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What Is Sociolinguistics? Gerard Van Herk

What Is Sociolinguistics? By Gerard Van Herk

What Is Sociolinguistics? by Gerard Van Herk

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What is Sociolinguistics? offers a tour through the major issues that define the field, such as region, status, gender, time, language attitudes, interaction, and style, while also exploring the sociolinguistics of multilingualism, culture and ethnicity, language contact, and education.

What Is Sociolinguistics? Summary

What Is Sociolinguistics? by Gerard Van Herk

What is Sociolinguistics? is a tour through the major issues that define the field, such as region, status, gender, time, language attitudes, interaction, and style, while also exploring the sociolinguistics of multilingualism, culture and ethnicity, language contact, and education, all introduced with excitement, humor, and deep knowledge.
  • Explores the sociolinguistics of multilingualism, culture and ethnicity, language contact, and education
  • Provides useful and clear learning features including numerous innovative exercises and project ideas, spotlighted research readings, glossary terms, chapter summaries, and text boxes

  • The Companion Website for Instructors (www.wiley.com/go/vanherkprofs) has PowerPoint slides for each chapter with suggestions for framing class discussions and exercises, further examples on concepts discussed in the book, tips on additional readings to bring in, and ready-to-go slides for class presentation.

  • The Companion Website for Students (www.wiley.com/go/vanherk) includes links for every chapter from standard sociolinguistic tools to links designed to spark discussion relevant to each chapter, including video clips, oral histories, articles, and more.

What Is Sociolinguistics? Reviews

?This is a delightfully engaging introduction to the passionate purpose of sociolinguistics. Van Herk is a masterful guide who personally escorts students on an informative, entertaining tour of the field. Students experience sociolinguistics through the perfect blend of substance, interaction, and autobiographical perspective.? ? Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State University ?What is Sociolinguistics offers a refreshingly different take on many of the standard, key concepts in the field. It is funny, clear, and distinctly personal, providing essential information about sociolinguistics and referring students to a host of other works that can take them deeper if they wish.? ? John Rickford, Stanford University

About Gerard Van Herk

Gerard Van Herk is a Canada Research Chair in Regional Language and Oral Text at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He has researched and written on varieties of the English language and is the editor of Data Collection in Sociolinguistics: Methods and Applications (eds. with C. Mallinson and B. Childs, 2013).

Table of Contents

Contents vii

List of Boxes xi

Research in the Spotlight xiv

Companion Website xvi

Acknowledgments xvii

1. Introduction 1

2. Language and Society 10

3. Place 25

4. Social Status 47

5. Time 60

6. Ethnicity 75

7. Gender and Identity 85

8. Style 104

9. Interaction 116

10. Multilingualism 127

11. Language Contact 136

12. Attitudes and Ideologies 148

13. Language as a Social Entity 161

14. Education 175

15. What is Sociolinguistics? 188

Glossary 197

Bibliography 213

Index 229

Additional information

GOR006719243
9781405193184
1405193182
What Is Sociolinguistics? by Gerard Van Herk
Gerard Van Herk
Linguistics in the World
Used - Very Good
Paperback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
20120209
262
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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