Sociolinguistics A Resource Book for Students [Paperback]

Sociolinguistics:

• provides a comprehensive introduction to sociolinguistics
• draws on a range of real texts, from an interview with Madonna to the Japanese Asahi Evening News
• uses real studies designed and conducted by students
• provides key readings with commentaries from works by major internationally known authors such as Norman Fairclough, Deborah Cameron, Braj Kachru, Jennifer Coates, Mark Sebba, and Malcolm Coulthard
• is accompanied by a supporting website.

New to this edition:

• an entire new section on forensic linguistics
• additional material on language and gender, conversation analysis and spoken discourse
• comprehensively updated exercises, readings and references.

The accompanying website to this book can be found at: www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415401272. 

Part 1: Introduction: Key Concepts in Sociolinguistics  1. A Sociolinguistic Toolkit  2. Accent and Dialect  3. Register and Style  4. Ethnicity and Multilingualism  5. Variation and Change  6. Standardisation  7. Gender  8. Pidgins and Creoles  9. New, National and International Englishes  10. Politeness and Accommodation  11. Conversation  12. Applying Sociolinguistics  Part 2: Development: Studies in Language and Society  1. Undertaking a Sociolinguistic Study  2. Attitudes to Accent Variation  3. Euphemism, Register and Code  4. Code-Switching  5. Social Networks  6. Shifts in Prestige  7. Genderlects  8. Patwa and Post-Creolisation  9. Singlish and New Englishes  10. Politeness in lCS