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American English: Dialects And Variationby Walt Wolfram, Natalie Schilling-EstesISBN 1405112662 (1-4051-1266-2)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Anthropological Linguistics: An Introductionby William A. FoleyISBN 0631151222 (0-631-15122-2)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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The Art of English: Everyday Creativityby Janet Maybin, Joan SwannISBN 1403985596 (1-4039-8559-6)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Bilingualismby Suzanne RomaineISBN 0631195394 (0-631-19539-4)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bilingualism'Book summary:Since it was first published in 1989, Suzanne Romaine's book has been recognized as the most authoritative introduction to the sociolinguistics of bilingualism. The new edition has been completely revised to incorporate recent work in this fast developing field.
Throughout the book, bilingualism is seen as both a societal and cognitive phenomenon. Professor Romaine explores various aspects of bilingual behavior, such as code switching and language mixing, in terms of neurolinguistic organization in the individual speaker. The author also assesses the positive and negative claims made for the effects of bilingualism on children's cognitive, social and academic development, and examines the assumptions behind various language policies and programs for bilingual children. In all this, Professor Romaine draws on her own research with Punjabi /Engllish bilinguals in Britain, and Tok Pisin/ English bilingual children in Papua New Guinea. [via]More editions of Bilingualism:
Bilingualism or Not: The Education of Minoritiesby Tove Skutnabb-KangasISBN 090502818X (0-905028-18-X)
Hardcover, Multilingual Matters Ltd
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Can Threatened Languages Be Saved? : Reversing Language Shift, Revisited : A 21st Century Perspectiveby Joshua A. FishmanISBN 185359492X (1-85359-492-X)
Softcover, Multilingual Matters Limited
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Carson: The Man Who Divided Irelandby Geoffrey LewisISBN 1852854545 (1-85285-454-5)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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A Companion to Linguistic Anthropologyby Alessandro DurantiISBN 1405144300 (1-4051-4430-0)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Conversation and Community: Chat in a Virtual Worldby Lynn ChernyISBN 1575861542 (1-57586-154-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Conversational Styleby Deborah TannenISBN 089391200X (0-89391-200-X)
Softcover, Ablex Pub
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Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk among Friendsby Deborah Tannen, Cynthia Wallat, Judith GreenISBN 0893911887 (0-89391-188-7)
Hardcover, Harcourt Education
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Description of Spoken Prague Czechby Charles E. TownsendISBN 089357211X (0-89357-211-X)
Softcover, Slavica Pub
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Experiment Perilousby Renee C. FoxISBN 0812210409 (0-8122-1040-9)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Explorations in the Sociology of Language And Religionby Tope Omoniyi, Joshua A. FishmanISBN 9027227101 (90-272-2710-1)
Hardcover, John Benjamins Pub Co
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Finding Culture in Talk: A Collection of Methodsby Naomi QuinnISBN 1403969159 (1-4039-6915-9)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Finding Culture in Talk: A Collection of Methods'Book summary:This edited collection presents a range of heretofore unpublished, unavailable methods for the systematic reconstruction of culture from interviews and other discourse. Authors set the design and evolution of their methods in the context of their own research projects, and draw general lessons about investigating culture through discourse. These methods have largely grown out of the work of the cultural models school, and represent the approaches of some of the very best methodologists in cultural anthropology today. An impetus for the volume has been inquiries from researchers, many of them graduate students, about how to conduct the kind of research that cultural models theorists do. This is not a linguistics book; unlike approaches to discourse analysis from linguistics, this volume focuses on culture, treating discourse as a medium especially rich in clues for cultural analysis, and hence a window into culture.[via]More editions of Finding Culture in Talk: A Collection of Methods:
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Foundations in Sociolinguistics: An Ethnographic Approachby D. HymesISBN 0812210654 (0-8122-1065-4)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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In Part One, Dell Hymes indicates the place of linguistic inquiry as part of an inquiry into communicable conduct in general. Part Two demonstrates the mutual relation between linguistics and other disciplines that contribute to the common larger fieldsociology, social anthropology, education, folklore, and poetics are discussed. In Part Three the author argues that problems within linguistic inquiry suggest social foundations of linguistics deeper than presently assumed, such that social meaning and stylistic function must be taken into account systematically, and social life seen as a source of the organization of linguistic means.More editions of Foundations in Sociolinguistics: An Ethnographic Approach:
The German Language and the Real World: Sociolinguistic, Cultural, and Pragmatic Perspectives on Contemporary Germanby Patrick StevensonISBN 0198237383 (0-19-823738-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Growing Up Bilingual: Puerto Rican Children in New Yorkby Ana Celia ZentellaISBN 1557864071 (1-55786-407-1)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Introducing Sociolinguisticsby William L. Leap, Joan Swann, Rajend Mesthrie, Andrea DeumertISBN 1556192061 (1-55619-206-1)
Softcover, John Benjamins Pub Co
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An Introduction to Sociolinguisticsby Ronald WardhaughISBN 140513559X (1-4051-3559-X)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Introduction to Sociolinguistics'Book summary: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.
