Introducing Language and SocietyAn introduction to the ways in which aspects of the environment, age, race, class, the part of the country we come from - and other factors - influence how we speak. This is the second title in the "Penguin English Linguistics" series which offers a grounding in different aspects of linguistics. |
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acrolect acts of identity admixture American linguist associated autonomy basilect bidialectal bilingualism Black Vernacular English code-switching codification corpus planning creole languages decreolization dialect contact dialect continuum dialect of English dialectology diffuse discourse analysis divergent dialect communities elaborated code embedding problem ethnography of speaking focal area focusing see focused forms geographical German grammatical hyperadaptation hypothesis involved isoglosses koiné language and society language contact language death language planning language shift language varieties lect lingua franca linguistic behaviour linguistic change linguistic characteristics linguistic minority linguistic variables mesolect multilingualism multiple negation mutual intelligibility native speakers nonstandard dialect norms original particular phonological pidgin language post-creole continuum process whereby pronouns pronunciation refer restricted code result secular linguistics simplification social class social context social dialect continuum social stratification sociolect sociolinguistics source language speech act speech community Standard English standard variety status planning style stratification term tion traditional dialectology traditional dialects variants vocabulary William Labov words