An Introduction to SociolinguisticsThis comprehensive new edition of Wardhaugh’s textbook incorporates additional study features and numerous new and updated references to bring the book completely up-to-date, whilst maintaining the features that made the book so popular with lecturers and students: accessible coverage of a wide range of issues, clearly written, and with useful student study features.
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Contents
Languages and Communities | 21 |
Pidgins and Creoles | 53 |
Characteristics Origins From Pidgin to Creole | 83 |
Speech Communities | 118 |
Repertoires Further Reading | 134 |
Some Findings and Issues | 166 |
Change | 195 |
Words at Work | 227 |
Ethnographies | 253 |
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