LANGUAGE CONTACT

Haley De Korne

LANGUAGE ACTIVISM

Imaginaries and Strategies of Minority Language Equality

FISHMAN AWARD WINNER 2018

Through an ethnographic account of Isthmus Zapotec language advocates in Oaxaca, Mexico, this study illuminates a repertoire of advocacy strategies that are bringing linguistic equality closer to reality.

Minority/Indigenous Languages; Linguistic (In)equality; Isthmus Zapotec; Oaxaca, Mexico

Haley De Korne, University of Oslo, Norway.

Monograph, English, 2nd quarter 2021

Series Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] 114

Approx. 250 pp., 22 fig. HC RRP € 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 ISBN 978-1-5015-1740-2 eBook RRP € 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 PDF ISBN 978-1-5015-1156-1 ePUB ISBN 978-1-5015-1142-4 Akinmade T. Akande, Oladipo Salami (Eds.)

CURRENT TRENDS IN NIGERIAN PIDGIN ENGLISH

A Sociolinguistic Perspective

This book focuses on the structure and sociolinguistics of Nigerian Pidgin (NP). It offers a broad survey of the form and functions of NP in domains such as popular culture, advertisement and social media, and thus makes a significant contribution to the existing literature on NP. Moreover, the book is an essential resource for researchers, graduate and undergraduate students interested not only in NP but also in contact linguistics.

Pidgin and Creoles; Nigerian Pidgin; Contact Linguistics; Sociolinguistics

Akinmade T. Akande; Oladipo Salami, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

Collection, English, 4th quarter 2021

Series Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] 117

Approx. 300 pp. HC RRP € 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 ISBN 978-1-5015-1994-9 eBook RRP € 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 PDF ISBN 978-1-5015-1354-1 ePUB ISBN 978-1-5015-1358-9 Cynthia Groff, Andrea Hollington, Ellen Hurst-Harosh, Nico Nassenstein, Jacomine Nortier, Helma Pasch, Nurenzia Yannuar (Eds.)

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON YOUTH LANGUAGE PRACTICES

This book offers a comparative and global approach to youth language practices. It enables comparisons of youth’s innovative speech, transnational communicative practices and language contact in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe. The case studies present original looks at adolescents’ creative ways of speaking, illustrating how language practices reflect global trends as well as historical conceptualizations and attitudes.

Youth Language; Language Manipulation; Agency; Language Variation and Change Cynthia Groff; Andrea Hollington; Ellen Hurst-Harosh; Nico Nassenstein; Jacomine Nortier; Helma Pasch; Nurenzia Yannuar.

Collection, English, 3rd quarter 2021

Series Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] 119

Approx. 450 pp., 25 fig. HC RRP € 119.95 / *US$ 137.99 / *£ 109.00 ISBN 978-1-5015-2077-8 eBook RRP € 119.95 / *US$ 137.99 / *£ 109.00 PDF ISBN 978-1-5015-1468-5 ePUB ISBN 978-1-5015-1477-7

Wejdan Alsadi, Martin Howard

THE MULTIMODAL RHETORICS OF HUMOUR IN SAUDI MEDIA CARTOONS

This book explores the visual and verbal devices used to create humour in English-language cartoons taken from the Saudi media. It contributes to the growing multimodal research on non-interactional humour in the media, and offers a window into social phenomena in contemporary Saudi Arabia.

Humour Studies; Media Studies; Semiotics; Cultural Studies; Pop Culture; Ethnographic Studies; Arabic

Wejdan Alsadi, Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia; Martin Howard, University College Cork, Ireland.

Monograph, English, 3rd quarter 2021

Series Humor Research [HR] 12

Approx. 180 pp., 66 fig. HC RRP € 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 ISBN 978-1-5015-1672-6 eBook RRP € 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 PDF ISBN 978-1-5015-0990-2 ePUB ISBN 978-1-5015-0984-1

Janus Mortensen, Kamilla Kraft (Eds.)

NORMS AND THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE IN SOCIAL LIFE

This book engages with norms in sociolinguistics as a theoretical construct and an empirical object of research in the study of language in social life. Through a range of empirical studies based on complementary disciplinary perspectives, the book provides a multifaceted view of norms as a central concept in the study of language in social life.

Norms; Language Socialisation; Sociolinguistic Theory; Indexicalisation

Janus Mortensen, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Kamilla Kraft, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Collection, English, 3rd quarter 2021

Series Language and Social Life [LSL] 24

Approx. 250 pp. HC RRP € 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 ISBN 978-1-5015-1914-7 eBook RRP € 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 PDF ISBN 978-1-5015-1188-2 ePUB ISBN 978-1-5015-1189-9

Cristina Dozio

LAUGH LIKE AN EGYPTIAN

Humour in the Contemporary Egyptian Novel

Egyptians are known among the Arabs as awlād al-nukta, Sons of the Jokes, to highlight the centrality of humour in their culture both in times of oppression and popular upheaval. This book looks at the literary expression of Egyptian humour in the novels of Mustajāb, Shalabī, and Abū Julayyil: their modern tricksters, wise fools, and anti-heroes revive the comic tradition while innovating the language of contemporary fiction.

Contemporary Egyptian Literature; Humour (fukāha); Wise Fool; Linguistic Variation (Modern Standard Arabic / Egyptian Colloquial Arabic)

Cristina Dozio, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy.

Monograph, English, 3rd quarter 2021

Series Language Play and Creativity 5

Approx. 200 pp. HC RRP € 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 ISBN 978-3-11-072529-2 eBook RRP € 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 PDF ISBN 978-3-11-072541-4 ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-072551-3