Sociolinguistics
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Multilingualism
The double perspective
Language and society
How we talk
Contested tongues
Rewriting literacy
Introducing sociolinguistics
Strictly Speaking
The ethnography of communication
Language and gender
Handbook of language and communication-- diversity and change
Accent, dialect and the school
Discourse and the Construction of Society
The City of Words
Linguistics epidemiology
Language, structure, and reproduction
Dialects converging
The Routledge handbook of multilingualism
Foundations in sociolinguistics
The ecology of language
Language selection and switching in Strasbourg
English-Only Europe?
Language and power
Language in Hong Kong at Century's End
Language and social contexts
Intercultural communication
Ethnography of communicative codes in East Java
Among cultures
Language, the social mirror
Sociolinguistic patterns
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