Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1: Towards an understanding of contextual features that influence the linguistic formality of British sign language users

Chapter 2. Maybe it's a grime [T]lng: TH-Stopping among urban British Youth

Chapter 3. The 'Other Woman' in a mother and daughter relationship: the case of mami ji

Chapter 4. Spelling reform and society

Chapter 5. Sociocultural aspect of censorship

Chapter 6. Sociolinguistic consciousness and spoken English in Nigerian tertiary institutions

Chapter 7. The sociolinguistics and pragmatics of greetings in sidama

Chapter 8. With Spanish, Guarani lives: a sociolinguistic analysis of bilingual education in Paraguay

Chapter 9. Predictors of successful learning in multilingual older adults acquiring a majority language

Chapter 10. Uncovering the mechanisms responsible for why language leraning may promote healthy cognitive aging

Chapter 11. English experience in Italian landscape: place and recreated place in E.M. forster's Italian novels

Chapter 12. Cross-linguistic influence on punctuation: the English and Russian dash in contact

Description :
Portraying foundation issues, recent advances and current debates, presenting familiar or classic information in new ways and supplementing the familiar with fresh examples from a wide range of languages and social settings, this book clearly explains the patterns and systems that underlie language variation in use, as well as the ways in which alternations between different language varieties index personal style, social power and national identity. The book provides an up-to-date overview of sociolinguistics, reflecting changes in the global situation and the continuing evolution of the field and its relevance to language.