Rajend Mesthrie

Rajend Mesthrie publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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Rajend Mesthrie D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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Best Publications

• World Englishes: The Study of New Linguistic Varieties

  Rajend Mesthrie;Rakesh Mohan Bhatt

  887
  Citations

• A Handbook of Varieties of English

  Unknown

  658
  Citations

• World Englishes: Subject index

  Rajend Mesthrie;Rakesh M. Bhatt

  642
  Citations

• A Dictionary of Sociolinguistics

  Joan Swann;Andrea Deumert;Theresa Lillis;Rajend Mesthrie

  368
  Citations

• A Handbook of Varieties of English

  Bernd Kortmann;Edgar W. Schneider;Kate Burridge;Rajend Mesthrie

  365
  Citations

• English in Language Shift: The History, Structure and Sociolinguistics of South African Indian English

  Rajend Mesthrie

  344
  Citations

• Language in South Africa

  Rajend Mesthrie

  314
  Citations

• The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics

  Rajend Mesthrie

  214
  Citations

• Concise Encyclopedia of Sociolinguistics.

  Rajend Mesthrie

  203
  Citations

• Socio‐phonetics and social change: Deracialisation of the GOOSE vowel in South African English1

  Rajend Mesthrie

  155
  Citations

• Language in Indenture: A Sociolinguistic History of Bhojpuri-Hindi in South Africa

  Rajend Mesthrie

  150
  Citations

• ‘When you hang out with the guys they keep you in style’: The case for considering style in descriptions of South African tsotsitaals

  Ellen Hurst;Rajend Mesthrie

  147
  Citations

• Words across worlds: aspects of language contact and language learning in the Eastern Cape, 1800–1850

  Rajend Mesthrie

  117
  Citations

• How non-Indo-European is Fanakalo pidgin?

  Unknown

  117
  Citations

• A handbook of varieties of English : a multimedia reference tool

  Bernd Kortmann;Edgar W. Schneider;Kate Burridge;Rajend Mesthrie

  114
  Citations

• "I've been speaking Tsotsitaal all my life without knowing it": Towards a unified account of tsotsitaals in South Africa.

  Rajend Mesthrie

  113
  Citations

• Fanakalo as a mining language in South Africa: A new overview

  Rajend Mesthrie

  102
  Citations

• From second language to first language: Indian South African English

  Unknown

  100
  Citations

• Africa, South and Southeast Asia

  Rajend Mesthrie

  91
  Citations

• Anti-deletions in an L2 grammar : A study of black South African English mesolect

  Rajend Mesthrie

  62
  Citations