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English Department
Tamkang University
Reading List for Doctoral Students in TESOL
Sociolinguistics
Books:
Chaika, E. (1994). Language: The social mirror (3rd Edition). Boston, MA: Heinle &
Heinle Publishers
Chambers, J. K. (1995). Sociolinguistic theory: Linguistic variation and its social
significance. Oxford: Blackwell.
Coupland, N. & Jaworski, A. (Eds.) (1997). Sociolinguistics: A reader and
coursebook. London: St. Martin's Press.
Downes, W. (1998). Language and society (2nd Edition). New York: Cambridge
University Press.
Fasold, R. W. (1990). The sociolinguistics of language: Introduction to
sociolinguistics (Volume II). Cambridge: Blackwell.
Furguson, C. A. (1997). Sociolinguistic perspectives: Papers on language in society,
1959-1994. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Gumperz, J., & Hymes, D. (1972). Directions in sociolinguistics: The ethnography of
communication. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
Holmes, J. (1992). An introduction to sociolinguistics. New York: Addison & Wesley.
Hudson, R. A. (1996). Sociolinguistics (2nd Edition). Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Hymes, D. H. (1986). Directions in sociolinguistics: The ethnography of
communication. Oxford: Blackwell.
Labov, William, Sociolinguistic Patterns. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1982
Lantolf, J. P. (Ed.) (2000). Sociocultural theory and second language learning. Oxford
University Press.
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McKay, S. & Hornberger, N. F. (Eds.) (1994). Sociolinguistics and language
teaching.
Spolsky, B. (1998). Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Thomas, L., & Wareing, S. (1999). Language, society, and power. New York:
Routledge.
Trudgill, P. R. (1995). Sociolinguistics: An introduction to language and society.
London: Penguin.
Trudgill, P. R., & Cheshire, J. (1998). The sociolinguistics reader. New York: Arnold.
Wolfson, N. (1989). Perspectives: sociolinguistics and TESOL. Boston, MA: Heinle
& Heinle Publishers.
Wardaugh, R. (1997). Introduction to sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Blackwell
Related Journals:
TESOL Quarterly
ELT Journal
The Journal of Sociolinguistics
International Journal of Applied Linguistics
International Journal of the Sociology of Language