Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World

This new edition has been comprehensively updated and significantly expanded and now includes over fifty chapters written by leading authorities and a brand new substantial introduction by John Edwards. Coverage has been expanded regionally and there is a critical focus on indigenous languages.

List of contents

List of Contributors
List of Figures
Preface
Introduction
John Edwards
Part I: The Americas
Maps 1-3
1. Sociolinguistics in the USA
Kirk Hazen
2. Sociolinguistics in Canada
Marisa Brook
3. Sociolinguistic research into Indigenous languages of North America
Éedaa Heather Dawn Burge, Shayleen Macy EagleSpeaker, Jaeci Nel Hall, Amanda Cardoso, & Gabriela Pérez Báez
4. Sociolinguistics in Mexico: Defining new agendas
José Antonio Flores Farfán
5. Sociolinguistics in Central America
Brandon Baird
6. Sociolinguistic research into Indigenous languages of South America
Viviana Quintero & Serafin-Coronel Molina
7. Sociolinguistics in Brazil
Ronald Beline Mendes
8. Sociolinguistics in Hispanic South America
Manuel Diaz-Campos & Matthew Pollock
9. Sociolinguistics in the Caribbean
Joseph Farquharson & Bettina Migge
10. The Sociolinguistics of the Atlantic Englishes
Rosemary Hall, Hannah Hedegard, Andrea Sudbury, Nicole Holliday, Daniel Schreier & David Britain
Part II: Asia
Map 4
11. China: Sociolinguistic research in the 21st century
Minglang Zhou
12. Sociolinguistics of the Indo-European languages in South Asia: looking beyond the 60s
Shobha Satyanath
13. Sociolinguistics of Dravidian languages in South Asia
G. Balasubramanian & S. Arulmozi
14. Sociolinguistics of South Asia: Tibeto-Burman, Austroasiatic and other languages
David Bradley & Panchanan Mohanty
15. Sociolinguistics in Mongolia
Bolormaa Shinjee & Sender Dovchin
16. Sociolinguistics in Japan
Florian Coulmas
17. Korea: Recent trends in sociolinguistic research
Hyeon-Seok Kang
18. Sociolinguistics in Mainland Southeast Asia
David Bradley
19. Sociolinguistics in Maritime Southeast Asia
Rebecca Starr
20. Sociolinguistic research into Turkic languages: Turkey, Northern Cyprus and Turkic States in Central Asia
Yasemin Bayyurt & I¿¿l Erduyan
21. Sociolinguistic research into Iranian languages
William Beeman
22. Sociolinguistics of Arabic in the Middle East
Marie Aimée Germanos
23. Sociolinguistics in Israel: From Hebrew Hegemony to Israeli Plurilingualism
Joel Walters, Dafna Yitzhaki, Shulamith Kopeliovich, Zhanna Burstein-Feldman, Carmit Altman, Sharon Armon-Lotem & Natalia Meir
24. Sociolinguistics in the Caucasus
Diana Forker & Victor Friedman
Part III: Australasia
Map 5
25. Sociolinguistics in Australia
Peter Collins
26. Sociolinguistic research into Indigenous languages of Australia
Jill Vaughan, Ruth Singer & Gillian Wigglesworth
27. Sociolinguistics in New Zealand
Jennifer Hay & Margaret Maclagan
28. Sociolinguistics in the Pacific
Eleanor Ridge, Sally Akevai Nicholas & Richard Benton
29. Sociolinguistics in New Guinea
Mark Donohue
Part IV: Africa
Map 6
30. Sociolinguistics in North Africa
Catherine Miller & Dominique Caubet
31. Sociolinguistic studies of West and Central Africa
Bruce Connell & David Zeitlyn
32. Sociolinguistics in East Africa
Christina Higgins
33. Sociolinguistics in Lusophone Africa
Laura Álvarez López
34. Sociolinguistics in Southern Africa
Susanne Mohr, Irina Turner & Sibonile Ellece
35. Sociolinguistics in South Africa
Rajend Mesthrie & Yolandi Ribbens-Klein
36. Sociolinguistic research into Indian Ocean languages
Rada Tirvassen
Part V: Europe
Map 7
37. Sociolinguistics in the German language area
Falco Pfalzgraf
38. Sociolinguistics in the Dutch language area
Jeroen Darquennes
39.Sociolinguistics in the Nordic region
Sally Boyd & Natalia Ganuza
40. Sociolinguistics in Britain
Natalie Braber
41. Sociolinguistics in Ireland
Raymond Hickey
42. Sociolinguistics of the Celtic languages
Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin
43. Sociolinguistics in the French language area
Nadine Di Vito
44. Sociolinguistics in Italy
Massimo Cerruti & Silvia Dal Negro
45. Sociolinguistics in Switzerland
Philippe Humbert, Zorana Sokolovska, Laura Baranzini, Matteo Casoni, Sabine Christopher, Renata Coray & Stephan Schmid
46. Sociolinguistics in Luxembourg
Christophe Purschke & Peter Gilles
47. Sociolinguistics in Spain: From the polycentrism of the field to activist practices in superdiverse contexts
Anna Tudela
48. Sociolinguistics in Portugal
Alexandra Guedes Pinto
49. Sociolinguistics in Malta
Sarah Grech
50. Sociolinguistics in East Central Europe
Miklós Kontra, Marián Sloboda, Ji¿í Nekvapil & Agnieszka Kie¿kiewicz-Janowiak
51. Sociolinguistics in the Balkans
Robert Greenberg
52. Sociolinguistics in Russia
Olga Blinova, Natalia Bogdanova-Beglarian, Tatiana Popova & Tatiana Sherstinova
53. Sociolinguistics in Ukraine
Olga Ivanova
54. Sociolinguistics in the Baltic States: language dynamics research
Gabrielle Hogan-Brun & Ineta Dabašinskien¿
Author Index
Language Index
Subject Index

About the author

Martin J. Ball is Honorary Professor of Linguistics at Bangor University and Visiting Professor in Speech-Language Pathology at Wrexham Glynd¿r University, both in Wales.
Rajend Mesthrie is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Chiara Meluzzi is Senior Researcher in Linguistics at the University of Milan "La Statale", Italy, where she teaches general linguistics for the BA in Liberal Studies in Communication.

Product details

• Authors: Martin J. Mesthrie Ball
• Assisted by: Ball Martin J. (Editor), Chiara Meluzzi (Editor), Mesthrie Rajend (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032056135
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3205613-5
• No. of pages: 676
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Language: reference & general, Language: reference and general, Language teaching and learning, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Bilingualism and multilingualism