The sociolinguistics of language

Author(s)

• Fasold, Ralph W.

Bibliographic Information

The sociolinguistics of language

Ralph Fasold

（Language in society, 6 . Introduction to sociolinguistics ; v. 2）

B. Blackwell, 1990

• : [hbk]
• : pbk

Note

Bibliography: p. [315]-334

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: [hbk] ISBN 9780631133865

Description

A companion to the author's "Sociolinguistics of Society", this textbook examines the influence of social interaction on language use, and discusses a variety of facts about language from the commonplace to the exotic. Questions not normally asked about everyday phenomena are raised, and little-known facts about language use in social contexts are explored. For example, how does one decide when it is appropriate to address someone by their first name? Why do West Indians in service occupations sometimes seem rude to their customers? Why do men in Western societies use more local dialect forms and lower status speech forms than do women? Can it be that the often despised languages called pidgin offer important clues to the inborn human capacity for language?

Table of Contents

• Address forms
• the ethonography of communication
• discourse
• language and sex
• linguistic pragmatics - conversational implicatur
• more on linguistic pragmatics
• pidgin and Creole language
• linguistic variation
• some applications of the sociolinguistics of language students of sociolinguistics, social psychology, language and politics and anthropology
• general readers. applications of the sociolinguistics of language.

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780631138259

Description

A companion to the author's Sociolinguistics of Society, this textbook, examines the influence of social interaction in language use and discusses a variety of facts about language from the commonplace to the exotic.

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface. Introduction. 1. Address Forms. 2. The Ethnography of Communication. 3. Discourse. 4. Language and Sex. 5. Linguistic Pragmatics: Conversatinal Implicature. 6. More on Linguistic Pragmatics. 7. Pidgin and Creole Languages. 8. Linguistic Variation. 9. Some Applications of the Sociolonguistics of Lnaguage. Bibliography. Index.

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Details

• NCID: BA09992170
• ISBN:
  • 0631133860
  • 0631138250
• LCCN: 89015185
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford, U.K. ; Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.
• Pages/Volumes: x, 342 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : P40
  • NDC8 : 801.03
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Sociolinguistics
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA0030940X