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GUIDES TO RESEARCH METHODS IN LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS

Holmes and Hazen

“Short and highly focused chapters written by practitioners of sociolinguistics all over the world
give this book a snappy feel. Each chapter is highly practical, even down to offering suggested
project topics, and by including boxed highlights and flow charts this volume is likely to be
widely used for teaching and (I bet) for structuring advanced research.”
Miriam Meyerhoff, University of Auckland

“Research Methods in Sociolinguistics is a remarkably comprehensive and useful compendium of

current methods in the field, ranging from the conception and establishment of a research project

Research Methods in Sociolinguistics

to the collection, processing, and presentation of data. A forward-looking, benchmark collection
founded solidly in the traditions of the field!”
Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State University

“This volume is like having the wisdom of Sociolinguistics at your fingertips. Whether you
want to go to the field or the library, analyze words or interactions, study languages, dialects or
Research Methods
in Sociolinguistics
sociolects, chart, map or quantify, this is the go-to book for the twenty-first century.”
Sali A. Tagliamonte, University of Toronto

This practical guide to research methods in sociolinguistics equips readers with a full range of
techniques to apply in their own academic work. A team of 21 leading contributors provides
A Practical Guide

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detailed procedural instructions on an array of anthropological and scientific methods that cover
the full spectrum of contemporary sociolinguistics, from the study of style and discourse analysis
to the study of phonetics. The first of the book’s two sections details the types of data available,
and explains collection methods ranging from sociolinguistic interviews to linguistic landscapes.
The second part focuses on data analysis across a number of languages, subdivided into segments
on linguistic and sociocultural techniques.
Janet Holmes
Edited by

Comprehensive coverage is combined with useful summaries, seasoned advice and

and Kirk Hazen
troubleshooting tips, ideas for research projects, and a full directory of supplementary reading for
those undertaking research in this specialist field.

Janet Holmes holds a personal Chair in Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New
Zealand. Her sociolinguistics teaching focuses on workplace discourse, New Zealand English,
and language and gender. She is Director of the Wellington Language in the Workplace (LWP)
project and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Her many publications include The
Handbook of Language and Gender (edited with M. Meyerhoff, Wiley Blackwell, 2003), Leadership,
Discourse and Ethnicity (with M. Marra and B. Vine, 2011), and An Introduction to Sociolinguistics
(4th edition, 2013).

Kirk Hazen is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the West Virginia Dialect Project at West
Virginia University. His publications include Dialect Change and Maintenance on the Outer Banks
(with W. Wolfram and N. Schilling-Estes, 1999), Identity and Ethnicity in the Rural South: A
Sociolinguistic View through Past and Present Be (2000), and An Introduction to Language (Wiley
Blackwell, 2015).