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Publication details [#30249]

Ferguson, Charles A. 1996. Sociolinguistic perspectives: Papers on language in society, 1959-1994. (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics). Oxford University Press. x +348 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and society | language change | language planning | language variation | sociolinguistics

Annotation

The twenty-four papers in this volume are arranged into four parts: speech communities and language situations; register and genre; variation and change; and language planning. They mention about 250 languages, but their focus is on Arabic and its close kin, Persian and Urdu.

Reviewed by

Grimshaw, Allen D. 1996. Review of $Sociolinguistic perspectives: Papers on language in society, 1959-1994.