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PrefaceThe Online Companion 1. What do sociolinguists study? Section I: Multilingual Speech Communities2. Language choice in multilingual communities3. Language maintenance and shift4. Linguistic varieties and multilingual nations5. National languages and language planning Section II: Language Variation: Focus on Users6. Regional and social dialects7. Gender and age8. Ethnicity and social networks9. Language change Interlude: identity in sociolinguistics Section III: Language Variation: Focus on Uses10. Style, context and register11. Speech functions, politeness and cross-cultural communication12. Gender, politeness and stereotypes13. Language, cognition and culture14. Analysing Discourse15. Attitudes and applications16. Conclusion ReferencesAppendix: phonetic symbolsSociolinguistics: key words and conceptsIndex