王宗炎序
導讀
1 Introduction
1.1 Sociolinguistics
1.2 Sociolinguistic Phenomena
1.3 Speakers and communitesa
1.4 Summary and conclusions
2 Varieties of Language
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Languages
2.3 Dialects
2.4 Registers
2.5 Mixture of varieties
2.6 Conclusions
3 Language,Culture and thought
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Linguistic and cultural relativety
3.3 Language and thought
3.4 General Conclusions
4 Speech as social interaction
4.1 The social nature of speech
4.2 Speech as a signal of social identity
4.3 The structure of speech
4.4 Verbal and non-verbal behaviour
4.5 Malefemale differences in speech
5 The quantitive study of speech
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Methodology
5.3 Linguistic variables
5.4 Influences on linguistic variables
6 Linguistic and social inequality
6.1 Linguistic inequality
6.2 Subjective inequality
6.3 Linguistic incompetence:strictly linguistic inequality
6.4 Communicative incompetence:inequality in communication
7 Theoretical sommary
7.1 Introduction
7.2 The social functions of language
7.3 The structure of language
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