In the midst of an international crisis in migration policy – widely referred to as a ‘refugee crisis’ – this book brings together timely analyses of th
This work presents a critical synthesis of sociolinguistics, centring on the study of language variation and change. It opens with a discussion of the linguisti
The work of the linguist Charles A. Ferguson spans more than three decades, and is remarkable for having been consistently at the forefront of scholarship on th
This collection brings together several perspectives on language varieties defined according to their contexts of use--what are variously called registers, subl
