[lg policy] Accounts of the history of sociolinguistics

[Dave Sayers]

Hello to those of you not currently sunning yourselves or darting about the 
conference circuit (or checking email whilst doing either/both of those),

Does anyone know of a book-length account of the history of sociolinguistics as a 
discipline, past to present? I've never come across anything really substantial on 
the history of the discipline as a whole. I've often wondered about this, right back 
from my days as a postgrad in sociology - by comparison a discipline *absolutely 
obsessed* with its history. Up to now I've used the following as week 1 readings, 
introducing students to the field:

http://uk.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/35389_5434_Wodak_Chap_01.pdf
http://www.sagepub.net/isa/resources/pdf/sociolinguistics.pdf

Certain other handbooks (though not all) have similar summary histories.

There are some articles and at least one book focusing specifically on the early 
development of the field...

http://www.sil.org/resources/publications/entry/6500

...then there are longer histories but focused on the development of specific ideas 
within sociolinguistics, e.g. the speech community...

http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~patrickp/papers/SpeechCommunity.pdf

...or (ahem) global linguistic innovations...

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/josl.12069/abstract

There's Sali Tagliamonte's forthcoming 'Making Waves: The Story of Variationist 
Sociolinguistics'...

http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118455169.html

...which looks extremely interesting, though it seems (from the online blurb) written 
more in the genre of personal narrative(s) than academic history of ideas. It's also 
purposefully constrained to variationist sociolinguistics.

So does anyone know of anything charting the history of the broad church of 
sociolinguistics, and its various denominations (sects!)?

Suggestions direct to me please, and I'll send an update to the list once they've all 
come in.

Thanks,
Dave

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Dr. Dave Sayers
Senior Lecturer, Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University
Honorary Research Fellow, Arts & Humanities, Swansea University (2009-2015)
dave.sayers at cantab.net | http://shu.academia.edu/DaveSayers
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