All articles in Sociolinguistic Studies are peer-reviewed and may be in English. it takes an ecumenical approach to the different schools, methodological principles or research orientations within sociolinguistic research and also accepts contributions from related fields such as pragmatics, discourse analysis, conversational analysis, interactional linguistics, language acquisition and socialization, linguistic anthropology, ethnomethodology and the ethnography of communication. Paper may examine any issue in sociolinguistics research including, but not limited to, styles and registers, communicative situations and speech events, politeness, bilingual conversation and code-switching, gender, and discourse, language attitudes, language ideologies, the diversity of the worldwide linguistic situation, bilingualism, diglossia, pidgins and creoles, language and culture and language and identity.