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Publication details [#28630]

Chambers, J. K. 1995. Sociolinguistic theory: Linguistic variation and its social significance. (Language in Society 22). Blackwell Publishers. xxi + 284 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English

Annotation

This book on the social significance of variation in urban dialects, contains five chapters that respectively deal with: correlations; class, network and mobility; expressing sex and gender; accents in time; and adaptive significance of language variation.

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