298 Pages
by
Routledge
298 Pages
by
Routledge
298 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1992. This provocative and controversial book calls for a critical analysis of the philosophical assumptions underpinning sociolinguistics. Going back to the philosophical roots of the study of language in society, it argues that they lie in the consensual attitude to society derived from eighteenth and nineteenth-century social thought. The leading figures in the... Read more
Foreword Joshua Fishman Preface. Introduction 1. Historical Antecedents 2. Parsonian Structural Functionalism 3. Speech Variation 4. Language Contact 5. Language Planning 6. Conversation Analysis 7. The Ethnography of Communication 8. Ethnolinguistic Vitality 9. Conclusion
Biography
Glyn Williams
