Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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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- Language and Society , pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998