A companion to the author's 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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A companion to the author's 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.
Questions not normally asked about everyday phenomena are raised and little known facts about language use in social contexts are explored. For example, how does one decide when it is appropriate to address someone by their first name? Why do West Indians in service occupations sometimes seem rude to their customers? Why do men in Western Societies use more local dialect forms and lower status speech forms than do women? Can it be that the often despised languages called pidgin offer important clues to the inborn human capacity for language? There are just a few of the fascinating questions explored in this lively and informative textbook.
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Ralph Fasold is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University, Washington DC. He is Advisory Editor to the Blackwell series Language in Society.
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When people use language, they do more than just try to get another person to understand the speaker's thoughts and feelings. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nonstandard lects, address form usage, first submaxim, actuation riddle, mutual vous, white lects, inner language knowledge, nonreciprocal pattern, creole origin hypothesis, lexifier language, detached participles, suffix absence, foregrounded clauses, nonreciprocal use, vernacular loyalty, solidarity semantic, potential presuppositions, style stratification, developmental linguistics, variation analysts, implicational scaling, divergence hypothesis, implicational scale, white vernaculars, creole continuum Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
American English, New York City, Black English, Farr Whiteman, William Labov, Martha's Vineyard, Robin Lakoff, Aunt Sue, Hawaiian Creole, Hawaiian Pidgin, Robin Hood, Tok Pisin, British English, British Prime Minister, Cameroon Pidgin English, Georgetown University, Montreal French, Paul Grice, Abdulaziz Mkilifi, Committee Control, Cultural Revolution, East Anglia, Jamaican Creole, Lake Wobegon, Lesley Milroy New!
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When people use language, they do more than just try to get another person to understand the speaker's thoughts and feelings. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nonstandard lects, address form usage, first submaxim, actuation riddle, mutual vous, white lects, inner language knowledge, nonreciprocal pattern, creole origin hypothesis, lexifier language, detached participles, suffix absence, foregrounded clauses, nonreciprocal use, vernacular loyalty, solidarity semantic, potential presuppositions, style stratification, developmental linguistics, variation analysts, implicational scaling, divergence hypothesis, implicational scale, white vernaculars, creole continuum Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
American English, New York City, Black English, Farr Whiteman, William Labov, Martha's Vineyard, Robin Lakoff, Aunt Sue, Hawaiian Creole, Hawaiian Pidgin, Robin Hood, Tok Pisin, British English, British Prime Minister, Cameroon Pidgin English, Georgetown University, Montreal French, Paul Grice, Abdulaziz Mkilifi, Committee Control, Cultural Revolution, East Anglia, Jamaican Creole, Lake Wobegon, Lesley Milroy New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Social Psychology: Third Edition by Eliot R. Smith on 4 pages
- Black English by J.L. Dillard on page 211, page 216, and Back Matter
- The Sociolinguistics of Society (Language in Society) by Ralph Fasold in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Social Stratification of English in New York City by William Labov on page 223, and Back Matter
- Social Psychology by Robert A. Baron in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- A Survey of Modern English by Stephan Gramley on page 300, and page 472
- Go Preach!: Mark's Kingdom Message and the Black Church Today (Bible & Liberation) by Brian K. Blount on page 34, and Back Matter
- Intercultural Communication: A Discourse Approach (Language in Society) by Ron Scollon in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Sociolinguistics: Method and Interpretation (Language in Society) by Lesley Milroy in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Dialect Change: Convergence and Divergence in European Languages by Peter Auer on page 290, and Back Matter
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