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This volume offers a comprehensive treatment of the historical developments underpinning our present understandings of the relationship between language and the social by integrating the study of language with key strands of sociological theory.

Originally published in 1992. This provocative book calls for a critical analysis of the philosophical assumptions underpinning sociolinguistics. Going back to the roots of the study of language in society, it challenges the leading figures in the field and emphasises the sociological rather than the linguistic side of the subject.

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This book critically examines the European Union’s “Unity in Diversity” mantra with regard to language. It uses a theoretical framework based on hegemony both as a system and as a relationship. Operating within sociolinguistics, the book replaces the notion of ideology in poststructuralist thought with that of hegemony. The authors argue that forging unity across language communities contradicts the tenets of classical liberal theory. Global n...

Originally published in 1992. This provocative book calls for a critical analysis of the philosophical assumptions underpinning sociolinguistics. Going back to the roots of the study of language in society, it challenges the leading figures in the field and emphasises the sociological rather than the linguistic side of the subject.

Brian Glyn Williams is Professor of Islamic History at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. He was employed by the CIA to track suicide bombers in Afghanistan in 2007. He is author of several books on warfare and terrorism, including Afghanistan Declassified, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press, and The Last Warlord: The Life and Legend of Dostum, the Afghan Warrior Who Led US Special Forces to Topple the Taliban Re...

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Glyn Williams engages current debates in linguistics and social theory, and provides the first introduction in English to the principles and theories of French Discourse Analysis. Williams guides the reader through the general history of structuralism and post-structuralism before covering the different stages in the development of French Discourse Analysis between 1965 and the present. Key contributors to the theoretical field such as Foucaul...

Tales of the intrepid early naturalists who set sail on dangerous voyages of discovery in the vast, unknown Pacific

Definitive history of the Crimean Tatars, who have survived persecution through the generations

A thought-provoking and accessible introductory text integrating 'traditional' concerns of development geographers, such as economic development and social inequality, with less-covered aspects such as cultural identity and political conflict. 2nd edition.

Brian Glyn Williams is Professor of Islamic History at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. He was employed by the CIA to track suicide bombers in Afghanistan in 2007. He is author of several books on warfare and terrorism, including Afghanistan Declassified, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press, and The Last Warlord: The Life and Legend of Dostum, the Afghan Warrior Who Led US Special Forces to Topple the Taliban Re...

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The book describes the new advances in the science and technology of hydrocolloids which are used in food and related systems.