Sociolinguistics

A study of reported speech - the quoting of others'' words - in different types of interaction.

This book provides an account of the spread and diversification of postcolonial English worldwide.

The first volume in an authoritative series by Emanuel Schegloff on Conversation Analysis.

This book examines how we refer to other people in everyday conversation, across different languages and cultures.

2007 text discussing the cultural and political importance of spelling in modern society from a sociolinguistic viewpoint.

Provides a way of accounting for the relationship between language and a variety of social phenomena.

This book, first published in 2006, explores the crucial role of language in constructing and revealing a speaker''s ethnic identity.

A systematic study of sociolinguistic variation in seventeenth-century France.

This 2006 volume provides a comprehensive discussion of communication between doctors and patients in primary care consultations.

This book looks at suicidal and risk-taking behaviour.

Examines the origins and development of New Zealand English on the basis of extensive audio-recordings.

This book examines the interlinked history of Parisian speech and the Parisian population.

A discussion of some important questions in linguistic anthropology, the study of language in relation to culture and social interaction.

A comprehensive ''how to'' guide to the practical analysis of language variation in a social context.

Explores different aspects of interviews on race from a discourse analysis perspective.

Sheds new light on the processes of socialization on today''s youth.

Explores the ways that words and meanings are re-used in new contexts for new listeners.

A guide to language revitalization, presenting the issues and practices involved in preventing language loss.

This book is a broad-ranging exploration of the Japanese language in relation to Japanese society and identity formation.

This 2005 book explores the role of British dialects in the genesis and subsequent history of postcolonial varieties of English.

Offers an interesting insight into how language contact affects grammatical forms and structures.

This book looks at the challenging implications of discourse approaches to the topic of cognition.

This authoritative introduction to African American English (AAE) is the first textbook to look at the grammar as a whole.

This lively and accessible textbook provides a clear introduction to the relationship between language and sexuality.

This book, presents a radical way of looking at linguistic politeness.

Discusses disparate findings to examine the dynamics of contact between languages in an immigrant context.

Literacy and Literacies is an engaging account of literacy and its relation to power.

Offers a broad perspective on the study of style and variation in spoken language.

An introduction to linguistic anthropology as an interdisciplinary field which studies language as a cultural resource and speaking as a cultural practice.

This 2003 book accounts for the structural differences between non-Creole language varieties and their European source languages.

This book examines changes that are likely to impact adolescents'' lives and their futures as adults.

This book presents comparative evidence and case-studies on poor urban youth, providing interventions that have proven successful.

This book focuses on the emergence of gender difference, summarizing the most up-to-date interdisciplinary research.

2003 overview of the foundations of and research on language variation in southern United States.

This 2003 study uses evidence from early English verse to determine when certain sound changes took place.

This book considers the effects of present-day trends in global politics on the relative status of languages.

A challenging and accessible analysis of the relationship between economics and language.

Presents state-of-the-art knowledge about languages in contact from individual bilingualism (or bilinguality) to societal bilingualism.

This 2002 book is the first overview in English of the structure, history, typology and dialects of Romani.

A groundbreaking study of gender in English from the Middle Ages to modern times.

This book describes the development of Modern Chinese from the late nineteenth century to the 1990s.

This book explores the genesis and development of adolescent sleep patterns.

Understanding Language Contact offers an accessible and empirically grounded introduction to contact linguistics.

As a comprehensive account of all aspects of dialectology this updated edition makes an ideal introduction to the subject.

This book studies worldwide variation in Spanish, and the origins and history of this variation.

A study of the importance of the language of rights during three crucial periods in American history.

The first popular examination of language on the Internet by a leading authority.

This book considers the processes involved in language change and how they can be modelled and studied.

This major 2001 work explores the development of creoles and other new languages.

An accessible introduction to the major areas of sociolinguistics as they relate to sign languages and deaf communities.