This book offers an in-depth study of the globalization of contemporary South Korean idol
pop music, or K-Pop, visiting K-Pop and its multiple intersections with political, economic …

The title seeks to show how people are embedded culturally, socially and linguistically in a
certain peripheral geographical location, yet are also able to roam widely in their use and …

Why do bilingual speakers code-switch (mix their two languages)? Among the several
theories that attempt to explain this natural and ubiquitous phenomenon, the triggering …

The translingual practices of young Mongolians and Bangladeshis suggest that contrary to
those popular discourses which position youth as passive recipients of global culture, these …

The Sociolinguistics of Digital Englishes introduces core areas of sociolinguistics and
explores how each one has been transformed by the current era of digital communication …

Globalization is no new topic in academia; in relation to hip hop, however, it has recently
entered the realm of sociolinguistic scholarly debate. While Smitherman contends that 'hip …

In the post‐war years, Hong Kong popular music has been characterized by several different
configurations of languages. In the 1950s, Mandarin Chinese popular songs, inherited from …

This study explores the relationship between language selection and identity construction in
contemporary Indonesia via an examination of Indonesian popular texts published after …

This article analyses data from a very popular radio comedy sketch show in Ireland in order
to shed light on the ways in which the comedy harnesses, reflects and refracts attitudes …

This paper examines the diverse communicative practices of the popular TV show The Voice
Russia and highlights the role and function of language ideologies in Russian popular …