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Sociolinguistics (Oxford Introductions to Language Study)

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Like the other books in the "Oxford Introduction to Language Study" series this book aims to provide a "brief but comprehensive introduction" (blurb) to its topic. Generally, Spolsky suceeds admirably: he provides a dense but still easily readable account which can be used as a first introduction to the field but also to recapitulate the most important areas of sociolinguistics. As usual, the book contains a survey of key concepts (only 80 pages!), short readings from other relevant works and a selection of annotated references.

However, readers should be warned that the book is (because it is so short) necessarily rather dense. I regard this as positive, though. I'd rather read 70 pages than 300 with the same amount of information!

While this was easy to read, it is clear the subject of sociolinguistics is complicated to observe and research. That may be more an aspect of the course I took than a discredit to the book. I have really enjoyed this Oxford series and this book was equally as informative as the other text within the series.

It arrive on time.. The quality of the book was pretty good, just some highlithed words, but they were expected!