Date: 28-Apr-2010 From: Victoria McCafferty <Anna.Glaziereup.ed.ac.uk> Subject: An Introduction to English Sociolinguistics: Trousdale E-mail this message to a friend
Title: An Introduction to English Sociolinguistics
Series Title: Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language
Published: 2010
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/
Designed for beginning undergraduates studying for degrees in English, this textbook provides an introduction to a range of sociolinguistic theories and the insights they provide for a greater understanding of varieties of English, past and present. Drawing on both qualitative and quantitative approaches to sociolinguistic variation, the book provides a systematic overview such topics as:
- 'English' as a social and as a linguistic concept - English speech communities - Social and regional dialectology in relation to varieties of English - English historical sociolinguistics, from Old English to late Modern English - Sociolinguistics and change in English - Outcomes of contact involving varieties of English - English and language planning - English, sociolinguistics and linguistic theory.
The book contains data drawn from studies of English as it is used around the world. Throughout, there is an emphasis on facilitating a deeper understanding of linguistic variation in English and the social, political and cultural contexts in which speakers and writers of English operate.
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