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This new edition of Richard Hudson's widely acclaimed textbook Sociolinguistics will be welcomed by students and teachers alike. To reflect changes in the field since publication of the first edition in 1980, the author has added new sections on politeness, accommodation, and prototypes; and he has expanded discussion of sex differences, culture and general theory. There remains coverage of classic topics such as varieties of language, speech as social interaction, the quantitative study of speech, and linguistic and social inequality. Like the first, the second edition of Sociolinguistics is an exceptionally clear and helpful overview of the relationship of language and society

"This third edition of Miriam Meyerhoff's highly successful textbook is supported by The Routledge Sociolinguistics Reader, Doing Sociolinguistics and online resources shared by all books. It provides a solid, up-to-date appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of the field covering foundation issues, recent advances and current debates. It presents familiar or classic data in new ways, and supplements the familiar with fresh examples from a wide range of languages and social settings. It clearly explains the patterns and systems that underlie language variation in use, as well as the ways in which alternations between different language varieties index personal style, social power and national identity. New features of the third edition: every chapter revised and updated with current research in the field, including material on sexuality, polylanguaging, and lifespan change; additional Connections with theory and Facts: No really? throughout; revised and expanded data from signed languages, historical linguistics and Asia-Pacific sociolinguistics; brand new companion website featuring more examples and exercises at www.routledge.com/textbooks/meyerhoff. Chapters include exercises that enable readers to engage critically with the text, break-out boxes making connections between sociolinguistics and linguistic or social theory, and brief, lively add-ons guaranteed to make the book a memorable and enjoyable read. With a full glossary of terms and suggestions for further reading, this text gives students all the tools they need for an excellent command of sociolinguistics"--

Reflects on the latest trends in the study of Arabic sociolinguistics New to this edition:A new chapter on Arabic critical sociolinguistics: the critical analysis of the field of sociolinguistics itself and its scholarly practicesExplains new theories such as language as a social construct, the relation between language and identity, stance, indexicality and translanguaging, with examples from areas not covered in the first editionDiscusses the political changes in the Arab world since 2011 and their impact on languageConsiders the role of new media in modifying theories and providing different kind of data for sociolinguistsThe second edition of Arabic Sociolinguistics offers an extended commentary on the important findings of new critical approaches to language and society in Arab-speaking countries. Following a recent wave of political upheavals in the Middle East, the book engages with latest academic works that relate language to power and conflict in the Arab world. In addition to thoroughly updated accounts of diglossia, code-switching, gender, language policy and language variation in the region, Reem Bassiouney discusses the most important recent development in the field - critical sociolinguistics - in a new dedicated chapter that challenges the tendency of applying Western linguistic methods and terms to superdiverse communities. By covering the key developments of linguistic theories and contexts with up-to-date examples to help explain the phenomena under discussion, this is the most comprehensive book on Arabic sociolinguistics today.Please note that Arabic Sociolinguistics is co-published by Georgetown University Press in the USA. If you in this area and are looking to buy a copy, or request a review or inspection copy, please direct orders and queries directly to them."

This is a revised version of Theory Groups and the Study of Language in North America (1994), the post-World-War-II history of the emergence of sociolinguistics in North America that was described in Language in Society as "a heady combination of detailed scholarship, mordant wit, and sustained narrative designed to persuade even the skeptical reader that these myriad, often simultaneously emergent, ways of thinking about language are indeed interrelated. . . . This is an outspoken, engaging, rollicking, occasionally aggravating adventure in the history of these sciences as related to their practice. . . not to be missed by anyone who cares about the intellectual underpinnings of the study of language in society," in Language as providing "the closest approximation" to how sociolinguists came together and developed the field, and in Lingua as providing "the most comprehensive overviews of the various and varied approaches to [American] linguistic research." American Sociolinguistics examines both theory groups (such as the ethnography of speaking and ethnoscience), and sociolinguistic scholars (such as William Labov, Einar Haugen, and Erving Goffman) whose widely-known and often-emulated work was not pursued by organized groups.

Intro -- Map of England -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: An Overview of Sociolinguistics in England -- Introduction -- Previous Work on Sociolinguistics in England -- Current Volume -- Future Direction -- References -- 2: Urban Literacies and Processes of Supralocalisation: A Historical Sociolinguistic Perspective -- Introduction -- Historical Sociolinguistics, Urban Literacies and Language Standardisation -- The Third-Person Singular Present Indicative: Variation and Change in Urban Depositions -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 3: Social Change, Linguistic Change and Sociolinguistic Change in Received Pronunciation -- Introduction -- Theoretical Preliminaries -- Standard Languages, Elite Sociolects and Language Change -- What's in a Name? -- Quantitative Empirical Studies of Phonetic Variation in RP Speech -- T-Glottalling -- Weak Vowel Variation -- Changes in the RP Short Vowel System -- Smoothing and Yod Coalescence -- /r/ Variation in RP -- Variation and Change in RP Over the Lifespan -- Attitudinal Studies of RP: Dialect-in-Discourse -- Sociolinguistic Change and Modern RP -- Conclusion -- References -- 4: The Changing Language of Urban Youth: A Pilot Study -- Introduction -- Research on Youth Language -- Research on Manchester English -- The Context -- A Description of the Language -- Vowels -- FOOT/STRUT -- GOOSE -- happy -- letter -- PRICE -- FACE -- MOUTH -- Other Linguistic Features -- Quotatives -- Words and Phrases -- Awareness -- Social Factors -- Gender -- Ethnicity -- Identity -- Social Practices -- Moving Forward -- References -- 5: Stylisation and the Dynamics of Migration, Ethnicity and Class -- Introduction1 -- The Systems in Focus -- The Argument -- The Posh/Cockney Style Binary at Central High -- The Creole/Asian English Style Contrast in Ashmead