This second edition of Meyerhoff’s widely used introductory text offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of sociolinguistics. It integrates expanded coverage of politeness theory, multilingualism and code-switching, social class, dialect contact, and language change over time. It also links to the Routledge Sociolinguistics Reader and includes online resources such as interactive exerc…
A student-friendly, accessible introduction to psycholinguistics that explores how language relates to the mind, brain, learning, and culture. Topics include child language development, deaf language education, wild-reared children, reading and literacy, animal language capacity, grammar theories (including “natural grammar”), thought and culture, origins of language, brain–language relat…