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.

Table of Contents

• List of Contributors
• Introduction - Ruth Wodak, Barbara Johnstone and Paul Kerswill
• Part 1 History of Sociolinguistics
• 1 Ferguson and Fishman: Sociolinguistics and the Sociology of Language - Bernard Spolsky
• 2 Labov: Language Variation and Change - Kirk Hazen
• 3 Bernstein: Codes and Social Class - Gabrielle Ivinson
• 4 Dell Hymes and the Ethnography of Communication - Barbara Johnstone and William M. Marcellino
• 5 Gumperz and Interactional Sociolinguistics - Cynthia Gordon
• Part 2 Sociolinguistics and Social Theory
• 6 Social Stratification - Christine Mallinson
• 7 Social Constructionism - Anthea Irwin
• 8 Symbolic Interactionism, Erving Goffman, and Sociolinguistics - Shari Kendall
• 9 Ethnomethodology and Membership Categorization Analysis - Robert Garot and Tim Berard
• 10 The Power of Discourse and the Discourse of Power - José Antonio Flores Farfán and Anna Holzscheiter
• 11 Globalization Theory and Migration - Stef Slembrouck
• 12 Semiotics: Interpretants, Inference, and Intersubjectivity - Paul Kockelman
• Part 3 Language Variation and Change
• 13 Individuals and Communities - Norma Mendoza-Denton
• 14 Social Class - Robin Dodsworth
• 15 Social Network - Eva Vetter
• 16 Sociolinguistic Approaches to Language Change: Phonology - Paul Kerswill
• 17 Social Structure, Language Contact and Language Change - Peter Trudgill
• 18 Sociolinguistics and Formal Linguistics - Gregory R. Guy
• 19 Attitudes, Ideology and Awareness - Tore Kristiansen
• 20 Historical Sociolinguistics - Terttu Nevalainen
• 21 Fieldwork Methods in Language Variation - Walt Wolfram
• Part 4 Interaction
• 22 Sociolinguistic Potentials of Face-to-Face Interaction - Helga Kotthoff
• 23 Doctor-Patient Communication - Florian Menz
• 24 Discourse and Schools - Luisa Martín Rojo
• 25 Courtroom Discourse - Susan Ehrlich
• 26 Analysing Conversation - Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen and Diana Slade
• 27 Narrative Analysis - Alexandra Georgakopoulou
• 28 Gender and Interaction - Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou
• 29 Interaction and the Media - Brigitta Busch and Petra Pfisterer
• Part 5 Multilingualism and Contact
• 30 Societal Bilingualism - Mark Sebba
• 31 Code-switching/mixing - Peter Auer
• 32 Language Policy and Planning - Anne-Claude Berthoud and Georges Lüdi
• 33 Language Endangerment - Julia Sallabank
• 34 Global Englishes - Alastair Pennycook
• Part 6 Applications
• 35 Forensic Linguistics - Malcolm Coulthard, Tim Grant and Krzysztof Kredens
• 36 Language Teaching and Language Assessment - Constant Leung
• 37 Guidelines for Non-Discriminatory Language Use - Marlis Hellinger
• 38 Language, Migration and Human Rights - Ingrid Piller and Kimie Takahashi
• 39 Literacy Studies - David Barton and Carmen Lee