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.
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...
Linguistic Mitigation in English and Spanish: How Speakers Attenuate Expressions
1st Edition
By Nydia Flores
December 13, 2021
This volume offers a comprehensive examination of mitigation in speech in English and Spanish, exploring how it is defined and theorized and the various linguistic features employed to soften or downgrade the impact of a particular message across a range of settings. Building on the body of work ...
Ageing Identities and Women’s Everyday Talk in a Hair Salon
1st Edition
By Rachel Heinrichsmeier
September 30, 2021
The ageing of the world’s populations, particularly in Western developed countries, is a well-documented phenomenon; and despite many positive images of later life, in the media and public discourse later life is frequently depicted as a time of inevitable physical and cognitive decline. Against ...
Crosslinguistic Influence in Singapore English: Linguistic and Social Aspects
1st Edition
By Ming Chew Teo
September 30, 2021
In a social setting where speakers with several languages interact extensively, a major source of variation in Colloquial Singapore English comes from the complex interaction between crosslinguistic influences and various social and linguistic factors. By unifying both social and linguistic aspects...
Language Policy in Superdiverse Indonesia
1st Edition
By Subhan Zein
September 30, 2021
Indonesia has an extreme diversity of linguistic wealth, with 707 languages by one count, or 731 languages and more than 1,100 dialects in another estimate, spoken by more than 600 ethnicities spread across 17,504 islands in the archipelago. Smaller, locally used indigenous languages jostle ...
Revivals, Nationalism, and Linguistic Discrimination: Threatening Languages
1st Edition
By Kara Fleming, Umberto Ansaldo
August 02, 2021
Is linguistic revival beneficiary to the plight of newly emerging, peripheral or even ‘threatened’ cultures? Or is it a smokescreen that hides the vestiges of ethnocentric ideologies, which ultimately create a hegemonic relationship? This book takes a critical look at revival exercises of ...
Re-positioning Accent Attitude in the Global Englishes Paradigm: A Critical Phenomenological Case Study in the Chinese Context
1st Edition
By Fan (Gabriel) Fang
June 30, 2021
This book revisits the issue of China English as a developing variety of English and scrutinises students’ and teachers’ attitudes towards their own and other English accents from the critical phenomenological perspective of Global Englishes (GE) in the Chinese context. The research contributes to ...
Care Communication: Making a home in a Japanese eldercare facility
1st Edition
By Peter Backhaus
March 31, 2021
This book studies communication in institutional eldercare. It is based on audio-recorded interactions between residents and staff in a Japanese care facility. The focus is on the morning care routines, which include getting the residents out of bed and ready for the day. Combining quantitative and...
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 ...