The Routledge Sociolinguistics Reader

Both a companion to Introducing Sociolinguistics, Miriam Meyerhoff’s bestselling textbook, and a stand-alone Reader in sociolinguistics, this collection includes classic foundational readings and more recent innovative articles.

Intended to be highly user-friendly, The Routledge Sociolinguistics Reader includes substantial section introductions, further reading, a reader’s guide on how to use the book and an introductory chapter providing advice on how to undertake qualitative and quantitative research. This introduction is supplemented by exercises focussing on data handling and collection.

The Reader is divided into six sections and each section is thematically organised. Each reading is accessible to beginning students of sociolinguistics but the entire selection is assembled to also help advanced students focus on themes, principles and concepts that cut across different researchers' work. Beginning and advanced students are supported by Content Questions to assist understanding of essential features in the readings, and Concept Questions which help advanced students make connections across readings, apply theory to data, and critically engage with the readings. A companion website supports and connects the Reader and textbook with structured exercises, links to associated websites and video examples, plus an online glossary.

The Routledge Sociolinguistics Reader is essential reading for students on courses in sociolinguistics, language and society, and language and variation.
Authors: Allan Bell ? Jennifer Hay ? Stefanie Jannedy ? Norma Mendoza-Denton ? Qing Zhang ? John Laver ? Sachiko Ide ? Dennis R. Preston ? Thomas Purnell ? William Idsardi ? John Baugh ? Gibson Ferguson ? Isabelle Buchstaller ? Jinny K. Choi ? Don Kulick ? Christopher Stroud ? Jan-Peter Blom ? John J. Gumperz ? David Britain ? Monica Heller ? Ben Rampton ? Miriam Meyerhoff ? Nancy Niedzielski ? William Labov ? Rika Ito ? Sali Tagliamonte ? Gillian Sankoff ? Hélène Blondeau ? Peter Trudgill ? Richard Cameron ? Lesley Milroy ? James Milroy ? Paul Kerswill ? Ann Williams ? Terttu Nevalainen ? Penelope Eckert ? Janet Holmes ? Stephanie Schnurr ? Niloofar Haeri ? Elinor Ochs ? Scott Fabius Kiesling ? Rusty Barrett
Miriam Meyerhoff is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Erik Schleef is lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Manchester, UK.
Go to www.routledge.com/textbooks/meyerhoff for online resources supporting The Routledge Sociolinguistics Reader and Introducing Sociolinguistics (Meyerhoff 2011)

ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS

Miriam Meyerhoff is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her work investigates language variation and the interplay between language and social identities, using qualitative and quantitative methods. She is author of Introducing Sociolinguistics, and co-editor of the Handbook of Language and Gender,as well as Social Lives in Language and the Creole Language Library.
Erik Schleef is Lecturer in English Sociolinguistics in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Manchester, UK. His research interests include language variation and change, language and gender and language acquisition in immigrant contexts. He has lived and taught in the US, the UK, Germany, and Switzerland.

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User’s guide to The Routledge Sociolinguistics Reader
Acknowledgements

Introduction


Erik Schleef and Miriam Meyerhoff

Sociolinguistic methods for data collection and interpretation

Part one: Identities, style and politeness
Editors’ introduction to part one

Allan Bell

Back in style: Reworking audience design

Jennifer Hay, Stefanie Jannedy, and Norma Mendoza-Denton

Oprah and /ay/: Lexical frequency, referee design, and style

Qing Zhang

A Chinese yuppie in Beijing: Phonological variation and the construction of a new professional identity

John Laver

Linguistic routines and politeness in greeting and parting

Sachiko Ide

Formal forms and discernment: Two neglected aspects of universals of linguistic politeness

Part two: Perceptions and language attitudes
Editors’ introduction to part two

Dennis R. Preston

Language with an attitude

Dennis R. Preston

The Li’l Abner syndrome: Written representations of speech

Thomas Purnell, William Idsardi, and John Baugh

Perceptual and phonetic experiments on American English dialect identification

Gibson Ferguson

Language education policy and the medium of instruction issue in post-colonial Africa

Isabelle Buchstaller

Social stereotypes, personality traits and regional perceptions displaced: Attitudes towards the ‘new’ quotative in the U.K.

Part three: Multilingualism and language contact
Editors’ introduction to part three

Jinny K. Choi

Bilingualism in Paraguay: Forty years after Rubin’s study

Don Kulick and Christopher Stroud

Code-switching in Gapun: Social and linguistic aspects of language use in a language shifting community

Jan-Peter Blom and John J. Gumperz

Social meaning in linguistic structure: Code-switching in Norway

David Britain

Dialect contact, focusing and phonological rule complexity: The koineisation of Fenland English

Monica Heller

Legitimate language in a multilingual school

Ben Rampton

Language crossing and the redefinition of reality

Miriam Meyerhoff and Nancy Niedzielski

The Globalisation of Vernacular Variation

Part four: Variation and change
Editors’ introduction to part four

William Labov

The social motivation of a sound change

Rika Ito and Sali Tagliamonte

Well weird, right dodgy, very strange, really cool: Layering and recycling in English intensifiers

Gillian Sankoff and Hélène Blondeau

Language change across the lifespan: /r/ in Montreal French

Peter Trudgill

Norwich revisited: Recent linguistic changes in an English urban dialect

Richard Cameron

Aging and Gendering

Part five: Social class, networks and communities of practice
Editors’ introduction to part five

Lesley Milroy and James Milroy

Social network and social class: Toward an integrated sociolinguistic model

Paul Kerswill and Ann Williams

Mobility versus social class in dialect levelling: Evidence from new and old towns in England

Terttu Nevalainen

Making the best of ‘bad’ data: Evidence for sociolinguistic variation in early modern English

Penelope Eckert

Vowels and nail polish: The emergence of linguistic style in the preadolescent heterosexual marketplace

Janet Holmes and Stephanie Schnurr

‘Doing femininity’ at work: More than just relational practice

Part six: Gender
Editors’ introduction to part six

Niloofar Haeri

A linguistic innovation of women in Cairo

Elinor Ochs

Indexing gender

Scott Fabius Kiesling

Power and the language of men

Rusty Barrett


Markedness and styleswitching in performances by African American drag queens

Notes on concept questions
Index