Just about everyone seems to have views about language. Language attitudes and
language ideologies permeate our daily lives. Our competence, intelligence, friendliness …

Presents 17 articles which center around the basic thesis that there is a marked tendency to
social differentiation instead of conformity, and that this promotes social innovation and …

The authors of Social Identifications set out to make accessible to students of social
psychology the social identity approach developed by Henri Tajfel, John Turner, and their …

When academic theorizing addresses everyday communication phenomena, there are
losses as well as gains. Research may, selectively or otherwise, partially represent the full …

To what extent do our accents determine the way we are perceived by others? Is a foreign
accent inevitably associated with social stigma? Accent is a matter of great public interest …

THE first publications concerning “speech accommodation theory”(SAT) emerged in 1973.
Giles (1973) not only demonstrated the phenomenon of interpersonal accent convergence …

“An essential text” that examines how interpreters can influence a courtroom, updated and
expanded to cover contemporary issues in our diversifying society (Criminal Justice). Susan …

We have tried to make the volume readily accessible to students and scholars whose
knowledge of linguistic phenomena and analysis is minimal.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) …

Imagine a conversation between an older male professor of British origin, a male African
American undergraduate student, and a female postdoctoral student from Switzerland taking …

This is a systematic and critical appraisal of the variety of ways in which people's attitudes to
language have been researched internationally over recent decades. The authors explain …