Directions In Sociolinguistics : The Ethnography Of Communication Paperback

Gumperz, John

Directions in Sociolinguistics is a now classic collection of pioneering essays by leading sociolinguists. It is published here for the first time in paperback and incorporates an extensive new bibliography. The book proceeds from the assumption that we may learn from language as interactional behaviour, illustrating both advances in theoretical insights and changes in research interests. Taking a speaker's communicative competence as a social as well as grammatical fact, this volume is an invaluable compendium of articles by some of the most eminent researchers in Sociolinguistics, and in the sociology and anthropology of language.

9780631149873

English

John Wiley and Sons Ltd

08-01-1991

612

John Gumperz

Dell Hymes

Classic and ground-breaking -- highly influential in the development of sociolinguistics. Peter Trudgill "It's hardly possible to claim to know anything about the field of sociolinguistics without having read the articles in that collection. A number of them are classics in the field, by any standards." Ralph W. Fasold