▪ Abstract Constructivism is an approach to social analysis that deals with the role of human
consciousness in social life. It asserts that human interaction is shaped primarily by …

One might argue that political science has gone further than any other social science in
develo** a rigorous field of study devoted to qualitative methods. This review article …

Why do some countries fall apart, often along their ethnic fault lines, while others have held
together over decades and centuries, despite governing an equally diverse population …

How decision makers define state interests and formulate policies to deal with complex and
technical issues can be a function of the manner in which the issues are represented by …

A much-cited and highly influential text by Alastair Pennycook, one of the world authorities in
sociolinguistics, The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language explores the …

The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles. The violent
clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights. The boats of Haitian …

Anthropological linguistics is the study of language within the wider context of culture. It is
concerned with how humans employ communicative culturally meaningful, or semiotic …

Douglas Biber's new book extends and refines the research and methodology reported in
his ground breaking Variation Across Speech and Writing (CUP 1988). In Dimensions of …

Bridging Differences: Effective Intergroup Communication is based on the assumption that
the processes operating when we communicate with people from other groups are the same …

Language Diversity and Thought examines the Sapir-Whorf linguistic relativity hypothesis:
the proposal that the grammar of the particular language that we speak affects the way we …