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Sociolinguistics 2e

Unit	A: Introduction	B: Development	C: Exploration	D: Extension

1	Preview: A sociolinguistic toolkit	Preview: How to use these studies	How to use the data in this section	Sociolinguistics and language change (Andrew Hamer)

2	Accent and dialect	Attitudes to accent variation	Dialectal variation	Foreign accents in America (Rosina Lippi-Green)

3	Register and style	Euphemism and register	Register	Style and ideology (Norman Fairclough)

4	Ethnicity and multilingualism	Code-switching in German	Ethnology	Language contact and code-switching (John Edwards)

5	Social class	On the football terrace	Sociological variation	The sociolinguist's responsibility (Deborah Cameron)

6	Prestige and language loyalty	The changing prestige of RP	Prestige	The process of standardisation (James Milroy)

7	Age and gender	The reality of genderlects	Gender	Men's and women's narratives (Janet Holmes)

8	Pidgins and creoles	Patwa and post-creolisation	Creole	The origins of pidgins and creoles (Ronald Wardhaugh)

9	New, national and international Englishes	Singlish and new Englishes	New English	World Englishes and contact literature (Braj Kachru)

10	Politeness and accommodation	Politeness in mixed-sex conversation	Politeness	Closing turns (Emmanuel Schegloff and Harvey Sacks)

11		Standardisation and language change	Standardisation

12		Language and education	Education

13		Conversation and spoken discourse	E-discourse

14		Language and ideology	Ideology

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