Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 The study of language in its socio-cultural context
- 2 Language, culture, and world-view
- 3 Language and social class
- 4 Language and race: some implications for linguistic science
- 5 Language and gender
- 6 Bilingualism
- 7 Dialectology
- 8 Sociolinguistics and syntactic variation
- 9 Language birth: the processes of pidginization and creolization
- 10 Language death
- 11 Language planning: the view from linguistics
- 12 Ethnography of speaking: toward a linguistics of the praxis
- 13 The organization of discourse
- 14 Conversation analysis
- Index of names
- Index of subjects
- Contents of Volumes I, II, and III
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 The study of language in its socio-cultural context
- 2 Language, culture, and world-view
- 3 Language and social class
- 4 Language and race: some implications for linguistic science
- 5 Language and gender
- 6 Bilingualism
- 7 Dialectology
- 8 Sociolinguistics and syntactic variation
- 9 Language birth: the processes of pidginization and creolization
- 10 Language death
- 11 Language planning: the view from linguistics
- 12 Ethnography of speaking: toward a linguistics of the praxis
- 13 The organization of discourse
- 14 Conversation analysis
- Index of names
- Index of subjects
- Contents of Volumes I, II, and III
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1988