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An introduction to sociolinguistics /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wardhaugh, Ronald (Author), Fuller, Janet M., 1962- (Author)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA, USA : Wiley Blackwell, 2015.
Edition:Seventh edition.
Series:Blackwell textbooks in linguistics.
Subjects:
Sociolinguistics.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Languages, dialects, and varieties
  • Defining groups
  • Languages in contact: multilingual societies and multilingual discourse
  • Contact languages: structural consequences of social factors
  • Language variation
  • Three waves of variation studies
  • Language variation and change
  • Ethnographic approaches in sociolinguistics
  • Pragmatics
  • Discourse analysis
  • Language, gender, and sexuality
  • Sociolinguistics and education
  • Language policy and planning.