What makes a speech community? How do they evolve? Speech communities are central to our understanding of how language and interactions occur in society. In thi

This collection of essays presents a picture of research on women and language in Britain. The contributors cover a range of British speech communities, linguis

This volume offers a synthetic approach to language variation and language ideologies in multilingual communities. Although the vast majority of the world s spe

This book operates from the premise that linguistic identities are important because they make sense to people, are meaningful, and have an impact on the thinki