| Language Policy Contributor(s): Spolsky, Bernard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521804612 ISBN-13: 9780521804615 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $118.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2004 Annotation: The volume brings together leading experts from a range of disciplines to create a broad perspective on the study of style and variation in spoken language. The book discusses key approaches to stylistic variation, including such issues as attention paid to speech, audience design, identity construction, the corpus study of register, genre, distinctiveness and the anthropological study of style. Rigorous and engaging, this book will become the standard work on stylistic variation. It will be welcomed by students and academics in sociolinguistics, English language, dialectology, anthropology and sociology. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics |
| Dewey: 306.449 |
| LCCN: 2003053295 |
| Series: Key Topics in Sociolinguistics |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.00 lbs) 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Contributor Bio(s): Spolsky, Bernard: - Bernard Spolsky is Emeritus Professor at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and Senior Associate, the National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland. |
