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Language and Situation - Language Varieties and their Social Contexts (Hardcover)
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Language and Situation - Language Varieties and their Social Contexts (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Sociolinguistics
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Originally published in 1978. This book provides and explains a
framework for understanding and describing variations of style of
language in relation to the social context in which it is used.
Constant features of language users, such as their temporal,
geographical. and social origins, their range of intelligibility,
and their individualities, are related to concepts of dialects, but
dialects are not the only kind of language variety. There are
features of language situations that yield others; the medium used,
the roles of the users and their relationships, as well as
recurring situations and cultural habits, all relate to the style
employed. Variety in language can be seen in terms of the major
functions of language, as 'content' as 'inter-action' and as
'texture'. Studying variety in language from sociological and
linguistic aspects this book is also interesting for
psycholinguistics and literary study.
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