Rather than always inventing examples to illustrate points, we have tried to take them from
real life uses of language. To achieve this, we have used corpora–large collections of …

Distinguishing linguistic change at the community level ('generational change') from
linguistic change at the individual level ('age grading') is “one of the major issues in …

Both pidgins and creoles are assumed to have small phoneme inventories, to allow only
simple syllable structures and to lack tone, while mixed languages are assumed to either …

Modern NLP defines the task of style transfer as modifying the style of a given sentence
without appreciably changing its semantics, which implies that the outputs of style transfer …

In this article, we introduce a sociolinguistic perspective on language modeling. We claim
that language models in general are inherently modeling varieties of language, and we …

Introducing Language and Intercultural Communication is a lively and accessible
introduction for undergraduates who are new to the study of intercultural communication …

AN INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLINGUISTICS The new eighth edition of An Introduction to
Sociolinguistics brings this valuable, bestselling textbook up to date with the latest in …

Sociolinguistics is the study of the interaction between language and society. In this classic
introductory work, Janet Holmes and Nick Wilson examine the role of language in a variety …

Written by a team of leading experts working in different SLA specialisms, this fourth edition
is a clear and concise introduction to the main theories of second language acquisition …

The global spread of English has had widespread linguistic, social, and cultural implications,
affecting the lives of millions of people around the world. This textbook provides a lively and …