Title:
Introducing sociolinguistics / Rajend Mesthrie, Joan Swann, Ana Deumert and William L. Leap.
Main Entry:
Mesthrie, Rajend, author.
Swann, Joan, author.
Deumert, Ana, author.
Leap, William, author.
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press,
Publication Date:
2009
Publication Place:
Edinburgh :
ISBN:
0748638431
9780748638437
9780748638444
074863844X
0748632492
9780748632497
Subject:
Sociolinguistics.
Sociolinguistics.
Soziolinguistik
Lehrbuch.
Lehrbuch.
Edition:
Second edition.
Contents:
1. Clearing the ground: basic issues, concepts and approaches / Rajend Mesthrie -- 2. Regional dialectology / Rajend Mesthrie -- 3. Social dialectology / Rajend Mesthrie -- 4. Language Variation and change / Ana Deumert and Rajend Mesthrie -- 5. Language choice and code-switching / Joan Swann -- 6. Language in Interaction / Joan Swann -- 7. Gender and language use / Joan Swann -- 8. Language contact 1: Maintenance, Shift and death / Rajend Mesthrie and William L. Leap -- 9. Language contact 2: Pidgins, creoles and "New Englishes" / Rajend Mesthrie -- 10. Critical Sociolinguistics: Approaches to language and Power / Rajend Mesthrie (with contributions by Ana Deumert) -- 11. Sociolinguistics and education / Rajend Mesthrie and William L. Leap -- 12. Language Planning and Policy / Ana Deumert -- 13. The Sociolinguistics of Sign language / Ana Deumert -- Epilogue.
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