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Sociolinguistics Books
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An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics)
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avg rating 3.81 — 509 ratings — published 1986
That's Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,986 ratings — published 1986
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 3.80 — 119,176 ratings — published 2021
Sociolinguistic Patterns (Conduct and Communication)
by (shelved 6 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 4.03 — 86 ratings — published 1973
Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 725 ratings — published 1974
Arabic Sociolinguistics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 4.09 — 44 ratings — published 2009
Analysing Sociolinguistic Variation (Key Topics in Sociolinguistics)
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avg rating 4.28 — 25 ratings — published 2006
Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 1: Internal Factors (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 4.43 — 14 ratings — published 1994
An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 402 ratings — published 1992
Foundations in Sociolinguistics: An Ethnographic Approach (Conduct and Communication)
by (shelved 5 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 4.02 — 44 ratings — published 1974
Language, Capitalism, Colonialism: Toward a Critical History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 4.11 — 27 ratings — published
Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 2: Social Factors (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 4.04 — 28 ratings — published 2001
Learning How to Ask: A Sociolinguistic Appraisal of the Role of the Interview in Social Science Research (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, Series Number 1)
by (shelved 4 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 3.92 — 53 ratings — published 1986
Language In Culture and Society: A Reader in Linguistics and Anthropology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.56 — 9 ratings — published 1964
Understanding Cultures through Their Key Words: English, Russian, Polish, German, and Japanese (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics)
by (shelved 4 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 4.08 — 49 ratings — published 1997
The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 3.50 — 14 ratings — published 2006
The Handbook of Sociolinguistics (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics)
by (shelved 4 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 4.00 — 14 ratings — published 1998
Language Variation as Social Practice: The Linguistic Construction of Identity in Belten High (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 4.05 — 22 ratings — published 2000
English with an Accent: Language, Ideology and Discrimination in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 4.16 — 308 ratings — published 1997
Social Linguistics and Literacies: Ideology in Discourses (Critical Perspectives on Literacy and Education)
by (shelved 4 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 4.23 — 202 ratings — published 1990
I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms From Around the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 3.26 — 324 ratings — published 2009
Language in Society: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 3.69 — 102 ratings — published 1994
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,170 ratings — published 2025
The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2013
You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 3.86 — 681 ratings — published 2011
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 4.05 — 12,563 ratings — published 2019
A War of Words: Language and Conflict in the Middle East (Cambridge Middle East Studies, Series Number 19)
by (shelved 3 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 4.10 — 20 ratings — published 2004
Language and Ethnicity (Key Topics in Sociolinguistics)
by (shelved 3 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 38 ratings — published 2006
Sociolinguistics (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
by (shelved 3 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 3.92 — 111 ratings — published 1980
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 4.23 — 28,383 ratings — published 2019
Principles of Linguistic Change: Cognitive and Cultural Factors: 3 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 4.44 — 9 ratings — published 2007
The Social Stratification of English in New York City (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 4.50 — 22 ratings — published 2006
Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics 4)
by (shelved 3 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 4.19 — 124 ratings — published 1987
Qualitative Methods in Sociolinguistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 3.65 — 26 ratings — published 1999
An Introduction to Sociolinguistics: Society and Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 4.12 — 8 ratings — published 2011
Directions in Sociolinguistics: The Ethnography of Communication (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 4.08 — 26 ratings — published 1972
Language and Social Networks (Language in Society)
by (shelved 3 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 4.38 — 21 ratings — published 1980
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,357 ratings — published 1990
Style and Sociolinguistic Variation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 4.23 — 13 ratings — published 1997
Language and Woman's Place: Text and Commentaries (Studies in Language and Gender)
by (shelved 3 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 3.79 — 232 ratings — published 1975
Impoliteness: Using Language to Cause Offence (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics, Series Number 28)
by (shelved 3 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 4.00 — 20 ratings — published 2011
The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,073 ratings — published 2011
The New Sociolinguistics Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 4.04 — 28 ratings — published 2007
Sociolinguistic Theory (Language in Society)
by (shelved 3 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 3.83 — 46 ratings — published 1995
Sociolinguistics (Oxford Introduction to Language Study Series)
by (shelved 3 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 3.72 — 145 ratings — published 1998
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 4.12 — 32,493 ratings — published 2023
The Handbook of Language Variation and Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 4.06 — 16 ratings — published 2001
Authority in language: Investigating language standardisation and prescription (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 4.12 — 8 ratings — published 1992
Gender and Conversational Interaction (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics)
by (shelved 2 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 4.05 — 22 ratings — published 1993
SOCIOLINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY:SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF LINGUISTIC COMPLEXITY PAPER: Social Determinants of Linguistic Complexity (Oxford Linguistics)
by (shelved 2 times as sociolinguistics)
avg rating 4.30 — 27 ratings — published 2011
“In the wrong hands, speech can be used as a weapon. But in the right ones, it can change the world.”
― Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
― Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
“Considero que la idea de la «degradació» lingüística sembla encara molt més greu, perquè s'hi barregen constantment dues qüestions: l'una té a veure amb els efectes desestabilitzadors de la influència del castellà; l'altra, en canvi, té a veure amb el fet de l'evolució a què està sotmesa qualsevol llengua. En el cas del català, les coses són tan envitricollades que és molt difícil de distingir les dues qüestions; però no solament és imprescindible de distingir-les (des d'un punt de vista lingüístic, polític, etc.), sinó que seria suïcida de no intentar-ho. Per tant «degradació» sí, però cal anar alerta de no confondre canvis «normals» amb desestabilitzacions.”
― L'ús del català, un futur controvertit. Qüestions de normalització lingüística al llindar del segle XXI
― L'ús del català, un futur controvertit. Qüestions de normalització lingüística al llindar del segle XXI