- Provides an accessible, comprehensive introduction to sociolinguistics that reflects new developments in the field
- Features revisions and updates throughout the text, further reading sections, exercises, and references
- Offers continuity and compatibility with the third edition
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- An Introduction to Sociolinguistics: ISBN 063114272X (0-631-14272-X)
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Softcover, Blackwell Pub - An Introduction to Sociolinguistics: ISBN 0631204997 (0-631-20499-7)
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Softcover, Blackwell Pub - An Introduction to Sociolinguistics: ISBN 0631142711 (0-631-14271-1)
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An Introduction to Sociolinguisticsby Janet HolmesISBN 0582328616 (0-582-32861-6)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Introduction to Sociolinguistics'Book summary:This introductory book considers the question "What is sociolinguistics?", and explains sociolinguistic concepts through a wide range of examples. It draws from both 'classic' approaches to the subject as well as from more recent research, introducing terms like 'code-switching' and 'social dialect'. It is conveniently divided into three sections. In the first, Janet Holmes shows how language is used in multilingual speech communities and explains how and why languages change within society and highlights the factors that lead to the displacement of one language by another, and sometimes the death of a language. The central section gives a comprehensive and well-illustrated exploration of social reasons for language change, exploring language change in monolingual communities and the features of a variety of dialects. The author shows how and why differing racial and social groups develop and maintain speech variations. In the final section, Janet Holmes assesses how attitudes to language affect speech and shows that linguistic responses depend upon a variety of contextual factors - for example, the status of the person being addressed and our reasons for speaking. Our attitudes to language have strong implications for our community. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics describes how language usage reflects the values of society, how society's view of women is reflected in language and how women are linguistically more polite than men. [via]
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Isolation and Language Change: Contemporary and Sociohistorical Evidence from Tristan Da Cunha Englishby Daniel SchreierISBN 1403904073 (1-4039-0407-3)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Language and Sexuality: Contesting Meaning in Theory and Practiceby Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, International Gender and Language Association, Sarah J. Roberts, Andrew Wong, Robert J. PokesvaISBN 1575863200 (1-57586-320-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Language and Social Context: Selected Readingsby Pier Paolo GiglioliISBN 0140133038 (0-14-013303-8)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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Language and Social Context:Selected Readings: Selected Readingsby Pier Paolo GiglioliISBN 0140802444 (0-14-080244-4)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Language and Social Networksby Lesley MilroyISBN 0631153144 (0-631-15314-4)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Language And Society in the German-speaking Countriesby Michael G. ClyneISBN 0521276977 (0-521-27697-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Language and Woman's Placeby Robin T. LakoffISBN 0061320935 (0-06-132093-5)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Language and Woman's Place: Text and Commentariesby Mary Bucholtz, Robin Tolmach LakoffISBN 0195167570 (0-19-516757-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Language and Woman's Place: Text and Commentaries'Book summary:The 1975 publication of Robin Tolmach Lakoff's Language and Woman's Place, is widely recognized as having inaugurated feminist research on the relationship between language and gender, touching off a remarkable response among language scholars, feminists, and general readers. For the past thirty years, scholars of language and gender have been debating and developing Lakoff's initial observations.
