Table of Contents

Preface
SECTION 1
Survey
1 The social study of language:
The scope of enquiry
Complementary approaches
The methods of enquiry
What are the data?
The sociolinguist at work
The approach in this book
2 The ethnography of speaking and the structure of conversation:
The ethnography of speaking
The structure of conversations
Politeness and politeness formulas
Terms of address
3 Locating variations in speech:
Speech communities and repertoires
Dialect
4 Styles, gender, and social class:
Styles
Specialized varieties or registers and domains
Slang and solidarity
Language and gender
Social stratification
Accommodation and audience design
5 Bilinguals and bilingualism:
Language socialization
The description of bilingualism
Bilingual competence
Code switching and code mixing
6 Societal multilingualism:
Multilingualism
Language loyalty and reversing language shift
Language and ethnic identity
Language and politics
Language rights
Pidgins and creoles
Diglossia
7 Applied sociolinguistics:
Language policy and language planning
Status planning
Corpus planning
Normativism and prescriptivism
Language acquisition planning or language education policy
Language diffusion policy or linguistic imperialism
The spread of English - imperialism or hegemony?
Conclusions
SECTION 2
Readings
SECTION 3
References
SECTION 4
Glossary

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Provides a brief but comprehensive introduction to the field, making links with related disciplines such as history, politics, and gender studies. By Bernard Spolsky. Part of the Oxford Introductions to Language Study series.