TY  - BOOK
AU  - Holmes, Janet
TI  - An Introduction to Sociolinguistics
SN  - 9781315833057
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York: 
PB  - Routledge,     
KW  - Linguistics
N1  - What do sociolinguists study?

Section I Multilingual Speech Communities

Language choice in multilingual communities

Language maintenance and shift

Linguistic varieties and multilingual nations

National languages and language planning


Section II Language Variation: Focus on Users

Regional and social dialects

Gender and age

Ethnicity and social networks

Language change


Section III Language Variation: Focus on Uses

Style, context and register

Speech functions, politeness and cross-cultural communication

Gender, politeness and stereotypes

Language, cognition and culture

Analysing discourse

Attitudes and applications

Conclusion

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