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.

Drawing on examples from a wide range of languages and social settings, The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World was originally the first single-volume collection surveying the current research trends in international sociolinguistics.

This new edition has been comprehensively updated and significantly expanded, and now includes more than 50 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. This handbook remains a key tool to help widen the perspective on sociolinguistics to readers interested in the field. Divided into sections covering the Americas, Asia, Australasia, Africa, and Europe, the book provides readers with a solid, up-to-date appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of the field of sociolinguistics in each area. It clearly explains the patterns and systematicity that underlie language variation in use, along with the ways in which alternations between different language varieties mark personal style, social power, and national identity.

The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World is the ideal resource for all students in undergraduate sociolinguistics courses and for researchers involved in the study of language, society, and power.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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 Heat**her 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 Dabainskien

Author Index

Language Index

Subject Index