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Language and language use
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ISBN: 0435107208 0435107216 9780435107208 9780435107215 Year: 1980 Publisher: London The Open University Press

Sociolinguistic theory : linguistic variation and its social significance
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ISBN: 0631183264 0631183256 9780631183259 9780631183266 Year: 1995 Volume: 22 Publisher: Oxford Cambridge, Mass. Blackwell

Quarante ans de sociolinguistique à la périphérie
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ISBN: 2738458084 Year: 1997 Publisher: Paris L'Harmattan

Social dialectology
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ISBN: 9027218544 1588114031 9786612161209 1282161202 9027296472 9789027296474 9781588114037 9781282161207 9789027218544 6612161205 Year: 2003 Volume: 16 Publisher: Amsterdam Philadelphia John Benjamins Pub.

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Abstract

The time-honoured study of dialects took a new turn some forty years ago, giving centre stage to social factors and the quantitative analysis of language variation and change. It has become a discipline that no scholar of language can afford to ignore. This collection identifies the main theoretical and methodological issues currently preoccupying researchers in social dialectology, drawing not only on variation in English in the UK, USA, New Zealand, Europe and elsewhere but also in Arabic, Greek, Norwegian and Spanish dialects. The volume brings together previously unpublished work by the world's most prolific and well-respected social dialectologists as well as by some younger, dynamic researchers. Together the authors provide new perspectives on both the traditional areas of sociolinguistic variation and change and the newer fields of dialect formation, dialect diffusion and dialect levelling. They provide a snapshot of some of the burning issues currently preoccupying researchers in the field and give signposts to the future direction of the discipline.

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