Frontmatter -- Contents -- Neighbouring Disciplines -- Neighbouring Disciplines -- Cultural Sociology -- Neighbouring Disciplines -- Social Psychology -- Neighbouring Disciplines -- Ethnology and Anthropology -- Neighbouring Disciplines -- Dialectology -- Neighbouring Disciplines -- Psycholinguistics -- Neighbouring Disciplines -- Human Geography -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- Research Policy -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- The Possibilities and Limits of a Sociolinguistic Theory -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- Issues in Research Ethics -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- Research Aims and Methodology -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- Quantitative Methods -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- Qualitative Methods -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- Stages of Research -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- Problems of Representativeness -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Studies -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- Elicitation as a Problem of Discourse -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- Research Planning in Micro- and Macro-Studies -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- Observation -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- Sociolinguistic Interviews -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- Schriftliche Befragung -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- Experiment -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- Test -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- The Possibilities and Limits of Corpus-Linguistic Description -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- Language Censuses -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- Contrastive Sociolinguistics -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- Transcription Systems -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- Statistical Descriptions of Language -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- Linguistic Measurements -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- Variable Rules -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- The Grammar of Varieties -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- Implicational Analysis -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- Computer Analysis -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- Ethnographic Description -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- Conversational Analysis -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- Discourse-Pragmatic Description -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- Attitude Measurements -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- Analyses of Intelligibility -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- The Description of Non-Verbal Behavior -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Social Class and Sociolinguistic Codes -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Multilingual Cities -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Urban Sociolinguistics -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Research on Language Attitudes -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Research on Language Contact -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Research on Language Conflict -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Research on Sociolinguistic Style -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Research on National Languages -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Research on Pidgins and Creoles -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Research on Languages for Special Purposes -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- The Ethnography of Speaking -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Linguistic Politeness -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Ethnomethodology -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Linguistic Relativity -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Dialect Sociology -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Domain and Role Specific Research -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Research on Networks -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Code-Switching -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Bilingualism and Multilingualism -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Research on Youth-Language -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Linguistic and Ethnic Minorities -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Linguistic Barriers between Speech Communities and Language Choice in International Contacts -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Pluricentric and Divided Languages -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Communities with "Undeveloped Languages" -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Roofless Dialects -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Age- and Generation-Specific Use of Language -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Gender and Language -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Language and Identity -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Linguistic Prejudice and Stereotypes -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Communication in Institutions -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Language and Mass Communication -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Spoken and Written Language -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Political Discourse -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- The Politics of Language Spread -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Economic Aspects of Languages -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Cross- and Intercultural Communication -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Perceptual Dialectology -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Historical Sociolinguistics -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Sound Change in Progress -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Sound Change -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Grammatical Change -- Findings of Sociolinguistic Research -- Semantic and Lexical Change