An Introduction to Language and Society

By Martin Montgomery

In this new edition of the bestselling classic textbook, Martin Montgomery explores the key connections between language and social life. Guiding the student through discussions...

Published June 24th 2008 by Routledge.

Health, Illness and Culture

Broken Narratives

Edited by Lars-Christer Hydén, Jens Brockmeier

This collection of essays examines the interrelations between illness, disability, health, society, and culture. The contributors examine how "narratives" have emerged and been utilized within...

Published May 28th 2008 by Routledge.

Lesbian Discourses

Images of a Community

By Veronika Koller

Lesbian Discourses is the first book-length treatment of lesbian text and discourse. It looks at what changing images of community American and British lesbian authors have...

Published February 1st 2008 by Routledge.

Sociolinguistics

A Resource Book for Students

By Peter Stockwell

Sociolinguistics:

• provides a comprehensive introduction to sociolinguistics
• draws on a range of real texts, from an interview with Madonna to the Japanese Asahi Evening News...

Published October 30th 2007 by Routledge.

Social Linguistics and Literacies

Ideology in Discourses

By James Paul Gee

This fully-updated new edition engages with topics such as orality and literacy, the history of literacy, the uses and abuses of literacy in that history,...

Published August 23rd 2007 by Taylor and Francis.

Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages

By Christopher Moseley

The concern for the fast-disappearing language stocks of the world has arisen particularly in the past decade, as a result of the impact of globalization....

Published March 1st 2007 by Routledge.

The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics

Edited by Carmen Llamas, Louise Mullany, Peter Stockwell

Have you ever noticed an accent or puzzled over a dialect phrase? Language can be a powerful tool with which one can create a persona;...

Published September 15th 2006 by Routledge.

Hiphop Literacies

By Elaine Richardson

Hiphop Literacies is an exploration of the rhetorical, language and literacy practices of African Americans, with a focus on the Hiphop generation. Richardson analyses the...

Published August 17th 2006 by Routledge.

Introducing Sociolinguistics

By Miriam Meyerhoff

'Here is a welcome introduction to sociolinguistics by a leading researcher in the field. Users will be inspired by the breadth and sweep of Meyerhoff's...

Published August 11th 2006 by Routledge.

Language and Gender

An Advanced Resource Book

By Jane Sunderland

Language and Gender:

• presents an up-to-date introduction to language and gender
• includes diverse work from a range of cultural, including non-Western, contexts, and represents a range of...

Published May 31st 2006 by Routledge.