Language fundamentally defines and distinguishes us as humans, as members of society,
and as individuals. As we go through life, our relationship with language and with learning …

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 …

Routledge Applied Linguistics is a series of comprehensive textbooks, providing students
and researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of English …

Quotatives considers the phenomenon “quotation” from a wealth of perspectives. It
consolidates findings from different strands of research, combining formal and functional …

The perspective that I will develop in these pages, 1 what has come to be referred to as the
“Third Wave” approach to variation, 2 takes as basic that the meaningfulness of …

We conduct a multi‐local, multivariate analysis of be like in comparable datasets from three
discontinuous geographic settings (the USA, England, and New Zealand). Previously …

The selective attention paid to the language of adolescents has led to the enduring belief
that young people are ruining the language and that, as a consequence, the language is …

Do accent biases observed half a century ago and 15 years ago still hold in Britain today?
We provide an updated picture of national attitudes to accent labels by replicating and …

This article investigates the attitudes of British respondents towards the quotatives be like
and go. The results of a matched guise test and a social attitudes survey are presented and …

This chapter surveys morphosyntactic variation and change in the spoken English of
England. It begins by demonstrating how pervasive non-standard forms are in spoken …