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.
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 ...
Living Languages and New Approaches to Language Revitalisation Research
1st Edition
By Tonya Stebbins, Kris Eira, Vicki Couzens
August 14, 2020
This book advocates for a new model of describing the practices of language revitalization, and decolonizing the research methods used to study them. The volume provides a comprehensive treatment of the theoretical and methodological foundations of working with communities revitalizing their ...
Social Media Discourse, (Dis)identifications and Diversities
1st Edition
Edited
By Sirpa Leppanen, Elina Westinen, Samu Kytola
August 14, 2020
This volume serves as an in-depth investigation of the diversity of means and practices that constitute (dis)identification and identity construction in social media. Given the increasing prevalence of social media in everyday life and the subsequent growing diversity in the types of participants ...
Emerging Hispanicized English in the Nuevo New South: Language Variation in a Triethnic Community
1st Edition
By Erin Callahan
June 30, 2020
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary language shift and identity in a language community in the mid-Atlantic South to offer a unique window into ethnic dialect formation and sociolinguistic processes underpinning dialect acquisition. Drawing on data collected from over 100 ...
Language and Citizenship in Japan
1st Edition
Edited
By Nanette Gottlieb
June 30, 2020
The relationship between language and citizenship in Japan has traditionally been regarded as a fixed tripartite: ‘Japanese citizenship’ means ‘Japanese ethnicity,’ which in turn means ‘Japanese as one’s first language.’ Historically, most non-Japanese who have chosen to take out citizenship have ...
Racialization and Language: Interdisciplinary Perspectives From Perú
1st Edition
Edited
By Michele Back, Virginia Zavala
June 30, 2020
Drawing on frameworks from applied linguistics and critical discourse analysis, this volume employs a linguistics approach to understanding race and racism in Latin America, with a particular focus on Peru. Building on recent debates in Peru on cultural and biological definitions of race, the book ...
Discourse, Gender and Shifting Identities in Japan: The Longitudinal Study of Kobe Women�s Ethnographic Interviews 1989-2019, Phase One
1st Edition
Edited
By Claire Maree, Kaori Okano
December 12, 2019
This book is the first in a unique series drawn from an interdisciplinary, longitudinal project entitled ‘Thirty Years of Talk.’ For 30 years, Okano recorded ethnographic interviews and collected data on the language of working class women in Kobe, Japan. This long-range study sketches the ...
Heritage Language Policies around the World
1st Edition
Edited
By Corinne A. Seals, Sheena Shah
September 25, 2019
Heritage language policies define the context in which heritage languages are maintained or abandoned by communities, and this volume describes and analyzes international policy strategies, as well as the implications for the actual heritage language speakers. This volume brings together heritage ...
The Discourse of Powerlessness and Repression: Life stories of domestic migrant workers in Hong Kong
1st Edition
By Hans J. Ladegaard
September 25, 2019
Drawing on a large corpus of narratives recorded at a church shelter for abused domestic helpers in Hong Kong, this monograph explores how the women discursively construct themselves in sharing sessions with other helpers. They see themselves as ‘helpers’ who have come to Hong Kong to help their ...