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The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World
Routledge, 2024.
Drawing on examples from a wide range of languages and social settings, The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World was originally the first single-volume collection surveying the current research trends in international sociolinguistics.
This new edition has been comprehensively updated and significantly expanded, and now includes more than 50 chapters written by leading authorities and a brand-new substantial introduction by John Edwards. Coverage has been expanded regionally and there is a critical focus on Indigenous languages. This handbook remains a key tool to help widen the perspective on sociolinguistics to readers interested in the field. Divided into sections covering the Americas, Asia, Australasia, Africa, and Europe, the book provides readers with a solid, up-to-date appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of the field of sociolinguistics in each area. It clearly explains the patterns and systematicity that underlie language variation in use, along with the ways in which alternations between different language varieties mark personal style, social power, and national identity.
The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World is the ideal resource for all students in undergraduate sociolinguistics courses and for researchers involved in the study of language, society, and power.
Chapters
Olga Blinova, Natalia Bogdanova-Beglarian, Tatiana Popova et al., , in: The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World.: Routledge, 2024. P. 613–630.
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Keywords: sociolinguistics
Khurshudyan V., Plungian Vladimir, Stepanyants Maxim, Voprosy Jazykoznanija 2026 No. 5 P. 81–98
This study examines the range of strategies used to encode future time reference in Standard EasternArmenian, situating them within the broader context of other Modern Armenian varieties. Illustrative data are drawn from Standard Western Armenian, the Hadrut dialect, and the Hamshen dialect. Adopting a semantic approach, we employ the term “future time reference” to delimit ...
Added: September 27, 2026
Zhivlov M., Journal of Language Relationship 2025 Vol. 23 No. 3-4 P. 344–374
The article continues the series of publications focused on the reassessment of the controversial Hokan hypothesis. In this paper, the traditional comparative method is applied to the reflexes of Proto-Hokan obstruents and glottal stop. The obtained results are compared to Terrence Kaufman’s (1989) reconstruction of Proto-Hokan. ...
Added: September 27, 2026
Loesov S., Häberl C., Бромирская А. С., Journal of Semitic Studies 2026 Vol. 71 No. 2 P. 765–812
This contribution presents three excerpts from a Modern Western Aramaic interview collected in December 2020 in Maaloula, Syria. In the interview, the narrator relates his own biographical details, the legendary life of Thecla, and a personal account of a miraculous healing. The local traditions concerning Thecla feature distinctive motifs, including the miraculous opening of the ...
Added: September 27, 2026
Micah Y.B. Zing, Alisa R. Shishkina, Международная аналитика 2026 Vol. 2 No. 17 P. 126–138
The article focuses on the Western mainstream media (WMM) discourse on Russia-Africa relations and how Russo-Western information confrontation affects the diplomatic dialogue between Russia and African states. Historically, the Soviet Union fostered a friendly relationship with the continent, characterised by solidarity and mutual respect. The collapse of the Soviet Union, the WMM discourse on Russian-African ...
Added: September 25, 2026
Zemtsov A., Пути России. Журнал cоциальных и этнографических исследований 2026 Т. 4 № 1 С. 142–148
Рецензия посвящена книге Давыдова и Абрамова - "Пастыри и постройки. Как устроена православная община". Автор рецензии реконструирует основные тезисы и аргументы исследователей, выделяет, на его взгляд, ключевые результаты работы, вклад социологов в изучение внутреннего устройства современной православной общины в России ...
Added: September 24, 2026
Stupitskiy A., Социологические исследования 2026 № 8 С. 92–105
The classical theory of platforms describes user dependency on digital ecosystems as a
rational economic choice: users stay because it is convenient and switching is costly. But what happens
when there is nowhere to switch — not because alternatives are less convenient, but because the state
has eliminated them? This article introduces the concept of “sovereign lock-in” to ...
