An Introduction to Sociolinguistics by Janet Holmes What do sociolinguists study? Sociolinguistics is a term that refers to the stu...

disglossia: characteristic of speech communities -- rather than individuals. Therefore, there is a range of potential relationships betwee...

     The Obama fist-bump heard 'round the world . When a language dies, the cultural knowledge embodied within it also dies. In ...

Pidgins and Creoles Notes from Educational Cyber Playground A pidgin is a new language which develops in situations where speakers...

What are implications of language policies in the lives of real people? What is the relationship between political and economic power ...

Dialectology : Linguists studying language variation across regional areas identify life-long inhabitants and collect samples of langua...

Social Dialect is examining the relationship between social class, prestige factors, and language choices. How do speakers talk diff...