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Sociolinguistic Patterns by William Labov
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78This classic volume, by a well-known linguist, constitutes a systematic introduction to sociolinguistics, unmatched in the clarity and forcefulness of its approach, and to the study of language in... -
Conversations with Strangers by William Labov 9781009340939
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £16.52This Element documents the evolution of a research program that began in the early 1960s with the author's first investigation of language change on Martha's Vineyard. It traces the development of... -
The Social Stratification of English in New York City by William Labov 9780521821223
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £72.27One of the first accounts of social variation in language, this groundbreaking study founded the discipline of sociolinguistics, providing the model on which thousands of studies have been based. In... -
Dialect Diversity in America: The Politics of Language Change by William Labov 9780813935881
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46The sociolinguist William Labov has worked for decades on change in progress in American dialects and on African American Vernacular English (AAVE). In Dialect Diversity in America, Labov examines... -
The Social Stratification of English in New York City by William Labov 9780521528054
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £45.81One of the first accounts of social variation in language, this groundbreaking study founded the discipline of sociolinguistics, providing the model on which thousands of studies have been based. In... -
The Language of Life and Death: The Transformation of Experience in Oral Narrative by William Labov
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £20.37We share the experience of others through the stories they tell of the crucial events in their lives. This book provides a rich range of narratives that grip the reader's attention together with an... -
Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular by William Labov
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.62With the recent controversy in the Oakland, California school district about Ebonics-or as it is referred to in sociolinguistic circles, African American Vernacular English or Black English... -
Principles of Linguistic Change: 3 Volume Set by William Labov 9781444327885
RRP: £94.95Booksplease Price: £85.41Written by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modern sociolinguistics, this three-volume set examines the historical, social, cognitive, and cultural factors responsible for linguistic change... -
Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 2: Social Factors by William Labov 9780631179153
RRP: £128.95Booksplease Price: £114.59This volume presents the long-anticipated results of several decades of inquiry into the social origins and social motivation of linguistic change.* Written by one of the founders of modern... -
The Language of Life and Death: The Transformation of Experience in Oral Narrative by William Labov 9781107033344
RRP: £73.00Booksplease Price: £66.66We share the experience of others through the stories they tell of the crucial events in their lives. This book provides a rich range of narratives that grip the reader's attention together with an... -
Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 2: Social Factors William Labov (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 9780631179160
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £35.71This volume presents the long-anticipated results of several decades of inquiry into the social origins and social motivation of linguistic change. Written by one of the founders of modern... -
Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 1: Internal Factors William Labov (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 9780631179146
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £36.21This book develops the general principles of linguistic change that form the foundations of historical linguistics, dialectology and sociolinguistics. Demonstrates the social as well as cognitive... -
Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 3: Cognitive and Cultural Factors William Labov (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 9781405112147
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £31.49Written by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modern sociolinguistics, this volume examines the cognitive and cultural factors responsible for linguistic change, tracing the life history of... -
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1981: Analyzing Discourse: Text and Talk by Deborah Tannen 9780878401161
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878401161Author Deborah TannenFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Georgetown University... -
Analyzing Social Narratives Shaul Shenhav 9780415537414
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Interpreting human stories, whether those told by individuals, groups, organizations, nations, or even civilizations, opens a wide scope of research options for understanding how people construct,... -
Dialects of English: Studies in Grammatical Variation by Peter Trudgill
Booksplease Price: £30.71This collection consists of 15 articles by an international group of linguists and 7 essays by the editors, tackling a broad range of issues and representing some of the most authoritative work in... -
Languages in Contact: Findings and Problems by Uriel Weinreich 9789027926890
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.56"This remains the fundamental base for studies of multilingual communities and language shift. Weinreich laid out the concepts, principles and issues that govern empirical work in this field, and it... -
Language Universals by Joseph Greenberg 9789027932457
Booksplease Price: £102.21„This is the latest version of the 1956 book which began the modern study of universals, and provides the foundation for many inquiries that followed. The hypotheses are cast at a moderate level of... -
Fundamentals of Language by Roman Jakobson 9783110172836
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £88.91"Jakobson and Halle's initial statement of the principles of linguistic organization should be made available to all future generations of linguists. It builds a solid foundation for Saussurean... -
Principles of Linguistic Change V3 – Cognitive and Cultural Factors by W Labov 9781405112154
RRP: £86.95Booksplease Price: £76.51Written by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modern sociolinguistics, this volume examines the cognitive and cultural factors responsible for linguistic change, tracing the life history of... -
