Sociolinguistics Books

New and Published Books

1. Stories and Social Media

   Identities and Interaction

   By Ruth E. Page

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

   This book examines everyday stories of personal experience that are published online in contemporary forms of social media. Taking examples from discussion boards, blogs, social network sites, microblogging sites, wikis, collaborative and participatory storytelling projects, Ruth Page explores how...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
2. English Language Pedagogies for a Northeast Asian Context

   Developing and Contextually Framing the Transition Theory

   By Michael Hadzantonis

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

   This book investigates, from a sociocultural, linguistic, and pedagogical perspective, the conceptual and pragmatic frameworks that characterize secondary language learning in a Northeast Asian context. Hadzantonis contextualizes these salient domains through an engagement with social and cultural...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
3. Translingual Practice

   Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations

   By Suresh Canagarajah

   Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations introduces a new way of looking at the use of English within a global context. Challenging traditional approaches in second language acquisition and English language teaching, this book incorporates recent advances in multilingual...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
4. Adolescent Literacies and the Gendered Self

   (Re)constructing Identities through Multimodal Literacy Practices

   Edited by Barbara J. Guzzetti, Thomas Bean

   Today’s youth live in the interface of the local and the global. Research is documenting how a world youth culture is developing, how global migration is impacting youth, how global capitalism is changing their economic and vocational futures, and how computer-mediated communication with the world...

   Published November 20th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Battle over Spanish between 1800 and 2000

   Language & Ideologies and Hispanic Intellectuals

   Edited by Luis Gabriel-Stheeman, José del Valle

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Linguistics

   This book examines the way in which a group of key Spanish and Latin American intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries discussed the concept of the Spanish language. The contributors analyse the ways in which these discussions related to the construction of national identities and...

   Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
6. Literacy and Numeracy in Latin America

   Local Perspectives and Beyond

   Edited by Judy Kalman, Brian V. Street

   Latin American Literacy and Numeracy Studies (LALNS) are fairly unknown in other parts of the world. This book charts new directions in LALNS and explores the relationship between these studies and international perspectives. Calling upon social practice approaches, New Literacy Studies,...

   Published October 4th 2012 by Routledge
7. Bilingualism in Schools and Society

   Language, Identity, and Policy

   By Sarah J Shin

   This book is an introduction to the social and educational aspects of bilingualism. It presents an overview of a broad range of sociolinguistic and political issues surrounding the use of two languages, including code-switching in popular music, advertising, and online social spaces. It offers a...

   Published August 24th 2012 by Routledge
8. The Routledge Handbook of Multilingualism

   Edited by Marilyn Martin-Jones, Adrian Blackledge, Angela Creese

   Series: Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics

   The Routledge Handbook of Multilingualism provides a comprehensive survey of the field of multilingualism for a global readership, and an overview of the research which situates multilingualism in its social, cultural and political context. The handbook includes an introduction and five sections...

   Published May 30th 2012 by Routledge
9. Markets of English

   Linguistic Capital and Language Policy in a Globalizing World

   By Joseph Sung-Yul Park, Lionel Wee

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

   The global spread of English both reproduces and reinforces oppressive structures of inequality. But such structures can no longer be seen as imposed from an imperial center, as English is now actively adopted and appropriated in local contexts around the world. This book argues that such...

   Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
10. Bilingual Pre-Teens

    Competing Ideologies and Multiple Identities in the U.S. and Germany

    By Janet M. Fuller

    Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

    This volume examines the connection between socio-economic class and bilingual practices, a previously under-researched area, through looking at differences in bilingual settings that are classified as "immigrant" or "elite" and are thus linked to socio-economic class categories. Fuller chooses for...

    Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge