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The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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From its beginnings in the 1960s, sociolinguistics developed
several different subfields with distinct methods and interests:
the variationist tradition established by Labov, the
anthropological tradition of Hymes, interactional sociolinguistics
as developed by Gumperz, and the sociology of language represented
by the work of Fishman. All of these areas have seen a great deal
of growth in recent decades, and recent studies have led to a more
broadly inclusive view of sociolinguistics. Hence there is a need
for a handbook that will survey the main areas of the field, point
out the lacunae in our existing knowledge base, and provide
directions for future research.
The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics will differ from existing
work in four major respects. First, it will emphasize new
methodological developments, particularly the convergence of
linguistic anthropology and variationist sociolinguistics. Second,
it will include chapters on sociolinguistic developments in areas
of the world that have been relatively neglected in the major
journals. Third, its chapters are written by contributors who have
worked in a range of languages and whose work addresses
sociolinguistic issues in bi- and multilingual contexts, i.e. the
contexts in which a majority of the world's population lives.
Finally, it will include substantial material on the rapidly
growing study of sign language sociolinguistics.
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