Rajend Mesthrie

Rajend Mesthrie

ORCID iD
orcid.org/0000-0001-6338-6076

is author/editor of the following titles:

image not available
Introducing Sociolinguistics: Second Edition
Rajend Mesthrie, Joan Swann, Ana Deumert and William L. Leap
[Not in series, 102]  2009.  xxvi, 502 pp.
image not available
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:

image not available
Varieties of English Around the World (VEAW)

is editor/board member of the following journal:

image not available
English World-Wide (EWW)

is author of the following articles:

image not available
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
image not available
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
image not available
Mesthrie, Rajend. 2017. “Braj B. Kachru (1932–2016)”. English World-Wide  38:1, 1–4
image not available
Mesthrie, Rajend. 2014. “A lesser globalisation”. In English in the Indian Diaspora, 171–186
image not available
Mesthrie, Rajend. 2014. “How non-Indo-European is Fanakalo pidgin?”. In Pidgins and Creoles beyond Africa-Europe Encounters, 85–100
image not available
Mesthrie, Rajend. 2014. “The sociophonetic effects of Event X”. In The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond, 58–69
image not available
Mesthrie, Rajend and Alida Chevalier. 2014. “Sociophonetics and the Indian diaspora”. In English in the Indian Diaspora, 85–104
image not available
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
image not available
Deumert, Ana and Rajend Mesthrie. 2009. “4. Language variation and change”. In Introducing Sociolinguistics: Second Edition , 109
image not available
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
image not available
Mesthrie, Rajend. 2009. “1. Clearing the ground: Basic issues, concepts and approaches”. In Introducing Sociolinguistics: Second Edition , 1
image not available
Mesthrie, Rajend. 2009. “2. Regional dialectology”. In Introducing Sociolinguistics: Second Edition , 42
image not available
Mesthrie, Rajend. 2009. “3. Social dialectology”. In Introducing Sociolinguistics: Second Edition , 74
image not available
Mesthrie, Rajend. 2009. “9. L anguage contact 2: Pidgins, Creoles and 'New Englishes'”. In Introducing Sociolinguistics: Second Edition , 271
image not available
Mesthrie, Rajend and Ana Deumert. 2009. “10. Critical sociolinguistics: Approaches to language and power”. In Introducing Sociolinguistics: Second Edition , 309
image not available
Mesthrie, Rajend and William L. Leap. 2009. “8. Language contact 1: Maintenance, shift and death”. In Introducing Sociolinguistics: Second Edition , 242
image not available
Mesthrie, Rajend and William L. Leap. 2009. “11. Sociolinguistics and education”. In Introducing Sociolinguistics: Second Edition , 344
image not available
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
image not available
Mesthrie, Rajend. 2007. “Braj B. Kachru. 2005. Asian Englishes: Beyond the Canon ”. English World-Wide  28:3, 329–332
image not available
Mesthrie, Rajend. 2006. “Anti-deletions in an L2 grammar”. English World-Wide  27:2, 111–145
image not available
Mesthrie, Rajend. 2005. “Putting back the horse before the cart”. English World-Wide  26:2, 127–151
image not available
Mesthrie, Rajend. 2004. “Review of Bauer (2002): An Introduction to International Varieties of English ”. English World-Wide  25:1, 133–136
image not available
Deumert, Ana and Rajend Mesthrie. 2000. “4. Language Variation and Change”. In Introducing Sociolinguistics, 114
image not available
Leap, William L. and Rajend Mesthrie. 2000. “11. Sociolinguistics and Education”. In Introducing Sociolinguistics, 354
image not available
Mesthrie, Rajend. 2000. “1. Clearing the Ground”. In Introducing Sociolinguistics, 1
image not available
Mesthrie, Rajend. 2000. “2. Regional Dialectology”. In Introducing Sociolinguistics, 44
image not available
Mesthrie, Rajend. 2000. “3. Social Dialectology”. In Introducing Sociolinguistics, 76
image not available
Mesthrie, Rajend. 2000. “9. Language Contact 2”. In Introducing Sociolinguistics, 279
image not available
Mesthrie, Rajend and Ana Deumert. 2000. “10. Critical Sociolinguistics”. In Introducing Sociolinguistics, 316
image not available
Mesthrie, Rajend and William L. Leap. 2000. “8. Language Contact 1”. In Introducing Sociolinguistics, 248
image not available
Mesthrie, Rajend. 1997. “Review of Silva (1996): A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles ”. English World-Wide  18:1, 146–151
image not available
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
image not available
Mesthrie, Rajend. 1996. “Language Contact, Transmission, Shift”. In Focus on South Africa, 79
image not available
Mesthrie, Rajend. 1995. “Review of Chambers (1995): Sociolinguistic Theory ”. English World-Wide  16:2, 295–299
image not available
Mesthrie, Rajend and Paula West. 1995. “Towards a Grammar of Proto South African English”. English World-Wide  16:1, 105–133
image not available
Mesthrie, Rajend. 1989. “The Origins of Fanagalo”. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages  4:2, 211–240
image not available
Mesthrie, Rajend. 1987. “From OV to VO in Language Shift”. English World-Wide  8:2, 263–276