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Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society, Fourth Edition
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Editorial Reviews (Courtesy of Amazon.com)
Product Description
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.
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.
Table of Contents (Courtesy of Barnes & Noble.com)
| List of Figures, Maps and Tables | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Phonetic Symbols | ||
| 1 | Sociolinguistics - Language and Society | 1 |
| 2 | Language and Social Class | 23 |
| 3 | Language and Ethnic Group | 42 |
| 4 | Language and Sex | 61 |
| 5 | Language and Context | 81 |
| 6 | Language and Social Interaction | 105 |
| 7 | Language and Nation | 119 |
| 8 | Language and Geography | 147 |
| 9 | Language and Contact | 165 |
| 10 | Language and Humanity | 185 |
| Annotated Bibliography and Further Reading | 205 | |
| Index | 211 |