Autor: Pahta Paivi Pahta

This volume presents a ground-breaking overview of the interconnections between socio-cultural reality and language practices, by looking at the different ways in which social roles are performed, ma …

Variability is characteristic of any living language. This volume approaches the 'life cycle’ of linguistic variability in English using data sources that range from electronic corpora to the interne …

This book investigates linguistic variation as a complex continuum of language use from standard to nonstandard. In our view, these notions can only be established through mutual definition, and they …