Sociolinguistics

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OUP Oxford, 8 ene 1998 - 128 páginas
Sociolinguistics is the study of the different ways in which various groups of people use language. This book provides a brief yet comprehensive introduction to the field. It explores how sociolinguistics is linked to other disciplines such as history, politics and gender studies.
 

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The social study of language
3
The ethnography of speaking
13
Locating variation in speech
24
Styles gender and social class
31
Bilinguals and bilingualism
43
Societal multilingualism
50
I
59
Applied sociolinguistics
66
5
80
8
89
ΤΟ
95
SECTION 4
101
19
104
Glossary
121
24
125
Acknowledgements
127

Conclusions
78

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Sobre el autor (1998)

Bernard Spolsky was educated at Wellington College and Victoria University and received a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Montreal. He has been the head of the English Department, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Director of the Language Policy Research Center at Bar-IlanUniversity, Israel, where he is currently Professor of English.

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