This third edition of Miriam Meyerhoff's highly successful textbook is supported by The
Routledge Sociolinguistics Reader Doing Sociolinguistics and online resources shared by all
books. It provides a solid up-to-date appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of the
field covering foundation issues recent advances and current debates. It presents familiar or
classic data in new ways and supplements the familiar with fresh examples from a wide range of
languages and social settings. It clearly explains the patterns and systems that underlie
language variation in use as well as the ways in which alternations between different language
varieties index personal style social power and national identity.New features of the third
edition:every chapter revised and updated with current research in the field including
material on sexuality polylanguaging and lifespan change additional Connections with theory
and Facts: No really? throughout revised and expanded data from signed languages historical
linguistics and Asia-Pacific sociolinguistics brand new companion website featuring more
examples and exercises at www.routledge.com textbooks meyerhoff.Chapters include exercises that
enable readers to engage critically with the text break-out boxes making connections between
sociolinguistics and linguistic or social theory and brief lively add-ons guaranteed to make
the book a memorable and enjoyable read. With a full glossary of terms and suggestions for
further reading this text gives students all the tools they need for an excellent command of
sociolinguistics.
