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Right-Wing Populism in Europe: Politics and Discourse

by Ruth Wodak

Right-wing populist movements and related political parties are gaining ground in many EU member states. This unique, interdisciplinary book provides an overall picture of the dynamics and development of these...


Analysing Fascist Discourse: European Fascism in Talk and Tex

by Ruth Wodak & John E. Richardson

This book focuses primarily on continuities and discontinuities of fascist politics as manifested in discourses of post-war European countries. Many traumatic pasts in Europe are linked to the experience of...


Language and Citizenship in Japan

by Nanette Gottlieb

The relationship between language and citizenship in Japan has traditionally been regarded as a fixed tripartite: 'Japanese citizenship' means 'Japanese ethnicity,' which in turn means 'Japanese as one's first...


Language Ideologies and the Globalization of 'Standard' Spanish

by Darren, Dr Paffey

This book examines how language ideologies are manifested in newspaper media. Using the Spanish press as a case study it considers how media discourse both from and about the Real Academia Española constitutes...


Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning

by Benjamin K. Bergen

Whether it’s brusque, convincing, fraught with emotion, or dripping with innuendo, language is fundamentally a tool for conveying meaning—for taking thoughts in the mind of one human being, and summoning...


Bilingual Pre-Teens: Competing Ideologies and Multiple Identities in the U.S. and Germany

by Janet M. Fuller

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"...


Hybrid Voices and Collaborative Change: Contextualising Positive Discourse Analysis

by Tom Bartlett

In this study, Bartlett presents a theoretical and descriptive development in the discipline of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) extending the recent trend away from critiques of hegemonic practices and towards...


The Language of Jokes: Analyzing Verbal Play

by Delia Chiaro

In this highly readable and thought-provoking book, Delia Chiaro explores the pragmatics of word play, using frameworks normally adopted in descriptive linguistics. Using examples from personally recorded conversations,...


An Introduction to Language and Society

by Martin Montgomery

An Introduction to Language and Society explores how our ways of seeing and engaging with the world may be shaped by the categories, systems and patterns of language. This second edition includes new material...


Multilingualism, Discourse, and Ethnography

by Sheena Gardner & Marilyn Martin-Jones

Over the last twenty years, sociolinguistic research on multilingualism has been transformed. Two processes have been at work: first, an epistemological shift to a critical ethnographic approach, which has contributed...


China's Assimilationist Language Policy

by Gulbahar H. Beckett & Gerard A. Postiglione

China has huge ethnic minorities - over 40 different groups with a total population of over 100 million.  Over time China's policies towards minority languages have varied, changing from policies which have...


Language in Late Capitalism

by Alexandre Duchêne & Monica Heller

This book examines the ways in which our ideas about language and identity which used to be framed in national and political terms as a matter of rights and citizenship are increasingly recast in economic terms...


Understanding Russianness

by Risto Alapuro, Arto Mustajoki & Pekka Pesonen

In today's world where other cultures are being tapped to a greater extent than ever before, the processes of mixing and matching are especially relevant in making sense of Russia. Not only do borrowing and...


Stories and Social Media

by Ruth E. Page

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...


Language Mixing and Code-Switching in Writing

by Mark Sebba, Shahrzad Mahootian & Carla Jonsson

"Code-switching," or the alternation of languages by bilinguals, has attracted an enormous amount of attention from researchers. However, most research has focused on spoken language, and the resultant theoretical...


Multimodality in Practice

by Sigrid Norris

In this wide-ranging collection, leading scholars, researchers, and emergent researchers from around the world come together and present examples of multimodal discourse analysis in practice. The book illustrates...