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Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. This is the first of a pair of textbooks by fasold which between them are meant to cover the field of sociolinguistics. Raymond hickey language and society page 2 of 37 the study of language and society sociolinguistics can be dated to about the middle of the twentieth century. Of extra benefit, four books on discourse are included. The sociolinguistics of society by fasold ralph abebooks. This is an introduction to those aspects of sociolinguistics broadly described as the sociology of language. Before that there were authors who commented on how language use was influenced or indeed guided by socially relevant factors, such as class, profession, age or gender. The second volume of this book, the sociolinguistics of language makes up the definitive introductory account of the subject for students throughout the world. That would not really be the intellectually most satisfying solution to the problem, which is precisely that of integratingnot separatingthe two foci that make up the total sociolinguistic enterprise. Beginning with a general description of the social consequences of several languages being used in one society, ralph fasold moves on to discuss diglossia, the phenomena by which social functions are assigned to languages and. This volume is the companion of the sociolinguistics of language. A companion to the authors sociolinguistics of society, this textbook, examines the influence of social interaction in language use and discusses a variety of facts about language from the commonplace to the exotic.
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