Trudgill, Peter & Cheshire, Jenny, editors: - The Sociolinguistics Reader Volume 1: Multilingualism and Variation

London, Arnold, (1998). orig.boards. 24x16cm, vii,283 pp. Textual graphs & tables. Slight corner bump, minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contains 14 papers. Includes: C. Beal "Keeping the Peace: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Questions & Requests in Australian English & French"; C. Roberts & P. Sayers "Keeping the Gate: How Judgements are Made in Interethnic Interviews"; S. Poplack "Contrasting Patterns of Code- Switching in Two Communities"; R.B.LePage "You Can Never Tell Where a Word Comes From: Language Contact in a Diffuse Setting"; B. Horvath "Finding a Place in Sydney: Migrants & Language Change"; P. Trudgill "Language Contact & Inherent Variability: The Absence of Hypercorrection in East Anglian Present-Tense Verb Forms"; S. Gal "Cultural Bases of Language-Use Among German-Speakers in Hungary"; J. Cheshire "English Negation from an Interactional Perspective"; J.K.Chambers "Dialect Acquisition"; J. Milroy &L. Milroy "Mechanisms of Change in Urban Dialects: The Role of Class, Social Network & Gender"; G. Guy & S. Boyd "The Development of a Morphological Class"; D. Britain "Linguistic Change in Intonation: The Use of High-Rising Terminals in New Zealand English"; G. Bailey & N. Maynor " Decreolization?"; E.H. Jahr "Language Planning & Language Change".

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