Introducing sociolinguistics

Author(s)

• Mesthrie, Rajend
• Swann, J.
• Deumert, Andrea
• Leap, William L.

Bibliographic Information

Introducing sociolinguistics

Rajend Mesthrie ... [et al.]

Edinburgh University Press, c2000

• : hbk
• : pbk

Note

Bibliography: p. 459-489

Includes index

Contents of Works

• 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 / Andrea Deumert and Rajend Mesthrie
• 5. Language choice and code-switching / Joan Swann
• 6. Language in interaction / Joan Swann (with contributions by William L. Leap)
• 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 Andrea Deumert)
• 11. Sociolinguistics and education / William L. Leap and Rajend Mesthrie
• 12. Language planning and policy / Andrea Deumert
• 13. The sociolinguistics of sign language / Andrea Deumert

Details

• NCID: BA45057263
• ISBN:
  • 0748611932
  • 0748607730
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Edinburgh
• Pages/Volumes: xxv, 501 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 306.44
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Sociolinguistics