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Title: Sociolinguistics by R. A. Hudson ISBN: 0-521-56514-6 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 13 June, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Wordy
Comment: This is a passable, though wordy, introduction to the field. The book covers the standard topics in sociolinguistics, including: language variation, language varieties, code-switching, anthropological linguistics, gender differences, and educational implications of sociolinguistics (concentrating on Britain). The organization of topics often seems to circle back on itself, with points being repeated in different places rather than being grouped together. The author attacks the work of both Labov and Chomsky without following through with comprehensible arguments.
The explanations are not always clear, especially in the section on quantitative study of speech, which is replete with unlabeled or poorly labeled graphs. The author is also not very careful with his accuracy of comments. Consider for instance, this quote from page 61 about pidgins: "As for morphology, this is left out altogether, which again makes for ease of learning....The best way to illustrate these characteristics of pidgins is by discussing a sentence from Tok Pisin, the English-based pidgin spoken in Papua New Guinea. Bai em i no lukim mi. 'He will not see me.'" Below this, luk- is glossed as 'see', and -im is glossed as "added obligatorily whenever the verb has an object". It's hard to see how this example illustrates how morphology has been left out altogether! The book contains many examples of such blanket overstatements or carelessness.
Although the book is often used as a course text, it lacks suggested exercises, projects, or suggestions for additional reading. It does contain an excellent bibliography and index.
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Title: Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook (Modern Linguistics Series) by Nikolas Coupland, Adam Jaworski ISBN: 0312175736 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: July, 1997 List Price(USD): $33.95 |
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Title: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics) by Ronald Wardhaugh ISBN: 0631225404 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $38.95 |
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Title: Linguistic Anthropology by Alessandro Duranti ISBN: 0521449936 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 04 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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