Acknowledgments vi
About the Companion Website vii
1 Introduction 1
2 Language and Society 11
3 Place 27
4 Social Status 51
5 Time 64
6 Ethnicity 81
7 Gender 96
Interlude 117
8 Style 120
9 Interaction 134
10 Multilingualism 146
11 Language Contact 158
12 Attitudes and Ideologies 171
13 Language as a Social Entity 187
14 Education 203
Epilogue. What is Sociolinguistics? 217
Glossary 220
Bibliography 238
Index 261