Martin J. Ball is Honorary Professor of Linguistics at Bangor University and Visiting Professor in Speech-Language Pathology at Wrexham Glyndŵr University, both in Wales.Rajend Mesthrie is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.Chiara Meluzzi is Senior Researcher in Linguistics at the University of Milan "La Statale", Italy, where she teaches general linguistics for the BA in Liberal Studies in Communication.

• List of ContributorsList of FiguresPrefaceIntroductionJohn EdwardsPart I: The AmericasMaps 1-31. Sociolinguistics in the USAKirk Hazen2. Sociolinguistics in CanadaMarisa Brook3. Sociolinguistic research into Indigenous languages of North AmericaÉedaa Heather Dawn Burge, Shayleen Macy EagleSpeaker, Jaeci Nel Hall, Amanda Cardoso, & Gabriela Pérez Báez4. Sociolinguistics in Mexico: Defining new agendasJosé Antonio Flores Farfán5. Sociolinguistics in Central AmericaBrandon Baird6. Sociolinguistic research into Indigenous languages of South AmericaViviana Quintero & Serafin-Coronel Molina7. Sociolinguistics in BrazilRonald Beline Mendes8. Sociolinguistics in Hispanic South AmericaManuel Diaz-Campos & Matthew Pollock9. Sociolinguistics in the CaribbeanJoseph Farquharson & Bettina Migge10. The Sociolinguistics of the Atlantic EnglishesRosemary Hall, Hannah Hedegard, Andrea Sudbury, Nicole Holliday, Daniel Schreier & David BritainPart II: AsiaMap 411. China: Sociolinguistic research in the 21st centuryMinglang Zhou12. Sociolinguistics of the Indo-European languages in South Asia: looking beyond the 60sShobha Satyanath 13. Sociolinguistics of Dravidian languages in South AsiaG. Balasubramanian & S. Arulmozi14. Sociolinguistics of South Asia: Tibeto-Burman, Austroasiatic and other languagesDavid Bradley & Panchanan Mohanty15. Sociolinguistics in MongoliaBolormaa Shinjee & Sender Dovchin 16. Sociolinguistics in JapanFlorian Coulmas17. Korea: Recent trends in sociolinguistic researchHyeon-Seok Kang18. Sociolinguistics in Mainland Southeast AsiaDavid Bradley19. Sociolinguistics in Maritime Southeast AsiaRebecca Starr20. Sociolinguistic research into Turkic languages: Turkey, Northern Cyprus and Turkic States in Central AsiaYasemin Bayyurt & Işıl Erduyan21. Sociolinguistic research into Iranian languagesWilliam Beeman22. Sociolinguistics of Arabic in the Middle EastMarie Aimée Germanos 23. Sociolinguistics in Israel: From Hebrew Hegemony to Israeli PlurilingualismJoel Walters, Dafna Yitzhaki, Shulamith Kopeliovich, Zhanna Burstein-Feldman, Carmit Altman, Sharon Armon-Lotem & Natalia Meir24. Sociolinguistics in the CaucasusDiana Forker & Victor FriedmanPart III: AustralasiaMap 525. Sociolinguistics in AustraliaPeter Collins26. Sociolinguistic research into Indigenous languages of AustraliaJill Vaughan, Ruth Singer & Gillian Wigglesworth27. Sociolinguistics in New ZealandJennifer Hay & Margaret Maclagan28. Sociolinguistics in the PacificEleanor Ridge, Sally Akevai Nicholas & Richard Benton29. Sociolinguistics in New GuineaMark DonohuePart IV: AfricaMap 630. Sociolinguistics in North AfricaCatherine Miller & Dominique Caubet31. Sociolinguistic studies of West and Central AfricaBruce Connell & David Zeitlyn32. Sociolinguistics in East AfricaChristina Higgins33. Sociolinguistics in Lusophone AfricaLaura Álvarez López34. Sociolinguistics in Southern AfricaSusanne Mohr, Irina Turner & Sibonile Ellece35. Sociolinguistics in South AfricaRajend Mesthrie & Yolandi Ribbens-Klein36. Sociolinguistic