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Examines the close link between language and society and the many factors that influence the way we speak. Ranging from gender, environment, age, race, class, region and politics, this work surveys languages and societies from all over the world drawing on examples from Afrikaans to Yiddish. It is suitable for sociolinguistics.

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The newest volume in David Crystal's pentalogy of the English language, focusing on the subtleties of pronunciation.

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A laugh-out-loud dissection of the linguistic myths surrounding British and American English

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A laugh-out-loud dissection of the linguistic myths surrounding British and American English

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A map-based analysis of patterns of language change, specifically the Welsh language. The volume concludes that the prime influences on the language derive from the large-scale socio-economic changes which have taken place in western society as a whole since the end of World War II.

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Examines the relationship between language and governance in Europe and Canada, dealing with theoretical debates, constitutional changes, political trends and language initiatives. This volume combines an amalgam of academic scrutiny and knowledge of the intricacies of promoting official and lesser used languages in Canada and parts of the EU.

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Presents research on understanding Wales from a sociolinguistic perspective. Challenging views about the link between the Welsh language and Welsh social identities, This book covers subjects such as language, identity, style, bilingualism, language policy, language change and globalization with respect to Wales, and the Welsh global diaspora.

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This 70th anniversary issue includes stories and poetry on the passing of time, new inter-generational relationships, the anachronisms of middle age, on the image and memory, the press of the lived present.

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An authoritative, impassioned celebration of Black English, how it works, and why it mattersnow in paperback!

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Deals with the linguistic repercussions of social and political change in Western Europe in a series of articles by specialists in each area that range from general surveys to detailed studies of one linguistic variety in a particular historical context.

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Through an approach informed by language ecology and linguistic ethnography, this book examines Hawaii as a complex multilingual society. Focusing on situated language usage as well as underlying ideological beliefs, the book offers analyses of Hawaiian, Pidgin, Japanese, the languages of Micronesia, and the phenomenon of language mixing.

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The purpose of the book is to highlight the critical and intercultural potential of foreign languages and foreign language education. The book addresses the complexity of the experience of (foreign) languages and offers both theoretical interdisciplinary suggestions and applied examples of activities.

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Cross-referencing neurobiological knowledge with the invariance hypothesis, relevance theory, and frame semantics, Metaphor from the Ground Up: Understanding Figurative Language in Context unifies metaphor theory, fundamentally rethinks context, and moves linguistics into the twenty-first century.