In this ground breaking new book David Block proposes a new working definition of social
class in applied linguistics. Traditionally, research on language and identity has focused on …

Sociolinguistics is the study of the interaction between language and society. In this classic
introductory work, Janet Holmes and Nick Wilson examine the role of language in a variety …

* Winner of the 2019 AAAL First Book Award* Racialized Identities in Second Language
Learning: Speaking Blackness in Brazil provides a critical overview and original …

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It is well documented that the same sociolinguistic feature can be used as a sociolinguistic
resource with different indexical potentials in different linguistic as well as social contexts …

This state-of-the-art review is based on the fundamental idea that political economy should
be adopted as a frame for research and discussion in applied linguistics as part of a general …

This article problematizes the politics of language education research with regard to social
injustice, which is not only cultural, but also material. Its starting position is that most …

The issue of whether a regional accent and/or dialect impact (s) on the development of
literacy skills remains current in the UK. For decades the issue has dogged debate …

Sociolinguists have been fighting dialect prejudice since the 1960s, but deficit views of non-
standard English are regaining currency in educational discourse. In this paper I argue that …

In this chapter I want to consider the merits and the actualization of two theoretical concepts,
sociolinguistic change and vernacularization1. Neither concept is new. Each of them has …