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LING/ANTH 433, LING 533: Sociolinguistics II: Handbooks

Library resources and research in sociolinguistics for LING/ANTH 433 & LING 533

Handbooks provide overviews of a whole discipline or sub-discipline and can serve as helpful guides to the state of scholarship for graduate and advanced undergraduate students. Handbooks are typically edited by top scholars in the field and consist of articles contributed by key academics. Handbooks offer a current, thorough, authoritative introduction to their subject, including foundations, key issues and debates, critical approaches, and emergent areas. There are numerous handbooks covering all aspects of linguistics and sociolinguistics. This page includes a selection of handbooks on topics of interest in sociolinguistics.

You can find handbooks in UW Libraries Search by adding the subject term Handbooks, manuals, etc. to some subjects. For example: