This Element explores the relationship between language and place in sociolinguistics, focusing on place orientation, gentrification, globalization, and commodification. It introduces concepts and frameworks from geography, sociology, architecture, and psychology, and case studies. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
This Element explores the relationship between language and place in sociolinguistics, focusing on place orientation, gentrification, globalization, and commodification. It introduces concepts and frameworks from geography, sociology, architecture, and psychology, and case studies. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Illustrated by data drawn from many linguacultures, this book provides a strictly language-based and comprehensive cross-cultural pragmatic model for analysing political data. It allows the reader to examine politically relevant data without pre-held convictions, avoiding many pitfalls lurking in the study of political language use.
Illustrated by data drawn from many linguacultures, this book provides a strictly language-based and comprehensive cross-cultural pragmatic model for analysing political data. It allows the reader to examine politically relevant data without pre-held convictions, avoiding many pitfalls lurking in the study of political language use.
Language and Power introduces the ways in which language intersects with the social and political expressions of power. It includes 'traditional' topics in the study of language and power, such as race, gender and class, but also covers the more recent themes in critical linguistics.
This textbook provides students with the tools they need to explore how language interacts with multiple domains of society. By showing them how to tap into the linguistic resources of their own community, it equips them with a greater understanding of the complexities of language and social issues around the world.
This textbook provides students with the tools they need to explore how language interacts with multiple domains of society. By showing them how to tap into the linguistic resources of their own community, it equips them with a greater understanding of the complexities of language and social issues around the world.
Language and Social Justice provides readers with the knowledge and analytical skills required to explore why and how social inequalities and injustices are enacted through language, and how they may be challenged.
Language and Social Justice provides readers with the knowledge and analytical skills required to explore why and how social inequalities and injustices are enacted through language, and how they may be challenged.
This volume offers a holistic understanding of the interconnections of language, specifically English, scholarly publishing, and the knowledge production and circulation through a sociolinguistic lens in contemporary academia across different European settings for research purposes.