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Publication details [#4975]

Hudson, Richard Anthony. 1980. Sociolinguistics. Cambridge University Press. xii + 250 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

culture | language and thought | language variety | social inequality | sociolinguistics

Annotation

Introductory textbook including chapters on some basic notions, varieties of language, the relationships between language, culture and thought, speech as social interaction, the quantitative study of speech, and linguistics and social inequality.

Reviewed by

Kroch, Anthony S. 1983. Review of R. A. Hudson (1980: `Sociolinguistics').

Translations

Hudson, Richard Anthony. 1982. Sociolinguistiek. Wolters-Noordhoff.