Language and Society

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ISBN: 9780521456630 | 0521456630
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 10/28/1998

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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 new edition includes an up-to-date analysis of language standardization, language conflict and planning.

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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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