Sociolinguistics
Sociolinguistics
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This new edition of R. A. Hudson's Sociolinguistics will be welcomed by students and teachers alike. To reflect changes in the field since publication of the first edition in 1980, the author has added new sections on politeness, accommodation, and prototypes; and he has expanded discussion of sex differences in language use, and the relationship between language and thought. Ample coverage of classic topics such as varieties of language, speech as social interaction, the quantitative study of speech, and linguistic and social inequality, remains.
- Second edition of hugely successful textbook
- Extensively updated to take account of recent work in sociolinguistics, for example new sections on language and sexism
Product details
June 1996Hardback
9780521563499
296 pages
236 × 157 × 24 mm
0.594kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Preface to second edition
- Preface to first edition
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Varieties of language
- 3. Language, culture and thought
- 4. Speech as social interaction
- 5. The quantitative study of speech
- 6. Linguistic and social inequality
- 7. Theoretical summary
- Bibliography and citation index
- Index.
