Cambridge University PressEdition: Reprint, 6/30/2016EAN 9781107635753, ISBN10: 1107635756Paperback, 472 pages, 23.2 x 15.3 x 2.8 cmLanguage: EnglishSociolinguistics is a dynamic field of research that explains the role and function of language in social life. This book offers the most substantial account available of the core contemporary ideas and arguments in sociolinguistics, with an emphasis on innovation and change. Bringing together original writing by more than twenty of the field's most influential international thinkers and researchers, this is an indispensable guide to the newest and most searching ideas about language in society. For researchers and advanced students it gives access to the field's most pressing issues and debates, as well as providing a platform for new initiatives in sociolinguistic research.1. Introductionsociolinguistic theory and the practice of sociolinguistics Nikolas CouplandPart I. Theorising Social Meaning2. The 'push' of Lautgesetze, the 'pull' of enregisterment Michael Silverstein3. Variation, meaning, and social change Penelope Eckert4. Indexicality and ethnography Alexandra Jaffe5. Sociolinguistic differentiation Susan GalPart II. Language, Markets and Materiality6. Treating language as an economic resourcediscourse, data and debate Monica Heller and Alexandre Duchêne7. Theorizing the market in sociolinguistics Helen Kelly-Holmes8. Embodied sociolinguistics Mary Bucholtz and Kira HallPart III. Sociolinguistics, Place and Mobility9. Mobile times, mobile termsthe trans-super-poly-metro movement Alastair Pennycook10. Sedentarism and nomadism in the sociolinguistics of dialect David Britain11. From mobility to complexity in sociolinguistic theory and method Jan BlommaertPart IV. Power, Mediation and Critical Sociolinguistics12. Critical debatesdiscourse, boundaries and social change Sari Pietikainen13. Theorizing media, mediation and mediatization Jannis Androutsopoulos14. Foucault, Gumperz and governmentalityinteraction, power and subjectivity in the twenty-first century Ben RamptonPart V. Sociolinguistics, Contexts and Impact15. Are there zombies in language policy? Theoretical interventions and the continued vitality of (apparently) defunct concepts Lionel Wee16. Quantitative sociolinguistics and sign languagesimplications for sociolinguistic theory Ceil Lucas and Robert Bayley17. Theorising language in sociolinguistics and the law(how) can sociolinguistics have an impact on inequality in the criminal justice process? Diana EadesPart VI. The Evolution of Sociolinguistic Theory18. Succeeding wavesseeking sociolinguistic theory for the twenty-first century Allan Bell19. Language theory in twenty-first-century sociolinguisticsbeyond Dell Hymes? Barbara Johnstone20. Five Ms for sociolinguistic change Nikolas Coupland.
