Language and identities
Language and Identities offers a broad survey of our current state of knowledge on the connections between variability in language use and the construction, negotiation, maintenance and performance of identities at different levels - individual, group, regional and national. It …
Based on detailed, empirical evidence, this collection offers insights into how we use language to construct, maintain and project multi-faceted identities as they emerge in differing contexts.
La 4e de couverture indique : "The Romance languages offer a particularly fertile ground for the exploration of the relationship between language and society in different social contexts and communities. Focusing on a wide range of Romance languages - from national languages to …
Linguistic universals and language variation
The study of variation and change is at the heart of the sociolinguistics. Providing a wide survey of the field, this textbook is organised around three constraints on variation: linguistic structure, social structure and identity, and social and linguistic perception. By consid…
