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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- To readers -- 1 What is 'English'? -- 2 Communities, networks and individuals -- 3 English and language planning -- 4 Regional and social variation -- 5 Change in English -- 6 English historical sociolinguistics -- 7 Language contact -- 8 Dialect contact -- 9 Sociolinguistics and linguistic theory -- 10 Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Index

This collection of twelve essays, some of which have been written specifically for this volume by well-known European and North-American sociolinguists, reflects an increasing recognition within the field that sociological and theoretical innocence can no longer be underwritten by it, and offers a multi-pronged and multi-methodological way to move towards a critical, reflexive, and theoretically responsible socio-linguistics. It explores, with courage and sensitivity, some very important areas in the enormous space between Bloomfieldian 'idiolect' and Chomskyan 'UG' in order to situate the human linguistic enterprise, and offers valuable insights into human linguisticality and sociality. These explorations expose the limits of correlationism, determinism, and positivistic reificationism, and offer new ways of doing sociolinguistics. Intended for both practicing and future sociolinguists, it is an ideal text-book for the times, particularly for graduate and advanced undergraduate students.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- The Language of Buying and Selling of Silk Goods -- Modes of Greeting in Hindi: A Sociolinguistic Statement -- Hindi Address Forms -- Hindi Personal Names and Nicknames -- Appendix: The Scheme of Transliteration

The Sociolinguistics of Narrative; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; The sociolinguistics of narrative; Narrative as a resource in accounts of the experience of illness; Storying East-German pasts; Narrative demands, cultural performance and evaluation; Masculinity, collaborative narration and the heterosexual couple; Contextualizing and recontextualizing interlaced stories in conversation; Hearing voices; Modes of meaning making in young children's conversational storytelling; Two systems of mutual engagement

Abstract
Digital media have become a mainstream source of data for sociolinguistics, reflecting the ubiquity of such media and the centrality of their role in people's everyday speech as well as changed attitudes towards what constitutes a valid object of study in sociolinguistics. As our personal and professional reality becomes more technologized, there is, however, an urgent need to engage with a deeper understanding of the current and evolving digital economy underpinning this reality in order to assess critically the data that we now encounter. Trends such as personalization, securitization, and hierarchization, for example, mean that the sociolinguistic data we encounter are increasingly shaped by users' digital identities. In the current digital economy, language is a key tool for steering, recording, and tracking these identities, for example, in the form of algorithms; however, the sociolinguistic dimension to these processes has not yet been explored fully. As well as more integrated approaches to studying digital sociolinguistic data, our increasingly technologized reality demands that we build algorithmic reflexivity into our teaching and our research.