A young woman (Christine) travels back to her home town, after being away for ten years, to bury her mother. The funeral is also a few days before Christine's birthday…

Johnson, a poet, simply removed the words he did not wish to use as if whiting them out - the remaining words stood in the same relationship to each other…

Gendered Talk at Work examines how women and men negotiate their gender identities as well as their professional roles in everyday workplace communication.

At long last-a book-length biography celebrates Toni Cade Bambara, a seminal literary, cultural, and political figure who was among the most widely read and frequently reviewed of the well-regarded black…

Women, Men and Politeness focuses on the issue of the ways in which women and men express politeness verbally. Using a range of evidence Janet Holmes examines the distribution and…

In this classic introductory work, Holmes and Wilson examine the role of language in a variety of social contexts.It is an essential introductory text for all students of sociolinguistics and…

This book provides a non-technical introduction to the study of language by focusing on questions such as: Where does language come from? Why don’t we all talk the same? Who…

Provides unrivalled geographic coverage and an essential resource for a wide range of disciplines, from linguistics, psychology, sociology, and anthropology to communication and gender studies –