Arguing that language is fundamental to gender inequality, Lakoff pointed to two areas in which inequalities can be found: Language used about women, such as the asymmetries between seemingly parallel terms like master and mistress, and language used by women, which places women in a double bind between being appropriately feminine and being fully human. Lakoff's central argument that "women's language" expresses powerlessness triggered a controversy that continues to this day.
The revised and expanded edition presents the full text of the original first edition, along with an introduction and annotations by Lakoff in which she reflects on the text a quarter century later and expands on some of the most widely discussed issues it raises. The volume also brings together commentaries from twenty-six leading scholars of language, gender, and sexuality, within linguistics, anthropology, modern languages, education, information sciences, and other disciplines. The commentaries discuss the book's contribution to feminist research on language and explore its ongoing relevance for scholarship in the field.
This new edition of Language and Woman's Place not only makes available once again the pioneering text of feminist linguistics; just as important, it places the text in the context of contemporary feminist and gender theory for a new generation of readers. [via]More editions of Language and Woman's Place: Text and Commentaries:
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Language in Society: An Introduction to Sociolinguisticsby Suzanne RomaineISBN 0198731922 (0-19-873192-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Language in Society: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics'Book summary:Why have 1500 separate languages developed in the Pacific region? Why do Danes understand Norwegians better than Norwegians understand Danish? Is Ebonics a language or a dialect?
Linguistics tends to ignore the relationship between languages and the societies in which they are spoken, while sociology generally overlooks the role of language in the constitution of society. In this book Suzanne Romaine provides a clear, lively, and accessible introduction to the field of sociolinguistics and emphasizes the constant interaction between society and language. She shows how our linguistic choices are motivated by social factors, and how certain ways of speaking come to be vested with symbolic value, drawing from evidence from studies of cultures and languages all over the world.
This new edition incorporates new material on current issues in the study of gender as well as other topics such as the linguistic dimension to the ethnic conflict in the Balkans, and the controversy over Ebonics in the United States. [via]More editions of Language in Society: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics:
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Language in the Former Yugoslav Landsby Celia Hawkesworth, Ranko BugarskiISBN 0893572985 (0-89357-298-5)
Softcover, Slavica Pub
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Language Mythsby Peter Trudgill, Laurie BauerISBN 0140260234 (0-14-026023-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Language Myths'Book summary:The media are ruining English"; "Some languages are harder than others"; "Children can't speak or write properly anymore." Such pieces of "cultural wisdom" are often expressed in newspapers and on radio and television. Rarely is there a response from experts in the fields of language and language development. In this book Laurie Bauer and Peter Trudgill have invited nineteen respected linguists from all over the world to address these "language myths"--showing that they vary from the misconceived to the downright wrong. With essays ranging from "Women Talk Too Much" and "In the Appalachians They Speak Like Shakespeare" to "Italian Is Beautiful, German Is Ugly" and "They Speak Really Bad English Down South and in New York City," Language Myths is a collection that is wide-ranging, entertaining, and authoritative.[via]More editions of Language Myths:
Language Planning in Yugoslaviaby Celia Hawkesworth, Ranko BugarskiISBN 0893572322 (0-89357-232-2)
Softcover, Slavica Pub
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Language Survival: A Study of Language Contact, Language Shift, and Language Choice in Swedenby Sally BoydISBN 9172229624 (91-7222-962-4)
Softcover, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Goteborg
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Linguistic Diversity and National Unity: Language Ecology in Thailandby William A. SmalleyISBN 0226762890 (0-226-76289-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Smalley contends that because the people of Thailand perceive their social hierarchy as the normal order, Standard Thai, spoken by members of the higher levels of society, prevails as the uncontested national language. By examining the hierarchy of Thailand's diverse languages and dialects in light of Thai history, education, culture, and religion, Smalley shows how Thailand has been able to keep its many ethnic groups at peace.
Linguistic Diversity and National Unity explores the intricate relationship between language and power and the ways in which social and linguistic rank can be used to perpetuate order.More editions of Linguistic Diversity and National Unity: Language Ecology in Thailand:
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The Linguistic Individual: Self-Expression in Language and Linguisticsby Barbara JohnstoneISBN 0195101855 (0-19-510185-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Linguistic Individual: Self-Expression in Language and Linguistics'Book summary:Linguists usually discuss language or dialects in terms of groups of speakers. Believing that patterns can be seen more clearly in the group than the individual, researchers often present group scores with no indication of the variation within the group. Even though linguists acknowledge that no two individuals speak alike, few study individual variation and voice.
Barbara Johnstone makes a case for the individual's importance and idiosyncrasies in language and linguistics. Using theoretical arguments and discourse analysis, along with linguistic examples from a variety of speakers and settings, Johnstone illustrates how speakers draw on linguistic models associated with class, ethnicity, gender, and region, among others, to construct an individual voice. In doing so Johnstone shows that certain important questions in sociolinguistics and pragmatics can only be answered with reference to individual speakers. Johnstone's study is important both for the understanding of speech as expressive of self, and for the study of variation and mechanisms of linguistic choice and change. [via]More editions of The Linguistic Individual: Self-Expression in Language and Linguistics:
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Modern Chinese: History and Sociolinguisticsby Ping ChenISBN 0521645727 (0-521-64572-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Modern Chinese: History and Sociolinguistics'Book summary:The Chinese language, spoken by over one billion people, has undergone drastic changes over the past century. This book presents a comprehensive, up-to-date account of the development of Modern Chinese from the late nineteenth century to the 1990s. It describes and analyzes in detail, from historical and sociolinguistic perspectives, the establishment and promotion of Modern Spoken Chinese and Modern Written Chinese, and the reform of the Chinese script, and reveals the interaction of linguistic, historical and social factors in the recent development of the language. [via]
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The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Wayby Bill BrysonISBN 0380715430 (0-380-71543-0)
Softcover, Avon Books
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Bryson displays an encyclopedic knowledge of his topic, and this inevitably encourages a light tone; the more you know about a subject, the more absurd it becomes. No jokes are necessary, the facts do well enough by themselves, and Bryson supplies tens per page. As well as tossing off gems of fractured English (from a Japanese eraser: "This product will self-destruct in Mother Earth."), Bryson frequently takes time to compare the idiosyncratic tongue with other languages. Not only does this give a laugh (one word: Welsh), and always shed considerable light, it also makes the reader feel fortunate to speak English. [via]
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Multilingual Identites In A Global City: London Storiesby David BlockISBN 1403939640 (1-4039-3964-0)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Papers from the Fifth Nordic Conference on Bilingualismby A. Holmen, E. Hansen, J. Gimbel, J.N. JorgensenISBN 1853590142 (1-85359-014-2)
Hardcover, Multilingual Matters Ltd
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Pinky Extension and Eye Gaze: Language Use in Deaf Communitiesby Ceil LucasISBN 156368070X (1-56368-070-X)
Hardcover, Gallaudet Univ Pr
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Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usageby Penelope BrownISBN 0521313554 (0-521-31355-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage'Book summary:This study is about the principles for constructing polite speeches. The core of it first appeared in Questions and Politeness, edited by Esther N. Goody (now out of print). It is here reissued with a fresh introduction that surveys the considerable literature in linguistics, psychology and the social sciences that the original extended essay stimulated, and suggests distinct directions for research. The authors describe and account for some remarkable parallelisms in the linguistic construction of utterances with which people express themselves in different languages and cultures. A motive for these parallels is isolated - politeness, broadly defined to include both polite friendliness and polite formality - and a universal model is constructed outlining the abstract principles underlying polite usages. This is based on the detailed study of three unrelated languages and cultures: the Tamil of South India, the Tzeltal spoken by Mayan Indians in Chiapas, Mexico, and the English of the USA and England, supplemented by examples from other cultures. Underneath the apparent diversity of polite behaviour in different societies lie some general pan-human principles of social interaction, and the model of politeness provides a tool for analysing the quality of social relations in any society. This volume will be of special interest to students in linguistic pragmatics, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, anthropology, and the sociology and social psychology of interaction. [via]
