Coulmas Handbook of Sociolinguistics / Table of Contents.sociolinguistics

The Handbook of Sociolinguistics

•Contributors

•Introduction

•Part I : Foundations

o1. The Evolution of a Sociolinguistic Theory of Language

o2. The Demography of Language

•Part II : Social Dimensions of Language

o3. Varieties and Variation

o4. Language Change in Progress: Variation as it Happens

o5. Social Factors in Language Change

o6. Sociophonology

o7. Dialect in Society

o8. Gender as a Sociolinguistic Variable: New Perspectives on Variation Studies

o9. Age as a Sociolinguistic Variable

o10. Spoken and Written Language

o11. The Sociolinguistics of Communication Media

o12. Diglossia as a Sociolinguistic Situation

o13. Code-switching

o14. Language Contact and Language Generation: Pidgins and Creoles

o15. Language Contact and Language Degeneration

•Part III : Linguistic Dimensions of Scoiety

o16. Language Contact and Language Displacement

o17. Language Conflict

o18. Multilingualism

o19. Language and Identity

o20. Language and Ethnicity: The View from Within

o21. Global Scale Sociolinguistics

o22. Language and the Mediation of Experience: Linguistic Representation and Cognitive Orientation

o23. Linguistic Etiquette

•Part IV : Applied Issues

o24. Sociolinguistics and Education

o25. Bilingual Education

o26. Sociolinguistics and the Law

o27. Language Planning and Language Reform

•Bibliography