Legitimising Standard Languages: Perspectives from a School in BanarasNirmaliGoswamiNew Delhi: Sage. 2017. 248 pp. Hb (9789386446527) £47.99.

Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice: An Introduction to Applied SociolinguisticsIngridPillerOxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 2016. 296 pp. Hb (9780199937240) £82.00, Pb (9780199937264) £23.99.

“…A number of studies in the, broadly put, field of workplace sociolinguistics provide support to the issues Piller raises in those chapters. Examples include work by Roberts and Campbell (2006), Heller and Duchêne (2016), Sarangi and Roberts (1999), Wodak (2015), Holmes (2018), and others in whitecollar, corporate workplaces as well as in blue-collar work settings. This body of work has shown that language in the workplace is, largely, the way in which we claim, project and/or resist granting membership to the various groups and communities we are part of.…”