Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
About the Book Series
This series is our home for innovative research in the field of sociolinguistics. It includes monographs and targeted edited collections that provide new insights into this important and evolving subject area.
The Coherence of Linguistic Communities: Orderly Heterogeneity and Social Meaning
1st Edition
Edited
By Karen V. Beaman, Gregory R. Guy
January 29, 2024
This innovative collection brings together a range of perspectives on the notions of "orderly heterogeneity" and "social meaning", shedding light on how structured variation and indexicalities of social meaning "cohere" within linguistic communities. This book fills a gap in research on language ...
The Sociolinguistics of Global Asias
1st Edition
Edited
By Jerry Won Lee
January 29, 2024
The volume explores the social, cultural, and historical forms of “language” that have come to be associated with “Asia” as a global phenomenon and their implications for better understanding the contemporary linguistic and political landscape in Asias. The book examines the flows of migration, ...
Exploring Identity Across Language and Culture: The Psychological, Emotional, Linguistic, and Cultural Changes Following Migration
1st Edition
By Alex Panicacci
September 25, 2023
This book explores the ways in which migrants’ experience in today’s multilingual and multicultural society informs language use and processing, behavioural patterns, and perceptions of self-identity. Drawing on survey data from hundreds of Italian migrants living in English- speaking countries, ...
Expanding the Landscapes of Irish English Research: Papers in Honour of Dr Jeffrey L. Kallen
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Lucek, Carolina P. Amador-Moreno
May 31, 2023
This collection brings together work from scholars across sociolinguistics, World Englishes and linguistic landscapes to reflect on developments and future directions in Irish English, building on the ground-breaking contributions of Jeffrey Kallen to the discipline. Taking their cue from Kallen’s...
Family Language Policy in the Polish Diaspora: A Focus on Australia
1st Edition
By Piotr Romanowski
January 09, 2023
This book explores language practices, beliefs and management across a group of Polish immigrant families in Australia, drawing on these case studies as a lens through which to unpack dynamics of Family Language Policy (FLP) and their implications for future research on FLP. The volume begins by ...
The Communicative Linguistic Landscape: Production Formats and Designed Environments
1st Edition
By Lionel Wee
September 26, 2022
How exactly do linguistic landscapes communicate and what theoretical significance might follow from such an inquiry? This book addresses these questions by taking as its starting point the insight that the individual or organisation that is responsible for the production of a sign may not be ...
Language, Nations, and Multilingualism: Questioning the Herderian Ideal
1st Edition
Edited
By Ying-Ying Tan, Pritipuspa Mishra
August 01, 2022
Language, Nations, and Multilingualism explores the legacy of Herder’s ideas about the relationship between language and nationalism in the post-colonial world. Focusing on how anti-colonial and post-colonial nations reconcile their myriad multilingualisms with the Herderian model of one ...
A Sociolinguistic View of A Japanese Ethnic Church Community
1st Edition
By Tyler Barrett
May 06, 2022
Drawing on sociolinguistic approaches, this book presents unique insights into a Japanese ethnic church community in Canada and the ways in which churches mediate issues of linguistic, cultural, and religious hybridity in addressing the needs of their diverse populations. The book integrates ...
Language Diversity in the Sinophone World: Historical Trajectories, Language Planning, and Multilingual Practices
1st Edition
Edited
By Henning Klöter, Mårten Söderblom Saarela
May 06, 2022
Language Diversity in the Sinophone World offers interdisciplinary insights into social, cultural, and linguistic aspects of multilingualism in the Sinophone world, highlighting language diversity and opening up the burgeoning field of Sinophone studies to new perspectives from ...
Advancing Socio-grammatical Variation and Change: In Honour of Jenny Cheshire
1st Edition
Edited
By Karen V. Beaman, Isabelle Buchstaller, Susan Fox, James A. Walker
April 29, 2022
This groundbreaking collection showcases Jenny Cheshire’s influential work in bringing greater attention to quantitative analysis of socio-grammatical variation and builds upon her contributions with new lines of inquiry pushing sociolinguistic research forward. Featuring contributions from leading...
Scripting Japan: Orthography, Variation, and the Creation of Meaning in Written Japanese
1st Edition
By Wesley C. Robertson
April 29, 2022
Imagine this book was written in Comic Sans. Would this choice impact your image of me as an author, despite causing no literal change to the content within? Generally, discussions of how language variants influence interpretation of language acts/users have focused on variation in speech. But it ...
Social Theory and Language: The Construction of Meaning
1st Edition
By Glyn Williams
April 29, 2022
This volume offers a comprehensive treatment of the historical developments underpinning our present understandings of the relationship between language and the social by integrating the study of language with key strands of sociological theory.// The book posits that theory conditions how objects...