Bücher der Reihe Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics

Mediated talk is organised around familiar styles - styles of person, relationship and genre. But media also consistently remake and re-style these familiar patterns. This book brings together original research of media styling in different national contexts and languages. It highlights and theorises how creative acts of mediated styling can promote social and sociolinguistic change.

Why do American physicians continue to prescribe inappropriately given the high social stakes of this action? This book shows how parents put pressure on doctors in largely covert ways. It also shows how physicians yield to this pressure evidencing that small differences in wording have consequences for diagnosis and treatment recommendations.

This book presents a new theory of discourse, arguing that our understanding of texts ultimately rests on our practices and on what we do. It will be welcomed by students and researchers looking for a form of discourse analysis that is explicit and methodical as well as socially and critically relevant.

Nancy C. Dorian's examination of the fisherfolk Gaelic spoken in a Highland Scottish village offers a number of explanations for delayed recogntion of linguistic variation unrelated to social class or other social sub-groups.

This is the first book in the field of workplace discourse to examine the relationships among leadership, ethnicity, and language use.

This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in English, illustrated by hundreds of examples of actual language use taken largely from authentic British and American sources.

Beyond Yellow English is the first edited volume to examine issues of language, identity, and culture among the Asian Pacific American (APA) population. Focusing on the analysis of interaction, contributors explore multiple facets of the APA experience, including language use in home, school, and community settings; media representations of APAs; codeswitching; and narratives of ethnic identity.

Stancetaking-or speaker positioning-is central to communication. This collected volume explores stancetaking as a sociolinguistic phenomenon, looking at how speakers use language to position themselves and others and exploring how speakers and writers make use of and sometimes transform the meaning of sociolinguistic variables in their acts of stance.

Language Without Rights is a book-length critique of the concept of language rights.

In Paths to Post-Nationalism, Monica Heller shows how hegemonic discourses of language, identity, and the nation-State are destabilized under new political and economic conditions.

The "War on Terror" Narrative provides a longitudinal and holistic study of the formation, circulation, and contestation of the Bush administration's narrative about the "war on terror."

Language Myths and the History of English deconstructs common myths about the historical development of English and looks at the ideological reasons for their existence.

Digital Discourse offers a distinctly sociolinguistic perspective on the nature of language in digital technologies.

Spanish in New York is a groundbreaking sociolinguistic analysis of immigrant bilingualism in a U.S. setting. Drawing on one of the largest corpora of spoken Spanish ever assembled for a single city, Otheguy and Zentella demonstrate the extent to which the language of Latinos in New York City represents a continuation of structural variation as it is found in Latin America.

Provides an engaging and thought-provoking exploration of the way texts emerging in the legal process 'travel' in various ways to produce new forms and new meanings in new contexts.

An engaging exploration of the history of Pittsburghese, one of the most recognizable urban "dialects" in the United States today.