Sociolinguistics, Language & Linguistics

New Sociolinguistics Reader

Name: New Sociolinguistics Reader
Author: Nikolas Coupland
ISBN: 9781403944153

by Nikolas Coupland (Editor), Adam Jaworski

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Overview

Why do bilingual speakers switch between their languages? Why do young English speakers say, 'I was like, "that's insane"'? How is humour used in the workplace? How are languages born and how do they die? What is gossip? How is hip-hop taken up in different parts of the world? What are people's linguistic human rights? Do ordinary people's views about language matter? These are just some of the questions asked and answered in Sociolinguistics.

Synopsis

This reader brings together a variety of original work ranging from explorations in dialect variation to language attitudes and stereotyping, multilingualism and face-to-face interaction. The second edition includes 25 new readings, balancing 'classic' and new texts, a new section on Language, Gender and Sexuality, and a comprehensive introduction.

About the Author, Nikolas Coupland

NIKOLAS COUPLAND is Professor and was Director of the Cardiff Centre for Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University from its creation until 2002. He was formerly a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Senior Research Fellow at Macquarie University, Sydney.

ADAM JAWORSKI is Reader at the Cardiff Centre for Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University. He was formerly Lecturer at the Department of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan and the Department of Applied Linguistics, Birkbeck College. He has also taught at Gainesville, Florida, Washington, D. C., Bern and Auckland.