Urban Sociolinguistics: The City as a Linguistic Process and Experience Dick Smakman (Ca' Foscari University, Italy) 9781138200371
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37From Los Angeles to Tokyo, Urban Sociolinguistics is a sociolinguistic study of twelve urban settings around the world. Building on William Labov's famous New York Study, the authors demonstrate how... -
Toward a History of American Linguistics by E. F. K. Koerner 9780415511094
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Beginning with the anthropological linguistic tradition associated primarily with the names of Franz Boas, Edward Sapir and their students and concluding with the work of Noam Chomsky and William... -
New Directions for Historical Linguistics by Hans C. Boas 9789004414068
Booksplease Price: £87.82This volume consists of revised versions of presentations given at a roundtable on "New Directions for Historical Linguistics: Impact and Synthesis, 50 Years Later" held at the 23rd... -
Labov: A Guide for the Perplexed by Matthew J. Gordon 9781441158529
Booksplease Price: £25.91William Labov (b. 1927) has been a driving force in linguistics for over four decades. Throughout North America, and in much of the rest of the world, his name is synonymous with sociolinguistics... -
Labov: A Guide for the Perplexed by Matthew J. Gordon 9781441192509
Booksplease Price: £103.11William Labov (b. 1927) has been a driving force in linguistics for over four decades. Throughout North America, and in much of the rest of the world, his name is synonymous with sociolinguistics... -
The Social Differentiation of English in Norwich by Peter Trudgill 9780521297455
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.35Originally published in 1979, this volume was the first to attempt to apply the principles of social linguistics within a British urban community. Particularly influenced by the ideas of William... -
Directions for Historical Linguistics: Reprint of the 1968 original by Winfred Philip Lehman 9789004351899
Booksplease Price: £54.75This book, a reprint of one of the classics of historical linguistics, contains five papers originally presented at a 1966 symposium at the University of Texas at Austin. The individual... -
Dynamic Linguistics: Labov, Martinet, Jakobson and other Precursors of the Dynamic Approach to Language Description by Iwan Wmffre 9783034317054
RRP: £70.30Booksplease Price: £62.84Analysis of language as a combination of both a structural and a lexical component overlooks a third all-encompassing aspect: dynamics. Dynamic Linguistics approaches the description of the complex... -
African-American English: Structure, History and Use Guy Bailey 9780415117333
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80African-American English: Structure, History and Use provides a comprehensive survey of linguistic research into African-American English. The main linguistic features are covered, in particular the... -
Language Universals: With Special Reference to Feature Hierarchies by Joseph H. Greenberg 9783110172843
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £88.91"This is the latest version of the 1956 book which began the modern study of universals, and provides the foundation for many inquiries that followed. The hypotheses are cast at a moderate level of... -
New England English: Large-Scale Acoustic Sociophonetics and Dialectology by James N. Stanford
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £67.63For nearly 400 years, New England has held an important place in the development of American English, and "New England accents" are very well known in the popular imagination. While other projects... -
Sociolinguistic Theory J. K. Chambers (University of Toronto, Canada) 9781405152464
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £32.02The revised edition of Sociolinguistic Theory presents a critical synthesis of sociolinguistics, centering on the study of language variation and change. A revised introduction to sociolinguistic... -
The English History of African American English by Shana Poplack 9780631212621
RRP: £52.95Booksplease Price: £47.31Much scholarly work assumes that the structure of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) derives from an earlier plantation creole. This volume explores an alternative hypothesis: that the... -
Blessings, Curses, Hopes, and Fears: Psycho-Ostensive Expressions in Yiddish by James Alan Matisoff 9780804733939
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.89In this delightful book, the author enumerates and classifies the formulas Yiddish speakers use to express their emotions. It is a rarity among scholarly books, for it brings joy while it teaches; it... -
Blessings, Curses, Hopes, and Fears: Psycho-Ostensive Expressions in Yiddish by James Alan Matisoff
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68In this delightful book, the author enumerates and classifies the formulas Yiddish speakers use to express their emotions. It is a rarity among scholarly books, for it brings joy while it teaches; it... -
Language and Society by William Downes 9780521456630
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £42.48This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Downes' textbook is an accessible introduction to the social aspects of language and their various explanations. Topics covered include domains of... -
African American English in the Diaspora by Shana Poplack 9780631212669
RRP: £56.95Booksplease Price: £50.71This provocative volume investigates the origins of contemporary African American Vernacular English (AAVE), one of the oldest, yet unsolved, questions in sociolinguistics.About the AuthorShana... -
The Handbook of Historical Linguistics Brian Joseph (Ohio State University) 9781405127479
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £39.56The Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a detailed account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics, the area of linguistics most... -
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 2001: Linguistics, Language, and the Real WorldDiscourse and Beyond by Deborah Tannen 9780878409044
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.76GURT is nationally and internationally recognized as one of the world's star gatherings for scholars in the fields of language and linguistics. In 2001, the best from around the world in the... -
African-American English: Structure, History, and Use by Salikoko S. Mufwene 9780367760687
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66This book was the first to provide a comprehensive survey of linguistic research into African-American English and is widely recognised as a classic in the field. It covers both the main linguistic...