"I'm sitting here in Newfoundland, in Canada, writing a book about sociolinguistics, and you're out there somewhere, starting to read it. If you were here and c

Making Waves tells the human story of an academic field based on one-to-one interviews with 43 of the most famous scholars in Variationist Sociolinguistics. Exp

Sociolinguistics is one of the central branches of modern linguistics and deals with the place of language in human societies. This second edition of Introducin

This new and updated textbook gives students a coherent view of the complex interaction of language and society.