New Books From Routledge

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity
Edited by Sian Preece

© 2016 – Routledge

644 pages

Hardback: 9781138774728
pub: 2016-02-18
£150.00

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity provides a clear and comprehensive survey of the field of language and identity from an applied linguistics perspective.

Forty-one chapters are organised into five sections covering:

• theoretical perspectives informing language and identity studies
• key issues for researchers doing language and identity studies
• categories and dimensions of identity
• identity in language learning contexts and among language learners
• future directions for language and identity studies in applied linguistics

Written by specialists from around the world, each chapter will introduce a topic in language and identity studies, provide a concise and critical survey, in which the importance and relevance to applied linguists is explained and include further reading.

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity is an essential purchase for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Linguistics, Applied Linguistics and TESOL. Advisory board: David Block (Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats/ Universitat de Lleida, Spain); John Joseph (University of Edinburgh); Bonny Norton (University of British Colombia, Canada).

The Sociolinguistics of Digital Englishes
By Patricia Friedrich, Eduardo H. Diniz de Figueiredo

© 2016 – Routledge

Paperback: 9781138025790
pub: 2016-02-19
£29.99

Hardback: 9781138025806
pub: 2016-02-23
£95.00

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 and the Internet. Addressing the changing dynamics of English(es) in the digital age, this ground-breaking book:

• discusses the spread of English and its current status as a global language;
• demonstrates how key concepts such as language change, speech communities, gender construction and code-switching are affected by digital communications;
• analyzes examples of the interaction of Englishes and social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Urban Dictionary; and
• provides questions for discussion and further reading with each chapter.

Accessible and innovative, this book will be key reading for all students studying sociolinguistics and digital communication or with an interest in language in the globalized multimedia world.

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