sociolinguistics

n.

社会语言学；

1. Variation is an important issue of sociolinguistics.
   变异是社会语言学的一个重要课题。
2. The research of gender differences is a major issue in sociolinguistics.
   语言与性别研究是社会语言学所关注的主要课题之一。

Sociolinguistics
The Sociolinguistics of Society
The Sociolinguistics of Language
Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching.
The Sociolinguistics of Globalization
Foundations in sociolinguistics : an ethnographic approach
Directions in Sociolinguistics: The Ethnography of Communication
Foundations in Sociolinguistics: An Ethnographic Approach by Dell Hymes
Verbal Art as Performance. Working Papers in Sociolinguistics, No. 18.
Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics 4) by Penelope Brown; Stephen C. Levinson