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Mesthrie, Rajend. 2019. Fanakalo as a mining language in South Africa: A new overview. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2019 (258) : 13–34.
Mesthrie, Rajend, ed. 2018. The Dynamics of Language: Plenary and focus lectures from the 20th International Congress of Linguists. University of Cape Town Press.
Mesthrie, Rajend. 2017. Kokni in Cape Town and the Sociolinguistics of Transnationalism. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 48 (3) : 73–97.
Mesthrie, Rajend. 2013. Slang registers, code-switching and restructured urban varieties in South Africa: An analytic overview of tsotsitaals with special reference to the Cape Town variety. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 28 (1) : 103–130.
Mesthrie, Rajend. 2013. ‘When you hang out with the guys they keep you in style’: The case for considering style in descriptions of South African tsotsitaals. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 44 (1) : 3–20.
Mesthrie, Rajend. 2012. Ethnicity, substrate and place: The dynamics of Coloured and Indian English in five South African cities in relation to the variable (t). Language Variation and Change 24 (3) : 371–395.
Mesthrie, Rajend. 2010. Socio-phonetics and social change: Deracialisation of the GOOSE vowel in South African English. Journal of Sociolinguistics 14 (1) : 3–33.
Mesthrie, Rajend. 2009. Deracialising the GOOSE vowel in South African English: Accelerated linguistic change amongst young, middle class females in post-apartheid South Africa. In : 3–18.
Mesthrie, Rajend, ed. 2009. Introducing Sociolinguistics. Second Edition. John Benjamins.
Mesthrie, Rajend. 2008. "I've been speaking Tsotsitaal all my life without knowing it": Towards a unified account of tsotsitaals in South Africa. In : 95–109.
Mesthrie, Rajend. 2008. Necessary Versus Sufficient Conditions for Using New Languages in South African Higher Education: A Linguistic Appraisal. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 29 (4) : 325–340.
Mesthrie, Rajend. 2006. English in Language Shift. The History, Structure and Sociolinguistics of South African Indian English. Cambridge University Press.
Mesthrie, Rajend. 2002. Language in South Africa. Cambridge University Press.
Mesthrie, Rajend. 2001. Concise encyclopedia of sociolinguistics. Elsevier.
Mesthrie, Rajend. 2000. Review of $The native speaker: Multilingual perspectives. Language in Society 29 (2) : 279–282.
Mesthrie, Rajend. 1999. Review of $A New English for a New South Africa? Language Attitudes, Language Planning and Education. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 136 : 142–143.
Mesthrie, Rajend. 1999. Review of $African linguistics at the Crossroads - Papers from Kwaluseni. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 136 : 143–144.
Mesthrie, Rajend. 1999. Review of $Standard and Non-Standard African Language Varieties in the Urban areas of South Africa. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 136 : 142–142.
Mesthrie, Rajend. 1999. Review of $Straatpraatjes: Language, Politics and Popular Culture in Cape Town, 1909-1922. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 136 : 141–141.
Mesthrie, Rajend, ed. 1995. Language and social history: Studies in South African Sociolinguistics. David Philip.
Mesthrie, Rajend. 1992. English in language shift: The history, structure and sociolinguistics of South African Indian English. Cambridge University Press.
Mesthrie, Rajend. 1992. Language in indenture: A sociolinguistic history of Bhojpuri-Hindi in South Africa. Routledge.