Resources

This is a growing list of resources for students and scholars in language studies.

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By contributors to Becoming a Linguist

Editors' Reading List

Sociolinguistics (Books)

Alim, S. H., Rickford, J. R., & Ball, A. F. (2016). Raciolinguistics: How language shapes our ideas about race. Oxford University Press.

Blommaert, J. (2010). The sociolinguistics of globalisation. Cambridge University Press.

Canagarajah, S. (2013). Translingual practice: Global Englishes and cosmopolitan relations. Routledge.

Dovchin, S. (2018). Language, media and globalization in the periphery. Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics. Routledge.

Labov, W. (1973). Sociolinguistic patterns. University of Pennsylvania Press.

Lee, J. W. (2018). The politics of translingualism: After Englishes. Routledge.

Lippi-Green, R. (2011). English with an accent: Language, ideology and discrimination in the United States. Routledge.

Pennycook, A. (2007). Global Englishes and transcultural flows. Routledge.

Pennycook, A. (2010). Language as a local practice. Routledge.

Piller, I. (2016). Linguistic diversity and social justice: An introduction to applied sociolinguistics. Oxford University Press.

Language Acquisition (Books)

Lightbown, P., & Spada, N. (2013). How languages are learned. Oxford University Press.

Linguistics (Books)

Fromkin, V., Rodman, R., & Hymes, N. (2011). An introduction to language, 9th edition. International Edition, Thomson Wadsworth.