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Principles of Linguistic Change: Internal Factorsby William LabovISBN 0631179135 (0-631-17913-5)
Hardcover, Blackwell Pub
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Principles of Linguistic Change : Social Factorsby William LabovISBN 063117916X (0-631-17916-X)
Softcover, Blackwell Publishing Limited
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Qualitative Methods in Sociolinguisticsby Barbara JohnstoneISBN 0195133978 (0-19-513397-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Reversing Language Shift: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Assistance to Threatened Languagesby Joshua A. FishmanISBN 1853591211 (1-85359-121-1)
Softcover, Multilingual Matters Ltd
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Social History of Englishby Dick LeithISBN 0415097975 (0-415-09797-5)
Softcover, Routledge
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Sociolingistics : A Readerby Nikolas Coupland, Adam JaworskiISBN 0333611802 (0-333-61180-2)
Softcover, Macmillan Publishers Limited
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Sociolinguistic Patternsby William LabovISBN 0812210522 (0-8122-1052-2)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Sociolinguistic Theory: Linguistic Variation and Its Social Significanceby J.K. ChambersISBN 0631228829 (0-631-22882-9)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sociolinguistic Theory: Linguistic Variation and Its Social Significance'Book summary:"Sociolinguistic Theory" presents a critical synthesis of sociolinguistics, centring on the study of language variation and change. Since the inception of sociolinguistics the correlation of dependent linguistic variables with independent social variables has provided the theoretical core of the discipline. Chambers reviews the essential findings of William Labov, the Milroys, David Sankoff, Gillian Sankoff, Peter Trudgill, Walt Wolfram, and many others, and puts them into context both with the work of the numerous linguists who have followed their lead and with their intellectual forebears from Wilhelm von Humboldt and Louis Gauchat to Edward Sapir. The book opens with a discussion of the linguistic variable and its historical, methodological and theoretical significance. Three central chapters are organized around the crucial social variables of social stratification, sex and age. The final chapter considers the social and cultural purposes of linguistic variation. [via]
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- Sociolinguistic Theory: Linguistic Variation and Its Social Significance: ISBN 0631183264 (0-631-18326-4)
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Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Societyby Peter TrudgillISBN 0140289216 (0-14-028921-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society'Book summary:This is a classic book on a fascinating subject. Peter Trudgill examines the close link between language and society and the many factors that influence the way we speak. These range from gender, environment, age, race, class, region and politics. Trudgill's book surveys languages and societies from all over the world drawing on examples from Afrikaans to Yiddish. He has added a fascinating chapter on the development of a language as a result of a non-native speaker's use of it. Compelling and authoritative, this new edition of a bestselling book is set to redraw the boundaries of the study of sociolinguistics. [via]
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- Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society: ISBN 0140134700 (0-14-013470-0)
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Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebookby Nikolas Coupland, Adam JaworskiISBN 0312175736 (0-312-17573-6)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Sociolinguistics: An Introductionby Peter TrudgillISBN 0140218025 (0-14-021802-5)
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The Sociolinguistics of Languageby Ralph W. FasoldISBN 0631138250 (0-631-13825-0)
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The Sociolinguistics of Societyby Ralph FasoldISBN 063113462X (0-631-13462-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sociolinguistics of Society'Book summary:This is an introduction to those aspects of sociolinguistics broadly described as the sociology of language; the effect of language and dialect differences on society.
Beginning with a general description of the social consequences of several languages being used in one society, Ralph Fasold moves on to discuss 'diglossia', the phenomena by which social functions are assigned to languages and dialects in a predictable manner. Other aspects of the subject covered here include social attitudes towards various languages and dialects, the social forces which influence multilingual people to use different language sin different situations, and wholesale shifts by social groups from one language to another (and the converse, retention of particular languages. The theory and practice of language planning, and the significance of language in education, are examined and explained. In addition, the book deals with qualitative and quantitative methods of analysing multilingualism and includes a helpful chapter on statistical techniques.
