Chapter One: What do sociolinguists study?
Chapter Two: Multilingual speech communities
Chapter Three: Language maintenance and shift
Chapter Four: Linguistic varieties and multilingual nations
Chapter Five: National languages and language planning
Chapter Six: Regional and social dialects
Chapter Seven: Gender and age
Chapter Eight: Ethnicity and social networks
Chapter Nine: Language change
Chapter Ten: Style, context and register
Chapter Eleven: Speech functions, politeness & cross-cultural communication
Chapter Twelve: Gender, politeness and stereotypes
Chapter Thirteen: Language, cognition and culture
Chapter Fourteen: Analysing discourse
Chapter Fifteen: Attitudes and applications |