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By: Carmen Fought What is ethnicity? Is there a ‘white’ way of speaking? Why do people sometimes borrow features of another ethnic group’s language? Why do we sometimes hear an accent that isn’t there? This lively overview, first published in 2006, reveals the fascinating relationship between language and...

By: Tyler Kendall and Valerie Fridland Sociophonetics focuses on the relationship between phonetic or phonological form on the one hand, and social and regional factors on the other, working across fields as diverse as sociolinguistics, phonetics, speech sciences and psycholinguistics. Covering methodological, theoretical and computational approaches, this engaging...

By: Anne Pauwels What motivates some linguistic minorities to maintain their language? Why do others shift away from it rather quickly? Are there specific conditions – environmental or personal – influencing these dynamics? What can families and communities do to pass on their ‘threatened’ language to the next...

By: Lisa Lim and Umberto Ansaldo Introducing new findings from popular culture, the globalised new economy and computer-mediated communication, this is a fascinating study of contact between languages in modern societies. Ansaldo and Lim bring together research on multilingualism, code-switching, language endangerment, and globalisation, into a comprehensive overview...

By: Anat Stavans and Charlotte Hoffmann How do children and adults become multilingual? How do they use their languages? What influence does being multilingual have on their identities? What is the social impact of multilingualism today and how do societies accommodate it? These are among the fascinating questions...

By: Natalie Schilling Looking for an easy-to-use, practical guide to conducting fieldwork in sociolinguistics? This invaluable textbook will give you the skills and knowledge required for carrying out research projects in ‘the field’, including: • How to select and enter a community • How to design a research...

By: MICHAEL MEYER Download http://usafiles.net/1RNi/The_Bedford_INTRODUCTION_TO_LITERATURE__Reading_Thinking_and_Writing.pdf