Sociolinguistics
Subtitle: The Essential Readings (Linguistics (Malden, Mass.), 3.)
Contributors: Christina Bratt Paulston (Editor); Richard G. Tucker (Editor)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated
Published: February 1, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780631227168
First sentence: It is appropriate for modern-day linguists to regularly reexamine the works of leaders of our field upon whose shoulders we continue to stand (despite our apparent need to claim originality for our own recent breakthroughs and revolutions).