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This comprehensive new edition of Wardhaugh's textbook incorporates additional study features and numerous new and updated references to bring the book completely up-to-date, whilst maintaining the features that made the book so popular with lecturers and students: accessible coverage of a wide range of issues, clearly written, and with useful student study features. * A fully revised new edition of Ronald Wardhaugh's popular introduction to sociolinguistics, which now includes over 150 new and updated references and new study features throughout * Features new "Explorations" sections in each chapter incorporating suggested readings, discussion sections, and exercises - all designed to encourage students to develop their own skills and ideas * Reflects new developments in the field, providing greater focus on ideas such as identity, solidarity, and markedness * Provides balanced coverage of a range of topics, including: language dialects, pidgins and Creoles, codes, bilingualism, speech communities, variation, words and culture, ethnographies, solidarity and politeness, talk and action, gender, disadvantage, and planning * Comprehensive and accessible, it is the ideal introduction for students coming to sociolinguistics for the first time

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

Preface

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

Part I: Languages and Communities

2. Languages, Dialects, and Varieties

3. Pidgins and Creoles

4. Codes

5. Speech Communities

Part II: Inherent Variety

6. Language Variation

7. Some Findings and Issues

8. Change

Part III: Words at Work

9. Words and Culture

10. Ethnographies

11. Solidarity and Politeness

12. Talk and Action

Part IV: Understanding and Intervening

13. Gender

14. Disadvantage

15. Planning

16. Conclusion

References

Index