Textbook and Recommended Reading

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The assigned textbook for this unit is:

Wardhaugh, R. 2006. An introduction to sociolinguistics. [5th edition] Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers.

Readings will be assigned mainly from this edition of the textbook, but you will find very similar content covered in any of the earlier editions.

Of course, there are many different introductory textbooks for Linguistics, and a choice amongst them is difficult. You can browse from texts kept in the Library's closed reserve section you are also strongly encouraged to browse in the library and for resources on-line. The following books are either on closed reserve or are non-circulating reference works in the Reid Library [the book titles here link to the library catalogue entry]:

Akmajian, A. et al. 2001. Linguistics: an introduction to language and communication. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Campbell, L. 1998. Historical linguistics : an introduction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Crystal, D. 1985. A dictionary of linguistics and phonetics. [2nd ed.] Oxford: Blackwell.

1997 (1987).The Cambridge encyclopedia of language. Cambridge: CUP.

1992.An encyclopedic dictionary of language and languages. Oxford: Blackwell.

Finegan, Edward. 1997. Language: its structure and use. [2nd Australian ed.] Sydney : Harcourt Brace.

Fromkin, V. et al. 1996. An introduction to language. 3rd ed. Sydney: Harcourt Brace.

Holmes, J. 1992. An introduction to sociolinguistics. London; New York: Longman.

Hudson, Grover. 2000. Essential introductory linguistics. London: Blackwell.

Meyerhoff, Miriam. 2006. Introducing Sociolinguistics. London: Routledge.

Thomason, S. 2001. Language contact. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press