The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics Book

List of illustrations and tables     vii
Notes on the contributors     ix
Acknowledgements     xiii
Introduction   Carmen Llamas   Louise Mullany   Peter Stockwell     xv
Methods of observation and analysis     1
Variation and the variable   Dominic Watt     3
Field methods   Carmen Llamas     12
Techhniques of analysis (I) Phonological variation   Matthew Gordon     19
Techniques of analysis (II) Morphosyntactic variation   Jennifer Smith     28
Techniques of analysis (III) Discourse   Mark Garner     41
Social correlates     49
Social class   Paul Kerswill     51
Gender   Jennifer Coates     62
Age   Carmen Llamas     69
Ethnic varieties   Walt Wolfram     77
Speech communities   Louise Mullany     84
Socio-psychological factors     93
Style and the linguistic repertoire   Allan Bell     95
Language and identity   Judy Dyer     101
Mobility, contact and accommodation   Peter Auer     109
Languageattitudes   Peter Garrett     116
Politeness and power   Sandra Harris     122
Socio-political factors     131
The ideology of the standard language   James Milroy     133
The influence of the media   Jane Stuart-Smith     140
Multilingualism   Susan Gal     149
Language and education   Janet Maybin     157
Language policy and language planning   Sue Wright     164
Language change     173
Creoles and pidgins   Salikoko S. Mufwene     175
Koineization   Donald N. Tuten     185
Colonial and postcolonial varieties   Barbara A. Fennell     192
Language death   Diane Nelson     199
Glossary     205
References     235
Index     262