The SAGE Handbook of Sociolinguistics

Ruth Wodak, Barbara Johnstone, Paul E Kerswill, Ruth Wodak, Barbara Johnstone, Paul E Kerswill

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9781446270592, 9781847870957
• eBook ISBN: 9781446248409
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Social Sciences

"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

"The best, the most complete and the most integrated handbook of sociolinguistics of the past decade."
- 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• PART 1 - History of Sociolinguistics
• 1 Ferguson and Fishman: Sociolinguistics and the Sociology of Language
• 2 Labov: Language Variation and Change
• 3 Bernstein: Codes and Social Class
• 4 Dell Hymes and the Ethnography of Communication
• 5 Gumperz and Interactional Sociolinguistics
• PART 2 - Sociolinguistics and Social Theory
• 6 Social Stratification
• 7 Social Constructionism
• 8 Symbolic Interactionism, Erving Goffman, and Sociolinguistics
• 9 Ethnomethodology and Membership Categorization Analysis
• 10 The Power of Discourse and the Discourse of Power
• 11 Globalization Theory and Migration
• 12 Semiotics: Interpretants, Inference, and Intersubjectivity
• PART 3 - Language Variation and Change
• 13 Individuals and Communities
• 14 Social Class
• 15 Social Network
• 16 Sociolinguistic Approaches to Language Change: Phonology
• 17 Social Structure, Language Contact and Language Change
• 18 Sociolinguistics and Formal Linguistics
• 19 Attitudes, Ideology and Awareness
• 20 Historical Sociolinguistics
• 21 Fieldwork Methods in Language Variation
• PART 4 - Interaction
• 22 Sociolinguistic Potentials of Face-to-Face Interaction
• 23 Doctor–Patient Communication
• 24 Discourse and Schools
• 25 Courtroom Discourse
• 26 Analysing Conversation
• 27 Narrative Analysis
• 28 Gender and Interaction
• 29 Interaction and the Media
• PART 5 - Multilingualism and Contact
• 30 Societal Bilingualism
• 31 Code-switching/mixing
• 32 Language Policy and Planning
• 33 Language Endangerment
• 34 Global Englishes
• PART 6 - Applications
• 35 Forensic Linguistics
• 36 Language Teaching and Language Assessment
• 37 Guidelines for Non-Discriminatory Language Use
• 38 Language, Migration and Human Rights
• 39 Literacy Studies
• Name Index
• Subject Index