37.3148, Books: Critical Sociolinguistics: Del Percio and Flubacher (eds.) (2026)

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Date: 01-Oct-2026
From: Arianne Hill [Arianne.Hill at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Critical Sociolinguistics: Del Percio and Flubacher (eds.) (2026)


Title: Critical Sociolinguistics
Subtitle: Dialogues, Dissonances, Developments
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/critical-sociolinguistics-9781350293625/

Editor(s): Alfonso Del Percio, Mi-Cha Flubacher

Paperback.
9781350293625.
£39.99.

Abstract:

Providing a series of crucial debates on language, power, difference
and social inequality, this volume traces developments and dissonances
in critical sociolinguistics. Eminent and emerging academic figures
from around the world collaboratively engage with the work of Monica
Heller, offering insights into the politics and power formations that
surround knowledge of language and society.
Challenging disciplinary power dynamics in critical sociolinguistics,
this book is an experiment testing new ways of producing knowledge on
language and society. Critically discussing central sociolinguistic
concepts from critique to political economy, labor to media, education
to capitalism, each chapter features a number of scholars offering
their distinct social and political perspectives on the place played
by language in the social fabric. Through its theoretical,
epistemological, and methodological breadth, the volume foregrounds
political alliances in how language is known and explored by scholars
writing from specific geopolitical spaces that come with diverse
political struggles and dynamics of power. Allowing for a diversity of
genres, debates, controversies, fragments and programmatic manifestos,
the volume prefigures a new mode of knowledge production that
multiplies perspectives and starts practicing the more inclusive, just
and equal worlds that critical sociolinguists envision.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics




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