The study of naturally occurring connected discourse spoken or written is one of the most promising and rapidly developing areas of linguistics. Traditional linguistics has concentrated on the analysis of single sentence or isolated speech acts. The study of naturally... Lees meer.

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Text Context and the Johannine Community adopts a new approach to the social context of the Johannine writings by drawing on modern sociolinguistic theory. Sociolinguistics emphasizes language as a social phenomenon which can be analysed with reference not only to its... Lees meer.

In African societies names seem to be a very important identity that carries a human being. A man is not a man without the name. For the case of Kuria if a child is born and unfortunately passes away instantly before being named it is not buried but is thrown in a bu... Lees meer.

The book is an academic research a contribution to the field of sociolinguistics showing how language in association with the peoples culture impact on the society.It is written in a lucid and down-to- earth explanation. It is interdisciplinary as the title suggests.... Lees meer.

Linguistics has traditionally concentrated on studying single sentences or isolated speech acts. In this book Michael Stubbs explores one of the most promising new directions in contemporary linguistics-the study of many sentences and how they fit together to form disco... Lees meer.

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This pioneering work on Indonesian Sign Language BISINDO explores the linguistic and social factors that lie behind variation in the grammatical domains of negation and completion. Using a corpus of spontaneous data from signers in the cities of Solo and Makassar Pal... Lees meer.

Code-switching and code-mixing are the widely accepted phenomena in the everyday life of bilinguals. Pakistani English novels in which Pakistani speech communities and characters are depicted are the examples of these instances. The sociolinguistics types reasons and c... Lees meer.

The main purpose of the book is to describe the two linguistic-cultural phenomena arising from mass emigration of Mexicans to Los Angeles. Spanish-English bilingualism and Spanglish. The main thesis of the research is the correlation between Spanish-English bilinguali... Lees meer.

Doing Sociolinguistics. A practical guide to data collection and a nalysis provides an accessible introduction and guide to the methods of data collection and analysis in the field of sociolinguistics. It offers students the opportunity to engage directly with some of... Lees meer.

This book is an analysis of the social motivation for code-switching by Edo-speaking people of Edo State Nigeria. The analysis is based on real-life communicative encounters obseved over a period of time. The book highlights the different reasons informing the way Edo-... Lees meer.

Corpus Linguistics and the Analysis of Sociolinguistic Change demonstrates how particular styles and varieties of language are chosen and represented in the media to reveal changing language ideologies and sociolinguistic change. Drawing on a corpus of ads broadcast on... Lees meer.

Power and Politeness in the Workplace has become established as a seminal text for courses in language and professional communication. Co-authored by bestselling author Janet Holmes this text provides insights into the way we all talk at work including a wealth of mat... Lees meer.

Language users are creatures of habit with a tendency to re-use morphosyntactic material that they have produced or heard before. This book explores the determinants of this persistence drawing on regression analyses of a variety of functional discourse-functional co... Lees meer.