English Language Teaching in its Social Context offers sociolinguistic, ethnographic, and social-...

The empirical and descriptive strengths of sociolinguistics, developed over more than 40 years of...

We live in world increasingly shaped by risk, a fact underscored by recent events in the financia...

Process and Experience in the Language Classroom argues the case for communicative language teach...

A survey and analysis of second language theory discusses the development of ideas in this expand...

This special issue identifies three interrelated constructs--discourse, expertise, and the defini...

Writing: Texts, Processes and Practices offers an innovative and multidisciplinary approach to wr...

This volume explores intercultural communication in specialist fields and its realisations in lan...

This book argues that the subjective evaluation of the product must give way to a descriptive and...

The Handbooks of Applied Linguistics series is based on an understanding of Applied Linguistics a...

This volume presents some of the findings from a project on various aspects of Alternative Disput...

This book combines an authoritative examination of the field of discourse-based research with pra...