An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (eBook)

Ronald Wardhaugh is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto. He is the author of a number of books, including Proper English (Wiley-Blackwell, 1998) and Understanding English Grammar, 2nd Edition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2003). Janet M. Fuller is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She has recently published two books dealing with multilingualism, discourse and identity: Bilingual Pre-Teens: Competing ideologies and multiple identities in the U.S. and Germany (2012) and Spanish Speakers in the USA (2013), and was the editor of the sociolinguistics section of the Language and Linguistics Compass (Wiley-Blackwell) from 2010-2013.

"The foundational textbook in sociolinguistics is
now more essential than ever. Wardhaugh and Fuller provide solid
grounding in a full range of sociolinguistic perspectives while
offering cutting-edge treatments of such timely concerns as
multilingualism, identity construction, and socially responsible
sociolinguistics."- Natalie Schilling, Georgetown
University

"With this revised and revamped edition, Wardaugh and
Fuller bring us the text we have come to know and love in an
exciting new guise, one that reflects the current state of the art,
its complexities and myriad perspectives, and yet remains
accessible and fluid in its presentation. This is unquestionably
the 'go to' text for undergraduates."- Alexandra
D'Arcy, University of Victoria