is the study of the mutually shaping relationship between linguistic resources and social interaction. We take a cross-linguistic and multi-modal approach to investigating how humans collaboratively ...

Linguistics in the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Western Michigan University facilitates the interdisciplinary study, exploration and analysis of language, using theories and ...

The book is broadly divided into six chapters titled (1) Language in Social Life — Theoretical Considerations, (2) Approaches and Methods, (3) Languages of Gilgit-Baltistan, (4) Linguistic ...

The use of language for academic purposes will be analysed, as will be situations of language contact, multilingualism and the role of translation in intercultural and international communication. The ...

The Department of World Languages and Literatures at Western Michigan University offers various courses in linguistics. Linguistics is often called "the science of language," the study of the human ...

Students and faculty in our department believe that language and social justice are linked in a variety of ways. As a student and scholar of linguistics you can explore those links, and use the tools ...

About 500,000 people in the United States use American Sign Language, a small social-linguistic group within which a diversity of immense proportions poses both challenges and opportunities to the ...

Linguistics at Ulster University spans a wide range of areas in the discipline. Particular strengths are in the areas of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, language acquisition, bilingualism, language ...

The course will introduce students to key (socio)linguistic concepts (semantic and pragmatic meaning, discourse, register, genre, dialect, idiolect, sociolect) employed in the analysis of language use ...

We integrate approaches from sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and social psychology to address three objectives: To track changing London speech in real time: We ask how and why certain linguistic ...