02221nam a22003378a 4500 CR9780511997068 UkCbUP 20171019125152.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 110110s2011||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9780511997068 (ebook) 9780521897075 (hardback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda P40 .C356 2011 306.44 23 The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics / Edited by Rajend Mesthrie. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011. 1 online resource (546 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). The most comprehensive overview available, this Handbook is an essential guide to sociolinguistics today. Reflecting the breadth of research in the field, it surveys a range of topics and approaches in the study of language variation and use in society. As well as linguistic perspectives, the handbook includes insights from anthropology, social psychology, the study of discourse and power, conversation analysis, theories of style and styling, language contact and applied sociolinguistics. Language practices seem to have reached new levels since the communications revolution of the late twentieth century. At the same time face-to-face communication is still the main force of language identity, even if social and peer networks of the traditional face-to-face nature are facing stiff competition of the Facebook-to-Facebook sort. The most authoritative guide to the state of the field, this handbook shows that sociolinguistics provides us with the best tools for understanding our unfolding evolution as social beings. Sociolinguistics Mesthrie, Rajend, editor of compilation. Print version: 9780521897075 Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511997068 226680 226680