Added: September 24, 2026
Dunde T. O., Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Серия 12: Социология 2026 Vol. 19 No. 1 P. 111–137
This systematic literature review examines how international students engage with urban spaces using Henri Lefebvre’s Relational Space Theory, challenging Berry’s bidimensional acculturation model. The review synthesizes 35 peer reviewed articles published between 1991 and 2025, identified through searches across six academic databases and manual screen-ing of journals. Using content analysis integrating text mining with close ...
Added: September 24, 2026
Shkolnikov, V. M., Timonin, S. A., Jdanov D. et al., Plos One 2026 Vol. 21 No. 2 P. 1–15
For decades, life expectancy in Eastern Europe has lagged behind that in Western Europe, although the gap has narrowed since the mid-2000s. We examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on these long-term trends by estimating and decomposing East-West differences in excess mortality and life expectancy losses. Regression models were used to explore the contribution ...
Added: September 24, 2026
Butovskaya M., Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 2026 No. 29 P. 1078–1083
We examined how language affects moral judgments in a non-WEIRD population. Tanzanian
participants (N = 103) evaluated utilitarian agents in moral dilemmas, either in native Chagga or
foreign Swahili. Agents were rated significantly more moral and braver when evaluated in a
foreign language. Bravery predicted morality more strongly in the foreign language than in the
native language. Indirect sacrifices ...
Added: September 24, 2026
Radaev V., Демографическое обозрение 2025 Т. 12 № 4 С. 4–44
В данной работе рассматриваются понятия взрослости и взросления как отдельного этапа в рамках жизненного цикла с опорой на демографическую и социологическую литературу. Обсуждается вопрос о том, как трансформируются в настоящее время модели взросления. А в эмпирической части делается попытка ответить на следующие вопросы: действительно ли молодые поколения (миллениалы и зумеры) откладывают события, связанные с взрослением, ...
Added: September 23, 2026
Radaev V., Журнал Новой экономической ассоциации 2025 № 4 С. 233–249
В статье рассматриваются причины появления новой экономической социологии, обратившейся на рубеже 1980-х годов к изучению рынков и других тем, которые до этого традиционно считались экономическими, отчасти в ответ на нарастающее вторжение экономистов в области социальных наук. Выявляются принципиальные различия подходов, применяемых в экономической теории и экономической социологии, в том числе, к исследованию одних и тех ...
Added: September 23, 2026
Радаев В.В., Журнал социологии и социальной антропологии 2025 Т. 28 № 4 С. 80–126
В работе раскрывается понятие амбивалентности влияния цифровых технологий на своих пользователей, приводится краткая история появления и распространения этих технологий среди российского населения. Через призму межпоколенческого анализа на основе репрезентативных количественных данных исследуется рост вовлеченности россиян в пользование интернетом (включая продвинутые навыки) и пользование гаджетами (персональными компьютерами, мобильными телефонами и смартфонами), а также растущая зависимость россиян ...
Added: September 23, 2026
Skorokhodov N., Социологическое обозрение 2026 Т. 25 № 2 С. 332–359
The article presents a systematic review of the substantive strategies of the New Evolutionary Sociology (NES) program, based on the methodology of the theoretical research programs of J. Berger and M. Zelditch. The review reveals two alternative theoretical directions within NES expressed in the scientific works of Jonathan Turner and Joseph Lopreato. Turner and Lopreato ...
Added: September 22, 2026
Chermoshentseva K., Человек: образ и сущность. Гуманитарные аспекты 2026 Т. - № 2(66) С. 227–243
The paper focuses on the system of metaphorical images used in modern English-language memoir narratives in prenatal and postnatal discourse. It reveals a set of social representations of pregnancy and childbirth, which act as a modeling factor for the formation of metaphorical images. The purpose of the study is to demonstrate the decisive role of ...
Added: September 22, 2026
Никитенко Д. Ю., RHEMA. РЕМА 2026 № 1 С. 188–207
This study explores a fragment of the accentual system of the Pskov dialect, with data obtained from both a corpus and fieldwork. The focus is on a-stem nouns (1st declension), with the accent types and stress patterns described. The accent types of nouns are presented in tables, while the stress patterns are given in a dictionary format, allowing for a combined approach to describing the dialect’s accentual system. Special attention is paid to stress placement in the accusativus singularis form of a number of words, which in this case ...
