Book description
What is Sociolinguistics?
is a tour through the major issues that define the field, such as
region, status, gender, time, language attitudes, interaction, and
style, while also exploring the sociolinguistics of multilingualism,
culture and ethnicity, language contact, and education, all introduced
with excitement, humor, and deep knowledge.
- Explores the sociolinguistics of multilingualism, culture and
ethnicity, language contact, and education
- Provides useful and clear learning features including numerous
innovative exercises and project ideas, spotlighted research
readings, glossary terms, chapter summaries, and text boxes
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The Companion Website for Instructors (www. wiley.
com/go/vanherkprofs) has PowerPoint slides for each chapter
with suggestions for framing class discussions and exercises,
further examples on concepts discussed in the book, tips on
additional readings to bring in, and ready-to-go slides for class presentation.
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The Companion Website for Students (www. wiley.
com/go/vanherk) includes links for every chapter from standard
sociolinguistic tools to links designed to spark discussion
relevant to each chapter, including video clips, oral histories,
articles, and more.
Gerard Van Herk
is a Canada Research Chair in Regional Language and Oral Text at
Memorial University of Newfoundland. He has researched and written on
varieties of the English language and is the editor of
Data
Collection in Sociolinguistics: Methods and Applications
(eds. with C. Mallinson and B. Childs, 2013).
