Browsing by Subject "Sociolinguistics"

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    • An introduction to sociolinguistics 

      Wardhaugh, Ronald; Fuller, Janet M. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015)
      Building on Ronald Wardhaugh’s classic text, co-author Janet Fuller has updated this seventh edition throughout with new discussions exploring language and communities, language and interaction, and sociolinguistic variation, ...

    • Analysing sociolinguistic variation 

      Tagliamonte, Sali A. (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
      The study of how language varies in social context, and how it can be analyzed and accounted for, are the key goals of sociolinguistics. Until now, however, the actual tools and methods have been largely passed on through ...

    • Discourse and identity 

      De Fina, Anna (editor); Schiffrin, Deborah (editor); Bamberg, Michael G. W. (editor) (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
      The relationship between language, discourse and identity has always been a major area of sociolinguistic investigation. In more recent times, the field has been revolutionized as previous models - which assumed our ...

    • Discourse strategies 

      Gumperz, John J. (Cambridge University Press, 1982)
      To understand the role of language in public life and the social process in general, we need first a closer understanding of how linguistic knowledge and social factors interact in discourse interpretation. This volume is ...

    • Sociolinguistic variation : theories, methods, and applications 

      Bayley, Robert; Lucas, Ceil (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
      Why does human language vary from one person, or one group, to another? In what ways does it vary? How do linguists go about studying variation in, say, the sound system or the sentence structure of a particular language? ...

    • Sociolinguistics and language teaching 

      McKay, Sandra Lee; Hornberger, Nancy H. (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
      This text provides an introduction to the field of sociolinguistics for second and foreign language teachers. This book provides an introduction to the field of sociolinguistics for second and foreign language teachers. ...

    • The handbook of historical sociolinguistics 

      HernándezCampoy, Juan Manuel (editor); Conde Silvestre, Juan Camilo (editor) (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)
      Written by an international team of leading scholars, this groundbreaking reference work explores the nature of language change and diffusion, and paves the way for future research in this rapidly expanding interdisciplinary ...

    • The language and intercultural communication reader 

      Hua, Zhu (editor) (Routledge, 2011)
      Reflecting the international nature of the field, this reader covers a wide range of language and cultural contexts: Arabic, Chinese, English (British, American, Australian and South African), Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, ...

    • Translation and web localization 

      Jiménez-Crespo, Miguel A. (Routledge, 2013)
      This book provides an in-depth and comprehensive overview into this emerging field of study. The book covers the key areas and main theoretical and practical approaches of the subject, rather than a step by step practical ...