research into Indian Ocean languagesRada TirvassenPart V: EuropeMap 737. Sociolinguistics in the German language areaFalco Pfalzgraf38. Sociolinguistics in the Dutch language areaJeroen Darquennes39.Sociolinguistics in the Nordic regionSally Boyd & Natalia Ganuza40. Sociolinguistics in BritainNatalie Braber41. Sociolinguistics in IrelandRaymond Hickey42. Sociolinguistics of the Celtic languagesTadhg Ó hIfearnáin43. Sociolinguistics in the French language areaNadine Di Vito44. Sociolinguistics in ItalyMassimo Cerruti & Silvia Dal Negro45. Sociolinguistics in SwitzerlandPhilippe Humbert, Zorana Sokolovska, Laura Baranzini, Matteo Casoni, Sabine Christopher, Renata Coray & Stephan Schmid46. Sociolinguistics in LuxembourgChristophe Purschke & Peter Gilles47. Sociolinguistics in Spain: From the polycentrism of the field to activist practices in superdiverse contextsLuisa Martin Rojo, Gabriela Prego & Anna Tudela48. Sociolinguistics in PortugalAlexandra Guedes Pinto49. Sociolinguistics in MaltaSarah Grech50. Sociolinguistics in East Central EuropeMiklós Kontra, Marián Sloboda, Jiří Nekvapil & Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak51. Sociolinguistics in the BalkansRobert Greenberg52. Sociolinguistics in RussiaOlga Blinova, Natalia Bogdanova-Beglarian, Tatiana Popova & Tatiana Sherstinova53. Sociolinguistics in UkraineOlga Ivanova54. Sociolinguistics in the Baltic States: language dynamics researchGabrielle Hogan-Brun & Ineta DabašinskienėAuthor IndexLanguage IndexSubject Index

Martin J. Ball is Honorary Professor of Linguistics at Bangor University and Visiting Professor in Speech-Language Pathology at Wrexham Glyndŵr University, both in Wales.Rajend Mesthrie is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.Chiara Meluzzi is Senior Researcher in Linguistics at the University of Milan "La Statale", Italy, where she teaches general linguistics for the BA in Liberal Studies in Communication.

• List of ContributorsList of FiguresPrefaceIntroductionJohn EdwardsPart I: The AmericasMaps 1-31. Sociolinguistics in the USAKirk Hazen2. Sociolinguistics in CanadaMarisa Brook3. Sociolinguistic research into Indigenous languages of North AmericaÉedaa Heather Dawn Burge, Shayleen Macy EagleSpeaker, Jaeci Nel Hall, Amanda Cardoso, & Gabriela Pérez Báez4. Sociolinguistics in Mexico: Defining new agendasJosé Antonio Flores Farfán5. Sociolinguistics in Central AmericaBrandon Baird6. Sociolinguistic research into Indigenous languages of South AmericaViviana Quintero & Serafin-Coronel Molina7. Sociolinguistics in BrazilRonald Beline Mendes8. Sociolinguistics in Hispanic South AmericaManuel Diaz-Campos & Matthew Pollock9. Sociolinguistics in the CaribbeanJoseph Farquharson & Bettina Migge10. The Sociolinguistics of the Atlantic EnglishesRosemary Hall, Hannah Hedegard, Andrea Sudbury, Nicole Holliday, Daniel Schreier & David BritainPart II: AsiaMap 411. China: Sociolinguistic research in the 21st centuryMinglang Zhou12. Sociolinguistics of the Indo-European languages in South Asia: looking beyond the 60sShobha Satyanath 13. Sociolinguistics of Dravidian languages in South AsiaG. Balasubramanian & S. Arulmozi14. Sociolinguistics of South Asia: Tibeto-Burman, Austroasiatic and other languagesDavid Bradley & Panchanan Mohanty15. Sociolinguistics in MongoliaBolormaa Shinjee & Sender Dovchin 16. Sociolinguistics in JapanFlorian Coulmas17. Korea: Recent trends in sociolinguistic researchHyeon-Seok