1.Intriduction

1.1The social and hstorical basis for sociolinguistics

1.2 The intellectual orgins of sociolinguistics

1.3 The scope of sociolinguistics

2.Language and Dialect

2.1 Mutual intelligibility

2.2Regional dialects

2.3Social dialects

2.4Dialect and accent

2.5Other relevant terminoligy

3.Social Dialect

3.1Free varition

3.2New York City :Labov

3.3Norwich:Trudgill

4.Variable Rules and Implicational Scailes

4.1Variable rules

4.2Implication scale anlysis

4.3Some criticisms of both approaches

5.Multilingualism

5.1Multiaingual society:China

5.2Sociolinguistic profile and communicability

5.3Diglossia

5.4A tentative description of diglossia in China

6.Code-Switching

6.1Code and code-switching

6.2Corelationaland interactional theories

6.3Two methodologies

6.4Some modets of code-switching

6.5Function of and syntactic constraints on cose-switching

7.Language Development

7.1Features of language development

7.2Borrowing

8.Pidgin and Creole Languages

8.1Distribution and description

8.2Theories of origin

9.Ethnography of Speaking

9.1Descripive analysis of speaking

9.2Acquisition of communicative competence

10.1Types of speech acts and classes of illocutionary acts

10.Speech Acts and the Cooperative Ptinciple

10.2Interpretive rules

10.3Conversational maxims

11.Conversational Structur and Stratrgies

11.1Discourse structure

11.2Discourse strategies

12.Attitudes to Language

12.1The social nature of ianguage evaluation

12.2Meth of language attitudes research

12.3Some findings of language attitude studeis

13.Language Planning

13.1Sine basic issues

13.2Language planning cases