Kingsley (Hrsg.) Bolton

Sociolinguistics Today (RLE Linguistics C: Applied Linguistics)

ISBN: 978-1-317-93221-5
EAN: 9781317932215
Produktnummer: 16965500
Verlag: Taylor &amp; Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 392 S.
Plattform: PDF

International Perspectives

Ebook (PDF Format)

This collection of essays developed out of a conference held in Hong Kong in 1988. The aim was to provide a forum for an exchange of views between academics working within the field of sociolinguistics, in particular between those working in the West and those working in the East. Sociolinguistics Today has taken this aim a step further to produce an overview of contemporary research into sociolinguistics worldwide. The book contains articles by acknowledged leaders in the study of language and society, and the presence of sociolinguists working in Asia provides a new and exciting challenge to the hitherto western-dominated field. The compreh… Mehr