Hickey Raymond. Language and Society

Publication details not specified. — 37 p.Methods in sociolinguistics
The development of sociolinguistics
Sociolinguistic data
The linguistic variable
The question of co-variation
Indicators and markers
Register and hypercorrection
Sociolinguistics and language change
Social networks
The Belfast investigations
Types of speech communities
Where do standards come from?
Artificial languages
Language and gender
Growing into a gender role
Gender roles in adulthood
Gender and power
Language used by women
Gender and standard
Gender-neutral language
Desexification of language
8 Gender and language change
Language and culture
The ethnography of communication
Color terms
Kinship terms
Counting systems