An Introduction to Language and Society
2nd Edition
Published on 7. March 2008
304 pages
978-0-203-13029-2 (ISBN)
Description
An Introduction to Language and Society explores how our ways of seeing and engaging with the world may be shaped by the categories, systems and patterns of language. This second edition includes new material on gender, register, the speech community, language and subcultures, and language and representation.
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Martin Montgomery
An Introduction to Language and Society
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Martin Montgomery
An Introduction to Language and Society
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Martin Montgomery is director of the Programme on Literary Linguistics at the University of Strathclyde where he is also a member of the John Logie Baird Centre for film and television.
Content
Part One: The Development of Language 1. The beginnings of language development 2. Dialogue and language development Part Two: Linguistic Diversity and the Speech Community 3. Language and regional variation: accent and dialect 4. Language and ethnic identity: British Black English 5. Language and subcultures: anti-language 6. Language and situation: register 7. Language and social class: restricted and elaborated speech variants 8. Language and Gender 9. Linguistic diversity and the speech community
