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Language Change

By Larry Trask (University of Sussex, UK)

Readings in the Sociology of Language

By Joshua A. Fishman

Language and Literacy: The Sociolinguistics of Reading and Writing

By Michael Stubbs

General Linguistics

By R.H. Robins

An Introduction to Modern English Word-Formation

By Valerie Adams

Buttering Parsnips, Twocking Chavs: The Secret Life Of The English Language

By Martin H. Manser

The Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language

By Tom McArthur, Roshan McArthur

Slang Down the Ages

By Jonathon Green

An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory & Method

By James Paul Gee

How to Study Linguistics

By Geoffrey Finch

Lost English: Words and Phrases That Have Vanished from Our Language

By Chris Roberts

The Development of Language: Acquisition, Change, and Evolution

By David Lightfoot (National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA)

Introduction to English Language (Studies in English Language)

By Blake, N.F., Moorhead, Jean

The Sociolinguistics Reader: Volume 2: Gender and Discourse

By Jenny Cheshire, Peter Trudgill

The Sociolinguistics of Language Volume 2 (Language in Society)

By Ralph Fasold

Still Lost in Translation: More misadventures in English abroad

By Charlie Croker

Medical Law and Ethics

By Herring, Jonathan

The Common Law of Obligations

By John Cooke (Barrister; Principal Lecturer in Law, Liverpool John Moores University), David Oughton (Department of Law, De Montfort University)

Textbook on Contract Law 12/e

By Poole, Jill

Pragmatics and Discourse: A Resource Book for Students

By Joan Cutting (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Style

By John Haynes

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By h-jackson

The Dialects of England

By Peter Trudgill

Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where It's Heading

By Naomi S. Baron

Historical Linguistics: Problems and Perspectives

By Charles Jones (University of Edinburgh, UK)

The Language of Websites

By Mark Boardman (South Craven School, UK)

The Language of Drama

By Keith Sanger

Historical Linguistics

By Larry Trask

English Accents and Dialects: An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of British English

By Hughes, Arthur John, Trudgill, Peter

Sociolinguistic Variation in Speech Communities

By Suzanne Romaine