Sociolinguistics Tutorial

Author: You Rujie / Zou Jiayan
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: This book is a textbook for undergraduate students in Chinese departments, sociology departments, journalism departments, and related fields in higher education institutions. The book is divided into ten chapters, covering the following basic content: fundamental concepts and research methods of sociolinguistics, language variation and language variants, bilingualism and language loyalty, verbal communication, Chinese language and the Chinese diaspora, language and culture, language contact, language competition, language norms, etc. The content includes both narrow and broad sociolinguistics, as well as both international and domestic sociolinguistics. Some parts of the content are more specialized and can be used for extracurricular reading for interested students or as reference material for graduate students.