An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

This comprehensive new edition of Wardhaugh’s textbook incorporates additional study features and numerous new and updated references to bring the book completely up-to-date, whilst maintaining the features that made the book so popular with lecturers and students: accessible coverage of a wide range of issues, clearly written, and with useful student study features.

• A fully revised new edition of Ronald Wardhaugh’s popular introduction to sociolinguistics, which now includes over 150 new and updated references and new study features throughout
• Features new “Explorations” sections in each chapter incorporating suggested readings, discussion sections, and exercises – all designed to encourage students to develop their own skills and ideas
• Reflects new developments in the field, providing greater focus on ideas such as identity, solidarity, and markedness
• Provides balanced coverage of a range of topics, including: language dialects, pidgins and Creoles, codes, bilingualism, speech communities, variation, words and culture, ethnographies, solidarity and politeness, talk and action, gender, disadvantage, and planning
• Comprehensive and accessible, it is the ideal introduction for students coming to sociolinguistics for the first time

• Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society, Fourth Edition
• Sociolinguistics (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
• A Course in Phonetics
• Understanding Syntax (Understanding Language)
• Language Files: Materials for an Introduction to Language and Linguistics, 12th Edition
• How to Research (Open Up Study Skills)
• An Introduction to Field Phonetics
• Analyzing Grammar (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
• Cross-Cultural Connections: Stepping Out and Fitting In Around the World
• Historical Linguistics