A short knowledge of Janet Holmes’ an introduction to sociolinguistics

Abstract

This book was compiled to meet the requirements of the students, particularly English Education Study program. The main purpose of this book is to help the students to understand the basic knowledge of Sociolinguistics. This book is entitled “A short knowledge of Janet Holmes’s an introduction to sociolinguistics that was mainly adopted from the book of “An Introduction to Sociolinguistics” written by Prof. Dr. Janet Holmes, as the main reference. This book was inspired to be the great guidance to understand sociolinguistics. I really indebted to her for her great masterpiece of this book. In writing this book, the writer was assisted by Eka Wilany, S.Pd., M.Pd. as editing in term of language style and format. so that, he dared me to write this book although I myself never see him directly. Special thank goes to him. This book is urgently needed to whoever is sociology and linguistics. This book is not merely for English Department students but whoever wants to understand both sides, sociology and linguistics. This book really has great weakness to be corrected by whoever who reads it. As humble writers, we do apologize and thank to the readers and mainly Emeritus Professor Janet Holmes from Victoria University. So, any critics or valuable suggestions will be considered as main improvement.