Superheroes! by Laurence Maslon

Superheroes! by Laurence Maslon

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications.

It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other.

The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

Laurence Maslon (Text) is a graduate acting professor at New York University. On NPR member station WPPB 88.3FM, he hosts the weekly radio show Broadway to Main Street. Broadway to Main Street: How Show Tunes charmed America is his most recent book. He is the author of several PBS documentaries, including The Sound of Music Companion and The South Pacific Companion, as well as the editor of the acclaimed Library of America's two-volume anthology of American musicals (1927-1969). From 2007 to 2010, he was a member of the Tony Awards nominating committee, and he has written about musical theater for publications such as the New York Times, New Yorker, Huffington, Slate, WSJ, and others.