This book focuses on what people are doing with language in urban settings around the world. In studying situated language life in fourteen cities, from New York to Shanghai, the authors present these cities as sociolinguistic systems in their own rights, show how they are changing, reveal differences and congruencies and what can be learned for theory. Providing new perspectives on crucial themes such as language choice and language contact, code-switching and mixing, language and identity, language policy and planning and social networks, this is key reading for all in the area of...
This book focuses on what people are doing with language in urban settings around the world. In studying situated language life in fourteen cities,...
This book focuses on what people are doing with language in urban settings around the world. In studying situated language life in fourteen cities, from New York to Shanghai, the authors present these cities as sociolinguistic systems in their own rights, show how they are changing, reveal differences and congruencies and what can be learned for theory. Providing new perspectives on crucial themes such as language choice and language contact, code-switching and mixing, language and identity, language policy and planning and social networks, this is key reading for all in the area of...
This book focuses on what people are doing with language in urban settings around the world. In studying situated language life in fourteen cities,...
Discovering Sociolinguistics introduces readers to the field of Sociolinguistics and hands them the tools to start their own sociolinguistic research project. The first two parts of the book present this broad field and the second two parts lay out the practicalities and steps needed to do actual sociolinguistic investigations. The book is introductory in nature and covers the common core of topics and theories in the field. It gives much attention to cultural variation and examples from across the world.
Discovering Sociolinguistics introduces readers to the field of Sociolinguistics and hands them the tools to start their own sociolinguistic re...
