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This book is an excellent introduction to the field of sociolinguistics. It encompasses the entire spectrum of sociolinguistics, including such topics as the Whorfian Hypothesis, politeness, and language planning, in addition to the usual standard topics of language variation and pidgins and creoles. It also covers a wide range of languages and issues, going far beyond the usual North American and British topics. Included are a 25 page bibliography as well as specific suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter. The writing is usual quite clear and certainly less wordy than Hudson's introductory sociolinguistics text. Interspersed throughout the book, at the end of each minor chapter section, are "Discussion" questions. These questions are intended to get the reader to give some more thought to the issues being discussed. The questions vary greatly in difficulty, from those that any undergraduate linguistics student should be able to answer through a little introspection, to quite a few that could be dissertation topics in themselves. Occasionally, Wardhaugh suggests where the reader could get further information necessary to answer these questions, but frequent lack of such clear advice may leave readers (and instructors) frustrated. Nevertheless, this is a fine text.


low honorifics, solidarity marker, pidginized varieties, high honorifics, speech repertoire, zero copula, lexical diffusion, grammatical variables, corpus planning, language planning, diglossic situation, colloquial varieties, multiple negation, cluster simplification, creole studies, dialect geography, linguistic behavior, endangered languages, phonological variables, covert prestige, nonstandard varieties, language variation, such pronunciations, linguistic variable, social dialects

United States, Tok Pisin, New York City, Haitian Creole, Papua New Guinea, North America, United Kingdom, Bahasa Indonesia, Standard German, African American Vernacular English, Soviet Union, Martha's Vineyard, Swiss German, High German, Montreal French, Old English, Singapore English, West Africa, Western Apache, American English, Hong Kong, John Smith, Parisian French, Teheran Persian, Classical Arabic