Kang18. Sociolinguistics in Mainland Southeast AsiaDavid Bradley19. Sociolinguistics in Maritime Southeast AsiaRebecca Starr20. Sociolinguistic research into Turkic languages: Turkey, Northern Cyprus and Turkic States in Central AsiaYasemin Bayyurt & Işıl Erduyan21. Sociolinguistic research into Iranian languagesWilliam Beeman22. Sociolinguistics of Arabic in the Middle EastMarie Aimée Germanos 23. Sociolinguistics in Israel: From Hebrew Hegemony to Israeli PlurilingualismJoel Walters, Dafna Yitzhaki, Shulamith Kopeliovich, Zhanna Burstein-Feldman, Carmit Altman, Sharon Armon-Lotem & Natalia Meir24. Sociolinguistics in the CaucasusDiana Forker & Victor FriedmanPart III: AustralasiaMap 525. Sociolinguistics in AustraliaPeter Collins26. Sociolinguistic research into Indigenous languages of AustraliaJill Vaughan, Ruth Singer & Gillian Wigglesworth27. Sociolinguistics in New ZealandJennifer Hay & Margaret Maclagan28. Sociolinguistics in the PacificEleanor Ridge, Sally Akevai Nicholas & Richard Benton29. Sociolinguistics in New GuineaMark DonohuePart IV: AfricaMap 630. Sociolinguistics in North AfricaCatherine Miller & Dominique Caubet31. Sociolinguistic studies of West and Central AfricaBruce Connell & David Zeitlyn32. Sociolinguistics in East AfricaChristina Higgins33. Sociolinguistics in Lusophone AfricaLaura Álvarez López34. Sociolinguistics in Southern AfricaSusanne Mohr, Irina Turner & Sibonile Ellece35. Sociolinguistics in South AfricaRajend Mesthrie & Yolandi Ribbens-Klein36. Sociolinguistic research into Indian Ocean languagesRada TirvassenPart V: EuropeMap 737. Sociolinguistics in the German language areaFalco Pfalzgraf38. Sociolinguistics in the Dutch language areaJeroen Darquennes39.Sociolinguistics in the Nordic regionSally Boyd & Natalia Ganuza40. Sociolinguistics in BritainNatalie Braber41. Sociolinguistics in IrelandRaymond Hickey42. Sociolinguistics of the Celtic languagesTadhg Ó hIfearnáin43. Sociolinguistics in the French language areaNadine Di Vito44. Sociolinguistics in ItalyMassimo Cerruti & Silvia Dal Negro45. Sociolinguistics in SwitzerlandPhilippe Humbert, Zorana Sokolovska, Laura Baranzini, Matteo Casoni, Sabine Christopher, Renata Coray & Stephan Schmid46. Sociolinguistics in LuxembourgChristophe Purschke & Peter Gilles47. Sociolinguistics in Spain: From the polycentrism of the field to activist practices in superdiverse contextsLuisa Martin Rojo, Gabriela Prego & Anna Tudela48. Sociolinguistics in PortugalAlexandra Guedes Pinto49. Sociolinguistics in MaltaSarah Grech50. Sociolinguistics in East Central EuropeMiklós Kontra, Marián Sloboda, Jiří Nekvapil & Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak51. Sociolinguistics in the BalkansRobert Greenberg52. Sociolinguistics in RussiaOlga Blinova, Natalia Bogdanova-Beglarian, Tatiana Popova & Tatiana Sherstinova53. Sociolinguistics in UkraineOlga Ivanova54. Sociolinguistics in the Baltic States: language dynamics researchGabrielle Hogan-Brun & Ineta DabašinskienėAuthor IndexLanguage IndexSubject Index

Martin J. Ball is Honorary Professor of Linguistics at Bangor University and Visiting Professor in Speech-Language Pathology at Wrexham Glyndŵr University, both in Wales.Rajend Mesthrie is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.Chiara Meluzzi is Senior Researcher in Linguistics at the University of Milan "La Statale", Italy, where she teaches general linguistics for the BA in Liberal Studies in Communication.

