TY - BOOK AU - Van Herk, Gerard TI - What is sociolinguistics? SN - 9781118960745 AV - P 40 .V313 2018 PY - 2018/// CY - Hoboken, New Jersey PB - John Wiley & Son, Inc. KW - SOCIOLINGUISTICS N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1.Introduction -- 2.Language and society -- 3.Place -- 4.Social status -- 5.Time -- 6.Ethnicity -- 7.Gender -- 8.Style -- 9.Interaction -- 10.Multilingualism -- 11.Language contact -- 12.Attitudes and ideologies -- 13.Language as a social entity -- 14.Education N2 - What is Sociolinguistics? is a tour through the major issues that define the field, such as region, status, gender, time, language attitudes, interaction, and style, while also exploring the sociolinguistics of multilingualism, culture and ethnicity, language contact, and education, all introduced with excitement, humor, and deep knowledge ER -