Introduction - Ruth Wodak, Barbara Johnstone and Paul Kerswill
PART ONE: HISTORY OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS
Ferguson and Fishman: Sociolinguistics and the Sociology of Language - Bernard Spolsky
Labov: Language Variation and Change - Kirk Hazen
Bernstein: Codes and Social Class - Gabrielle Ivinson
Dell Hymes and the Ethnography of Communication - Barbara Johnstone and William M. Marcellino
Gumperz and Interactional Sociolinguistics - Cynthia Gordon
PART TWO: SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND SOCIAL THEORY
Social Stratification - Christine Mallinson
Social Constructionism - Anthea Irwin
Symbolic Interactionism, Erving Goffman, and Sociolinguistics - Shari Kendall
Ethnomethodology and Membership Categorization Analysis - Robert Garot and Tim Berard
The Power of Discourse and the Discourse of Power - José Antonio Flores Farfán and Anna Holzscheiter
Globalization Theory and Migration - Stef Slembrouck
Semiotics Interpretants, Inference, and Intersubjectivity - Paul Kockelman
PART THREE: LANGUAGE VARIATION AND CHANGE
Individuals and Communities - Norma Mendoza-Denton
Social Class - Robin Dodsworth
Social Network - Eva Vetter
Sociolinguistic Approaches to Language Change: Phonology - Paul Kerswill
Social Structure, Language Contact and Language Change - Peter Trudgill
Sociolinguistics and Formal Linguistics - Gregory R. Guy
Attitudes, Ideology and Awareness - Tore Kristiansen
Historical Sociolinguistics - Terttu Nevalainen
Fieldwork Methods in Language Variation - Walt Wolfram
PART FOUR: INTERACTION
Sociolinguistic Potentials of Face-to-Face Interaction - Helga Kotthoff
Doctor-Patient Communication - Florian Menz
Discourse and Schools - Luisa Martín Rojo
Courtroom Discourse - Susan Ehrlich
Analysing Conversation - Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen and Diana Slade
Narrative Analysis - Alexandra Georgakopoulou
Gender and Interaction - Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou
Interaction and the Media - Brigitta Busch, Petra Pfisterer
PART FIVE: MULTILINGUALISM AND CONTACT
Societal Bilingualism - Mark Sebba
Code-Switching/Mixing - Peter Auer
Language Policy and Planning - Anne-Claude Berthoud and Georges Lüdi
Language Endangerment - Julia Sallabank
Global Englishes - Alastair Pennycook
PART SIX: APPLICATIONS
Forensic Linguistics - Malcolm Coulthard, Tim Grant and Krzysztof Kredens
Language Teaching and Language Assessment - Constant Leung
Guidelines for Non-Discriminatory Language Use - Marlis Hellinger
Language, Migration and Human Rights - Ingrid Piller and Kimie Takahashi
Literacy Studies - David Barton and Carmen Lee

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