The guidebook to sociolinguistics /
Allan Bell.
- First edition.
- xviii, 367 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: What Are Sociolinguistics? -- What is language? -- What is a language? -- What then are sociolinguistics? -- Neighbouring and overlapping fields -- A guide to the guidebook -- A Profusion of Languages -- Being multilingual -- Six dimensions of bilingualism -- Approaches to multilingualism -- Language surveys and censuses -- The case of Canada -- Research activity: A bilingual survey -- Summary -- Further reading -- Language Shift and Maintenance -- Introducing language contact -- Language functions -- Shifting languages -- Maintaining and revitalizing languages -- The case for Maori -- Research activity: doing a project (1) -- the setup -- Summary -- Further reading -- Language Birth and Death -- Pidgins and Creoles -- Where do pidgins and creoles come from? -- The Creole continuum -- Language danger and death -- The microlinguistics of dying languages -- The cases of Gaelic and Melanesian -- Research activity: the making of Melanesian Pidgin -- Summary -- Further reading -- Codes and Choices -- Varieties, codes and repertoires -- The speech community -- Diglossia -- Code switching -- The sociolinguistics of code switching -- The case of Oberwart -- Research activity: observation versus self-report -- Summary -- Further reading -- Situated Language -- Situations, contexts and domains -- Ethnographies of communication -- Speakers in situ -- Audiences for language -- Speech acts and politeness -- The sociolinguistics of interaction -- Gender and conversation -- The case of slang in Rio -- Research activity: ethnographing the class -- Summary -- Further reading -- Variation in Language -- Foundations: New York City -- Class in language -- Ethnicity in language -- Ethnic varieties of English -- Gender in language -- The case of ING -- Research activity: doing a project (2) -- data collection -- Summary -- Further reading -- Language in Time -- Age in language -- Real time and apparent time -- The linguistics of language change -- Sound change -- The social life of language change -- Markets, networks and communities -- The case of Belten High -- Research activity: language change on the internet -- Summary -- Further reading -- Language in Space -- Dialectology -- Making space -- Dialect contact -- Dialect birth -- Dialect death -- The case of colonial Englishes -- Research activity: linguistic landscape -- Summary -- Further reading -- Valuing Language -- Ideologies of language -- Language with attitude -- Evaluating individual linguistic variables -- The Indexical Cycle -- Discriminating language -- The case of Bakhtin -- Research activity: doing a project (3) -- results and reporting -- Summary -- Further reading -- Styling Language and Identities -- Two takes on style -- Audience Design -- Referee Design -- Performing sociolinguistic identities -- The case of Marlene Dietrich -- Research activity: a performance language project -- Summary -- Further reading -- Theory and Engagement -- The place of the social in sociolinguistics -- Structure and agency -- Towards a socially constituted sociolinguistics. 1. 1.1. 1.2. 1.3. 1.4. 1.5. 2. 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. 2.4. 2.5. 2.6. 2.7. 2.8. 3. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 3.4. 3.5. 3.6. 3.7. 3.8. 4. 4.1. 4.2. 4.3. 4.4. 4.5. 4.6. 4.7. 4.8. 4.9. 5. 5.1. 5.2. 5.3. 5.4. 5.5. 5.6. 5.7. 5.8. 5.9. 6. 6.1. 6.2. 6.3. 6.4. 6.5. 6.6. 6.7. 6.8. 6.9. 6.10. 6.11. 7. 7.1. 7.2. 7.3. 7.4. 7.5. 7.6. 7.7. 7.8. 7.9. 8. 8.1. 8.2. 8.3. 8.4. 8.5. 8.6. 8.7. 8.8. 8.9. 8.10. 9. 9.1. 9.2. 9.3. 9.4. 9.5. 9.6. 9.7. 9.8. 9.9. 10. 10.1. 10.2. 10.3. 10.4. 10.5. 10.6. 10.7. 10.8. 10.9. 11. 11.1. 11.2. 11.3. 11.4. 11.5. 11.6. 11.7. 11.8. 12. 12.1. 12.2. 12.3.