‘A treasure trove for sociolinguistic researchers and students alike. Edited by three leading sociolinguists, the 39 chapters cover a wealth of valuable material… And the cast list reads like a veritable Who′s Who of sociolinguistics, with a refreshing number of younger scholars included along with more familiar, well-established names… This is a book that I will reach for often, both for research and teaching purposes. I will recommend it to my postgraduate students, and many of the chapters will provide excellent material for discussion in our advanced undergraduate sociolinguistics course.’
— Janet Holmes, Discourse Studies
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— Joshua A. Fishman, NYU and Stanford University
This Handbook answers a long-standing need for an up-to-date, comprehensive, international, in-depth critical survey of the history, trajectory, data, results and key figures involved in sociolinguistics. It consists of six inter-linked sections:
- The History of Sociolinguistics
- Sociolinguistics and Social Theory
- Language, Variation and Change
- Interaction
- Multilingualism and Contact
- Applications
The result is a work of unprecedented coverage and insight. It is all here, from the foundational contributions to the field to the impact of new media, new technologies of communication, globalization, trans-border fluidities and agendas of research.
The book will quickly be recognized as a benchmark in the field. It will provide a basis for reckoning its origins and pathways of development as well as an authoritative account of the central debates and research issues of today.
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Introduction — Ruth Wodak, Barbara Johnstone and Paul Kerswill
PART ONE: HISTORY OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS
Ferguson and Fishman: Sociolinguistics and the Sociology of Language — Bernard Spolsky
Labov: Language Variation and Change — Kirk Hazen
Bernstein: Codes and Social Class — Gabrielle Ivinson
Dell Hymes and the Ethnography of Communication — Barbara Johnstone and William M. Marcellino
Gumperz and Interactional Sociolinguistics — Cynthia Gordon
PART TWO: SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND SOCIAL THEORY
Social Stratification — Christine Mallinson
Social Constructionism — Anthea Irwin
Symbolic Interactionism, Erving Goffman, and Sociolinguistics — Shari Kendall
Ethnomethodology and Membership Categorization Analysis — Robert Garot and Tim Berard
The Power of Discourse and the Discourse of Power — José Antonio Flores Farfán and Anna Holzscheiter
Globalization Theory and Migration — Stef Slembrouck
Semiotics Interpretants, Inference, and Intersubjectivity — Paul Kockelman
PART THREE: LANGUAGE VARIATION AND CHANGE
Individuals and Communities — Norma Mendoza-Denton
Social Class — Robin Dodsworth
Social Network — Eva Vetter
Sociolinguistic Approaches to Language Change: Phonology — Paul Kerswill
Social Structure, Language Contact and Language Change — Peter Trudgill
Sociolinguistics and Formal Linguistics — Gregory R. Guy
Attitudes, Ideology and Awareness — Tore Kristiansen
Historical Sociolinguistics — Terttu Nevalainen
Fieldwork Methods in Language Variation — Walt Wolfram
PART FOUR: INTERACTION
Sociolinguistic Potentials of Face-to-Face Interaction — Helga Kotthoff
Doctor-Patient Communication — Florian Menz
Discourse and Schools — Luisa Martín Rojo
Courtroom Discourse — Susan Ehrlich
Analysing Conversation — Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen and Diana Slade
Narrative Analysis — Alexandra Georgakopoulou
Gender and Interaction — Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou
Interaction and the Media — Brigitta Busch, Petra Pfisterer
PART FIVE: MULTILINGUALISM AND CONTACT
Societal Bilingualism — Mark Sebba
Code-Switching/Mixing — Peter Auer
Language Policy and Planning — Anne-Claude Berthoud and Georges Lüdi
Language Endangerment — Julia Sallabank
Global Englishes — Alastair Pennycook
PART SIX: APPLICATIONS
Forensic Linguistics — Malcolm Coulthard, Tim Grant and Krzysztof Kredens
Language Teaching and Language Assessment — Constant Leung
Guidelines for Non-Discriminatory Language Use — Marlis Hellinger
Language, Migration and Human Rights — Ingrid Piller and Kimie Takahashi
Literacy Studies — David Barton and Carmen Lee
Об авторе
Professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University. He is on the editorial board of Journal of
Sociolinguistics and is co-editor of two book series, Edinburgh Sociolinguistics (EUP) and Studies in Language Variation (Bengamins).