Preface

Author’s Acknowledgements    

Publisher’s Acknowledgements    

1.    What do sociolinguists study?    

Section A: Multilingual speech communities

2.    Language choice in multilingual communities    

3.    Language maintenance and shift    

4.    Linguistic varieties and multilingual nations    

5.    National languages and language planning   

Section B: Language variation: focus on users

6.    Regional and social dialects    

7.    Gender and age   

8.    Ethnicity and social networks     

9.    Language change    

Section C: Language variation: focus on uses

10.  Style, context and register   

11.  Speech functions, politeness and cross-cultural communication      

12.  Gender, politeness and stereotypes    

13.  Language, cognition and culture   

14.  Analysing Discourse

15.  Attitudes and applications    

16.  Conclusion    

References    

Appendix I: phonetic symbols    

Appendix II: preface to first edition

Appendix III: preface to second edition

Glossary    

Index