TY - BOOK AU - Durand, Sandra Colly-, TI - Sociolinguistics & status people, politics, power & prestige SN - 9781773612638 AV - P40 U1 - 306.44 PY - 2018/// CY - Oakville, ON PB - Society Publishing KW - Sociolinguistics N1 - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references N2 - Introduction -- From structural linguistics to sociolinguistics -- In the beginning: creoles and language genesis -- Englishes of the world -- The rise of sociolinguistics in education -- A space for language & a space for culture: Jamaican teachers negotiating with representations of identify and globalization -- Sociolinguistics and poetry: posture and imposture -- From lingua franca to a globalized culture trope -- Language as commodity -- Language as a belief system and a representation -- Conclusion ER -