Sociolinguistics: A Very Short Introduction

For such a short book, this was exhausting to read. I'm definitely experiencing some mid-semester burnout (and college burnout in general), but I think this book is just a pain to get through. John Edwards likes long, plodding sentences of the sort that I was taught never to use in text because they're exhausting and force the reader, who is surely going to get tired of subordinate clauses being strung together rather haphazardly, as though the sentence were an infinite chain of nouns and clauses and ideas, and as though I had never once before heard of the period, to try and remember what the heck the author is talking about.