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.
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 ...
Discourses of Identity in Liminal Places and Spaces
1st Edition
Edited
By Roberta Piazza
December 18, 2020
This collection highlights the interplay between language and liminal places and spaces in building distinct narratives of selfhood. The book uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine linguistic and social phenomena in places shaped by displacement and social inequality. The book also ...
Language Contact and the Future of English
1st Edition
By Ian Mackenzie
August 14, 2020
This book reflects on the future of the English language as used by native speakers, speakers of nativized New Englishes, and users of English as a lingua franca (ELF). The volume begins by outlining the current position of English in the world and accounts for the differences among native and ...
Language and Classification: Meaning-Making in the Classification and Categorization of Ceramics
1st Edition
By Allison Burkette
August 14, 2020
This volume adopts a practice-based approach to examine the different ways in which classification is communicated and negotiated in different environments within archaeology. The book looks specifically at the archaeological classification of ceramics as a lens through which to examine the ...
Language, Media and Globalization in the Periphery: The Linguascapes of Popular Music in Mongolia
1st Edition
By Sender Dovchin
August 14, 2020
The title seeks to show how people are embedded culturally, socially and linguistically in a certain peripheral geographical location, yet are also able to roam widely in their use and takeup of a variety of linguistic and cultural resources. Drawing on data examples obtained from ethnographic ...