Metalanguage : social and ideological perspectives ; [3rd Cardiff Round Table in Sociolinguistics ... held at the University of Wales Conference Centre Gregynog Hall Newtown Hall Mid Wales between 1 3 June 1998] Metalanguage brings together new original contributions on peoples knowledge about language and representations of language e.g. representations of dialects styles utterances stances and goals in relation to sociolinguistic theory sociolinguistic accounts of language variation and accounts of linguistic usage. The book follows from and complements a great tradition of the study of metalanguage reflexivity and metapragmatics and offers a new integrating perspective from various fields of sociolinguistics: perceptual dialectology variationism pragmatics critical discourse analysis and social semiotics. The broad range of theoretical issues and accessible style of writing will appeal to advanced students and researchers in sociolinguistics and in other disciplines across the social sciences and humanities including linguists communication researchers anthropologists sociologists social psychologists critical and social theorists. The book includes chapters by Deborah Cameron Nikolas Coupland Dariusz Galasiński Peter Garrett Adam Jaworski Tore Kristiansen Ulrike Hanna Meinhof Dennis Preston Theo van Leeuwen Kay Richardson Itesh Sachdev Angie Williams and John Wilson