Sociolinguistics: A Resource Book for Students

Abstract

A. Introduction: Key Concepts in Sociolinguistics: 1. Preview: a sociolinguistic toolkit 2. Accent and dialect 3. Register and style 4. Ethnicity and multilingualism 5. Social class 6. Prestige and language loyalty 7. Age and gender 8. Pidgins and creoles 9. New, national and international Englishes 10. Politeness and accommodation B. Development: Studies in Language and Society: 1. Preview: how to use these studies 2. Attitudes to accent variation 3. Euphemism and register 4. Code-switching in German 5. On the football terrace 6. The changing prestige of RP 7. The reality of genderlects 8. Patwa and post-creolisation 9. Singlish and new Englishes 10. Politeness in mixed-sex conversation 11. Standardisation and language change 12. Language and education 13. Conversation and spoken discourse 14. Language and ideology C. Exploration: Date for Investigation: 1. How to use the data in this section 2. Dialectal variation 3. Register 4. Ethnology 5. Sociological variation 6. Prestige 7. Gender 8. Creole 9. New English 10. Politeness 11. Standardisation 12. Education 13. E-discourse 14. Ideology D. Extension: Sociolinguistics Readings: 1. Sociolinguistics and language change (Hamer) 2. Foreign accents in America (Lippi-Green) 3. Style and ideology (Fairclough) 4. Language contact and code-switching (Edwards) 5. The sociolinguist's responsibility (Cameron) The process of standardisation (Milroy) 7. Men's and women's narratives (Holmes) 8. The origins of pidgins and creoles (Wardhaugh) 9. World Englishes and contact literature (Kachru) 10. Closing turns (Schegloff and Sacks). References. Glossarial. Index.

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