An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics)
Edition: 5 edition
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: December 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9781405135597
Subjects: Sociolinguistics; Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics
First sentence: I stated in the introductory chapter that all languages exhibit internal variation, that is, each language exists in a number of varieties and is in one sense the sum of those varieties.