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Sociolinguistics: A Resource Book for Students

Paperback

Main Details

Title Sociolinguistics: A Resource Book for Students
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Peter Stockwell
SeriesRoutledge English Language Introductions
Series part Volume No. v. 1
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback
Pages:272
Dimensions(mm): Height 246,Width 174
Category/GenreSociolinguistics
ISBN/Barcode 9780415401272
ClassificationsDewey:306.44
Audience
Undergraduate
Illustrations 5 black & white tables, 6 black & white line drawings

Publishing Details

Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint Routledge
Publication Date 31 July 2007
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Sociolinguistics: provides a comprehensive introduction to sociolinguistics draws on a range of real texts, from an interview with Madonna to the Japanese Asahi Evening News uses real studies designed and conducted by students provides key readings with commentaries from works by major internationally known authors such as Norman Fairclough, Deborah Cameron, Braj Kachru, Jennifer Coates, Mark Sebba, and Malcolm Coulthard is accompanied by a supporting website. New to this edition: an entire new section on forensic linguistics additional material on language and gender, conversation analysis and spoken discourse comprehensively updated exercises, readings and references. The accompanying website to this book can be found at: www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415401272.

Author Biography

Peter Stockwell is Professor of Literary Linguistics at the University of Nottingham and the author of many books and academic articles in the fields of literature and language, sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, language and cognition, surrealism and literary theory. Peter is the editor of the Routledge English Language Introductions series.