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1	The Development of Language more books like this by Jean Berko Gleason add to wishlist The seventh edition of The Development of Language, written and contributed by leading researchers, covers language acquisition and development from infancy through adulthood. This authoritative text is ideal for courses that take a developmental approach to language acquisition across the full life span. The text thoroughly explores syntax, ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £13.31!
2	Language: The Social Mirror more books like this by Elaine Chaika add to wishlist Discusses the ways people use language in society with chapters on kinesics, dialect, and bilingualism. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| first editions
3	The Development of Language more books like this by Jean Berko-Gleason, Jean Berko Gleason add to wishlist The sixth edition of The Development of Language, written and contributed by leading researchers, covers language acquisition and development from infancy through adulthood. This authoritative text is ideal for courses that take a developmental approach to language acquisition across the life span. The text thoroughly explores syntax, morphology, ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £16.71!
4	Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society more books like this by Professor Raymond Williams add to wishlist Now revised to include new words and updated essays, Keywords focuses on the sociology of language, demonstrating how the key words we use to understand our society take on new meanings and how these changes reflect the political bent and values of society. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £11.70! \| first editions
5	An Introduction to Sociolinguistics more books like this by Ronald Wardhaugh add to wishlist This comprehensive new edition of Wardhaugh's textbook incorporates additional study features and numerous new and updated references to bring the book completely up-to-date, whilst maintaining the features that made the book so popular with lecturers and students: accessible coverage of a wide range of issues, clearly written, and with useful ... see all copies from £2.96! new only from £22.27! \| first editions
6	Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society more books like this by Peter Trudgill add to wishlist This is a classic book on a fascinating subject. Peter Trudgill examines the close link between language and society and the many factors that influence the way we speak. These range from gender, environment, age, race, class, region and politics. Trudgill's book surveys languages and societies from all over the world drawing on examples from ... see all copies from £2.02! new only from £6.00! \| first editions
7	Consequences of Contact: Language Ideologies and Sociocultural Transformations in Pacific Societies more books like this by Bambi B Schieffelin (Editor), Miki Makihara (Editor) add to wishlist The Pacific is historically an area of enormous linguistic diversity, where talk figures as a central component of social life. Pacific communities also represent diverse contact zones, where between indigenous and introduced institutions and ideas; between local actors and outsiders; and involving different lingua franca, colonial, and local ... see all copies from £6.44! new only from £7.42! \| first editions
8	Learning How to Ask: A Sociolinguistic Appraisal of the Role of the Interview in Social Science Research more books like this by Charles L Briggs add to wishlist Interviews are ubiquitous in modern society, and they play a crucial role in social scientific research. But, as Charles Briggs convincingly argues in this book, received interviewing techniques rest on fundamental misapprehensions about the nature both of the interview as a communicative event, and of the nature of the data that it produces. ... see all copies from £12.70! new only from £20.01!
9	Endangered Languages: Language Loss and Community Response more books like this by Lenore A Grenoble (Editor), Dr. Lindsay J Whaley (Editor) add to wishlist This book provides an overview of the issues surrounding language loss. It brings together work by theoretical linguists, field linguists, and non-linguist members of minority communities to provide an integrated view of how language is lost, from sociological and economic as well as from linguistic perspectives. The contributions to the volume ... see all copies from £10.15! new only from £13.62!
10	Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence more books like this by Keith Gilyard add to wishlist see all copies from £13.55! new only from £20.86!
11 view cover	Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching more books like this by Sandra L McKay (Editor), Nancy F Hornberger (Editor), Michael H Long (Editor) add to wishlist This text provides an introduction to the field of sociolinguistics for second and foreign language teachers. The paperback edition provides an introduction to the field of sociolinguistics for second and foreign language teachers. Chapters cover the basic areas of sociolinguistics that have a bearing on language teaching, including regional and ... see all copies from £14.85! new only from £20.03! \| first editions
12 view cover	Sociolinguistics: The Essentials Readings more books like this by Christina Bratt Paulston (Editor), Richard G Tucker (Editor) add to wishlist Sociolinguistics: The Essential Readings is a collection of classic articles that have helped define the field of sociolinguistics and provide the foundation for future research, paired with more recent articles that indicate the direction the field has taken or the ways in which ideas were elaborated and challenged. These essays provide students ... see all copies from £17.32! new only from £25.41!
