Language, Society and Power is an accessible introduction to studying language in a variety
of social contexts. This book examines the ways language functions, how it influences the …

This study has two goals: empirically, it accounts for variation found in the use of ethnically‐
marked variants among British‐born Asians; methodologically, it assesses the variationist …

Purpose: The purpose of this tutorial is to guide practitioners to a critical praxis of speech,
language, and hearing. This tutorial provides a foundational knowledge of critical theory as …

Language without Rights is a book-length critique of the concept of language rights.
Synthesizing insights from a variety of disciplines, including linguistic anthropology …

This study examines the retention of a non-native dialect feature by British Asians in London.
We examine the use of one Punjabi feature (t-retroflexion) and one British feature (t …

This volume offers a critical examination of the construction of the Spoken British National
Corpus 2014 (Spoken BNC2014) and points the way forward toward a more informed …

A speaker's regional dialect is a rich source of information about that person. Two studies
examined five-to six-year-old children's perception of regional dialect: Can they perceive …

Over the past 50 years, variationist sociolinguists have taken the influential ideas and
pioneering methods of Labov () to many locations around the world. But the majority of …

This paper is an effort to define the target of the language learner: asking, what are the data
that the child pays attention to in the process of becoming a native speaker? In so doing, we …

This is a study of people like Lorenzo and Ivan 1–individuals with one Mexican parent and
one Puerto Rican parent, many of whom use the term “MexiRican” to describe themselves …