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Downes, William. 1998. Language and Society. (Cambridge approaches to linguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ix + 503 pp. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139163781
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
action, code-switching, conflict, ethnicity, gender, ideology, language and society, language change, language planning, language use, meaning, power, register, sociolinguistics, standardization, variability
ISBN
0-521-45663-0
Edition
2

Annotation

An overview of the research topics, basic concepts and tenets associated with contemporary sociolinguistics.

Reviewed by

Macaulay, Ronald. 2000. Review of W. Downes (1998: 'Language and society').. Language in Society 29 (2) : 259–261.
MacKinnon, Kenneth. 1987. Review of W. Downes (1984: 'Language and society.').. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 8 (6) : 563–564.