“This book is an invaluable aid for student researchers eager to produce high-quality, impactful sociolinguistic research. The editors of this volume have met their goal of providing the student with the theoretical framework, historical background, and methodological tools required to execute an array of different research endeavors within the field.” (LINGUIST List, 8 December 2014)
“Short and highly focused chapters written by practitioners of sociolinguistics all over the world give this book a snappy feel. Each chapter is highly practical, even down to offering suggested project topics, and by including boxed highlights and flow charts this volume is likely to be widely used for teaching and (I bet) for structuring advanced research.”
Miriam Meyerhoff, University of Auckland
“Research Methods in Sociolinguistics is a remarkably comprehensive and useful compendium of current methods in the field, ranging from the conception and establishment of a research project to the collection, processing, and presentation of data. A forward-looking, benchmark collection founded solidly in the traditions of the field!”
Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State University
“This volume is like having the wisdom of Sociolinguistics at your fingertips. Whether you want to go to the field or the library, analyze words or interactions, study languages, dialects or sociolects, chart, map or quantify, this is the go-to book for the 21st century.”
Sali A. Tagliamonte, University of Toronto
From the Inside Flap
This practical guide to research methods in sociolinguistics equips readers with a full range of techniques to apply in their own academic work. A team of twenty leading contributors provides detailed procedural instructions on an array of anthropological and scientific methods that cover the full spectrum of contemporary sociolinguistics, from the study of style and discourse analysis to the study of phonetics. The first of the book’s two sections details the types of data available, and explains collection methods ranging from sociolinguistic interviews to linguistic landscapes. The second part focuses on data analysis across a number of languages, subdivided into segments on linguistic and sociocultural techniques.
Comprehensive coverage is combined with useful summaries, seasoned advice and troubleshooting tips, ideas for research projects, and a full directory of supplementary reading, for those undertaking research in this specialist field.
From the Back Cover
This practical guide to research methods in sociolinguistics equips readers with a full range of techniques to apply in their own academic work. A team of twenty leading contributors provides detailed procedural instructions on an array of anthropological and scientific methods that cover the full spectrum of contemporary sociolinguistics, from the study of style and discourse analysis to the study of phonetics. The first of the book’s two sections details the types of data available, and explains collection methods ranging from sociolinguistic interviews to linguistic landscapes. The second part focuses on data analysis across a number of languages, subdivided into segments on linguistic and sociocultural techniques.
Comprehensive coverage is combined with useful summaries, seasoned advice and troubleshooting tips, ideas for research projects, and a full directory of supplementary reading, for those undertaking research in this specialist field.
About the Author
Janet Holmes holds a personal Chair in Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her sociolinguistics teaching focuses on workplace discourse, New Zealand English, and language and gender. She is Director of the Wellington Language in the Workplace (LWP) project and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Her many publications include The Handbook of Language and Gender (edited with M. Meyerhoff, Wiley-Blackwell, 2003), Leadership, Discourse and Ethnicity (with M. Marra and B. Vine, 2011), and An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, Fourth Edition (2013).
Kirk Hazen is Professor of Linguistics and director of the West Virginia Dialect Project at West Virginia University. He is the author of Dialect Change and Maintenance on the Outer Banks (with W. Wolfram and N. Schilling-Estes, 1998), Identity and Ethnicity in the Rural South: A Sociolinguistic View through Past and Present Be (2000), and An Introduction to Language (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).
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