Coulmas Handbook of Sociolinguistics / The Handbook of Sociolinguistics-contents

The Handbook of Sociolinguistics

• Contributors

• Introduction

• Part I : Foundations

  • 1. The Evolution of a Sociolinguistic Theory of Language

  • 2. The Demography of Language

• Part II : Social Dimensions of Language

  • 3. Varieties and Variation

  • 4. Language Change in Progress: Variation as it Happens

  • 5. Social Factors in Language Change

  • 6. Sociophonology

  • 7. Dialect in Society

  • 8. Gender as a Sociolinguistic Variable: New Perspectives on Variation Studies

  • 9. Age as a Sociolinguistic Variable

  • 10. Spoken and Written Language

  • 11. The Sociolinguistics of Communication Media

  • 12. Diglossia as a Sociolinguistic Situation

  • 13. Code-switching

  • 14. Language Contact and Language Generation: Pidgins and Creoles

  • 15. Language Contact and Language Degeneration

• Part III : Linguistic Dimensions of Scoiety

  • 16. Language Contact and Language Displacement

  • 17. Language Conflict

  • 18. Multilingualism

  • 19. Language and Identity

  • 20. Language and Ethnicity: The View from Within

  • 21. Global Scale Sociolinguistics

  • 22. Language and the Mediation of Experience: Linguistic Representation and Cognitive Orientation

  • 23. Linguistic Etiquette

• Part IV : Applied Issues

  • 24. Sociolinguistics and Education

  • 25. Bilingual Education

  • 26. Sociolinguistics and the Law

  • 27. Language Planning and Language Reform

• Bibliography