chapter 12: variety in language further reading AWS

Chapter 12:  variety in language FURTHER READING There are very many textbooks on sociolinguistics. Recommendations for ones which focus particularly on accent and/or dialect would include Dialectology (Chambers and Trudgill 1980), English Accents and Dialects (Hughes et al. 2012) and Accents of English (Wells 1982). More general introductions can be found in Varieties of English (Freeborn et  al. 1993), An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Holmes 2001), Sociolinguistics (Hudson 1996), An Introduction to Language and Society (Montgomery 2008), Language, Society and Power (Mooney et  al. 2011), Sociolinguistics: A Resourcebook for Students (Stockwell 2002), and An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Wardhaugh 2010). In addition, Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook (Coupland and Jaworski 1997), The New Sociolinguistics Reader (Coupland and Jaworski 2009) and Sociolinguistics: The Essential Readings (Paulston and Tucker 2003) are excellent edited collections of original readings spanning a range of sociolinguistic topics. Urban Voices (Foulkes and Docherty 1999) is, as its subtitle promises, an excellent collection of accent studies in the British Isles. These are, however, more advanced texts. Relevant chapters can also be found in our associated Reader (➔ R 1.6, 1.7, 2.7, 3.5, 3.7, 4.2).