There is a perception common in the UK today, especially amongst journalists, that the RP accent is disappearing: for example, Public School pupils and younger members of the Royal Family are now often said to be speaking Cockney instead of RP. This claim is totally erroneous, but it is possible to point to a number of factors which can account for this perception. This paper attempts to elucid...

L’objectiu de l’obra Catalan Sociolinguistics. State of the Art and Future Challenges és donar compte, manera sumària, dels grans vèrtexs en què s’ha manifestat l’estudi la relació entre llengua i societat comunitat lingüística catalana, recepció que fet plantejaments internacionals l’adaptació domèstica.Cada tradició sociolingüística ha interpretat interacció esmentada amb específics. La per e...

In this article, I discuss the past, present, and future of interdisciplinary scholarship between sociolinguists and sociologists. After detailing some of the broader history of collaboration between sociolinguists and sociologists, I examine two sub-areas of scholarship: the variationist tradition from sociolinguistics and the social stratification tradition from sociology. I contend that, giv...