This major new survey of sociolinguistics identifies gaps in our existing knowledge base and provides directions for future research.

This major new survey of sociolinguistics identifies gaps in our existing knowledge base and provides directions for future research.

From its beginnings in the 1960s, sociolinguistics developed several different subfields with distinct methods and interests: the variationist tradition establi

Contributors explore a range of sociolinguistic topics, including language variation, language ideologies, bi/multilingualism, language policy, linguistic lands

This book offers a state-of-the-art guide to linguistic fieldwork, reflecting its collaborative nature across the subfields of linguistics and disciplines such