Sociolinguistics; The Study of Societies Languages

"Sociolinguistics: The Study of Societies Languages is an introductory book designed to help students understand the study of language in relation with the societies. As the researchers say that English is claiming more and more societies of speakers around the world to become the first truly global language in history, read in this book how English is actually controlling our tongues. To name a few, lets say, why we use hand phone instead of telepon genggam, software instead of perangkat lunak, e-mail better than pos-elektronik also reality show, laptop, nge-date, chatting, hepi, hape, boring, and even SMSin aja? But we, Indonesians, are not alone. In Malaysia people already have beg (bag) and saiz (size), in Russia they have the word seksapil for sex appeal, in Japan they change sunglasses to be sangurasu , stop to be sutoppu, and Arabic speakers take the English word toilet and say al-tualit. What is it?
Sociolinguistics defines the phenomenon as word-borrowings (loanwords), a formal outcome of language contact. But language contact is not all. In the field, there are also language functions, language varieties, language attitudes, language changes, and language plans. All are interesting to study and presented in this book. Also in this book readers can find
(1) key concepts in the study (speech-community, acrolect, diglossia, code-crossing, interference, jargons, slang, etc),
(2) a brief introduction to some most important sociolinguists (William Labov, Dell H Hymes, Joshua A Fishman, etc.),
(3) statistics on languages (English, Indonesian, Chinese, pidgins, and some other languages), as well as
(4) selected quotations related to the topics taken from various authors of books on sociolinguistcs
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