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Routledge
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An Introduction to Language and Society explores how our ways of seeing and engaging with the world may be shaped by the categories, systems and patterns of language. This second edition includes new material on gender, register, the speech community, language and subcultures, and language and representation.
Part One: The Development of Language 1. The beginnings of language development 2. Dialogue and language development Part Two : Linguistic Diversity and the Speech Community 3. Language and regional variation: accent and dialect 4. Language and ethnic identity: British Black English 5. Language and subcultures: anti-language 6. Language and situation: register 7. Language and social class: restricted and elaborated speech variants 8. Language and Gender 9. Linguistic diversity and the speech community
Biography
Martin Montgomery is director of the Programme on Literary Linguistics at the University of Strathclyde where he is also a member of the John Logie Baird Centre for film and television.
'Compulsive reading for both students and language-enthusiasts alike.' - Language International
