Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Language, society, and power Language, society, and power Ishtla Singh,Jean Stilwell Peccei Language, Society and Power looks at the ways in which language functions, how it influences thought and how it varies according to age, ethnicity, class and gender. It seeks to answer such questions… OL15162252W
Obsessed With Language A Sociolinguistic History Of Quebec Obsessed With Language A Sociolinguistic History Of Quebec Chantal Bouchard "Did the Quebec "habitant" of the nineteenth century speak "Parisian French" or "French-Canadian patois?" And does this matter? And is the joual of the 1960s a language or a sub-standard version of F… OL17393135W
Du langage aux langues Du langage aux langues Ranka Bijeljac,Roland Breton Malgre les differences qui existent entre les langues, elles partagent un grand nombre de proprietes et presentent un meme niveau de complexite. La geographie des langues et leur dynamique sont indis… OL20619623W
A sociolinguistics of diaspora A sociolinguistics of diaspora Luisa Martín Rojo,Rosina Márquez-Reiter "This volume brings together scholars in sociolinguistics and the sociology of new media and mobile technologies who are working on different social and communicative aspects of the Latino diaspora. … OL23195439W
Keywords Keywords Raymond Williams Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society is a book by the Welsh Marxist academic Raymond Williams published in 1976 by Croom Helm. Originally intended to be published along with the author's … OL260934W
Introducing language and society Introducing language and society Peter Trudgill An introduction to the ways in which aspects of the environment, age, race, class, the part of the country we come from - and other factors - influence how we speak. This is the second title in the "… OL27958110W
Sociolinguistics: selected readings Sociolinguistics: selected readings J. B. Pride "This book presents a selection of articles covering the main areas of contemporary sociolinguistics. It pays particular attention to the concepts of multigualism, language standardization, dialectal… OL5467662W
Language As Social Action Language As Social Action Thomas M. Holtgraves "This volume should serve as a valuable resource for students and researchers in social psychology and communication who want a clear and thorough presentation of the linguistic underpinnings of soci… OL8447489W