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Linguistics tends to ignore the relationship between languages and the societies in which they are spoken, while sociology generally overlooks the role of language in the constitution of society. Suzanne Romaine provides a clear, lively, and accessible introduction to the field of sociolinguistics, emphasizing the constant interaction between society and language. She discusses both traditional and more recent issues such as language and social class, language and gender, language in education, pidgins and creoles, and language change. She shows how our linguistic choices are motivated by social factors, and how certain ways of speaking come to be vested with symbolic value. In her examples she draws on studies of cultures all over the world, including her own extensive field work in Papua New Guinea, Hawaii, and Britain.
Linguistics tends to ignore the relationship between languages and the societies in which they are spoken, while sociology generally overlooks the role of language in the constitution of society. Suzanne Romaine provides a clear, lively, and accessible introduction to the field of sociolinguistics, emphasizing the constant interaction between society and language. She discusses both traditional and more recent issues such as language and social class, language and gender, language in education, pidgins and creoles, and language change. She shows how our linguistic choices are motivated by social factors, and how certain ways of speaking come to be vested with symbolic value. In her examples she draws on studies of cultures all over the world, including her own extensive field work in Papua New Guinea, Hawaii, and Britain.
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Suzanne Romaine is Merton Professor of English Language at Oxford University.
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- EditoreOxford Univ Pr
- Data di pubblicazione1994
- ISBN 10 0198751338
- ISBN 13 9780198751335
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine256
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Language in Society An Introduction to Sociolinguistics
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Oxford University Press, 1994. 1st edition, 1st printing. X + [236] pp. Printed black cloth. Price penciled inside front cover. Pages clean, unmarked, and lightly tanned around open side edges. Dust jacket has nice sheen and a little light creasing atop spine and back top edge. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 246 pages. Codice articolo 26155
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