Includes bibliographical references and a Subject and Names Index.

"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.
The Handbook consists of six inter-linked sections:
1. The History of Sociolinguistics
2. Sociolinguistics and Social Theory
3. Language, Variation and Change
4. Interaction
5. Multilingualism and Contact
6. 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." (Book Cover)

CONTENTS:

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 Bernstein

3. 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 TWO: 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 / Jose Antonio Flores Farfan and Anna Holzscheiter

11. Globalization Theory and Migration / Stef Slembrouck

12. Semiotics Interpretants, Inference, and Intersubjectivity / Paul Kockelman

PART THREE: 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 FOUR: INTERACTION

22. Sociolinguistic Potentials of Face-to-Face Interaction / Helga Kotthoff

23. Doctor-Patient Communication / Florian Menz

24. Discourse and Schools / Luisa Martin 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, Petra Pfisterer

PART FIVE: MULTILINGUALISM AND CONTACT

30. Societal Bilingualism / Mark Sebba

31. Code-Switching/Mixing / Peter Auer

32. Language Policy and Planning / Anne-Claude Berthoud and Georges Ludi

33. Language Endangerment / Julia Sallabank

34. Global Englishes /
Alastair Pennycook

PART SIX: 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