Key Topics in Linguistic Anthropology

Edited by Christine Jourdan, Kevin Tuite

This revealing account brings together twelve leading specialists from the fields of linguistics, anthropology, philosophy and psychology, to explore the ...

Sali A. Tagliamonte

The study of how language varies in social context, and how it can be analyzed and accounted for, are the ...

Variation in Reference and Narrative

Deborah Schiffrin

Deborah Schiffrin looks at two important tasks of language--presenting 'who' we are talking about (the referent) and 'what happened' to them (their actions and attributes) in a narrative--and explores how ...

An Introduction to Language Revitalization

Lenore A. Grenoble, Lindsay J. Whaley

Language endangerment has been the focus of much attention and as a result, a wide range of people are working ...

The Study of Speakers' Choices

Florian Coulmas

This accessible new textbook provides a clear introduction to sociolinguistics, the study of why we speak the way we do, ...

A Critical Introduction

Jan Blommaert

This engaging introduction offers a critical approach to discourse. Organised thematically, it begins by outlining the basic principles, and moves ...

Bernd Heine, Tania Kuteva

The phenomenon of language contact, and how it affects the structure of languages, has been of great interest to linguists ...

Visible Action as Utterance

Adam Kendon

Gesture, or visible bodily action that is intimately involved in the activity of speaking, has long fascinated scholars and laymen ...

Themes for the Twenty-first Century

Edited by Edward Finegan, John R. Rickford

This textbook provides a comprehensive survey of current language issues in the USA, exploring the nature of language variation in ...

Bernard Spolsky

Language policy is an issue of critical importance in the world today. In this up-to-date introduction, Bernard Spolsky explores many ...

Richard J. Watts

During the last fifteen years, existing models of linguistic politeness have generated a huge amount of empirical research. Using a ...

Sara Mills

Gender and Politeness challenges the notion that women are necessarily always more polite than men as much of the language ...

Edited by Jacques Maurais, Michael A. Morris

Throughout human history, the fate of languages has been closely linked to political power relationships. Political shifts in the international ...

Deborah Cameron, Don Kulick

This lively and accessible textbook looks at how we talk about sex and why we talk about it the way ...

Penelope Eckert, Sally McConnell-Ginet

This is a new introduction to the study of the relation between gender and language use, written by two of ...

A Linguistic Introduction

Lisa J. Green

This authoritative introduction to African American English (AAE) is the first textbook to look at the grammar as a whole. ...