Sociolinguistics

An assessment of how English grammar is changing, and the linguistic and social factors that are contributing to this process.

A edited collection which analyses conversation in a variety of contexts and settings.

This volume provides a different perspective on the global changes that have transformed school-to-work transitions since the 1970s.

An interdisciplinary overview of code-switching, whereby bilingual speakers switch between different languages or language varieties.

Documents the linguistic properties of lesser-known varieties of English, showing their relevance for language spread and change.

An introduction to the study of meaning in language for undergraduate students.

Addresses the issue of what we should make of competing claims about meaning when debated in highly charged circumstances.

Gender and Politeness challenges the notion that women are necessarily always more polite than men.

Laughter in Interaction is an illuminating and lively account of how and why people laugh during conversation.

This book provides an intriguing insight into the fascinating customs associated with greeting and parting rituals around the world.

This book describes a range of the most important kinds of texts in English and introduces methodological techniques used to analyse them.

An assessment of how English grammar is changing, and the linguistic and social factors that are contributing to this process.

This book explores the social and structural dynamics that underlie the creation of new, or restructured, grammars.

A edited collection which analyses conversation in a variety of contexts and settings.

This book outlines the relationship between our identity as members of groups and the language varieties important to each group.

This volume provides a different perspective on the global changes that have transformed school-to-work transitions since the 1970s.

This book examines Pakistan''s troubled history by exploring the importance of culture to political legitimacy.

An interdisciplinary overview of code-switching, whereby bilingual speakers switch between different languages or language varieties.

An introduction to the structure and sociolinguistics of the German language for students of German and linguistics.

Discusses the relationship between language and the mental organisation of knowledge, based on research carried out in Polynesia.

An insightful study that proposes a unified theory of speech through which conflicting ideas about language might be understood.

This study examines how words combine with hand gestures and other bodily movements to create unified ''composite utterances''.

Exploring practices in the family, school, the workplace, this book investigates the varied ways people choose to address one another.

This book analyses the signals people use to express emotion, looking at the social, cultural and political functions of emotional language.

This book was the first book to present a specific theory of language management.

This Handbook is a comprehensive and accessible overview of how bilinguals alternate between their languages when they speak.

Analyses the development of Portuguese and Spanish from Latin and their subsequent transformation into several non-standard varieties.

This book presents a theory of context that explains how text and talk are adapted to their social environment.

A comprehensive 2007 survey of the development and present-day features of English in Northern and the Republic of Ireland.

An overview of the language of South Asia within a linguistic, historical and sociolinguistic context.

Explores the ways in which writers of American literature have represented encounters between communities speaking different languages.

Celebrated writer and linguist Ruth Wajnryb explores how and why our language works the way it does.

A fresh and critical discussion of sexism in language.

Gives students a systematic introduction to the German language, including its dialects, history and the uses of the language today.

Discusses and develops a theory of ''context'' - how do social situations influence language use and conversation?

Provides a sociolinguistic account of classroom interaction, based on research in an inner-city high school.

This book discusses the spread of English around the world from a social and linguistic perspective.

Assesses the implications of cultural diversity for the process of constructing a European polity.

An overview of the key areas within the study of language variation and language change.

This book, first published in 2007, provides a clear framework for understanding how ordinary conversation creates meaning and establishes relationships.

This 2007 book explains the concept of style in speech and examines ways of studying accents and dialects.

A rigorous examination of the variables in aggressive adolescent behavior both longitudinally and sectionally.

Second edition of William Labov''s groundbreaking study, in which he looks back on forty years of achievements in 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.