Although language can always be analyzed as a commodity, its salience as a resource with
exchange value has increased with the growing importance of language in the globalized …

Educating multilingual students is a great challenge for both teachers and parents in a
society in which English is the medium of schooling and of wider communication. Top‐down …

Winner of the Ramon Llull International Prize Winner of the 2017 Society for Linguistic
Anthropology Edward Sapir Book Prize A vibrant and surprisingly powerful civic and political …

In this ground breaking new book David Block proposes a new working definition of social
class in applied linguistics. Traditionally, research on language and identity has focused on …

In this special issue we examine and reflect upon the emergence of “new speakers” in the
context of some of Europe's minority languages. The “new speaker” label is used here to …

A sweeping account of the global rise of English and the high-stakes politics of language
Spoken by a quarter of the world's population, English is today's lingua franca--its common …

This leading team of scholars presents a fascinating book about change: shifting political,
economic and cultural conditions; ephemeral, sometimes even seasonal, multilingualism; …

This chapter focusses on some of the ways in which historically emerging conditions shape
both how we think about language and what we do with it. The premise behind the title of the …

In this paper we question key terms which appear frequently in discussions of language
teaching and learning:'language'and 'heritage'. The paper draws on empirical data from one …

The notion of 'superdiversity'has engaged scholars beyond the field of sociolinguistics. In
this paper we propose to shift the gaze to the linguistic, focusing on the ways in which the …