13 view cover	Language, Society and Power: An Introduction more books like this by Jones Jason, Linda Thomas (Editor) add to wishlist Language, Society and Power looks at the ways in which language functions, how it influences thought and how it varies according to age, ethnicity, class and gender. It seeks to answer such questions as: How can a language reflect the status of children and older people? Do men and women talk differently? How can our use of language mark our ... see all copies from £14.86! new only from £17.30!
14 view cover	Sociolinguistics more books like this by Richard A Hudson add to wishlist This new edition of Richard Hudson's widely acclaimed textbook Sociolinguistics will be welcomed by students and teachers alike. To reflect changes in the field since publication of the first edition in 1980, the author has added new sections on politeness, accommodation, and prototypes; and he has expanded discussion of sex differences, culture ... see all copies from £1.48! new only from £16.00! \| first editions
15 view cover	Dialectology more books like this by Jack Chambers add to wishlist Dialectology is the study of language variation. Traditionally, this has largely been the province of dialect geographers, who concentrated on the speech of the linguistically conservative rural population in order to map regional differences. More recently, however, interest has shifted to urban speech, and sociolinguists have correlated ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £24.47! \| first editions
16 view cover	Language and Sexuality more books like this by Don Kulick, Professor Deborah Cameron add to wishlist This lively and accessible textbook looks at how we talk about sex and why we talk about it the way we do. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from personal ads to phone sex, from sado-masochistic scenes to sexual assault trials, the book provides a clear introduction to the relationship between language and sexuality. Using a broad definition of ... see all copies from £10.56! new only from £10.56! \| first editions
17 view cover	Language, Culture, and Society: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology more books like this by Zdenek Salzmann add to wishlist This is an accessible textbook addressing the full spectrum of fundamental topics in linguistic anthropology, with an augmented emphasis on language and gender. For three previous editions, professors have turned to Zdenek Salmann's "Language, Culture and Society" for its thorough coverage of linguistic-anthropology topics and accessibility to ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £18.70! \| first editions
18 view cover	An Introduction to Sociolinguistics more books like this by Janet Holmes add to wishlist This introductory book considers the question "What is sociolinguistics?", and explains sociolinguistic concepts through a wide range of examples. It draws from both 'classic' approaches to the subject as well as from more recent research, introducing terms like 'code-switching' and 'social dialect'. It is conveniently divided into three sections. ... see all copies from £2.21! new only from £23.12!
19 view cover	Language and Power more books like this by Norman Fairclough add to wishlist Language and Power is about how language works to maintain and change power relations in contemporary society, and how understanding these processes can enable people to resist and change them. Substantial changes in social life have taken place in the decade since the original publication, which have changed the nature of unequal power relations, ... see all copies from £3.61! new only from £23.00! \| first editions
20 view cover	Language and Minority Rights: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Politics of Language more books like this by Stephen May add to wishlist This is a masterful book - perhaps the most comprehensive, nuanced, and detailed treatment of minority language rights on an international scale in recent years. Clear, balanced, cogently argued, and remarkable in its depth and scope, Stephen May's "Language and Minority Rights" represents a major contribution to both scholarship and practice in ... see all copies from £24.39! new only from £32.38!
21 view cover	Cross-Cultural Pragmatics more books like this by Anna Wierzbicka add to wishlist The book discusses data from a wide range of languages and it shows that the meanings expressed in human interaction and the different "cultural scripts" prevailing in different speech communities can be clearly and intelligibly described and compared by using a "natural semantic metalanguage", based on empirically established universal human ... see all copies from £35.70! new only from £35.70!
22 view cover	Sociolinguistics: The Study of Speakers' Choices more books like this by Florian Coulmas add to wishlist This accessible new textbook provides a clear introduction to sociolinguistics, the study of why we speak the way we do, and the social factors that influence our linguistic decisions. Based on the notion of 'choice' - that as speakers we select from the options open to us - it provides a solid theoretical framework to deal with the most ... see all copies from £9.29! new only from £9.29!
23 view cover	Dimensions of Literacy: A Conceptual Base for Teaching Reading and Writing in School Settings more books like this by Stephen B Kucer add to wishlist This popular text examines literacy from a multidimensional and interdisciplinary perspective. It "unpackages" the various dimensions of literacy--linguistic, cognitive, sociocultural, and developmental--and at the same time accounts for the interrelationships among them. The goal is to provide a conceptual foundation upon which literacy ... see all copies from £9.26! new only from £20.43!
24 view cover	Language and Society more books like this by William Downes add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £7.09! \| first editions
25 view cover	Language, culture, and society: a book of readings more books like this by Ben G Blount add to wishlist see all copies from £2.12! new only from £34.68!

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