Preface and User Guide
PART ONE - DATA COLLECTION
1. Finding a topic
2. Sample design and the envelope of variation
3. Ethics and archiving
4. Sampling techniques and gaining access to speakers
5. Interviews as a source of data
6. Naturally-occurring, spontaneous speech as a source of data
7. Corpora as a source of data
8. Written surveys and questionnaires as a source of data
9. Studying perceptions and attitudes
PART TWO - DATA ANALYSIS
10. Transcription
11. Identifying, coding & summarising your data
12. Analysing your data
13. Presenting your data
14. Analysing multiple independent variables
15. Mixing qualitative and quantitative analysis
16. Writing up your research

Doing Sociolinguistics: A practical guide to data collection and analysis is an accessible introduction and guide to the methods of data collection and analysis in the field of sociolinguistics. It provides students with all the knowledge and skills needed to conduct their own analyses of language, featuring excerpts from key research articles, exercises using real data from the authors' own research, and supported by a companion website. Designed to function both as a core text for methods classes in sociolinguistics, and as a companion to the Routledge textbook Introducing Sociolinguistics, this book will be essential reading for all students studying and researching in this area.

Miriam Meyerhoff is Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington.

Erik Schleef is Senior Lecturer in the Division of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Manchester, UK.

Laurel MacKenzie is Lecturer in the Division of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Manchester, UK.