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Platt, John T. and Heidi K. Platt. 1975. The social signifiance of speech. North-Holland. ix + 194 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
bilingualism | communicative competence | language change | language planning | register | sociolinguistics

Annotation

A general introduction to sociolinguistics constructed as a workbook with points of discussion and exercises. It discusses communicative competence, registers, language change, bilingualism, language planning etc..