Contents
Companion Website xxv
List of Figures xxvi
List of Tables xxvii
Preface xxviii
Acknowledgments xxix
1 Introduction 1
Part I Languages and Communities 25
2 Languages, Dialects, and Varieties 27
3 Defining Groups 62
4 Languages in Contact: Multilingual Societies and Multilingual Discourse 82
5 Contact Languages: Structural Consequences of Social Factors 114
6 Language Variation 141
7 Three Waves of Variation Studies 169
8 Language Variation and Change 196
Part III Language and Interaction 225
9 Ethnographic Approaches in Sociolinguistics 227
10 Pragmatics 248
11 Discourse Analysis 280
Part IV Sociolinguistics and Social Justice 309
12 Language, Gender, and Sexuality 311
13 Sociolinguistics and Education 339
14 Language Policy and Planning 367
Glossary 398
Index 422