The Sociolinguistics of Language
Introduction to Sociolinguistics
Published on 1. March 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-0-631-13825-9 (ISBN)
Description
A companion to the author's Sociolinguistics of Society, this textbook, examines the influence of social interaction in language use and discusses a variety of facts about language from the commonplace to the exotic.
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Series
Edition
Volume 2
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
517 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-13825-9 (9780631138259)
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Person
Ralph Fasold is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University, Washington DC. He is Advisory Editor to the Blackwell series Language in Society.
Content
Editor's Preface. Introduction.
1. Address Forms.
2. The Ethnography of Communication.
3. Discourse.
4. Language and Sex.
5. Linguistic Pragmatics: Conversatinal Implicature.
6. More on Linguistic Pragmatics.
7. Pidgin and Creole Languages.
8. Linguistic Variation.
9. Some Applications of the Sociolonguistics of Lnaguage.
Bibliography.
Index.
1. Address Forms.
2. The Ethnography of Communication.
3. Discourse.
4. Language and Sex.
5. Linguistic Pragmatics: Conversatinal Implicature.
6. More on Linguistic Pragmatics.
7. Pidgin and Creole Languages.
8. Linguistic Variation.
9. Some Applications of the Sociolonguistics of Lnaguage.
Bibliography.
Index.