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What Is Sociolinguistics?
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What Is Sociolinguistics? Hardcover - 2012 - 1st Edition

by Gerard Van Herk

From the publisher

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

Details

  • Title What Is Sociolinguistics?
  • Author Gerard Van Herk
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 243
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
  • Date 2012
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781405193191 / 1405193190
  • Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.7 x 7.4 x 0.7 in (24.64 x 18.80 x 1.78 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics /
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011034986
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.44

About the author

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).

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