1Chapter 1. Foundations of Sociolinguistics
455.7 Bilingual education: maintenance or assimilation?
21.1 Introduction
465.8 Immersion or submersion?
31.2 Power, social diversity, and language
475.9 Semilingualism: a new deficit theory
41.3 Linguistic anthropology: the study of language as a non-neutral medium
485.10 Questions
51.4 The social psychology of language: a short history
49Chapter 6. Language Change in Social Perspective
61.5 Orality and literacy in sociolinguistics
506.1 Introduction
71.6 Sign languages
516.2 Dialectology and language change
81.7 Summary
526.3 The relationship between variation and change
91.8 Questions
536.4 Using the present to explain the past and the past to explain the present
10Chapter 2. Language In Society/Society In Language
546.5 Change in real v. apparent time
112.1 Introduction
556.6 Language change and social ideology
122.2 Language and dialect in Papua New Guinea
566.7 Questions
132.3 Language and dialect in Europe
57Chapter 7. Language Choice
142.4 English: language and dialect
587.1 Introduction
152.5 Accent v. Dialect
597.2 Societal multilingualism
162.6 Register and style
607.3 Domains
172.7 Speech communities and communicative competence
617.4 Diglossia
182.8 Language, society, and reality: different words, different worlds?
627.5 Language shift and death
192.9 Questions
637.6 Code-switching
20Chapter 3. Sociolinguistic Patterns
647.7 Pidgin and Creole Languages
213.1 Introduction
657.8 Distribution
223.2 Language and social class
667.9 Origins and structure
233.3 Style
677.10 Phonology
243.4 Language and style
687.11 Lexicon
253.5 Gender
697.12 The creole continuum
263.6 Language and age
707.13 Pidgins and creoles in a social context
273.7 Language and social network
717.14 Questions
283.8 Standardization
72Chapter 8. Languages, Dialects, and Varieties
293.9 Questions
738.1 Introduction
30Chapter 4. Language and Gender
748.2 Language or Dialect?
314.1 Introduction
758.3 Mutual intelligibility
324.2 Sex and gender
768.4 The role of social identity
334.3 Man-made language?
778.5 Standardization
344.4 Learning to talk like a lady
788.6 The standardization process
354.5 Gossip v. shop talk
798.7 The standard and language change
364.6 Language reform: a misguided attempt to change her story?
808.8 Standard English?
374.7 Questions
818.9 Ethnic dialects
38Chapter 5. Language in Society
828.10 African American Vernacular English
395.1. Introduction
838.11 Latino Englishes
405.2 Difference v. deficit
848.12 Styles, Registers, and Genres
415.3 Language differences in the classroom
858.13 Conclusion
425.4 Testing: who decides what is right?
868.14 Questions
435.5 Taking appropriate action
87Glossary
445.6 One flag––one nation?