Added: September 22, 2026
Trotsuk I., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Социология 2026 Т. 26 № 1 С. 98–107
The article identifies two main “dimensions” of current discussions about the content, quality, and results of sociological training in Russian universities. First, a macro- and interdisciplinary discourse on general trends in the development of higher education under regional, national, and global challenges, such as the contradiction between traditional (classical, fundamental-value) and modernization (personal- and practice-oriented) ...
Added: September 21, 2026
Издательский дом КФУ им. В. И. Вернадского, 2023.
В сборнике представлены статьи по докладам участников VIII Международного научного конгресса «Филология. Социальная и национальная вариативность языка и литературы», который проходил в г. Симферополь 7 – 8 апреля 2023 г. В представленных публикациях рассматриваются актуальные проблемы социолингвистики, социофонетики и фоностилистики, индоевропеистики, литературоведения, языкознания и корпусной лингвистики, коммуникативистики и прагмалингвистики, лингводидактики, библиотечного обслуживания, диалога культур и ...
Added: June 30, 2026
Kasatkina A., Сергеев М. Л., Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2025 Т. 21.3 С. 13–25
This article introduces a collection of publications selected from the Proceedings of the conference “Circum Text: Para, Meta-, and Other Marginalia” (Institute for Linguistic Studies RAS, St. Petersburg, October 19–21, 2023). It describes the general agenda of paratextual studies and aligns the selected articles with its various aspects. Paratext is a variety of verbal and ...
Added: March 25, 2026
Trofimova N., Pesina S., Vinogradova S. et al., Brazilian Journal of Education, Technology and Society - BRAJETS 2025
The article presents numerous functions and special features of slang, which is able to represent a variety of communicative intentions of the speakers. In addition to the desire of communicants to maintain the confidentiality of communication through slang, the latter is used as a means of language economy, as a mechanism for creating new concepts, ...
Added: February 22, 2026
Борисов С. А., Кикило Н.И., Немчинов В. А., Славяноведение 2024 № 6 С. 85–99
The article provides an overview of field research among representatives of
the Macedonian, Czech and Slovak minority communities in the South Banat and
South Bačka districts of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (Serbia), conducted
in 2023. The Macedonian minority is made up of descendants of settlers who came to
Vojvodina in 1945– 1948 The article provides a brief analysis ...
Added: February 18, 2026
Khachaturyan M., Moroz G., Mamy P., Journal of Sociolinguistics 2025 Vol. 29 No. 4 P. 268–284
This paper contributes to research on the awareness of grammatical variability through a study of variation in reflexivity marking in Mano under the influence of Kpelle, both indigenous languages of Guinea. The speakers of these languages are found to be sensitive to contact-induced grammatical variation in reflexivity, which manifests via variation in comprehension patterns and, ...
Added: June 3, 2025
Мн.: Государственное учреждение образования "Республиканский институт высшей школы", 2024.
The publication contains abstracts of reports presented at the International Scientific Conference "English Studies in the Third Millennium: New Approaches and Paths of Development". The collection consists of several thematic sections, which present the results of studying the English language from the standpoint of current theoretical and applied problems of linguistics and using modern methods ...
Added: April 29, 2025
Krongauz M., Somin A., Журнал Сибирского федерального университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки 2025 Т. 18 № 1 С. 158–177
The article is devoted to the study of conflict communication in mono- and multilingual societies when language or its elements are discussed. Building on data collected from comments in social media, the article analyzes three types of conflict communication. First, conflicts in multilingual societies, when the influence of one language causes competition between units within ...
Added: April 28, 2025
Zamyatin K., Социолингвистика 2023 Т. 3 № 15 С. 29–52
In connection with significant changes in the life of society and the state in recent years, the issues of language policy have again become relevant. The need to respond to new challenges launched the processes of language planning, at the core of which was the process of developing the Concept of the state language policy, ...
Added: April 19, 2025