Table of Contents:

1. Researching Language: Issues of Power and Method Deborah Cameron, Elizabeth Frazer, Penelope Harvey, M.B.H. Rampton and Kay Richardson 2. Language and Control Roger Fowler, Bob Hodge, Gunther Kress and Tony Trew 3. Recent Advances in Language, Communication, and Social Psychology edited by Howard Giles and Robert N. St. Clair 4. Verbal Deficit: A Critique J.C.B. Gordon 5. Language and Situation: Language Varieties and their Social Contexts Michael Gregory and Susanne Carroll 6. Language in Indenture: A Sociolinguistic History of Bhojpuri-Hindi in South Africa Rajend Mesthrie 7. Sociolinguistics: A Sociological Critique Glyn Williams

Reissuing works originally published between 1978 and 1992, this collection includes books across the span of sociolinguistics, from its theory and philosophy to specific language change study. This small set will be of benefit to sociology and linguistics but also to psychology, media and communication, education and development studies.