Rajend Mesthrie

Rajend Mesthrie

is author/editor of the following titles:

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Introducing Sociolinguistics: Second Edition
Rajend Mesthrie, Joan Swann, Ana Deumert and William L. Leap
[Not in series, 102]  2009.  xxvi, 502 pp.
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Introducing Sociolinguistics
Rajend Mesthrie, Joan Swann, Ana Deumert and William L. Leap
[Not in series, 102 (1st)]  2000.  528 pp.

is editor/board member of the following book series:

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Varieties of English Around the World (VEAW)

is editor/board member of the following journal:

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English World-Wide (EWW)

is author of the following articles:

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Mesthrie, Rajend and Simone Wills. 2019. “Chapter 12. The goose vowel in South African English with special reference to Coloured communities in 5 cities”. In Processes of Change: Studies in Late Modern and Present-Day English, 227–246
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Mesthrie, Rajend. 2017. “Braj B. Kachru (1932–2016)”. English World-Wide 38:1, 1–4
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Mesthrie, Rajend. 2017. “Pidginization versus second language acquisition”. In Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas: In honor of John V. Singler, 323–342
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Mesthrie, Rajend. 2014. “How non-Indo-European is Fanakalo pidgin?”. In Pidgins and Creoles beyond Africa-Europe Encounters, 85–100
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Mesthrie, Rajend. 2014. “The sociophonetic effects of Event X”. In The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond, 58–69
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Mesthrie, Rajend. 2014. “A lesser globalisation”. In English in the Indian Diaspora, 171–186
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Mesthrie, Rajend and Alida Chevalier. 2014. “Sociophonetics and the Indian diaspora”. In English in the Indian Diaspora, 85–104
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Mesthrie, Rajend and Ellen Hurst. 2013. “Slang registers, code-switching and restructured urban varieties in South Africa”. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 28:1, 103–130
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Deumert, Ana and Rajend Mesthrie. 2009. “4. Language variation and change”. In Introducing Sociolinguistics: Second Edition, 109
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Mesthrie, Rajend. 2009. “2. Regional dialectology”. In Introducing Sociolinguistics: Second Edition, 42
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Mesthrie, Rajend. 2009. “3. Social dialectology”. In Introducing Sociolinguistics: Second Edition, 74
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Mesthrie, Rajend. 2009. “9. L anguage contact 2: Pidgins, Creoles and 'New Englishes'”. In Introducing Sociolinguistics: Second Edition, 271
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Mesthrie, Rajend. 2009. “1. Clearing the ground: Basic issues, concepts and approaches”. In Introducing Sociolinguistics: Second Edition, 1
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Mesthrie, Rajend. 2009. “Deracialising the GOOSE vowel in South African English”. In World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects: Selected papers from the 13th IAWE conference, 3–18
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Mesthrie, Rajend and Ana Deumert. 2009. “10. Critical sociolinguistics: Approaches to language and power”. In Introducing Sociolinguistics: Second Edition, 309
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Mesthrie, Rajend and William L. Leap. 2009. “11. Sociolinguistics and education”. In Introducing Sociolinguistics: Second Edition, 344
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Mesthrie, Rajend and William L. Leap. 2009. “8. Language contact 1: Maintenance, shift and death”. In Introducing Sociolinguistics: Second Edition, 242
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Mesthrie, Rajend. 2008. “"I've been speaking Tsotsitaal all my life without knowing it": Towards a unified account of tsotsitaals in South Africa.”. In Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities: Celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff, 95–109
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Mesthrie, Rajend. 2007. “Braj B. Kachru. 2005. Asian Englishes: Beyond the Canon”. English World-Wide 28:3, 329–332
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Mesthrie, Rajend. 2006. “Anti-deletions in an L2 grammar”. English World-Wide 27:2, 111–145
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Mesthrie, Rajend. 2005. “Putting back the horse before the cart”. English World-Wide 26:2, 127–151
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Mesthrie, Rajend. 2004. “Review of “An Introduction to International Varieties of English” by Laurie Bauer”. English World-Wide 25:1, 133–136
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Leap, William L. and Rajend Mesthrie. 2000. “11. Sociolinguistics and Education”. In Introducing Sociolinguistics, 354
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Mesthrie, Rajend. 2000. “1. Clearing the Ground”. In Introducing Sociolinguistics, 1
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Mesthrie, Rajend. 2000. “2. Regional Dialectology”. In Introducing Sociolinguistics, 44
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Mesthrie, Rajend. 2000. “3. Social Dialectology”. In Introducing Sociolinguistics, 76
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Mesthrie, Rajend. 2000. “9. Language Contact 2”. In Introducing Sociolinguistics, 279
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Mesthrie, Rajend and Ana Deumert. 2000. “10. Critical Sociolinguistics”. In Introducing Sociolinguistics, 316
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Mesthrie, Rajend and William L. Leap. 2000. “8. Language Contact 1”. In Introducing Sociolinguistics, 248
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Deumert, Ana and Rajend Mesthrie. 2000. “4. Language Variation and Change”. In Introducing Sociolinguistics, 114
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Mesthrie, Rajend. 1997. “Penny Silva, managing ed., A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles”. English World-Wide 18:1, 146–151
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Mesthrie, Rajend. 1997. “A sociolinguistic study of topicalisation phenomena in South African Black English”. In Englishes around the World: Studies in honour of Manfred Görlach, 119
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Mesthrie, Rajend. 1996. “Language Contact, Transmission, Shift”. In Focus on South Africa, 79
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Mesthrie, Rajend. 1995. “J.K. Chambers, Sociolinguistic Theory”. English World-Wide 16:2, 295–299
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Mesthrie, Rajend and Paula West. 1995. “Towards a Grammar of Proto South African English”. English World-Wide 16:1, 105–133
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Mesthrie, Rajend. 1989. “The Origins of Fanagalo”. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 4:2, 211–240
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Mesthrie, Rajend. 1987. “From OV to VO in Language Shift”. English World-Wide 8:2, 263–276