Observing and Analysing Natural Language: A Critical Account of Sociolinguistic Method: 0012 (Language in Society) - Softcover

Milroy, Lesley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631136231 ISBN 13: 9780631136231

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1987

Synopsis

Social networks ---- those informal and formal social relationships of which any human society is composed ---- are distinguished by their own patters of language use. Lesley Milroy is concerned with the manner in which patterns of linguisitic variation characterize particular groups (social and cultural, geographic, male and female) within a complex urban community.

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Review:

"An impressive book by any standards, and is likely to take its place as a "classic" of sociolinguistics." R.A. Hudson, Journal of Linguistics (of the first edition)

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Social networks -- those informal and formal social relationships of which any human society is composed -- are distinguished by their own patters of language use. Lesley Milroy is concerned with the manner in which patterns of linguisitic variation characterize particular groups (social and cultural, geographic, male and female) within a complex urban community.

First published in 1980, Language and Social Networks has had a great influence on the development of sociolinguistics. The second edition incorporates an extensive new chapter reappraising the original research and discussing other sociolinguistic work in the same paradigm.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0631136231
• ISBN 13: 9780631136231
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248