The Social Life of Words
Language: en
Pages: 231
Authors: Laura Wright
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-01-24 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

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A new approach to sociolinguistics, introducing the study of the social meaning of English words over time, and offering an engaging and entertaining demonstrat
The Social Life of Language
Language: en
Pages: 396
Authors: Gillian Sankoff
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-11 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than
Challenges in the Social Life of Language
Language: en
Pages: 285
Authors: John Edwards
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-02-08 - Publisher: Springer

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The first book to highlight the most pressing sociology-of-language themes of our times. All of which have to do with the twin issues of power and identity . Im
Words Matter
Language: en
Pages: 339
Authors: Sally McConnell-Ginet
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-08-27 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Featuring current and historical concrete examples and minimising technical vocabulary, Words Matter is for all interested in examining ideas about language and
The Secret Life of Words
Language: en
Pages: 450
Authors: Henry Hitchings
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-09-29 - Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

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Words are essential to our everyday lives. An average person spends his or her day enveloped in conversations, e-mails, phone calls, text messages, directions,