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Sociolinguistics : a very short introduction / John Edwards.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edwards, John, 1947 December 3- author.
- Series:
- Very short introductions.
- Very short introductions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociolinguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
- Place of Publication:
- [Oxford] : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- This title deals with the social life of language: language in its sociocultural context. It draws from sociolinguistics, the sociology of language, and psycholinguistics. It explains the differential social evaluations of languages and dialects, how names (and naming) are much more than simple designations, and why some languages come to dominate others.
- Contents:
- Coming to terms
- Variation and change
- Perceptions of language
- Protecting language
- Languages great and small
- Loyalty, maintenance, shift, loss, and revival
- Multilingualism
- Name, sex, and religion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 2, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-985863-2
- 0-19-985862-4
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