Local Literacies is a unique detailed study of the role of reading and writing in people's
everyday lives. By concentrating on a selection of people in a particular community in …

The language we use forms an important part of our sense of who we are-of our identity.
This book outlines the relationship between our identity as members of groups-ethnic …

torical survey of language and intercultural communication studies with a critical assessment
of past and present theory, research, and practice, as well as an insight into future directions …

As the history of sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology shows, a sharp distinction
between these fields and others concerned with the sociocultural investigation of language …

This special issue of Qualitative Research was produced in the context of a comparatively
recent surge in qualitative 'multimodal'research. A number of scholars from diverse …

The term 'linguistic ethnography'captures a growing body of research by scholars who
combine linguistic and ethnographic approaches in order to understand how social and …

This chapter provides an overview of linguistic ethnography and interactional
sociolinguistics, two closely related perspectives on communication, and in order to develop …

This article analyzes multilingual practices in interactions inside European Union (EU)
institutions. On the basis of our fieldwork conducted in EU organizational spaces throughout …

This chapter shows how buffalaxing highlights typical ways in which interest-based,
informal, and parodic social media culture are engaging with superdiversity, and in these …

This book provides comprehensive coverage of language contact in classroom settings.
Particularly highlighted are the range and implications of attitudes towards languages and …