Recommended Reading

1.BASIC

1.1. Linguistics

Culpeper, Jonathan, Francis Katamba, Paul Kerswill, Ruth Wodak and Tony McEnery, eds. 2009. English Language: Description, Variation and Context. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Kortmann, Bernd. 2005. English Linguistics: Essentials. Berlin: Cornelsen.

Mair, Christian. 2015. English Linguistics: An Introduction (3rd ed.). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.

Plag, Ingo, Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Maria Braun and Mareile Schramm. 2015. Introduction to English Linguistics. (3rd ed.) Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

1.2 Sociolinguistics

Chambers, J.K. 2009. Sociolinguistic Theory (rev.ed.). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Holmes, Janet and Nick Wilson. 2017. Introducing Sociolinguistics. London: Routledge.

Meyerhoff, Miriam. 2012. Introducing Sociolinguistics. London: Routledge.

1.3 Varieties of English

Crystal, David. 2003. English as a Global Language (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hickey, Raymond. 2013. A Dictionary of Varieties of English. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Schneider, Edgar W. 2011. English Around the World: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1.4 Phonetics & Phonology

Carr, Philip. 2013. English Phonetics and Phonology: An Introduction (2nd ed.). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Gut, Ulrike. 2009. Introduction to English Phonetics and Phonology. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

Ogden, Richard. 2017. An Introduction to English Phonetics (2nd ed.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

1.5 Corpus linguistics

Biber, Douglas, Susan Conrad and Randi Reppen. 1998. Corpus Linguistics: Investigating Language Structure and Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Biber, Douglas and Randi Reppen, eds. 2015. The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

McEnery, Tony and Andrew Hardie. 2012. Corpus Linguistics: Method, Theory and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2. ADVANCED

2.1 Sociolinguistics

Bayley, Robert and Ceil Lucas, eds. 2007. Sociolinguistic Variation: Theories, Methods, and Applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bayley, Robert, Richard Cameron and Ceil Lucas, eds. 2013. The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Blommaert, Jan. 2010. The Sociolinguistics of Globalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Chambers, J. K. and Natalie Schilling, eds. 2013. The Handbook of Language Variation and Change (2nd ed.). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Coulmas, Florian. 2013. Sociolinguistics: The Study of Speakers’ Choices. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Coupland, Nikolas. 2007. Style: Language Variation and Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Coupland, Nikolas. 2016. Sociolinguistics: Theoretical Debates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Eckert, Penelope and John R. Rickford. 2001. Style and Sociolinguistic Variation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Fought, Carmen. 2006. Language and Ethnicity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Garrett, Peter. 2010. Attitudes to Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Llamas, Carmen and Dominic James Landon Watt, eds. 2010. Language and Identities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Mesthrie, Rajend, ed. 2011. The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Meyerhoff, Miriam, ed. 2010. The Routledge Sociolinguistics Reader. London: Routledge.

Schilling, Natalie. 2013. Sociolinguistic Fieldwork. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Schreier, Daniel. 2014. Variation and Change in English: An Introduction. Berlin: ESV.

2.2 Varieties

Burridge, Kate and Bernd Kortmann, eds. 2008. Varieties of English. Vol. 3: The Pacific and Australasia. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Filppula, Markku, Juhani Klemola and Devyani Sharma, eds. 2017. The Oxford Handbook of World Englishes. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hickey, Raymond, ed. 2015. Standards of English: Codified Varieties Around the World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kortmann, Bernd and Clive Upton, eds. 2008. Varieties of English. Vol. 1: The British Isles. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Kortmann, Bernd, Kate Burridge, Rajend Mesthrie, Edgar W. Schneider and Clive Upton, eds. 2004. A Handbook of Varieties of English. Vol. 2: Morphology and syntax. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Lanehart, Sonja, ed. 2015. The Oxford Handbook of African American Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Mesthrie, Rajend., ed. 2008. Varieties of English. Vol. 4: Africa, South and Southeast Asia. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Mesthrie, Rajend and Rakesh M. Bhatt. 2008. World Englishes: The Study of New Linguistic Varieties. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Saraceni, Mario. 2015. World Englishes: A Critical Analysis. London: Bloomsbury.

Schneider, Edgar W. 2007. Postcolonial English: Varieties around the world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Schneider, Edgar W., ed. 2008. Varieties of English. Vol. 2: The Americas and the Caribbean. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Schneider, Edgar W., Kate Burridge, Bernd Kortmann, Rajend Mesthrie and Clive Upton, eds. 2004. A Handbook of Varieties of English. Vol. 1: Phonology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

2.3 Language Change

Hickey, Raymond, ed. 2017. Listening to the Past: Audio records of Accents of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Leech, Geoffrey, Marianne Hundt, Christian Mair and Nicholas Smith. 2009. Change in Contemporary English: A Grammatical Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Nevalainen, Terttu. 2017. Historical Sociolinguistics: Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England. London: Routledge.

Seargeant, Philip and Joan Swann, eds. 2012. English in the World: History, Diversity and Change. London: Routledge.

2.4 Language contact

Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith, eds. 1994. Pidgins and Creoles: An Introduction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Kouwenberg, Silvia and John Victor Singler, eds. 2008. The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Lim, Lisa and Umberto Ansaldo. 2016. Languages in Contact. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Schreier, Daniel and Marianne Hundt, eds. 2013. English as a Contact Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Velupillai, Viveka. 2015. Pidgins, Creoles and Mixed Languages: An Introduction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Winford, Donald. 2003. An Introduction to Contact Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell.

2.5 Data analysis

Baayen, R. Harald. 2008. Analyzing Linguistic Data: A Practical Introduction to Statistics Using R. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Gries, Stefan. 2013. Statistics for Linguistics with R: A Practical Introduction. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

Gries, Stefan. 2017. Quantitative Corpus Linguistics with R: A Practical Introduction. New York: Routledge.

Levshina, Natalia. 2015. How to do Linguistics with R: Data Exploration and Statistical Analysis. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Meyerhoff, Miriam. 2015. Doing Sociolinguistics: A Practical Guide to Data Collection and Analysis. London: Routledge.

Tagliamonte, Sali A. 2006. Analysing Sociolinguistic Variation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.