It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other.
The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
Li Wei is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Jean-Marc Dewaele is Senior Lecturer in French at Birkbeck College, London, UK.
Alex Housen is Lecturer at the Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium.