Sociolinguistics

Introduction - PART 1: SOCIOLINGUISTICS: ORIGINS, DEFINITIONS AND APPROACHES - The Scope of Sociolinguistics; D.Hymes - Linguistics and Sociolinguistics; W.Labov - The Sociology of Language; J.Fishman - Language in a Social Perspective; M.Halliday - Communicative Competence; J.J.Gumperz - Social Semiotics, Style and Ideology; R.Hodge & G.Kress - Demythologizing Sociolinguistics; D.Cameron - PART 2: METHODS FOR STUDYING LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY - Field Linguistics; L.Milroy - Field Methods in the Study of Social Dialects; W.Wolfram & R.W.Fasold - Speech Events and Natural Speech; N.Wolfson - The Ethnographic Analysis of Communicative Events; M.Saville-Troike - Ethics, Advocacy and Empowerment in Researching Language; D.Cameron, E.Frazer, P.Harvey, B.Rampton & K.Richardson - PART 3: VARIATIONIST SOCIOLINGUISTICS - The Social Stratification of (r) in New York City Department Stores; W.Labov - The Social Differentiation of English in Norwich; P.Trudgill - Linguistic Variation and Social Function; J.Cheshire - Network Structure and Linguistic Change; J.Milroy - The Whole Woman: Sex and Gender Differences in Variation; P.Eckert - PART 4: STYLISTIC VARIATION - Accommodation Theory; H.Giles & P.Powesland - Language Style as Audience Design; A.Bell - Acts of Conflicting Identity: The Sociolinguistics of British Pop-song Pronunciation; P.Trudgill - PART 5: LANGUAGE, ATTITUDES AND SOCIAL STEREOTYPES - Social Groups and Social Stereotypes; M.Hewstone & H.Giles - Social Class and the Identification of Sex in Children's Speech; J.R.Edwards - Language Attitudes in a Danish Movie-theatre; T.Kristiansen - Language Policies and Language Attitudes: le Monde de la Francophonie; R.Y.Bourhis PART 6: MULTILINGUALISM - Language, Ethnicity and Racism; J.A.Fishman - Language Standardisation; E.Haugen - Pidgin English Advertising; S.Romaine - Language Selection and Switching in Three Strasbourg Department Stores; P.Gardner-Chloros - Language Change and Sex Roles in a Bilingual Community; S.Gal - PART 7: INTERACTIONAL SOCIOLINGUISTICS - Interethnic Communication; J.J.Gumperz - Patois and the Politics of Protest: Black English in British Classrooms; V.Edwards - Interaction: The Work Women Do; P.M.Fishman - Cultural Dimensions of Language Acquisition; E.Ochs - PART 8: LANGUAGE AND CULTURE - The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behaviour to Language; B.L.Whorf - The Biculture in the Bilingual; M.Agar - Rules for Ritual Insults; W.Labov - The Sociology of Compliment Work in Polish and English; R.K.Herbert