Sociolinguistic Theory

Linguistic Variation and Its Social Significance

• Author(s): J. K. Chambers,
• Publisher: Wiley
• Pages: 320
• ISBN_10: 0631228829
  ISBN_13: 9780631228820
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Social Science / General ,

Description:...

Sociolinguistic Theory presents a critical synthesis of sociolinguistics, centering on the study of language variation and change.

• Synthesizes the most important descriptive and theoretical findings concerning linguistic variation from the last forty years.


• Provides an integrated framework for studying language variation and its social significance.
  
• Expands on the first edition's discussion of communicative competence and developmental sociolinguistics.
  
• Is written by one of the world's foremost scholars in the field of variation studies and includes data from his own work.