By drawing on multiple examples from healthcare, religion, service encounters and poetry, Lionel Wee presents rich insights into the use of automation in communication through a posthumanist lens.

This book is for students and researchers who are interested in language policy and New Englishes, as well as in questions about the nature of language. It argues that a…

‘Consumption, Cities and States: Comparing Singapore with Asian and Western Cities’ examines the fascinating intersection of consumption, citizenship and the state in a cross-section of global cities in Asia and…

This book links Bourdieu’s theory of the linguistic market with recent advances in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. The authors develop a new critique of global English, centered on the processes…

Provides researchers and graduate students in sociolinguistics with a theory of landscape affect as a linguistic and semiotic phenomenon. It is also of value to cultural geographers, urban sociologists and…