Do speakers’ identity constructions influence the emergence of new varieties of a language? This question is at the heart of a debate about how the process of

Varieties of English in the U.S. and Canada display fascinating developments from colonial times up until the twenty-first century. To throw light on the lingui

This volume presents a synchronic investigation of concessive constructions in nine varieties of English, based on data from the International Corpus of English

This book investigates the connections between evaluative judgements on language and the larger social, cultural, and political issues that shed light on the pr

This book provides a very readable, up-to-date description of language variation in American English, covering regional, ethnic, and gender-based differences. c