Sociolinguistics (Nova Science Publishers, 2011)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes toward a cognitive sociolinguistics: perspectives from discourse in context / Masataka Yamaguchi, Dennis Tay -- Sequential development in sociolinguistic methodology / Rania Habib -- New model for analyzing sociolinguistic variation : introducing social contraints to stochastic optimality theory / Rania Habib -- A new sociolinguistic model of address term progression / Yonghou Liu -- Succinct history and overview of U.S. sociolinguistics / Frank Nuessel -- Implications for teaching the thesis statement in the UK university / Alex Baratta -- Integration of functional linguistics and sociology / Zhiying Xin -- Best success through language loss? An incipient Austrian sociolinguistic study on open questions in education and migration research / Katharina Brizic