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Downes, William – 1998
This introduction to sociolinguistics surveys the various ways that language can be studied as a social phenomenon, examining known relationships between language variation and large-scale social factors and showing how this variation runs along "fault lines in social structure," such as divisions between social classes, the sexes, and different…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
