Language and society : an introduction / Andrew Simpson.

Languages and dialects
Languages with special roles/functions: national and official languages
Languages under pressure: minority groups and language loss
Diglossia and code-switching
Pidgins and creoles: the birth and development of new languages
The globalization of English
Language(s) in the USA
Bilingualism
Language and thought: the linguistic relativity controversy
Language and gender
Language variation and change.