Synopses & Reviews
A companion to the author's Sociolinguistics of Society, this textbook, examines the influence of social interaction in language use and discusses a variety of facts about language from the commonplace to the exotic.
About the Author
Ralph Fasold is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University, Washington DC. He is Advisory Editor to the Blackwell series Language in Society.
Table of Contents
Editor's Preface.
Introduction.
1. Address Forms.
2. The Ethnography of Communication.
3. Discourse.
4. Language and Sex.
5. Linguistic Pragmatics: Conversatinal Implicature.
6. More on Linguistic Pragmatics.
7. Pidgin and Creole Languages.
8. Linguistic Variation.
9. Some Applications of the Sociolonguistics of Lnaguage.
Bibliography.
Index.