Sage Handbook of Sociolinguistics

This popular and critically acclaimed Handbook is now available in paperback.

List of contents

Introduction - Ruth Wodak, Barbara Johnstone and Paul Kerswill
PART ONE: HISTORY OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS
Ferguson and Fishman: Sociolinguistics and the Sociology of Language - Bernard Spolsky
Labov: Language Variation and Change - Kirk Hazen
Bernstein: Codes and Social Class - Gabrielle Ivinson
Dell Hymes and the Ethnography of Communication - Barbara Johnstone and William M. Marcellino
Gumperz and Interactional Sociolinguistics - Cynthia Gordon
PART TWO: SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND SOCIAL THEORY
Social Stratification - Christine Mallinson
Social Constructionism - Anthea Irwin
Symbolic Interactionism, Erving Goffman, and Sociolinguistics - Shari Kendall
Ethnomethodology and Membership Categorization Analysis - Robert Garot and Tim Berard
The Power of Discourse and the Discourse of Power - José Antonio Flores Farfán and Anna Holzscheiter
Globalization Theory and Migration - Stef Slembrouck
Semiotics Interpretants, Inference, and Intersubjectivity - Paul Kockelman
PART THREE: LANGUAGE VARIATION AND CHANGE
Individuals and Communities - Norma Mendoza-Denton
Social Class - Robin Dodsworth
Social Network - Eva Vetter
Sociolinguistic Approaches to Language Change: Phonology - Paul Kerswill
Social Structure, Language Contact and Language Change - Peter Trudgill
Sociolinguistics and Formal Linguistics - Gregory R. Guy
Attitudes, Ideology and Awareness - Tore Kristiansen
Historical Sociolinguistics - Terttu Nevalainen
Fieldwork Methods in Language Variation - Walt Wolfram
PART FOUR: INTERACTION
Sociolinguistic Potentials of Face-to-Face Interaction - Helga Kotthoff
Doctor-Patient Communication - Florian Menz
Discourse and Schools - Luisa Martín Rojo
Courtroom Discourse - Susan Ehrlich
Analysing Conversation - Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen and Diana Slade
Narrative Analysis - Alexandra Georgakopoulou
Gender and Interaction - Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou
Interaction and the Media - Brigitta Busch, Petra Pfisterer
PART FIVE: MULTILINGUALISM AND CONTACT
Societal Bilingualism - Mark Sebba
Code-Switching/Mixing - Peter Auer
Language Policy and Planning - Anne-Claude Berthoud and Georges Lüdi
Language Endangerment - Julia Sallabank
Global Englishes - Alastair Pennycook
PART SIX: APPLICATIONS
Forensic Linguistics - Malcolm Coulthard, Tim Grant and Krzysztof Kredens
Language Teaching and Language Assessment - Constant Leung
Guidelines for Non-Discriminatory Language Use - Marlis Hellinger
Language, Migration and Human Rights - Ingrid Piller and Kimie Takahashi
Literacy Studies - David Barton and Carmen Lee

About the author

Ruth Wodak is Distinguished Professor of Discourse Studies at Lancaster University. Her research interests focus on discourse studies; identity politics; racism, antisemitism and other forms of discrimination; and on ethnographic methods of linguistic field work.

She was awarded the Lebenswerk-Preis in 2018, which honors outstanding life work of personalities who are promoting and achieving gender equality.
She was awarded the Wittgenstein Prize for Elite Researchers in 1996 and an Honorary Doctorate from University of Örebro in Sweden in 2010. She has held visiting professorships in University of Uppsala, Stanford University, University Minnesota, University of East Anglia, and Georgetown University (Washington, DC). She is a member of the British Academy of Social Sciences and a member of the Academia Europaea.  In 2008, she was awarded the Kerstin Hesselgren Chair of the Swedish Parliament (at University Örebrö).

Ruth is co-editor of the SAGE journal Discourse & Society, and of the journals Critical Discourse Studies and Journal of Language and Politics. Recent book publications include: The discourse of politics in action: ‘Politics as Usual’ (2011), Critical Discourse Analysis (4 volumes, 2013), Migration, Identity and Belonging (with G. Delanty and P. Jones, 2011), The Discursive Construction of History: Remembering the German Wehrmacht’s War of Annihilation (with H. Heer, W. Manoschek, and A. Pollak, 2008), The Politics of Exclusion: Debating Migration in Austria (with M. Krzyzanowski, 2009), The SAGE Handbook of Sociolinguistics (with B. Johnstone and P. Kerswill, 2010), Analyzing Fascist Discourse: Fascism in Talk and Text (with J. E. Richardson, 2013), and Rightwing Populism in Europe: Politics and Discourse (with M. KhosraviNik and B. Mral, 2013).
Barbara Johnstone is on the faculty of the Rhetoric Program at Carnegie Mellon University, where she teaches courses in discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, style, and research methods. She is currently Editor of the journal Language in Society, and I am working on a project about the enregisterment of dialect in Pittsburgh. Professor Johnstone is interested in the connections between discourse and place and in the role of the individual in language and linguistic theory.

Barbara Johnstone′s previous work has been in these areas:  

Discourse structure and function: forms and functions of narrative; women′s and men′s narrative; functions of repetition in discourse and their implications for linguistic theory; cross-cultural study of rhetorical discourse; current work on the individual voice in linguistic and rhetorical theory, on the rhetorical construction of place and local identity through discourse about local speech in Pittsburgh.  

Sociolinguistics: Regional/social variation in discourse structure and strategy; interactional sociolinguistics; ethnography of communication; gender and regional variation in discourse style; methodology in qualitative sociolinguistics; current work on urban North Midland English in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Editor, Language in Society,2005-present.  

Rhetoric, history and theory: Persuasive talk; cross-cultural study of persuasive styles in the U.S. and the Middle East.Professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University. He is on the editorial board of Journal of
Sociolinguistics and is co-editor of two book series, Edinburgh Sociolinguistics (EUP) and Studies in Language Variation (Bengamins).

Summary

This popular and critically acclaimed Handbook is now available in paperback.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Wodak Johnstone, Paul E. Johnstone Kerswill, Ruth Wodak, Ruth Johnstone Wodak
• Assisted by: Barbara Johnstone (Editor), Johnstone Barbara (Editor), Paul E Kerswill (Editor), Paul E. Kerswill (Editor), Ruth Wodak (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.03.2013
• EAN: 9781446270592
• ISBN: 978-1-4462-7059-2
• No. of pages: 648
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Sociolinguistics, linguistics;language;discourse;conversation