CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully select

This revised second edition is a comprehensive overview of why we speak the languages that we do. It covers language learning imposed by political and economic

The decades around 1800 constitute the seminal period of European nationalism. The linguistic corollary of this was the rise of standard language ideology, from

An examination of how an individual's native language can affect their lifestyle. Topics covered range from maintenance of the mother-tongue and second language

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