English sociolinguistics

INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
LIST OF FIGURES
ACRONYMS USED IN THIS BOOK
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1
1. KEYWORDS
2. INTRODUCTION: KEY CONCEPTS IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS
3. SOCIOLINGUISTICS VS. SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAG
4. THE ORIGINS OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS
5. LANGUAGE VARIATION
6. SOME INSTANCES OF VARIATION
7. DIACHRONIC VARIATION
8. SPEECH COMMUNITY
9. STANDARD ENGLISH AND WORLD ENGLISHES
10. CARRING OUT SOCIOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH
11. EXERCISES
12. RESOURCES ON THE WEB
13. FURTHER READING AND QUESTIONS
13.1. Text 1
13.2. Text 2
14. RESEARCH ACTIVITY
15. REFERENCES
CHAPTER 2
1. KEYWORDS
2. SOME VARIABLES IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS
2.1. Style
2.2. Register
2.3. Gender
3. SPEECH ACCOMMODATION
4. EXERCISES
5. RESOURCES ON THE WEB
6. FURTHER READING AND QUESTIONS
6.1. Text 3
6.2. Text 4
7. RESEARCH ACTIVITY
8. REFERENCES
CHAPTER 3
1. KEYWORDS
2. BILINGUALISM: INTRODUCTION
3. BILINGUALISM: DEFINITIONS AND DIMENSIONS
4. CODE CHOICE
4.1. Code-switching
4.2. Code-mixing
5. CODE-SWITCHING IN BILINGUAL CHILDREN
6. DIGLOSSIA
7. DIGLOSSIA AND BILINGUALISM
8. MULTILINGUALISM
9. LANGUAGE CONTACT
10. PIDGINISATION AND CREOLISATION
11. SOME INSTANCES OF PIDGINS
12. SOME INSTANCES OF CREOLES
12.1. Hawaiian Creole English
12.2. Jamaican Patwa (or Patois)
12.3. TokPisin
13. DECREOLISATION
14. THE USE OF PIDGINS AND CREOLES IN EDUCATION
15. EXERCISES
16. RESOURCES ON THE WEB
17. FURTHER READING AND QUESTIONS
17.1. Text5
17.2. Text 6
17.3. Text 7
18. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
18.1. Activity 1
18.2. Activity 2
20. REFERENCES
CHAPTER 4
1. KEYWORDS
2. BILINGUAL EDUCATION
3. LANGUAGE POLICY
4. LANGUAGE PLANNING
4.1. Some factors affecting language planning
4.2. Actions in language planning
4.3. Aims of language planning
4.4. Individual language planning
5. MINORITY LANGUAGES
6. LANGUAGE SHIFT IN MINORITY LANGUAGES
7. SOME PARTICULAR SOCIOLINGUISTIC SITUATIONS
7.1. India
7.2. New Zealand
7.3. Cameroon
7.4. The Canadian experience
8. EUROPEAN UNION LANGUAGE PLANNING AND POLICY
9. THE ROLE OF ENGLISH
10. THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF LINGUISTIC RIGHTS
11. EXERCISES
12. RESOURCES ON THE WEB
13. FURTHER READING AND QUESTIONS
13.1. Text8
13.2. Text 9
14. RESEARCH ACTIVITY
15. REFERENCES
CHAPTER 5
1. KEYWORDS
2. SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE TEACHING/LEARNING
2.1. Communicative competence in language teaching/learning
2.2. Sociolinguistic perspectives on language use in immersion classrooms
2.3. Analysis of the EFL classroom language
2.4. Implications for language teaching
3. LANGUAGE IN THE LAW
4. SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND CORPUS LINGUISTICS
5. EXERCISES
6. RESOURCES ON THE WEB
7. FURTHER READING AND QUESTIONS
7.1. Text 10
7.2. Text 11
8. RESEARCH ACTIVITY
9. REFERENCES
GLOSSARY