Sociolinguistics (380)

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:Internationalisation has had a forceful impact on universities across the Anglophone world. This book reviews what we know about interaction in the Anglophone university classroom, describes the challenges students and tutors face, and illustrates ho...

publisher: Springer
year: 2009
description:This book argues that Second language teaching has not been well served by recent approaches to the description of language content. The book explores how Cognitive Linguistics offers teachers a description of language that can translate into practic...

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:This book presents a comprehensive description of collocation, covering both the theoretical and practical background and the implications and applications of the concept as language model and analytical tool. It provides a definitive survey of curre...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book offers a novel approach to understanding the complexities of communication in culturally and linguistically diverse health care contexts. It marks the culmination of two decades of research in South Africa, a context that has obvious applic...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:The distinctive point of the book is its innovative interdisciplinary approach to business communication, with interconnections between linguistics, sociology, and critical organisational studies as applied to the corporate world. It offers a first-h...

publisher: Springer
year: 2007
description:Organizations acting on behalf of society are expected to act fairly, explaining themselves and their procedures. For the police, explanation is routine and repetitive. It's also very powerful. This book provides an unusual opportunity to see differe...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:This book offers insights on the study of natural language as a complex adaptive system. It discusses a new way to tackle the problem of language modeling, and provides clues on how the close relation between natural language and some biological stru...

publisher: Springer
year: 2010
description:An exciting new collection by world-leading researchers in L2 learning addressing: Why do conceptions of 'learning' vary so much in L2 learning research? Is there a conceptualisation of 'learning' to which members of different schools of SLA can subs...

publisher: Springer
year: 2010
description:We easily hear and see when people are talking and writing, but we often do not understand what they are talking or writing about . This book addresses some sources of confusion in discourse and offers suggestions for diminishing it.

publisher: Springer
year: 2005
description:Applying insights from variationist linguistics to historical change mechanisms that have affected the consonantal system of English, Daniel Schreier reports findings from a historical corpus-based study on the reduction of particular consonant clust...

publisher: Springer
year: 2011
description:This edited collection presents cutting edge research on the process of identity construction in professional and institutional contexts, from corporate workplaces, to courtrooms, classrooms, and academia. The chapters consider how interactants do id...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This volume will give readers insight into how genres are characterised by the patterns of frequency and distribution of linguistic features across a number of European languages. The material presented in this book will also stimulate further corpus...