Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
About the Book Series
This series is our home for innovative research in the field of sociolinguistics. It includes monographs and targeted edited collections that provide new insights into this important and evolving subject area.
Lived Standardization: A Language Management Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Jiří Nekvapil, Tamah Sherman, Petar Vuković
March 17, 2027
This collection examines language standardization as a dynamic, lived practice that is initiated, assessed, implemented or challenged through a range of interconnected social interactions occurring at both micro and macro levels. The volume explores how standardization, commonly understood as ...
The New South: Language and Place in the 21st Century
1st Edition
By Paul E. Reed, Becky Childs
February 24, 2027
Drawing on the authors’ extensive sociolinguistic and dialectological research in the area, this book comprehensively examines language in the contemporary Southern United States, otherwise known as the “New South.” Reed and Childs bring greater awareness to the cultural, social, and historical ...
AI-generated Language in Sociolinguistic Contexts: An Empirical Approach
1st Edition
By Łukasz Zarzycki
February 23, 2027
This volume explores the extent to which LLM-generated language conforms to sociolinguistic expectations, positioning AI as a simulated language user and outlining new possibilities for AI-generated language as an object of linguistic inquiry. Zarzycki makes the case for AI-generated texts as ...
The Landscape of Tibetan Individuals’ Multilingual Experiences: Language, Education, and Identity
1st Edition
By YiXi LaMuCuo
February 12, 2027
LaMuCuo explores the experiences of different individuals with language socialization, language acquisition, language shift and loss, and education in a variety of multilingual contexts in Tibetan areas of China. Through investigating the experiences of these individuals, the book illustrates how ...
European Migrants in the UK in the Brexit Era: Discursive Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Caterina Guardamagna, Jessica Hampton, Mariana Roccia, Djordje Sredanovic
December 16, 2026
This edited volume offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of Brexit as both a discursive construct and a lived, evolving reality. Bringing together ethnography, discourse analysis, and qualitative analysis of interviews, the chapters foreground migrant voices to explore how identity,...
Linguistic Landscape Studies of Global Chinese: Living in the Third Space
1st Edition
Edited
By Fengzhi Zhao, Xiaofang Yao
November 30, 2026
This volume examines the lived experiences of diverse Global Chinese communities who navigate changing milieus of meanings and ideas about homes, belongings, and boundaries in a transnational world. From the perspective of linguistic landscape studies, it explores how language, ethnicity, culture, ...
Critical Discourse and Sociolinguistic Approaches to Migration and Freedom of Movement: Unbound Horizons
1st Edition
Edited
By Katie J. Patterson
November 25, 2026
This volume explores how linguistic narratives of migration, citizenship, and freedom of movement expose the tensions between legal frameworks and lived experiences. This book provides a dynamic exploration of alternative migration narratives across the EU, promoting awareness of freedom of ...
Discourses of Blackness and Anti-Blackness in Poland
1st Edition
By Margaret Ohia-Nowak
November 18, 2026
Discourses of Blackness and Anti-Blackness in Poland critically examines anti-Black racism and racial discourse in Poland, exploring how Blackness operates in spaces untethered from colonial histories yet entangled in the global racial order. The volume challenges scholars in this space to extend ...
Language and Identity among Elite Students: Grounded High Flyers in Singapore
1st Edition
By Luke Lu
October 29, 2026
Lu focuses on conversations among top-performing students from Raffles Institution in Singapore, exploring how they articulate their aspirations, attitudes towards state scholarships, their sense of identity in relation to their peers, and their use of language, including Singlish. Drawing on ...
Corpora and Complexity in English Language Research: Essays in Honor of William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.
1st Edition
Edited
By Allison Burkette, Becky Childs, Susan Tamasi
October 19, 2026
This collection showcases the groundbreaking achievements of William A. Kretzschmar’s work in sociolinguistics, text and corpus studies, and lexical studies, highlighting both his enduring legacy within the discipline and unique insights into language use and how we study language more broadly. The...
Multimodal Approaches to Heritage and Minoritised Languages for Young People: Experiences from Formal and Non-formal Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Alicia Sánchez-Requena, Anna Marzà
September 30, 2026
This collection brings together research from established and emerging scholars on maintaining and revitalising minoritized and heritage languages among children and young people through multimodal projects in formal and non-formal educational contexts. The volume brings insights into teaching ...
Language, Home, and Belonging in Migratory Contexts: The Case of Camfranglais
1st Edition
By Constance Mbassi Manga
September 28, 2026
This book presents a study of the role and functions of Camfranglais (CFrA) for diasporic Cameroonians living in the West, showcasing how closely language relates to identity and the role CFrA plays in negotiations of 'home' and 'belonging' for these diasporic Cameroonians. Mbassi Manga adopts an ...