Language Variation as Social Practice (Language in Society)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated
Published: February 1, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780631186045
First sentence: Studying the sociolinguistic dynamics of an adolescent community on its own terms requires rethinking aspects of our social theories of variation which by and large have been based on adult speech and adult social categories.