Winner of the Ramon Llull International Prize Winner of the 2017 Society for Linguistic
Anthropology Edward Sapir Book Prize A vibrant and surprisingly powerful civic and political …

This leading team of scholars presents a fascinating book about change: shifting political,
economic and cultural conditions; ephemeral, sometimes even seasonal, multilingualism; …

This chapter outlines a range of approaches that altogether consider media discourse from
numerous theoretical and methodological vantage points, examining discourse structure …

Nation-states manage and simplify diversity through a range of practices, including
schooling and the mass media. Some argue that the forces that engender diversity have …

Adapting Tom Ricento's (2006) three‐era framework in language policy to the case of the
Sámi in Finland and Irish in the Republic of Ireland, we identify three key eras in the …

This article analyses data from a very popular radio comedy sketch show in Ireland in order
to shed light on the ways in which the comedy harnesses, reflects and refracts attitudes …

The apparent gap between positive attitudes and low levels of everyday usage of the
language is often cited as one of the greatest challenges facing Irish language revitalisation …

This article addresses one of the major gaps in the existing research on the sociolinguistic
effects of minority language media, namely the effect that such media have on actual …

In Corsica, as in other peripheral multilingual contexts, changing economic practices and
circulating discourses about plurilingual, European and global markets, and forms of …

While interest in affective processes has led to an affective turn in cultural studies, in
sociolinguistics this perspective has been given less attention. This study takes up the 'lens …