The book entitled Introducing Sociolinguistics by Miriam Meyerhoff, is an over- view of the concepts and issues in sociolinguistics with the aim of covering foundation issues, recent advances, and current debates. Likely intended for students of applied linguistics, it serves as a reference for both students and teachers in the realm of sociolinguists. It provides a range of data from languages and social settings with examples and introduces the patterns and systems used by sociolinguists in their research and teaching. As a textbook, chapters have summaries, exercises, and examples with the definition of key terms in the margin of some pages. Furthermore, each chapter ends with a summary and a reference list of information for further reading. The book contains a total of 12 chapters. The author begins Chapter 1 by defining what sociolinguistics is before moving to the discussion of the main parts. This chapter contains a general snapshot of the concepts and issues in socio- linguistics. Also includes in the first chapter the introduction of some general methods of doing sociolinguistic research. When we look closely through chapter 1, however, we discover no conclusion of the sub-topics with a discussion section. Any debate over the relationship between language and society, or the several roles of language in society, should also start with challenges to define these terms.
