An individual's social network is straightforwardly the aggregate of relationships contracted
with others, and social network analysis examines the differing structures and properties of …

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 …

In the multilingual centres of Northern Europe's major cities, new varieties of the host
languages are emerging. While some analyse these 'multiethnolects' as youth styles, we …

This third edition of Miriam Meyerhoff's highly successful textbook provides a solid, up-to-
date appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of the field and covers foundation issues …

This textbook introduces students to the ways in which techniques from corpus linguistics
can be used to aid sociolinguistic research. Corpus linguistics shares with variationist …

English Accents and Dialects is an essential guide to contemporary social and regional
varieties of English spoken in the British Isles today. Together with invaluable overviews of …

Research on crossing and stylisation among young people in multi-ethnic urban areas of
Britain during the 1980s and 1990s pointed to the emergence of new ethnicities with social …

This study has two goals: empirically, it accounts for variation found in the use of ethnically‐
marked variants among British‐born Asians; methodologically, it assesses the variationist …

This article considers two instances of rapidly accelerating linguistic change in Glaswegian
vernacular, TH-FRONTING and L-VOCALIZATION, both typically associated with the …

Numerous studies have documented the phenomenon of phonetic imitation: the process by
which the production patterns of an individual become more similar on some phonetic or …