Sociolinguistics of Language

Ralph Fasold is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University, Washington DC. He is Advisory Editor to the Blackwell series Language in Society.

• Editor's Preface. Introduction.1. Address Forms.2. The Ethnography of Communication.3. Discourse.4. Language and Sex.5. Linguistic Pragmatics: Conversatinal Implicature.6. More on Linguistic Pragmatics.7. Pidgin and Creole Languages.8. Linguistic Variation.9. Some Applications of the Sociolonguistics of Lnaguage.Bibliography.Index.