Language and society

著者

• Downes, William

書誌事項

Language and society

William Downes

（Cambridge approaches to linguistics）

Cambridge University Press, c1998

2nd ed

• : hbk
• : pbk

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

"First published by Fontana paperbacks, London 1984"--T.p. verso

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Downes' textbook is an accessible introduction to the social aspects of language and their various explanations. Topics covered include domains of language use, language change, code-switching, speech as social action, and the nature of meaning and understanding. This second edition includes an analysis of language standardisation, language conflict and planning.

目次

• Acknowledgements
• 1. Linguistics and sociolinguistics
• 2. A tapestry in space and time
• 3. Language varieties: processes and problems
• 4. Discovering the structure in variation
• 5. Rhoticity
• 6. At the intersection of social factors
• 7. Change, meaning and acts of identity
• 8. The discourse of social life
• 9. Communication: words and world
• 10. Action and critique
• 11. Language and social explanation
• Further reading
• References
• Index.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA37478481
• ISBN:
  • 0521450462
  • 0521456630
• LCCN: 97040832
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Cambridge [England] ; New York
• ページ数/冊数: ix, 503 p.
• 大きさ: 20 cm
• 分類:
  • NDC8 : 801.03
  • LCC : P40
  • DC21 : 306.44
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Sociolinguistics
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA13159150