Sociolinguistics: A Very Short Introduction
Sociolinguistics deals with the social life of language, language in its sociocultural context. It is a branch of linguistics that looks less at the shape or sound of words--morphology or phonology--and more at how our words and sentences are influenced by the society around us--for instance, how the accent or the dialect we use has been shaped by where we come from or which social class we belong to.In this Very Short Introduction, John Edwards offers the most up-to-date brief overview available of sociolinguistics, with side trips into the sociology of language and psycholinguistics. He considers such topics as the different social evaluat…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-985862-0
- EAN: 9780199858620
- Produktnummer: 16941370
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'534 KB
- Abbildungen: 10 b/w halftones
Über den Autor
John Edwards is Professor of Psychology at St. Francis Xavier University, in Nova Scotia. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and editor of the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. His recent books include Challenges in the Social Life of Language and Multilingualism: Understanding Linguistic Diversity.
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