Arising from a series of workshops and discussions, this volume deals with a range of languages that vary as much as the varieties of English, Mandarin, Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, Italian, and Fre
The volume reconstructs the coming-into-being of the English native speaker in the second half of the nineteenth century in order to probe into the origins of the problems surrounding the concept toda
Social scientists have devoted much attention to investigating the social meaning of spoken language and more recently written language in the form of corpora. Phonologists and phoneticians have grapp
The volume explores how globalization creates new identity options for language learners, and it considers what implications this has for language learning, teaching, and use. The chapters investigate
