Mesthrie, R., Swann, J., Deumert, A and Leap, W (2000) Introducing sociolinguistics.
Academic Literacy and the Languages of Change will be of interest to postgraduates and academics researching sociolinguistics, or language and education.
Topics covered will include speech acts, politeness, interactional sociolinguistics, and cultural differences in body language.
The Sociolinguistics module provides the basis for independent empirical research in a specified area of sociolinguistics module provides the basis for independent empirical research in a specified area of sociolinguistics.
While language variation is universal and has been the subject of inquiry in several cultures, variationist sociolinguistics is essentially a Western science.