Written by a leading sociolinguist and teacher, this textbook is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the field. With the beginner in mind, the author writes in a clear, relaxed style, explaining current theories and giving many examples from all parts of the world. The second volume of this book, The Sociolinguistics of Language makes up the definitive introductory account of the subject for students throughout the world.
This volume is the companion of The Sociolinguistics of Language. Together these books will make up a definitive introductory account of the subject for students throughout the world. [via]More editions of The Sociolinguistics of Society:
Sociolinguistics: Selected Readingsby J.B. Pride, Janet HolmesISBN 0140226583 (0-14-022658-3)
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Sociolinguistics:Selected Readings: Selected Readingsby Janet Holmes, J.B. PrideISBN 0140806652 (0-14-080665-2)
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Spoken Here: Travels among Threatened Languagesby Mark AbleyISBN 0618565833 (0-618-56583-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages'Book summary:In Spoken Here, Mark Abley journeys around the world seeking out languages in peril -- Manx, Mohawk, Boro, Yiddish, and many more. Along the way he reveals delicious linguistic oddities and shows us what is lost when one of the world's six thousand tongues dies -- an irreplaceable worldview and a wealth of practical knowledge. He also examines the forces, from pop culture to creoles to global politics, that threaten to wipe out 90 percent of languages by this century's end.[via]
Abley encounters one of the last two speakers of an Australian language, whose tribal taboos forbid them to talk to each other. He spotlights those who believe that violence is the only way to save their tongue. He meets a Yiddish novelist who writes for an audience she knows doesn't exist. He pays tribute to such strange tongues as the Amazonian language last spoken by a parrot, the Caucasian language with no vowels, and the South Asian language whose innumerable verbs include gobray (to fall in a well unknowingly) and onsra (to love for the last time).
Each of the languages Abley spotlights, from the familiar to the foreign, exemplifies the various threats that endanger languages worldwide. But many also prove their resilience, thanks to the efforts of their determined speakers and such unlikely tools as soap operas and pop music. Abley meets the crusaders as well as the uncaring, all of whom offer surprising insight into this centuries-old debate. Spoken Here is a singular travelogue, a compelling case for linguistic diversity, and a treasure trove for anyone who loves any language.More editions of Spoken Here: Travels among Threatened Languages:
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Standing By Words: Essaysby Wendell BerryISBN 1593760558 (1-59376-055-8)
Softcover, Shoemaker & Hoard
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Standing By Words: Essays'Book summary:In these six essays, award-winning author Wendell Berry considers the degeneration of language that is manifest throughout our culture, from poetry to politics, from conversation to advertising, and he shows how the ever widening cleft between words and their referents mirrors the increasing isolation of individuals from their communities and of their communities from the land. From the essay, Standing by Words, Berry writes, Two epidemic illnesses of our timeupon both of which virtual industries of cures have been foundedare the disintegration of communities and the disintegration of persons. That these two are related (that private loneliness, for example, will necessarily accompany public confusion) is clear enough. What seems not so well understood, because not so much examined, is the relation between these disintegrations and the disintegration of language. My impression is that we have seen, for perhaps a hundred and fifty years, a gradual increase in language that is either meaningless or destructive of meaning. And I believe that this increasing unreliability of language parallels the increasing disintegration, over the same period, of persons and communities. Out-of-print for more than fifteen years, Standing by Words offers a masterfully written argument for the literary tradition.[via]More editions of Standing By Words: Essays:
Status and Use of African Lingua Francasby Bernd HeineISBN 3803900336 (3-8039-0033-6)
Hardcover, Weltforum Verlag
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The Ukrainian Language in the First Half of the Twentieth Centuryby George Y. ShevelovISBN 091645830X (0-916458-30-X)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Verbal Hygieneby Deborah CameronISBN 041510355X (0-415-10355-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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A series of case-studies deal with specific examples of verbal hygiene: the regulation of 'style' by editors, the teaching of English grammar in schools, the movements for and against so-called 'politically-correct' language and the recent explosion of advice to women on how they can speak more effectively. In each case she argues that verbal hygiene provides a way of making sense of linguistic phenomena, and that it represents a symbolic attempt to impose order on the social world.
