Sociolinguistic Theory: Linguistic Variation and Its Social Significance (Language in Society) - Softcover

Chambers, J. K.

 
9780631183266: Sociolinguistic Theory: Linguistic Variation and Its Social Significance (Language in Society)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0631183264 ISBN 13: 9780631183266
Verlag: Blackwell Publishers, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

Sociolinguistic Theory presents a critical synthesis of sociolinguistics that centers on the study of language variation and change, and identifies opportunities for future research. Since the inception of sociolinguistics four decades ago, the correlation of dependent linguistic variables with independent social variables has provided the theoretical core of the discipline. This volume reviews the essential findings that form its foundation and shows how empirical explorations have made it the most stimulating field in the contemporary study of language. Sociolinguistic Theory discusses the linguistic variable and its significance, crucial social variables such as social stratification, sex, and age, and the cultural significance of linguistic variation. This second edition has been updated to incorporate new findings and expand on the discussion of communicative competence and developmental sociolinguistics.

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Críticas

"Chambers offers a lucid introduction to the basic issues that relate language and society, and leads the reader directly to the quantitative data that define the field. At each turn, we benefit from his personal and insightful weighing of the evidence on why we speak the way we do." William Labov, University of Pennsylvania

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Sociolinguistic Theory presents a critical synthesis of sociolinguistics that centers on the study of language variation and change, and identifies opportunities for future research. Since the inception of sociolinguistics four decades ago, the correlation of dependent linguistic variables with independent social variables has provided the theoretical core of the discipline. This volume reviews the essential findings that form its foundation and shows how empirical explorations have made it the most stimulating field in the contemporary study of language. Sociolinguistic Theory discusses the linguistic variable and its significance, crucial social variables such as social stratification, sex, and age, and the cultural significance of linguistic variation. This second edition has been updated to incorporate new findings and expand on the discussion of communicative competence and developmental sociolinguistics.

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Verlag
Blackwell Publishers
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0631183264
ISBN 13 
9780631183266
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
312
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