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Publication details [#3352]

Fishman, Joshua A. 1972. The sociology of language. In Giglioli, Pier Paolo, ed. Language and social context: Selected readings. Penguin. pp. 45–58.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

sociolinguistics

Annotation

Revised and enlarged version of a lecture prepared for the Voice of America Forum Lecture Series, discussing some basic concepts of descriptive sociolinguistics, dynamic sociology of language, and applied sociology of language.