ISBN:
9781405186681
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (VI, 450 S.)
Edition:
6. ed.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics
Parallel Title:
Print version An Introduction to Sociolinguistics
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Lehrbuch
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Englisch
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Amerikanisches Englisch
;
Soziolinguistik
Abstract:
This comprehensive new edition of Wardhaugh's textbook incorporates additional study features and numerous new and updated references to bring the book completely up-to-date, whilst maintaining the features that made the book so popular with lecturers and students: accessible coverage of a wide range of issues, clearly written, and with useful student study features. A fully revised new edition of Ronald Wardhaugh's popular introduction to sociolinguistics, which now includes over 150 new and updated references and new study features throughout. It features new "Explorations" sections in each chapter.
Abstract:
This comprehensive new edition of Wardhaugh's textbook incorporates additional study features and numerous new and updated references to bring the book completely up-to-date, whilst maintaining the features that made the book so popular with lecturers and students: accessible coverage of a wide range of issues, clearly written, and with useful student study features. A fully revised new edition of Ronald Wardhaugh's popular introduction to sociolinguistics, which now includes over 150 new and updated references and new study features throughoutFeatures new "Explorations" sections in each chapt
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Content; ffirs; Title; Copyright; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Knowledge of Language; Variation; Language and Society; Sociolinguistics and the Sociology of Language; Methodological Concerns; Further Reading; Overview; Part I Languages and Communities; 2 Languages, Dialects, and Varieties; Language or Dialect?; Standardization; Regional Dialects; Social Dialects; Styles, Registers, and Beliefs; Further Reading; 3 Pidgins and Creoles; Lingua Francas; Definitions; Distribution and Characteristics; Origins; From Pidgin to Creole and Beyond; Further Reading; 4 Codes; Diglossia
Description / Table of Contents:
Bilingualism and MultilingualismCode-Switching; Accommodation; Further Reading; 5 Speech Communities; Definitions; Intersecting Communities; Networks and Repertoires; Further Reading; Part II Inherent Variety; 6 Language Variation; Regional Variation; The Linguistic Variable; Social Variation; Data Collection and Analysis; Further Reading; 7 Some Findings and Issues; An Early Study; New York City; Norwich and Reading; A Variety of Studies; Belfast; Controversies; Further Reading; 8 Change; The Traditional View; Some Changes in Progress; The Process of Change; Further Reading
Description / Table of Contents:
Part III Words at Work9 Words and Culture; Whorf; Kinship; Taxonomies; Color; Prototypes; Taboo and Euphemism; Further Reading; 10 Ethnographies; Varieties of Talk; The Ethnography of Speaking; Ethnomethodology; Further Reading; 11 Solidarity and Politeness; Tu and Vous; Address Terms; Politeness; Further Reading; 12 Talk and Action; Speech Acts; Cooperation; Conversation; Further Reading; Part IV Understanding and Intervening; 13 Gender; Differences; Possible Explanations; Further Reading; 14 Disadvantage; Codes Again; African American English; Consequences for Education; Further Reading
Description / Table of Contents:
15 PlanningIssues; A Variety of Situations; Further Examples; Winners and Losers; Further Reading; 16 Conclusion; References; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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