This is a textbook for courses in sociolinguistics and the sociology of language. This edition retains the basic structure of the original, but incorporates new material reflecting the progress of the field since the start of the 1990s. In particular, the coverage of pidgins and creoles, code switching, sociolinguistic variation, language change, discourse analysis and of language and gender have been considerably revised and extended, with coverage of some 150 recent books or papers.
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Sprache
Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Editions-Typ
Illustrationen
10 figures, 2 maps, 20 tables, bibliography, index
Maße
Höhe: 246 mm
Breite: 171 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-631-20499-2 (9780631204992)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Language, dialects and varieties; pidgin and Creole languages; choosing a code; speech communities; regional and social variation; variation studies - some findings and issues; language change; language and culture; ethnography and ethnomethodology; solidarity and politeness; acting and conversing; language and gender; language and disadvantage; language planning.
