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| List of Boxes | |
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| Research in the Spotlight | |
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| Companion Website | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Types of sociolinguistics | |
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| Background: The history of sociolinguistics | |
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| Summing up | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Other resources | |
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| Language and Society | |
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| Defining "language" in sociolinguistics | |
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| Sociolinguists vs. other linguists | |
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| Sociolinguists vs. normal people | |
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| Language vs. dialect | |
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| What is "society"? | |
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| Summing up | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Other resources | |
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| Place | |
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| How regional differences develop | |
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| English, for example | |
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| English worldwide: Linguistic features | |
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| Isolation | |
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| Physical isolation: The case of Newfoundland English | |
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| Linguistic isolation: The case of Quebec French | |
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| Social isolation: The case of African Nova Scotian English | |
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| The social meaning of space | |
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| Summing up | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Other resources | |
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| Social Status | |
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| Determining social class or status | |
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| Mobility | |
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| Summing up | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Other resources | |
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| Time | |
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| Apparent time | |
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| Change | |
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| Real time studies of language change | |
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| The S-shaped curve of language change | |
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| Subtle sound change: Vowel shifts | |
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| Age: Change across the lifespan | |
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| Acquiring sociolinguistic competence | |
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| Summing up | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Other resources | |
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| Ethnicity | |
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| Ethnic language varieties | |
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| Ethnic naming and depictions | |
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| Crossing: Using the language of others | |
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| Summing up | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Other resources | |
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| Gender and Identify | |
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| Gender and interaction | |
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| Difference and dominance | |
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| Hon languages encode gender | |
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| Gender and language change | |
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| Class | |
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| Identity, performance, and practice | |
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| Language and sexuality (or something) | |
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| Summing up | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Other resources | |
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| Style | |
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| Defining and measuring style | |
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| Genre, register, jargon | |
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| Using other people�s stuff | |
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| Summing up | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Other resources | |
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| Interaction | |
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| Ethnography of communication | |
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| Face | |
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| Solidarity and power | |
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| Summing up | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Other resources | |
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| Multilingualism | |
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| Multilingual societies | |
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| Diglossia | |
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| Code-switching | |
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| Slimming up | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Other resources | |
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| Language Contact | |
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| Code-switching and borrowing | |
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| Contact languages: Mixed languages, lingua franca, pidgins, Creoles | |
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| Summing up | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Other resources | |
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| Attitudes and Ideologies | |
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| Investigating language attitudes | |
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| Language beliefs (myths, ideologies) | |
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| Reading and responding | |
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| Summing up | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Other resources | |
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| Language as a Social Entity | |
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| Language maintenance, shift, revitalization | |
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| Language policy and planning | |
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| Summing up | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Other resources | |
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| Education | |
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| The school as a sociolinguistic community | |
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| What students bring to school | |
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| Languages of education | |
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| What students take from school | |
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| Learning a language at school | |
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| Summing up | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Special extra discussion questions for students in education programs or faculties | |
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| Other resources | |
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| What is Sociolinguistics? | |
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| The sociolinguistics of African American English | |
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| Language/society/community | |
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| Place | |
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| Social status | |
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| Time | |
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| Culture and ethnicity | |
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| Gender and identity | |
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| Style and code shifting | |
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| Interaction | |
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| Language contact and Creoles | |
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| Attitudes and ideologies | |
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| Language planning and education | |
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| Summing up (the book, not just the chapter) | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Other resources | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |