Sociolinguistic Theory: Linguistic Variation and Its Social Significance: 22 - Brossura

Chambers, J. K.

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ISBN 10: 0631228829 ISBN 13: 9780631228820

Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 2002

Riassunto

Sociolinguistic Theory presents a critical synthesis of sociolinguistics, centering on the study of language variation and change.

• Synthesizes the most important descriptive and theoretical findings concerning linguistic variation from the last forty years.


• Provides an integrated framework for studying language variation and its social significance.
  
• Expands on the first edition's discussion of communicative competence and developmental sociolinguistics.
  
• Is written by one of the world's foremost scholars in the field of variation studies and includes data from his own work.

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Recensione:

"a first–class synthesis and extension of an important branch of sociolinguistics. As a textbook of variation theory it is one that I would recommend very highly." Edgar Schneider, English World–Wide

Chambers offers a lucid introduction to the basic issues that relate language and society, and leads the reader directly to the quantitative data that define the field. At each turn, we benefit from his personal and insightful weighing of the evidence on why we speak the way we do.

William Labov, University of Pennsylvania

This book is indispensable for everybody in the field, from undergraduates to advanced researchers. Well–written, engaged, and inspiring, it is at the same time a state–of–the–art account of variationist sociolinguistics and a challenge to go on and enhance our knowledge.

Daniel Schreier, University of Zürich

Professor Chambers′s book successfully combines a theoretical grounding in variationist sociolinguistics with generous descriptions of the research on which the theories are based. This makes it particularly inspiring for students who themselves want to try their hands at this field of study.

Mats Mobärg, University of Gothenburg

L'autore:

J. K. Chambers is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Toronto. He is co-editor of The Handbook of Language Variation and Change (with Peter Trudgill and Natalie Schilling-Estes, Wiley-Blackwell, 2002), co-author (with Peter Trudgill) of Dialectology (2nd edition, 1998), and also author of other books and scores of articles. He works extensively as a forensic consultant, and maintains a parallel vocation in jazz criticism, including the prizewinning biography Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis (1998).

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• Editore: Blackwell Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0631228829
• ISBN 13: 9780631228820
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 320