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Title: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics) by Ronald Wardhaugh ISBN: 0-631-22540-4 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: November, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $38.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: nice tone comprehensive
Comment: This book was the primary text for my introductory graduate Sociolinguistics class at Portland State University, taught by G. Tucker Childs. Fairly user-friendly in tone. Seemed like it would be accessible for undergraduates as well. (There were college seniors in my class and they seemed to comprehend the material.) Handles all the major contemporary theories. Since the major theories are numerous, complex, and frequently contradictory, Wardhaugh's thought-provoking end-of-chapter questions are a big help for students trying to sort out their intuitions. Great chapters on pidgins and creoles, diglossia, gender, and speech act theories. Extensive citation of post-1950 research studies and a charming final chapter in which he smilingly admits that this fascinating, emerging discipline is really all over the map.
Rating: 3
Summary: Interesting class piece...
Comment: Of the three books I was required to buy for my college class, this was the most useful... But I wouldn't run out and get it on my own.
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent text
Comment: This book is an excellent introduction to the field of sociolinguistics. It encompasses the entire spectrum of sociolinguistics, including such topics as the Whorfian Hypothesis, politeness, and language planning, in addition to the usual standard topics of language variation and pidgins and creoles. It also covers a wide range of languages and issues, going far beyond the usual North American and British topics. Included are a 25 page bibliography as well as specific suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter. The writing is usual quite clear and certainly less wordy than Hudson's introductory sociolinguistics text. Interspersed throughout the book, at the end of each minor chapter section, are "Discussion" questions. These questions are intended to get the reader to give some more thought to the issues being discussed. The questions vary greatly in difficulty, from those that any undergraduate linguistics student should be able to answer through a little introspection, to quite a few that could be dissertation topics in themselves. Occasionally, Wardhaugh suggests where the reader could get further information necessary to answer these questions, but frequent lack of such clear advice may leave readers (and instructors) frustrated. Nevertheless, this is a fine text.
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Title: Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society by Peter Trudgill ISBN: 0140289216 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Language in Society: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics by Suzanne Romaine ISBN: 0198731922 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching by Sandra Lee McKay, Nancy H. Hornberger ISBN: 0521484340 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 24 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $33.00 |
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Title: The Language Instinct : How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker ISBN: 0060958332 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 07 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching by Jack C. Richards, Theodore S. Rodgers ISBN: 0521008433 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 12 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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