An Introduction to Sociolinguistics - Softcover

Wardhaugh, Ronald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631225404 ISBN 13: 9780631225409

Verlag: Blackwell Publishers, 2001

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Since it first appeared more than fifteen years ago, Ronald Wardhaugh's An Introduction to Sociolinguistics has been an immensely popular textbook for courses in sociolinguistics and the sociology of language. Organized in four parts - Languages and Communities, Inherent Variety, Words at Work, and Understanding and Intervening - the book offers an accessible, comprehensive introduction to sociolinguistics. Topics explored include language, dialects, pidgins and creoles, codes, bilingualism, speech communities, variation, and change. The book also covers words and culture, ethnographies, solidarity and politeness, talk and action, gender, disadvantage, and planning. In the fourth edition, the text, further reading sections, exercises, and references have been revised and updated to reflect new developments in the field. In particular, the coverage of gender, disadvantage, and planning has been considerably revised and extended.

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Ronald Wardhaugh was formerly Professor of Linguistics at the University of Toronto. His many successful books include most recently Understanding English Grammar, (Blackwell, 1995).

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Since it first appeared more than fifteen years ago, Ronald Wardhaugh's An Introduction to Sociolinguistics has been an immensely popular textbook for courses in sociolinguistics and the sociology of language.

Organized in four parts - Languages and Communities, Inherent Variety, Words at Work, and Understanding and Intervening - the book offers an accessible, comprehensive introduction to sociolinguistics. Topics explored include language, dialects, pidgins and creoles, codes, bilingualism, speech communities, variation, and change. The book also covers words and culture, ethnographies, solidarity and politeness, talk and action, gender, disadvantage, and planning.

In the fourth edition, the text, further reading sections, exercises, and references have been revised and updated to reflect new developments in the field. In particular, the coverage of gender, disadvantage, and planning has been considerably revised and extended.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0631225404
• ISBN 13: 9780631225409
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 4
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416
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