ISBN:
9780748632497
,
0748632492
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 500 pages)
Edition:
Second edition
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
;
Sociolinguistics
;
Linguistik
;
Sociolinguistics
;
Soziolinguistik
;
Lehrbuch
;
Lehrbuch
;
Soziolinguistik
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 450-487) and index
,
Clearing the ground : basic issues, concepts and approaches -- Regional dialectology -- Social dialectology -- Language variation and change -- Language choice and code-switching -- Language in interaction -- Gender and language use -- Language contact 1: maintenance, shift and death -- Language contact 2: pidgins, creoles and 'new Englishes' -- Critical sociolinguistics: approaches to language and power -- Sociolinguistics and education -- Language planning and policy -- The sociolinguistics of sign language