This is the first of four volumes that will connect linguistic topics and research methodologies to international theoretical and methodological sociolinguistic frameworks such as contact linguistics,
Some of the contexts that are explored are gender reform in English as a case study of socially motivated language reform in a global lingua franca; gender, leadership, and discourse in New Zealand wo
Before the advent of writing and before the development of the Indo-European language, Europe enjoyed much greater linguistic diversity with a whole host of other languages (Hispanic, Baltic, Slavic,
