The guidebook to sociolinguistics / Allan Bell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. What Are Sociolinguistics? -- 1.1. What is language? -- 1.2. What is a language? -- 1.3. What then are sociolinguistics? -- 1.4. Neighbouring and overlapping fields -- 1.5. A guide to the guidebook -- 2. A Profusion of Languages -- 2.1. Being multilingual -- 2.2. Six dimensions of bilingualism -- 2.3. Approaches to multilingualism -- 2.4. Language surveys and censuses -- 2.5. The case of Canada -- 2.6. Research activity: A bilingual survey -- 2.7. Summary -- 2.8. Further reading -- 3. Language Shift and Maintenance -- 3.1. Introducing language contact -- 3.2. Language functions -- 3.3. Shifting languages -- 3.4. Maintaining and revitalizing languages -- 3.5. The case for Maori -- 3.6. Research activity: doing a project (1) -- the setup -- 3.7. Summary -- 3.8. Further reading -- 4. Language Birth and Death -- 4.1. Pidgins and Creoles -- 4.2. Where do pidgins and creoles come from? -- 4.3. The Creole continuum -- 4.4. Language danger and death -- 4.5. The microlinguistics of dying languages -- 4.6. The cases of Gaelic and Melanesian -- 4.7. Research activity: the making of Melanesian Pidgin -- 4.8. Summary -- 4.9. Further reading -- 5. Codes and Choices -- 5.1. Varieties, codes and repertoires -- 5.2. The speech community -- 5.3. Diglossia -- 5.4. Code switching -- 5.5. The sociolinguistics of code switching -- 5.6. The case of Oberwart -- 5.7. Research activity: observation versus self-report -- 5.8. Summary -- 5.9. Further reading -- 6. Situated Language -- 6.1. Situations, contexts and domains -- 6.2. Ethnographies of communication -- 6.3. Speakers in situ -- 6.4. Audiences for language -- 6.5. Speech acts and politeness -- 6.6. The sociolinguistics of interaction -- 6.7. Gender and conversation -- 6.8. The case of slang in Rio -- 6.9. Research activity: ethnographing the class -- 6.10. Summary -- 6.11. Further reading -- 7. Variation in Language -- 7.1. Foundations: New York City -- 7.2. Class in language -- 7.3. Ethnicity in language -- 7.4. Ethnic varieties of English -- 7.5. Gender in language -- 7.6. The case of ING -- 7.7. Research activity: doing a project (2) -- data collection -- 7.8. Summary -- 7.9. Further reading -- 8. Language in Time -- 8.1. Age in language -- 8.2. Real time and apparent time -- 8.3. The linguistics of language change -- 8.4. Sound change -- 8.5. The social life of language change -- 8.6. Markets, networks and communities -- 8.7. The case of Belten High -- 8.8. Research activity: language change on the internet -- 8.9. Summary -- 8.10. Further reading -- 9. Language in Space -- 9.1. Dialectology -- 9.2. Making space -- 9.3. Dialect contact -- 9.4. Dialect birth -- 9.5. Dialect death -- 9.6. The case of colonial Englishes -- 9.7. Research activity: linguistic landscape -- 9.8. Summary -- 9.9. Further reading -- 10. Valuing Language -- 10.1. Ideologies of language -- 10.2. Language with attitude -- 10.3. Evaluating individual linguistic variables -- 10.4. The Indexical Cycle -- 10.5. Discriminating language -- 10.6. The case of Bakhtin -- 10.7. Research activity: doing a project (3) -- results and reporting -- 10.8. Summary -- 10.9. Further reading -- 11. Styling Language and Identities -- 11.1. Two takes on style -- 11.2. Audience Design -- 11.3. Referee Design -- 11.4. Performing sociolinguistic identities -- 11.5. The case of Marlene Dietrich -- 11.6. Research activity: a performance language project -- 11.7. Summary -- 11.8. Further reading -- 12. Theory and Engagement -- 12.1. The place of the social in sociolinguistics -- 12.2. Structure and agency -- 12.3. Towards a socially constituted sociolinguistics.