社會語言學是語言學與社會學等社會科學的交叉領域,傳統上分為兩大部分,一是「微觀社會語言學」(microsociolinguistics)或狹義「社會語言學」(sociolinguistics)二是「宏觀社會語言學」(macrosociolinguistics)或「語言的社會學」 (sociology of
language)。前者側重語言方面,研究者也多具語言學背景;后者側重社會因素,研究者多具社會科學背景。不過,隨着這一新興科學實驗科的發展和成熟,其內部整合性不斷增強,邊緣有所擴大,與語用學、話語分析、批評語言學、民谷學等領域的交叉和滲透越來越多,當今多數學者將社會語言學視為一個獨立、整合同時又范圍寬泛邊緣模糊的學科。並不作或不在意明確的子學科名稱區分,只是區分研究的方向或內容而已。
目錄
王宗炎序
沈家(火+宣xuan)序
導讀
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction
FLORIAN COULMAS
Part I Foundations
1 The Evolution of a Sociolinguistic Theory of Language
2 The Demography of Language
Part II Social Dimensions of Language
3 Varieties and Variation
4 Language Change in Progress:Variation as it Happens
5 Social Factors in Language Change
6 Sociophonology
7 Dialect in Society
8 Gender as a Socioling uistic Variable:New Perspectives on Variation Studies
9 Age as a Sociolinguistic Variable
10 Spoken and Written Language
11 The Sociolinguistics of Communixation Mesia
12 Diglossia as a Sociolinguistic Situation
13 Code-switching
14 Language Contact and Language Generation:Pidgins and Creoles
15 Language Contact and Language Degeneration
Part III Linguistic Dimensions of Society
Part IV Applied Issues
Bibliography
Index
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