The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World

Dr Martin J. Ball is Hawthorne-BoRSF Endowed Professor, and Director of the Hawthorne Research Center, at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Dr Ball has written over 120 academic publications including Clinical Sociolinguistics, and The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics.

Part I: Americas

1. Sociolinguistics in the United States of America, Kirk Hazen

2. Sociolinguistics in Canada, Elaine Gold

3. Sociolinguistics in Mexico: defining new agendas, José Antonio Flores Farfán

4. The Sociolinguistics of Indigenous Languages in South America, Serafin Coronel-Molina and Viviana Quinteros

5. Sociolinguistics of the Caribbean, Valerie Youssef

Part II: Asia

6. Sociolinguistic Research in China, Minglang Zhou

7. Sociolinguistics in South Asia, Probal Dasgupta and Madhavi Sardesai

8. Japan, Nanette Gottlieb

9. Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, David Bradley

10. Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Lionel Wee

11. A Sociolinguistic profile of Turkey, Northern Cyprus and other Turkic states in Central Asia, Yasemin Bayyurt

12. The Caucasus, Victor A. Friedman

13. Sociolinguistics in the Iranian World, William Beeman

Part III: Australasia

14. Australia, Peter Collins

15. New Zealand, Jen Hay and Margaret MacLagan

16. The South Pacific, Richard Benton and France Mugler

17. A Sociolinguistic Sketch of New Guinea, Mark Donohue

Part IV: Africa and the Middle East

18. Sociolinguistics in South Africa – a critical overview of current research, Raj Mesthrie

19. Sociolinguistic Studies of West and Central Africa, Bruce Connell and David Zeitlyn

20. East Africa, Christina M. Higgins

21. Israeli Sociolinguistics: From Hebrew Hegemony to Israeli Plurilingualism, Zhanna Burstein-Feldman, Alek Epstein, Nina Kheimets, Shulamith Kopeliovich, Dafna Yitzhaki and Joel Walters

22. Arabic Sociolinguistics in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Catherine Miller and Dominique Caubet

Part V: Europe

23. German speaking area, Winifred V. Davies

24. Sociolinguistics in the Dutch language area in Europe, Jeroen Darquennes

25. Sociolinguistics in the Nordic Region, Sally Boyd

26. The British Isles, Jane Stuart-Smith and Bill Haddican

27. French speaking area, Nadine Di Vito 28. Italy, Mair Parry

29. Spain and Portugal, David Atkinson, Mercedes Bengoechea and Sandi Michele de Oliveira

30. Sociolinguistics in Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland, Miklós Kontra, Jirí Nekvapil and Agnieszka Kielkiewicz-Janowiak

31. The Balkans, Robert D Greenberg

32. Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Victoria Gulida

33. The Development of Sociolinguistics in the Baltic States, Ina Druviete