📚 Sociolinguistics

Books with sociolinguistics on their catalogue record, first published between 1656 and 2017, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject sociolinguistics in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 8,627 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Language, Society and Power	Annabelle Mooney	2010	20
	Reading Images	Gunther Kress	1990	17
	Among cultures	Bradford J. Hall	2001	16
	Introduction to Sociolinguistics	Ronald Wardhaugh	1992	15
	The message in the bottle	Walker Percy	1656	14
	Man made language	Dale Spender	1980	12
	Introduction to Sociolinguistics	Holmes, Janet	2013	12
	Ecolinguistics	Arran Stibbe	2015	12
	Introduction to Language and Society	Martin Montgomery	1990	11
	Introducing sociolinguistics	Miriam Meyerhoff	2006	9
	Intercultural Communication	Ingrid Piller	2011	9
	What Is Sociolinguistics?	Gerard Van Herk	2012	9
	Critical Sociolinguistic Research Methods	Monica Heller	2017	9
	Sociolinguistics An Introduction to Language and Society	Peter Trudgill	1974	8
	Language and woman's place	Robin Tolmach Lakoff	1975	8
	Teaching and Researching	Joan Kelly Hall	2002	8
	Language, culture, and society	Christine Jourdan	2006	8
	Sociolinguistic variation	Robert Bayley	2007	8
	The Guidebook To Sociolinguistics	Allan Bell	2013	8
	An introduction to sociolinguistics	Ronald Wardhaugh	1986	7
	Language Diversity and Education	David Corson	2000	7
	Theoretical Studies Towards a Sociology of Language	Basil Bernstein	2005	7
	Language in the British Isles	David Britain	2007	7
	Critical Discourse Analysis	Norman Fairclough	2010	7
	Language and gender	Mary M. Talbot	1998	6
	Handbook of language and social interaction	Kristine L. Fitch	2004	6
	Foundations in Sociolinguistics	Dell Hymes	2010	6
	The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics	Rajend Mesthrie	2011	6
	The Material Word	David Silverman	2011	6
	Corpus-Based Sociolinguistics	Eric Friginal	2013	6

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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