1. Language Variation and Change Recommended Literature

2. Language Variation and Change

16. Sociolinguistics

43. English in Britain

68. English in the USA

85. English in the World

104. Language and Gender

113. Language Change

120. Full references to above books Labov, William 2006. The Social Stratification of English in New City. Second edition. Cambridge: University Press. Chambers, J. K., Peter Trudgill and Natalie Schilling-Estes (eds) 2002. The Handbook of Language Variation and Change, Malden / Oxford: Blackwell. Milroy, James 1992. Linguistic variation and change. On the historical sociolinguistics of English. Oxford: Blackwell. Trudgill, Peter 2002. Sociolinguistic variation and change. Edinburgh: University Press. Chambers, J. K. 2003. Sociolinguistic Theory. Linguistic Variation and its Social Significance. Second edition. Oxford: Blackwell. Coulmas, Florian (ed.) 1996. The handbook of sociolinguistics. Oxford: Blackwell. Wardhaugh, Ronald 2001. An introduction to sociolinguistics. 4th edition. Oxford: Blackwell. Downes, William 1998. Language and Society. Second edition. Cambridge: University Press. Llamas, Carmen, Louise Mullany and Peter Stockwell (eds) 2007. The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics. London: Routledge. Trudgill, Peter and Jenny Cheshire (ed.) 1998. The Sociolinguistics Reader. Volume 1: Multilingualism and Variation. London: Arnold. Milroy, Lesley 1987. Language and social networks. 2nd edition. Oxford: Blackwell.

121. Eckert, Penelope and John R. Rickford (eds) 2002. Style and Sociolinguistic Variation. Cambridge: University Press. Tagliamonte, Sali A. 2006. Analyzing sociolinguistic variation. Cambridge: University Press. Eckert, Penelope 2000. Linguistic Variation as Social Practice. Oxford: Blackwell. Britain, David (ed.) Language in the British Isles. 2nd edition. Cambridge: University Press. Trudgill, Peter (ed.) 1984. Language in the British Isles. Cambridge: University Press. Hughes, Arthur, Peter Trudgill and Dominic Watt 2005. English Accents and Dialects. An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of English in the British Isles. 4th edition. London: Hodder Arnold. Hickey, Raymond 2005. Dublin English. Evolution and Change. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. McCafferty, Kevin 2001. Ethnicity and Language Change. English in (London)Derry, Northern Ireland. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Docherty, Gerry and Paul Foulkes (eds) 1999. Urban voices. Variation and change in British accents. London: Arnold. Wales, Katie 2006. Northern English. A Cultural and Social History. Cambridge: University Press. Upton, Clive and John D. Widdowson 1996. An Atlas of English Dialects. Oxford: University Press.

122. Wolfram, Walt and Natalie Schilling-Estes 1998. American English. Dialects and Variation. Oxford: Blackwell. Labov, William 1972. Sociolinguistic Patterns. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Labov, William 1972. Language in the Inner City. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Green, Lisa J. 2002. African American English. A linguistic introduction. Cambridge: University Press. Gramley, Stephan 2001. The Vocabulary of World English. London: Arnold. McArthur, Tom 1998. The English Languages. Cambridge: University Press. McArthur, Tom 2002. The Oxford guide to world English. Oxford: University Press. Coates, Jennifer 1997. Language and gender. A reader. Oxford: Blackwell. Eckert, Penelope and Sally McConnell-Ginet 2002. Language and gender. Cambridge: University Press. Aitchison, Jean 1981. Language Change: Progress of Decay? London: Fontana. McMahon, April 1994. Understanding language change. Cambridge: University Press.