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Talbot, Mary, Karen Atkinson and David Atkinson. 2003. Language and power in the modern world. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 342 pp.

Abstract

This book offers an overview of the five major issues in sociolinguistics and the relationship between language and power: multilingualism, identity, and ethnicity; language and youth; language and gender; language and the media; language and organizations. Language and Power in the Modern World covers contemporary issues of communication theory and sociolinguistics, ranging from the global to the interpersonal.
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