John (Professor of Psychology, Professor of Psychology, St. Francis Xavier University) Edwards
Sociolinguistics deals with the social life of language, language in its sociocultural context. It is a branch of linguistics that looks less at the shape or sound of words--morphology or phonology--and more at how our words and sentences are influenced by the society around us--for instance, how the accent or the dialect we use has been shaped by where we come from or which social class we belong to. In this Very Short Introduction, John Edwards offers the most up-to-date brief overview available of sociolinguistics, with side trips into the sociology of language and psycholinguistics....
Sociolinguistics deals with the social life of language, language in its sociocultural context. It is a branch of linguistics that looks less at the s...
