An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

 Content: Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Companion Website; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1: Introduction; Key Concepts; Knowledge of Language; Competence and performance; Variation; Speakers and Their Groups; Language and Culture; Directions of influence; The Whorfian hypothesis; Correlations; The Boundaries of Sociolinguistics; Methodological Concerns; Data; Research design; Overview of the Book; Chapter Summary; Exercises; Further Reading; References; Part I: Languages and Communities; 2: Languages, Dialects, and Varieties; Key Concepts; Language or Dialect? Mutual intelligibilityThe role of social identity; Standardization; The standard as an abstraction; The standardization process; The standard and language change; Standard English?; The standard-dialect hierarchy; Regional Dialects; Dialect continua; Dialect geography; Everyone has an accent; Social Dialects; Kiezdeutsch 'neighborhood German'; Ethnic dialects; African American Vernacular English; Features of AAVE; Development of AAVE; Latino Englishes; Styles, Registers, and Genres; Style; Register; Genre; Chapter Summary; Exercises; Further Reading; References; 3: Defining Groups Key ConceptsSpeech Communities; Linguistic boundaries; Shared norms; Communities of Practice; Social Networks; Social Identities; Beliefs about Language and Social Groups; Ideologies; Perceptual dialectology; Chapter Summary; Exercises; Further Reading; References; 4: Languages in Contact: Multilingual Societies and Multilingual Discourse; Key Concepts; Multilingualism as a Societal Phenomenon; Competencies and convergence in multilingual societies; Language ideologies surrounding multilingualism; Linguistic landscapes; Language attitudes in multilingual settings; Diglossia; Domains Language attitudes and ideologiesLanguage learning; The statuses of the H and L varieties; Extended diglossia and language maintenance; Questioning diglossia; Multilingual Discourse; Metaphorical and situational code-switching; Accommodation and audience design; The Markedness Model; Multilingual identities; Chapter Summary; Exercises; Further Reading; References; 5: Contact Languages: Structural Consequences of Social Factors; Key Concepts; Lingua Francas; Pidgin and Creole Languages: Definitions; Connections between P/C languages and second language acquisition; Pidgin and Creole Formation Theories of creole genesisGeographical Distribution; Linguistic Characteristics of P/C Languages; Phonology; Morphosyntax; Vocabulary; From Pidgin to Creole and Beyond; Creole continuum?; Other Contact Varieties: Mixed Languages; Chapter Summary; Exercises; Further Reading; References; Part II: Inherent Variety; 6: Language Variation; Key Concepts; Regional Variation; Mapping dialects; Methods in dialectology; Dialect mixture and free variation; Linguistic atlases; The Linguistic Variable; Variants; Types of linguistic variables; Variation in New York City; Variation in Norwich
 Abstract:             Fully updated to reflect the most recent scholarship in the field and revised to include many more pedagogical features, An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, 7th Edition builds on its foundation as the most preeminent textbook in sociolinguistics, updated for today's students. Significantly revised discussions throughout each of the book's four key parts reflect the state of the field today Includes new chapters on Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, and Sociolinguistics and Education Incorporates innovative new perspectives drawn from linguistic anthropology Provides an accessible histor