TheCambridgeHandbookofSociolinguistics(CambridgeHandbooksinLanguageandLinguistics)

作者 Rajend Mesthrie著
出版社 CambridgeUniversityPress
出版时间 2011年11月
ISBN 9780521897075
定价 1950.20

内容简介

Themostcomprehensiveoverviewavailable,thishandbookisanessentialguidetosociolinguisticstoday.Reflectingthebreadthofresearchinthefield,itsurveysarangeoftopicsandapproachesinthestudyoflanguagevariationanduseinsociety.Aswellaslinguisticperspectives,thehandbookincludesinsightsfromanthropology,socialpsychology,thestudyofdiscourseandpower,conversationanalysis,theoriesofstyleandstyling,languagecontactandappliedsociolinguistics.Languagepracticesseemtohavereachednewlevelssincethecommunicationsrevolutionofthelatetwentiethcentury.Atthesametimeface-to-facecommunicationisstillthemainforceoflanguageidentity,evenifsocialandpeernetworksofthetraditionalface-to-facenaturearefacingstiffcompetitionoftheFacebook-to-Facebooksort.Themostauthoritativeguidetothestateofthefield,thishandbookshowsthatsociolinguisticsprovidesuswiththebesttoolsforunderstandingourunfoldingevolutionassocialbeings.

作者简介

RajendMesthrieisProfessorofLinguisticsintheDepartmentofEnglishattheUniversityofCapeTown,holdinganNRFresearchchairintheareaofLanguage,MigrationandSocialChange.HeservedtwotermsasPresidentoftheLinguisticsSocietyofSouthernAfrica.Hehaspublishedwidelyinthefieldsofsociolinguistics,withspecialreferencetolanguagecontactinSouthAfrica.AmongsthispublicationsareIntroducingSociolinguistics,2ndedition(withJoanSwann,AnaDeumertandWilliamLeap,2009),LanguageinSouthAfrica(CambridgeUniversityPress,2002)andWorldEnglishes(withRakeshM.Bhatt,CambridgeUniversityPress,2008).

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