• List of ContributorsList of FiguresPrefaceIntroductionJohn EdwardsPart I: The AmericasMaps 1-31. Sociolinguistics in the USAKirk Hazen2. Sociolinguistics in CanadaMarisa Brook3. Sociolinguistic research into Indigenous languages of North AmericaÉedaa Heather Dawn Burge, Shayleen Macy EagleSpeaker, Jaeci Nel Hall, Amanda Cardoso, & Gabriela Pérez Báez4. Sociolinguistics in Mexico: Defining new agendasJosé Antonio Flores Farfán5. Sociolinguistics in Central AmericaBrandon Baird6. Sociolinguistic research into Indigenous languages of South AmericaViviana Quintero & Serafin-Coronel Molina7. Sociolinguistics in BrazilRonald Beline Mendes8. Sociolinguistics in Hispanic South AmericaManuel Diaz-Campos & Matthew Pollock9. Sociolinguistics in the CaribbeanJoseph Farquharson & Bettina Migge10. The Sociolinguistics of the Atlantic EnglishesRosemary Hall, Hannah Hedegard, Andrea Sudbury, Nicole Holliday, Daniel Schreier & David BritainPart II: AsiaMap 411. China: Sociolinguistic research in the 21st centuryMinglang Zhou12. Sociolinguistics of the Indo-European languages in South Asia: looking beyond the 60sShobha Satyanath 13. Sociolinguistics of Dravidian languages in South AsiaG. Balasubramanian & S. Arulmozi14. Sociolinguistics of South Asia: Tibeto-Burman, Austroasiatic and other languagesDavid Bradley & Panchanan Mohanty15. Sociolinguistics in MongoliaBolormaa Shinjee & Sender Dovchin 16. Sociolinguistics in JapanFlorian Coulmas17. Korea: Recent trends in sociolinguistic researchHyeon-Seok Kang18. Sociolinguistics in Mainland Southeast AsiaDavid Bradley19. Sociolinguistics in Maritime Southeast AsiaRebecca Starr20. Sociolinguistic research into Turkic languages: Turkey, Northern Cyprus and Turkic States in Central AsiaYasemin Bayyurt & Işıl Erduyan21. Sociolinguistic research into Iranian languagesWilliam Beeman22. Sociolinguistics of Arabic in the Middle EastMarie Aimée Germanos 23. Sociolinguistics in Israel: From Hebrew Hegemony to Israeli PlurilingualismJoel Walters, Dafna Yitzhaki, Shulamith Kopeliovich, Zhanna Burstein-Feldman, Carmit Altman, Sharon Armon-Lotem & Natalia Meir24. Sociolinguistics in the CaucasusDiana Forker & Victor FriedmanPart III: AustralasiaMap 525. Sociolinguistics in AustraliaPeter Collins26. Sociolinguistic research into Indigenous languages of AustraliaJill Vaughan, Ruth Singer & Gillian Wigglesworth27. Sociolinguistics in New ZealandJennifer Hay & Margaret Maclagan28. Sociolinguistics in the PacificEleanor Ridge, Sally Akevai Nicholas & Richard Benton29. Sociolinguistics in New GuineaMark DonohuePart IV: AfricaMap 630. Sociolinguistics in North AfricaCatherine Miller & Dominique Caubet31. Sociolinguistic studies of West and Central AfricaBruce Connell & David Zeitlyn32. Sociolinguistics in East AfricaChristina Higgins33. Sociolinguistics in Lusophone AfricaLaura Álvarez López34. Sociolinguistics in Southern AfricaSusanne Mohr, Irina Turner & Sibonile Ellece35. Sociolinguistics in South AfricaRajend Mesthrie & Yolandi Ribbens-Klein36. Sociolinguistic research into Indian Ocean languagesRada TirvassenPart V: EuropeMap 737. Sociolinguistics in the German language areaFalco Pfalzgraf38. Sociolinguistics in the Dutch language areaJeroen Darquennes39.Sociolinguistics in the Nordic regionSally Boyd & Natalia Ganuza40. Sociolinguistics in BritainNatalie Braber41. Sociolinguistics in IrelandRaymond Hickey42. Sociolinguistics of the Celtic languagesTadhg Ó hIfearnáin43. Sociolinguistics in the French language areaNadine Di Vito44. Sociolinguistics in ItalyMassimo Cerruti & Silvia Dal Negro45. Sociolinguistics in SwitzerlandPhilippe Humbert, Zorana Sokolovska, Laura Baranzini, Matteo Casoni, Sabine Christopher, Renata Coray & Stephan Schmid46. Sociolinguistics in LuxembourgChristophe Purschke & Peter Gilles47. Sociolinguistics in Spain: From the polycentrism of the field to activist practices in superdiverse contextsLuisa Martin Rojo, Gabriela Prego & Anna Tudela48. Sociolinguistics in PortugalAlexandra Guedes Pinto49. Sociolinguistics in MaltaSarah Grech50. Sociolinguistics in East Central EuropeMiklós Kontra, Marián Sloboda, Jiří Nekvapil & Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak51. Sociolinguistics in the BalkansRobert Greenberg52. Sociolinguistics in RussiaOlga Blinova, Natalia Bogdanova-Beglarian, Tatiana Popova & Tatiana Sherstinova53. Sociolinguistics in UkraineOlga Ivanova54. Sociolinguistics in the Baltic States: language dynamics researchGabrielle Hogan-Brun & Ineta DabašinskienėAuthor IndexLanguage IndexSubject Index