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 Politics of Translingualism: After Englishes
1st Edition
By Jerry Won Lee
March 31, 2021
Translingualism refers to an orientation in scholarship that recognizes the fluidity of language boundaries and endorses a greater tolerance for the plurality of Englishes worldwide. However, it is possible that translingualism exacerbates the very problems it seeks to redress. This book seeks to ...
The Discourse of Sport: Analyses from Social Linguistics
1st Edition
Edited
By David Caldwell, John Walsh, Elaine W. Vine, Jon Jureidini
August 23, 2018
This collection brings together innovative research from socially-oriented applied linguists working in sports. Drawing on contemporary approaches to applied linguistics, this book provides readers with in-depth analyses of examples of language-in-use in the context of sport, and ...
Gender Representation in Learning Materials: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Abolaji S. Mustapha, Sara Mills
February 12, 2018
Representations of gender in learning materials convey an implicit message to students about attitudes towards culturally appropriate gender roles for women and men. This collection takes a linguistic approach to exploring theories about gender representation within the sphere of education and ...
White Hip Hoppers, Language and Identity in Post-Modern America
1st Edition
By Cecelia Cutler
February 05, 2018
This book examines language and identity among White American middle and upper-middle class youth who affiliate with Hip Hop culture. Hip Hop youth engage in practices that range from the consumption of rap music and fashion to practices like MC-ing (writing and performing raps or "rhymes"), DJ-ing...
Bilingual Pre-Teens: Competing Ideologies and Multiple Identities in the U.S. and Germany
1st Edition
By Janet M. Fuller
May 31, 2017
This volume examines the connection between socio-economic class and bilingual practices, a previously under-researched area, through looking at differences in bilingual settings that are classified as "immigrant" or "elite" and are thus linked to socio-economic class categories. Fuller chooses for...
English Language Pedagogies for a Northeast Asian Context: Developing and Contextually Framing the Transition Theory
1st Edition
By Michael Hadzantonis
May 24, 2017
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 ...
Markets of English: Linguistic Capital and Language Policy in a Globalizing World
1st Edition
By Joseph Sung-Yul Park, Lionel Wee
February 27, 2015
The global spread of English both reproduces and reinforces oppressive structures of inequality. But such structures can no longer be seen as imposed from an imperial center, as English is now actively adopted and appropriated in local contexts around the world. This book argues that such ...
Emergent Lingua Francas and World Orders: The Politics and Place of English as a World Language
1st Edition
By Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew
October 14, 2013
This book presents an alternative paradigm in understanding and appreciating World Englishes (WEs) in the wake of globalization and its accompanying shifting priorities in many dimensions of modern life, including the emergence of the English language as the dominant lingua franca (ELF). Chew ...
The Economics of the Multilingual Workplace
1st Edition
By François Grin, Claudio Sfreddo, François Vaillancourt
June 05, 2013
This book proposes a path-breaking study of the economics of multilingualism at work, proposing a systematic approach to the identification and measurement of the ways in which language skills and economic performance are related. Using the instruments of economic investigation, but also ...
Stories and Social Media: Identities and Interaction
1st Edition
By Ruth Page
January 29, 2013
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 ...