In this ground breaking new book David Block proposes a new working definition of social
class in applied linguistics. Traditionally, research on language and identity has focused on …

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 …

* Winner of the 2019 AAAL First Book Award* Racialized Identities in Second Language
Learning: Speaking Blackness in Brazil provides a critical overview and original …

I have tried to capture these new developments in this new edition in two major ways. First,
the majority of the authors who contributed chapters to the first edition have revised and …

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It is well documented that the same sociolinguistic feature can be used as a sociolinguistic
resource with different indexical potentials in different linguistic as well as social contexts …

This state-of-the-art review is based on the fundamental idea that political economy should
be adopted as a frame for research and discussion in applied linguistics as part of a general …

The issue of whether a regional accent and/or dialect impact (s) on the development of
literacy skills remains current in the UK. For decades the issue has dogged debate …

This article problematizes the politics of language education research with regard to social
injustice, which is not only cultural, but also material. Its starting position is that most …

In this chapter I want to consider the merits and the actualization of two theoretical concepts,
sociolinguistic change and vernacularization1. Neither concept is new. Each of them has …