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Sociolinguistics: The Study of Speakers’ Choices
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Sociolinguistics: The Study of Speakers’ Choices Sociolinguistics: The Study of Speakers’ Choices Abstract This accessible new textbook provides a clear introduction to sociolinguistics, the study of why we speak the way we do, and the social factors that influence our linguistic decisions. Topics covered include dialects, gender and age specific speech forms, professional jargons, diglossia, bilingualism, code-switching, pidgin languages, and language planning, all of which are unified by the common theme that speakers create […]