Addressed to linguistics, professional language-users of all kinds, and to anyone interested in language and culture, Verbal Hygiene, calls for legitimate concerns about language and value to be discussed, by experts and lay-speakers alike, in a rational and critical spirit. [via]More editions of Verbal Hygiene:
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Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of "Pure" Standard Englishby John McWhorterISBN 0738204463 (0-7382-0446-3)
Softcover, Basic Books
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The Word on the Street: Fact and Fable About American Englishby McWhorter John H.ISBN 0306459949 (0-306-45994-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Word on the Street: Fact and Fable About American English'Book summary:A Berkeley linguistics professor with a common touch, John McWhorter successfully scales the ivy-covered walls of academe to bring linguistics to the masses. He has reached out in the past, appearing on the Today Show, Dateline NBC, and National Public Radio, and publishing essays in Newsweek and the New York Times. The Word on the Street provides another forum for his sometimes controversial but ultimately sane examination of the English language as it lives and breathes. Deploring the intimidating jargon and snooty 'tudes of the linguistics field, McWhorter tackles some of the major misconceptions about our nation's language, and does so in an immediately engaging and entertaining fashion.
He offers some valuable linguistic insights: that language is forever changing, that new patterns that sound "sloppy" or "incorrect" may be in fact on their way to becoming "proper," and that any language is a bundle of dialects, none of which is superior to any other. His book delves into these issues with academically rigorous logic and accessible, delightful flair. He compares the Lord's Prayer in Old English to its modern version, and looks at linguistic issues from past centuries that made the language monitors of the day swear that English was going to hell in a handbasket (such as the "barbarous custom of abbreviating words," so that a word like "rebuked" was pronounced as one syllable instead of "rebuk-èd," considered proper at the time). He discusses schoolmarm English (and the great hoax that it represents), Shakespeare (and why his plays might be more enjoyable translated into modern English), the search for a gender-neutral pronoun (and why "they" as third-person singular is "good" English), then takes on America's most controversial dialect, Black English (and why, though it is a systematic dialect and a national treasure, teaching it to black schoolchildren doesn't make sense). Extremely readable, astute, and timely, McHorter's assessment of today's American English is that literary rarity: a book that's essential to read and hard to put down. --Stephanie Gold [via]
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You're Wearing That? : Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversationby Deborah TannenISBN 1400062586 (1-4000-6258-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Amerikasvenska: En Bok Om Sprakutvecklingen I Svensk-Amerikaby Nils HasselmoISBN 9124237493 (91-24-23749-3)
Hardcover, Esselte studium
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Godmorgon Pojkar Och Flickor: Om Sprak Och Kon I Skolanby Tor G. Hultman, Jan EinarssonISBN 9138613271 (91-38-61327-1)
Hardcover, Liber
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Sjukvardssprakby Per A. PetterssonISBN 9124276324 (91-24-27632-4)
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Talspraksstudier: Insamling Och Analysby Gun WidmarkISBN 9144178212 (91-44-17821-2)
Hardcover, Studentlitteratur
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Sociologia del lenguaje/ Language Socialogyby Joshua FishmanISBN 8437601878 (84-376-0187-8)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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Makedonskiot Jazicen Identitetby Trajko StamatoskiISBN 9989323801 (9989-32-380-1)
Hardcover, Kultura
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Siirtolaisuuden Kuva Ruotsinsuomalaisessa Lyriikassaby Satu GrondahlISBN 9185276391 (91-85276-39-1)
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Beberapa Aspek Sosio-Kultural Masalah Bahasaby Khaidir AnwarISBN 979420353X (979-420-353-X)
Hardcover, Gadjah Mada University Press
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Kokugo to Iu Shiso: Kindai Nihon No Gengo Ninshikiby Yon-suk YiISBN 4000029010 (4-00-002901-0)
Hardcover, Iwanami Shoten
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Hazarski Recnikby Milorad PavicISBN 8644101560 (86-441-0156-0)
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