This popular and critically acclaimed Handbook is now available in paperback.

"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.

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