The SAGE Handbook of Sociolinguistics

Book Overview

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:

The History of SociolinguisticsSociolinguistics and Social TheoryLanguage, Variation and ChangeInteractionMultilingualism and ContactApplications

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1446270599
• ISBN13: 9781446270592
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 648 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.8" x 9.6"