Article outline

• 1.1A typology of approaches and earlier work
  • 1.1.1Sociology of Old English
  • 1.1.2Social dialectology
    • 1.1.2.1Correlational sociolinguistics
    • 1.1.2.2Interactional sociolinguistics
• 1.2Old English text categories and their suitability for sociolinguistic research
  • 1.2.1Text categories and genres
  • 1.2.2Runic and non-runic inscriptions
  • 1.2.3Glosses
  • 1.2.4Glossaries
  • 1.2.5Verse
  • 1.2.6Prose
• 1.3Concepts and definitions
  • 1.3.1Texts and textual categories
  • 1.3.2Texts and social networks
• Notes