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Burke, Peter and Roy Porter, eds. 1987. The social history of language. Cambridge University Press. 219 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English

Annotation

This volume on sociolinguistics and the ethnography of speaking comprises nine chapters. An introductory chapter outlines a framework for language-centered social history, and discusses many core concepts. The eight following essays cover diverse items such as insults and the language of medicine, whilst the case-studies that run from the Middle Ages to the 20th century are restricted to England, France, Italy and New Zealand.

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