| Introducing sociolinguistics R Mesthrie Edinburgh University Press, 2009 | 1191 | 2009 |
| World Englishes: The study of new linguistic varieties R Mesthrie, RM Bhatt Cambridge University Press, 2008 | 1028 | 2008 |
| Dictionary of sociolinguistics J Swann Edinburgh University Press, 2019 | 493 | 2019 |
| Language in South Africa R Mesthrie Cambridge University Press, 2002 | 360 | 2002 |
| English in language shift: The history, structure, and sociolinguistics of South African Indian English R Mesthrie (No Title), 1992 | 357 | 1992 |
| Concise Encyclopedia of Sociolinguistics. R Mesthrie Elsevier Science, Regional Sales Office, Customer Support Department, PO Box …, 2001 | 218 | 2001 |
| Discourse: A Critical Introduction. J Blommaert Linguistische Berichte 2008 (214), 249-250, 2008 | 186* | 2008 |
| A handbook of varieties of English: A multimedia reference tool two volumes plus CD-ROM EW Schneider, K Burridge, B Kortmann, R Mesthrie, C Upton De Gruyter Mouton, 2004 | 178 | 2004 |
| The Cambridge handbook of sociolinguistics R Mesthrie Cambridge University Press, 2011 | 165 | 2011 |
| Socio‐phonetics and social change: Deracialisation of the GOOSE vowel in South African English1 R Mesthrie Journal of sociolinguistics 14 (1), 3-33, 2010 | 164 | 2010 |
| Language in indenture: A sociolinguistic history of Bhojpuri-Hindi in South Africa R Mesthrie Routledge, 2018 | 162 | 2018 |
| A Handbook of Varieties of English: Morphology and Syntaxy BD Kortmann, K Burridge, R Mesthrie Mouton de Gruyter, 2004 | 145 | 2004 |
| Language and social history: Studies in South African sociolinguistics R Mesthrie New Africa Books, 1995 | 139 | 1995 |
| South Africa: A sociolinguistic overview R Mesthrie Language in South Africa, 11-26, 2002 | 135 | 2002 |
| Varieties of English B Kortmann, C Upton, EW Schneider, K Burridge, R Mesthrie Mouton de Gruyter, 2008 | 127 | 2008 |
| Black South African English: phonology B Van Rooy A handbook of varieties of English 1, 943-952, 2004 | 107 | 2004 |
| Africa, South and Southeast Asia R Mesthrie, B Kortmann, EW Schneider Mouton de Gruyter, 2008 | 105 | 2008 |
| The Routledge handbook of sociolinguistics around the world MJ Ball, R Mesthrie, C Meluzzi Routledge, 2010 | 93 | 2010 |
| Leap. 2000 R Mesthrie, J Swann, A Deumert, L William Introducing sociolinguistics, 0 | 92 | |
| Slang registers, code-switching and restructured urban varieties in South Africa: An analytic overview of tsotsitaals with special reference to the Cape Town variety R Mesthrie, E Hurst Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 28 (1), 103-130, 2013 | 91 | 2013 |
