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Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual
Edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan-Ola Östman
[Handbook of Pragmatics M2] 2022
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Sociology of language

Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Industrialization and the (linguistic) division of labor: Smith, Marx, Weber
    • 2.1Adam Smith
    • 2.2Karl Marx
    • 2.3Max Weber
  • 3.Holistic and individualistic approaches
    • 3.1The cement that unites us: Durkheim, Simmel
    • 3.2Positivism and individualism
  • 4.Current directions
  • 5.Institutional frameworks of the sociology of language
  • 6.Final considerations
  • References
Published online: 3 October 2022
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