The Cambridge handbook of sociolinguistics
The most comprehensive overview available, this handbook is an essential guide to sociolinguistics today. Reflecting the breadth of research in the field, it surveys a range of topics and approaches in the study of language variation and use in society. As well as linguistic perspectives, the handbo...
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Cambridge University Press
2011
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the sociolinguistic enterprise / Rajend Mesthrie
- Foundations of sociolinguistics. Power, social differentiation and language / John Baugh
- Linguistic anthropology / Alessandro Duranti
- Social psychology and language / Peter Robinson and Abigail Locke
- Orality and literacy in sociolinguistics / Lowry Hemphill
- Sign languages / Ceil Lucas and Bob Bayley
- Interaction, style and discourse. Conversation and interaction / Cynthia Gordon
- Pragmatics and discourse / Jan Blommaert
- The sociolinguistics of style / Nikolas Coupland
- Social and regional dialectology. Language, class and status / Gregory Guy
- Language and region / Bill Kretzschmar
- Language and place / Barbara Johnstone
- Language, gender, sexuality / Natalie Schilling
- Language and ethnicity / Carmen Fought
- Multilingualism and language contact. Multilingualism and multiculturalism / Ana Deumert
- Pidgins, creoles and other contact varieties / John Singler and Silvia Kouwenberg
- Code switching / Pieter Muysken
- Language maintenance, shift and endangerment / Nicholas Ostler
- Colonisation, globalisation and world Englishes / Edgar Schneider
- Applied sociolinguistics. Language planning and policy / James Tollefson
- Language and the law / Diana Eades
- Language and the media / Susan McKay
- Language and education / Christopher Stroud and Kathleen Heugh.
Sociolinguistics