In three case studies, two nominal and one verbal variable are described and discussed in detail: the replacement of Old English pronouns by borrowed pronouns, the introduction and spread of >wh-relativizers, and the spread and routinization of light verb constructions (take, make, give, have, do plus deverbal noun).

The first study examining the translation and reception of Dutch literature in Eastern and Central Europe during the restrictive era of socialist and totalitarian political systems.

This book examines the processes through which children effectively ‘inherit' their position in the social world. Bringing together original research from France, Norway, Sweden, Belgium and the USA, this book unravels the ways in which class inequality shapes our earliest experiences of the social world.

This book examines the processes through which children effectively ‘inherit' their position in the social world. Bringing together original research from France, Norway, Sweden, Belgium and the USA, this book unravels the ways in which class inequality shapes our earliest experiences of the social world.

Provides insights into how journalists use digital technologies in story production and the impact this has on their journalism practice.

This book fills the gap between a proximate and ultimate level of analysis of social behaviour. It provides a unifying and synthetic view to identify the fundamental principles of communication across a broad range of model systems and taxa.

This collection presents the state of the art in the fast-developing area of the study of lexical variation from sociolinguistic perspectives, drawing on a range of examples in the English language to redress the gap around lexis-focused research within sociolinguistics.

Xu explores the intricate dynamics between teaching and research, economic considerations, and individual and community interactions. This appeals to scholars of language education and language policy, along with policymakers, university administrators, and educators interested in the complexities of foreign language education in China.

This book explores how social and political life are shaped by unconscious linguistic operations and practical bodily experiences, rather than exclusively by rationality and consciously crafted arguments, and thus presents a conceptually and theoretically rigorous account of how and why we must grasp the cognitive basis of societies.

This book provides a critical overview of sociophonetic research and considers how the findings of this field illuminate and problematize a range of central issues in phonetics and phonology. The chapters explore three key areas: linguistic structure; the relation between perception, production, and social representations; and language change.