Consensus and Dissent: Negotiating Emotion in the Public Space
Edited by Anne Storch
This book is the result of intensive and continued discussions about the social role of language and its conceptualisations in societies other than Northern (European-American) ones. Language as a means of expressing as well as evoking both interiority and community has been in the focus of these… read more[Culture and Language Use, 19] 2017. vii, 252 pp.
Integration, Identity and Language Maintenance in Young Immigrants: Russian Germans or German Russians
Edited by Ludmila Isurin and Claudia Maria Riehl
The volume presents a selection of contributions related to integration, adaptation, language attitudes and language change among young Russian-speaking immigrants in Germany. At the turn of the century, Germany, which defined itself as a mono-ethnic and mono-racial society, has become a country… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 44] 2017. vii, 285 pp.
Language Variation - European Perspectives VI: Selected papers from the Eighth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 8), Leipzig, May 2015
Edited by Isabelle Buchstaller and Beat Siebenhaar
Language Variation - European Perspectives VI showcases a selection of papers from the 8th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe which was held in Leipzig in 2015. The volume includes plenaries by Miriam Meyerhoff and Steffen Klaere (“The large and the small of it: Big issues… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 19] 2017. xvi, 237 pp.
Language Variation on Jamaican Radio
Michael Westphal
This volume presents an in-depth analysis of language variation in Jamaican radio newscasts and talk shows. It explores the interaction of global and local varieties of English with regard to newscasters’ and talk show hosts’ language use and listeners’ attitudes. The book illustrates the benefits… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G60] 2017. xvi, 257 pp.
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
IntraLatino Language and Identity: MexiRican Spanish
Kim Potowski
The increasing diversity of the U.S. Latino population has given rise to a growing population of “mixed” Latinos. This is a study of such individuals raised in Chicago, Illinois who have one Mexican parent and one Puerto Rican parent, most of whom call themselves “MexiRicans.” Given that these two… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 43] 2016. ix, 278 pp.
Linguistic Purism: Language Attitudes in France and Quebec
Olivia Walsh
This book represents the first in-depth, comparative investigation of linguistic purism in modern French. It investigates the relative prevalence of purist ideology in France and Quebec. Both experience influence from English and have similar language legislation, but they differ in their social,… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 41] 2016. xviii, 324 pp.
Managing Plurilingual and Intercultural Practices in the Workplace: The case of multilingual Switzerland
Edited by Georges Lüdi, Katharina Höchle Meier and Patchareerat Yanaprasart
The contributions in this volume stem from different lines of research and represent both a continuation and an advancement of the European DYLAN project. The book addresses the meanings and implications of multilingualism and plurilingual repertoires as well as the ways in which cultural diversity… read more[Multilingualism and Diversity Management, 4] 2016. viii, 374 pp.
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.
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[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 11] 2016. viii, 326 pp.
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.
Major versus Minor? – Languages and Literatures in a Globalized World
Edited by Theo D’haen, Iannis Goerlandt and Roger D. Sell
Do the notions of “World Lingua Franca” and “World Literature” now need to be firmly relegated to an imperialist-cum-colonialist past? Or can they be rehabilitated in a practical and equitable way that fully endorses a politics of recognition? For scholars in the field of languages and literatures,… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 1] 2015. xv, 280 pp.
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.
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.
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.