Language and social context: selected readings.
Series: Penguin education; Penguin modern sociology readings
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Harmondsworth
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
Subjects: Sociolinguistics
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Hymes, D. Toward ethnographies of communication.; title: Fishman, J. A. The sociology of language.; title: Goffman, E. The neglected situation.; title: Basso, K. H. To give up on  words: silence in Western Apache culture.; title: Frake, C. O. How to ask for a drink in Subanun.; title: Schegloff, E. A. Notes on a conversational practice: formulating place.; title: Searle, J. What is a speech act?; title: Bernstein, B. Social class, language and socialization.; title: Labov, W. The logic of nonstandard English.; title: Gumperz, J. The speech community.; title: Ferguson, C. A. Diglossia.; title: Brown, R. and Gilman, A. The pronouns of power and solidarity.; title: Labov, W. The study of language in its social context.; title: Goody, J. and Watt, I. The consequences of literacy.; title: Inglehart, R. and Woodward, M. Language conflicts and the political community.