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.
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 ...
The Sociolinguistics of Voice in Globalising China
1st Edition
By Jie Dong
September 27, 2018
This book deploys and develops the notion of voice in an investigation of China’s rapidly reshuffling society. The book is structured around two aspects of the voicing process in contemporary China: (1) stratification of voice, which addresses the stabilizing condition of voice; and (2) ...
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 ...