Holmes, Janet <br/><br/>
An Introduction to Sociolinguistics/ 

 - New York:   Routledge,       2012. 
<br/><br/>What do sociolinguists study?<br/><br/>Section I Multilingual Speech Communities<br/><br/>Language choice in multilingual communities<br/><br/>Language maintenance and shift<br/><br/>Linguistic varieties and multilingual nations<br/><br/>National languages and language planning<br/><br/><br/>Section II Language Variation: Focus on Users<br/><br/>Regional and social dialects<br/><br/>Gender and age<br/><br/>Ethnicity and social networks<br/><br/>Language change<br/><br/><br/>Section III Language Variation: Focus on Uses<br/><br/>Style, context and register<br/><br/>Speech functions, politeness and cross-cultural communication<br/><br/>Gender, politeness and stereotypes<br/><br/>Language, cognition and culture<br/><br/>Analysing discourse<br/><br/>Attitudes and applications<br/><br/>Conclusion<br/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781315833057 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Linguistics